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Congressional district. 10th. Website. www.burkenc.org. Burke County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 87,570. [1] Its county seat is Morganton. [2] Burke County is part of the Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, also known as Plant Vogtle (/ ˈvoʊɡəl /), [4] is a four-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. With a power capacity of 4,536 megawatts, it is the largest nuclear power plant (as of 2013), the largest source of low-carbon ...
Rod R. Blagojevich (/ bləˈɡɔɪ.əvɪtʃ / blə-GOY-ə-vitch; born December 10, 1956), often referred to by his nickname " Blago ", [2][3] is an American politician of Serbian descent who served as the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. He was impeached, removed from office, convicted, and incarcerated for eight years on federal ...
Burke County is an original county of Georgia, created February 5, 1777, and named for English political writer, Edmund Burke, a Member of Parliament in the Whig Party who favored conciliation with the colonies. [4] In 1779, Col. John Twiggs and brothers Col. William Few and Benjamin Few, along with 250 men, defeated British in the Battle of ...
At-large. Website. www.burkecountynd.com. Burke County is a county on the north edge of the U.S. state of North Dakota, adjacent to the south line of Canada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,201. [ 1 ] The county seat is Bowbells. The county is named after John Burke, the tenth Governor of North Dakota.
Henry River Mill Village is a small textile village in Burke County, North Carolina. It is an unaltered, but now-decaying example of an early industrial environment in Burke County. Today, the remaining buildings of the Henry River Mill Village are traces of the industrial heritage of the county. Built as a planned community, the village was a ...
Valdese (/ ˈvældis / VAL-dees) [4] is a town in Burke County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,689 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area. One of the largest Waldensian congregations in the United States was founded in the town in the late nineteenth century, now ...
Joara. Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina, about 300 miles from the Atlantic coast in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1] Joara is notable as a significant archaeological and historic site, where Mississippian culture-era ...