local government

Municipal Government

• North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM)
• N.C. Cities and Towns - home pages
• Best Practices in City Government - from the U.S. Conference on Mayors
• Municipal Code Corporation (Links to NC Municipal Codes)
• ElectriCities of North Carolina, Inc. - nonprofit organization providing legal, legislative, & regulatory support to 72 cities & towns that own electric distribution systems
  

County Government

• Economic Development County Profiles—N.C. Department of Commerce
• National Association of Counties—North Carolina
• North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC)
• N.C. Counties home pages
• County Government Directory (from Secretary of State web page)
• County profiles from N.C. State Data Center,
• County history from State Library of N.C.—county history, population, location, etc.
  • Alamance-Burke
  • Cabarrus-Edgecombe
  • Forsyth-Hyde
  • Iredell-Moore
  • Nash-Pitt
  • Polk-Union
  • Vance-Yancey
• Historical photographs organized by County—held by the North Carolina Collection through the Academic Affairs library on the UNC-CH campus
• Map of N.C. counties from the North Carolina Geographic Data Clearinghouse
• N.C. Chambers of Commerce
• American Indian Chamber of Commerce of North Carolina
• Carolinas Asian American Chamber of Commerce
• Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of North Carolina
• Southeastern North Carolina Black Chamber of Commerce
• U.S. Bureau of Census—county statistics

Additional Resources

• County and City Data Books
• Find NC—search all North Carolina state government WWW pages and NC GILS indexes
• N.C. Councils of Governments
• State and Local Governments—Library of Congress
• Statistical Information for N.C. Cities and Counties
• U.S. Federal Government's State/Local Gateway

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