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Davidson County

county in North Carolina, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_north_carolina Q511713

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of North Carolina
Inception
1822[19]
Official website
www.co.davidson.nc.us[21]
Native label
Davidson County[31]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.790°, -80.210°[20]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
North Carolina[2]
Shares border with
Davie County, Forsyth County, Guilford County, Montgomery County, Randolph County, Rowan County, Stanly County[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+1468[34]
Population
169k (163k–169k, n=7)[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
More facts +12
Capital
Lexington[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Lexington, High Point, Thomasville, Denton, Midway, Wallburg[13][14][15][16][17][18]
Different from
Davidson County[33]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/North Carolina/Davidson County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, North Carolina[29]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C109606[32]
Named after
William Lee Davidson[12]
Number of households
+67555[30]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[36]
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Davidson County, North Carolina
Per capita income
+26616[37]
Water as percent of area
+2.5[35]
🏷️ Also known as
en Davidson County en Davidson County, NC en Davidson County, North Carolina ar مقاطعه ديفيدسون، كارولاينا الشماليه ar مقاطعة ديفيدسون cs okres Davidson es condado de Davidson es Davidson County fa شهرستان دیویدسن fi Davidsonin piirikunta fr comté de Davidson fr Davidson County he מחוז דייווידסון hu Davidson megye it contea di Davidson it Davidson County ja デーヴィッドソン郡 ja デーヴィッドソン・カウンティ ja デービッドソン・カウンティ ja デービッドソン郡
🔖 Identifiers · 32
ISNI
0000000404247844
VIAF cluster ID
130172837
Library of Congress authority ID
n79058695
GND ID
4442897-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Davidson County NC Courthouse.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19827
Ballotpedia ID
Davidson_County,_North_Carolina
FIPS 6-4 ID
37057
Freebase ID
/m/0n4cp
GADM ID
USA.34.29_1
GNIS Feature ID
1008548
GeoNames ID
4463056
Show all 32 identifiers +20
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2001489
HASC
US.NC.DD
INaturalist place ID
2667
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.37057
MusicBrainz area ID
4fe92a84-b32b-482d-b3ef-32336f78678e
NCpedia ID
geography/davidson
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007561795405171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00164942
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2793005
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2528693
Our Campaigns container ID
4628
Ringgold ID
126470
Taxonomicon ID
1806855
Topic's main category
Category:Davidson County, North Carolina
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039470
UMLS CUI
C3814792
Who's on First ID
102080877
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"DavidsonCounty", "NorthCarolina", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJp63RwgfRYfwGbJxqDQbd
Yale LUX ID
place/e527a941-c866-4520-8be4-48d511135276
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
228 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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Credit
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 16
High Point, Lexington, Thomasville, Denton, Welcome, Midway, Wallburg, Tyro +8 more
Shares border with 7
Forsyth County, Guilford County, Randolph County, Rowan County, Montgomery County, Davie County, Stanly County
← Shares border with 7
Forsyth County, Guilford County, Randolph County, Rowan County, Montgomery County, Davie County, Stanly County
Contains the administrative territorial entity 6
High Point, Lexington, Thomasville, Denton, Midway, Wallburg
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Davidson County, North Carolina, Category:Populated places in Davidson County, North Carolina
Capital 1
Lexington
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Davidson County, North Carolina
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Davidson County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
North Carolina
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
Named after 1
William Lee Davidson
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
People born here 1
Kenneth Bryan Raper
Topic's main category 1
Category:Davidson County, North Carolina
← Capital of 1
Lexington
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Davidson County, North Carolina
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
North Carolina
← Different from 1
Davidson County
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Summary

Davidson County is a county of North Carolina[1].

Related Entities

North Carolina United States WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00164942
    UMLS CUI → C3814792
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikidata description → county in North Carolina, United States
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Davidson County, North Carolina.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States pr"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    List of monuments → National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, North Carolina
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Davidson County, North Carolina
    Shares border with → Davie County, Forsyth County, Guilford County +4
    Located in → —
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C109606, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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