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This is a list of structures, sites, districts, and objects on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina:

As of May 1, 2015, there are more than 2,900 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 100 North Carolina counties, including 39 National Historic Landmarks, two National Historic Sites, one National Military Park, one National Memorial and one National Battlefield.


Current listings by county

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. The counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

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Heck-Andrews House, Raleigh
First Christian Church
First Christian Church, Robersonville
Wilkesboro NC Old Courthouse
Wilkes County Courthouse, Wilkesboro
Henderson NC
Henderson Fire Station and Municipal Building, Henderson
Pelletier House Jacksonville NC
Pelletier House, Jacksonville
Court House, Madison County, NC
Madison County Courthouse, Marshall
Asheville, NC City Hall
Asheville City Hall, Asheville
Guilfordcollegewalkway
Guilford College Historic District, Greensboro
Eight Sided Tabernacle in Falcon, NC
Falcon Tabernacle, Falcon
Old Davidson County Courthouse 1
Old Davidson County Courthouse, Lexington
Oldmain UNCP
Old Main, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke
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Moratock Iron Furnace, Danbury
Fort Defiance-27527
Fort Defiance, Lenoir
County/City # of Sites
1 Alamance 66
2 Alexander 1
3 Alleghany 10
4 Anson 7
5 Ashe 26
6 Avery 12
7 Beaufort 18
8 Bertie 23
9 Bladen 13
10 Brunswick 15
11 Buncombe 111
12 Burke 38
13 Cabarrus 28
14 Caldwell 17
15 Camden 7
16 Carteret 16
17 Caswell 22
18 Catawba 63
19 Chatham 54
20 Cherokee 8
21 Chowan 24
22 Clay 3
23 Cleveland 27
24 Columbus 6
25 Craven 54
26 Cumberland 70
27 Currituck 12
28 Dare 32
29 Davidson 55
30 Davie 20
31 Duplin 19
32 Durham 77
33 Edgecombe 36
34 Forsyth 100
35 Franklin 37
36 Gaston 32
37 Gates 10
38 Graham 6
39 Granville 45
40 Greene 11
41 Guilford 110
42 Halifax 40
43 Harnett 18
44 Haywood 24
45 Henderson 36
46 Hertford 33
47 Hoke 5
48 Hyde 10
49 Iredell 46
50 Jackson 20
51 Johnston 35
52 Jones 8
53 Lee 17
54 Lenoir 30
55 Lincoln 30
56 Macon 23
57 Madison 16
58 Martin 28
59 McDowell 13
60 Mecklenburg 102
61 Mitchell 9
62 Montgomery 7
63 Moore 29
64 Nash 29
65 New Hanover 27
66 Northampton 16
67 Onslow 15
68 Orange 47
69 Pamlico 1
70 Pasquotank 11
71 Pender 15
72 Perquimans 18
73 Person 12
74 Pitt 30
75 Polk 23
76 Randolph 21
77 Richmond 17
78 Robeson 23
79 Rockingham 46
80 Rowan 61
81 Rutherford 26
82 Sampson 49
83 Scotland 15
84 Stanly 15
85 Stokes 15
86 Surry 21
87 Swain 12
88 Transylvania 22
89 Tyrrell 3
90 Union 12
91 Vance 22
92 Wake 209
93 Warren 25
94 Washington 10
95 Watauga 22
96 Wayne 17
97 Wilkes 22
98 Wilson 28
99 Yadkin 8
100 Yancey 8
(duplicates) (11)
Total: 2,882
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