Chowan County, North Carolina

Founding: 1671
Parent county: Albemarle
Namesake: The Chowan River
Seat: Edenton (1715–)
Land area: 173 square miles
Population (2020): 13,708
Population (historic): 4,988 (1790); 6,690 (1840); 6,450 (1870); 10,258 (1900); 11,282 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1790–1830; 1840–1860; 1870–1910; 1920–1950; 1970–2010
Subdivisions: One town; three CDPs
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 742 (10.4%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 34.7%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 25.7%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 22.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 12.9%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $750
Average outbuilding value (1930): $424

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.3 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 1,028
Average farm size (1920): 33 acres
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Edenton

 
Namesake: Charles Eden, North Carolina governor
Founding: 1712 (platting as Queen Anne's Town); 1722 (incorporation); 1786 (post office)
Population (2020): 4,460
Population (historic): 1,575 (1790); 1,607 (1850); 1,382 (1880); 3,046 (1900); 3,563 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1790; 1870–1900; 1920–1950; 1960–1980; 1990s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 519 (19.4%)
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