Randolph

Formed March 8, 1779 (38^th county)

Randolph County (144,151), Asheboro (27,171)

The Modern masonry and tan brick structure, built in 2002, is on Salisbury Street between Cox and Fayetteville streets.  Fayetteville Street is United States Highway 220 Business in the town.  Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates are the architects.  There was previously a 1908 courthouse in Asheboro which still has the veteran memorials.  Brown’s Crossroads, Johnsville, and Asheboro have all served as the county seat.  Randolph County was taken from Guilford County on March 8, 1779 as the 38^th county.  It is named for Peyton Randolph, President of the Continental Congress.  The county seat is named for Governor Samuel Ashe.  He is also the namesake of Ashe County and the county seat of Buncombe County. 

Randolph County government consists of a manager, a register, a sheriff, an attorney, and a clerk (executive).  It has 5 Commissioners (legislative.)  Twenty-four Superior Court Judges serve Randolph, Alamance, Anson, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly, Union, and Wake counties and Eleven District Court Judges and a court clerk serve Randolph County (judicial.)  Randolph County is in central North Carolina.  Greensboro, North Carolina is north and Charlotte, North Carolina is southwest of the county.  The center of the county is 4.1 miles North-Northwest of Asheboro.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Guilford, Alamance, Chatham, Moore, Montgomery, and Davidson counties. 

The area of the county is 790 square miles.  It is 15 out of 100 in the state.  It ranks 21 out of 100 in population in the state.  It has a density of 182.5 persons per square mile making it 28 out of 100 in the state.  Randolph County has 39.6% of its population in its incorporated areas.  Interstate Highway 74 crosses the county north to south from Guilford County to Montgomery County.  United States Highway 64 travels east to west from Chatham County to Davidson County.  United States Highway 220 is joined with Interstate Highway 74 from Guilford to Montgomery counties.  United States Highway 311 enters from the northwest, Guilford County, and terminates.  United States Highway 421 clips the northeast corner from Guilford County, north, to Chatham County, east.  The county is an overall rectangle.  Asheboro is located south of center in the county.  Asheboro is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 18.9% of the county population.  This county is in the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area.