Place:Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States

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NameFayetteville
Alt namesCambelltownsource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) IV, 706
Campbelltonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37009799
Cross Creeksource: Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) IV, 706; USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37009799
Lower Campbelltonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37009799
Upper Campbelltonsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37009799
TypeCity
Coordinates35.067°N 78.917°W
Located inCumberland, North Carolina, United States     (1739 - )
Contained Places
Cemetery
Brookside Cemetery
Cross Creek Cemetery
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Fayetteville is a city in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city.

Fayetteville has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League three times. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 200,564, with an estimated population of 211,657 in 2019.[1] It is the 6th-largest city in North Carolina. Fayetteville is in the Sandhills in the western part of the Coastal Plain region, on the Cape Fear River.

With an estimated population in 2019 of 526,719 people, the Fayetteville metropolitan area is the largest in southeastern North Carolina, and the fifth-largest in the state. Suburban areas of metro Fayetteville include Fort Bragg, Hope Mills, Spring Lake, Raeford, Pope Field, Rockfish, Stedman, and Eastover.

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