Davidson Township is a non-functioning administrative division of
Iredell County
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,
North Carolina
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, United States. By the requirements of the North Carolina Constitution of 1868, the counties were divided into
townships
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, which included Davidson township as one of sixteen townships in Iredell County.
[Keever, Homer M.; ''Iredell Piedmont County'', with illustrations by Louise Gilbert and maps by Mildred Jenkins Miller, published for the Iredell County Bicentennial Commission by Brady Printing Company from type set by the Statesville Record and Landmark, copyright, November 1976, by Homer M. Keever][''The Heritage of Iredell County, 1980'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 28677, , 642 pages with index][''The Heritage of Iredell County, NC Vol II, 2000'', published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 29866, LC # 00-110956, 574 pages with index]
Geography
Davidson Township contains some of the town of
Mooresville.
Lake Norman
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extends into Davidson Township from
Catawba County
Catawba County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,610. Its county seat is Newton, and its largest community is Hickory.
The county is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC ...
.
References
Townships in Iredell County, North Carolina
Townships in North Carolina
1868 establishments in North Carolina
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