Jacksonville, North Carolina City of Jacksonville Official seal of City of Jacksonville Location of Jacksonville inside North Carolina Location of Jacksonville inside North Carolina State North Carolina Jacksonville (/ d ks n v l/) is a town/city in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States.
As of the 2010 United States census, the populace stood at 70,145, which makes Jacksonville the 14th biggest city in North Carolina. Jacksonville is the principal town/city of Onslow County and is encompassed in the Jacksonville, North Carolina urbane area.
In 2014, Forbes periodical ranked Jacksonville as the fifth fastest-growing small town/city in the United States. Demographically, Jacksonville is the youngest town/city in the United States with an average age of 22.8 years old, which can be attributed to the large military presence.
It is the governmental center of county of Onslow County, and the home of the United States Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune and New River Air Station.
Jacksonville is positioned adjoining to North Carolina's Southern Outer Banks (SOBX) area.
On 21 June 2016, the City of Jacksonville, NC, became the first jurisdiction to adopt a paid holiday honoring the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution which made standardized in the United States and its territories illegal.
In recognition of the history of African Americans (and remembering the Montford Point Marines who faced second class peoplehip), Jacksonville honored their tradition and the enfranchisement their ancestors received from the 13th Amendment.
In 1752, a devastating hurricane finished the governmental center of county of Johnston, and Wantlands Ferry, positioned further up the New River at the present site of Jacksonville was chosen as the site of the new county courthouse.
Jacksonville and Onslow County continued to rely on naval stores, lumber, and tobacco crops for industry.
Army Corps of Engineers surveyed and mapped the region from Fort Monroe, Virginia to Fort Sumter, South Carolina which encompassed the Onslow County coastline and the New River.
The establishment in 1941 of Marine Barracks, New River, later retitled Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base led to the relocation of 700 families.
The Bank of Onslow and Jacksonville Masonic Temple, Mill Avenue Historic District, and Pelletier House and Wantland Spring are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 45.2 square miles (117 km2), of which, 44.5 square miles (115 km2) of it is territory and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) of it (1.51%) is water.
The ethnic composition of the town/city was: 63.94% White, 23.96% Black or African American, 10.05% Hispanic or Latino American, 2.07% Asian American, 0.75% Native American, 0.19% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 5.42% some other race, and 3.67% two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.3% under the age of 18, 36.3% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 8.8% from 45 to 64, and 4.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Jacksonville has been titled the youngest town/city in the country (lowest median age) on various lists.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $32,544, and the median income for a family was $33,763.
2 Onslow County Schools 1000+ 9 City of Jacksonville 500-999 Elementary Schools Southwest Elementary School Bell Fork Elementary School Blue Creek Elementary School Carolina Forest Elementary School Clyde Erwin Elementary School Hunters Creek Elementary School Jacksonville Commons Elementary School Meadow - View Elementary School Morton Elementary School Parkwood Elementary School Silverdale Elementary School Stateside Elementary School Summersill Elementary School Thompson Elementary School Dixon Elementary School Middle Schools Hunters Creek Middle School Jacksonville Commons Middle School Northwoods Park Middle School New Bridge Middle School Jacksonville High School Camp Lejeune High School Clyde Erwin Elementary School New Bridge Middle School Northwoods Elementary School (year round school) Ryan Adams, singer-songwriter, who incessantly makes reference to Jacksonville in his songs, including a song titled "Jacksonville Skyline" with his former band Whiskeytown and the song, "The End" from his album Jacksonville City Nights.
Images of America: Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune, Arcadia Publishing, 2001.
Onslow County: A Brief History Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, 1995.
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