Concord

Sister cities

• Freeport

History

Concord, located in today's rapidly growing northeast quadrant of the Charlotte metropolitan area, was first settled about 1750 by German and Scots-Irish immigrants. The name Concord means "to bring into harmony". This name was chosen after a lengthy dispute between the German Lutherans and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians over where the county seat should be located. Concord is considered a relatively old town by US standards, as it was incorporated in 1806. Today, markers identifying the original town limits can be seen in the downtown area. As county seat, Concord became a center of trade and retail for the cotton-producing region, especially on court days. The downtown would be crowded with farmers and townfolk, in addition to lawyers and their clients. During the antebellum era, wealth was built by planters through the cultivation of cotton as a commodity crop; the work was done by enslaved African Americans. Based on wealth from cotton as a commodity crop and through textile manufacturing, Concord's white slave owners and business owners built some significant homes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they range along North and South Union Street and Edgewood Avenue. Within the North Union Historic District is Memorial Garden. Located on , the garden winds through the 200-year-old cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church. Located in the Piedmont, Concord became a site of industrialization with cotton mills in the late 19th century. Among the owners of the new mills in the area were men of the rising black middle-class in Wilmington, North Carolina, such as Warren Clay Coleman, John C. Dancy (appointed as collector of customs at the port), and others, who organized Coleman Manufacturing Company in 1897. They built and operated what is believed to…

Geography

Concord is located in western Cabarrus County, and has a total area of , of which is land and (0.06%) is water. China Grove, Landis, Mount Pleasant, Harrisburg, Midland, and Locust. Concord has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa), with cool to mild winters and hot, humid summers. The city is located in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, which is characterized by rolling hills and forest. The average high temperature in the winter is , and the average daily low temperature is . In the summer the average temperature is , and the average daily high temperature is . It is not unusual for summer daytime temperatures to reach in the mid to upper 90s and occasionally exceed . It is typical for winter temperatures to fall into the teens at night, but temperatures generally warm to above freezing during the day. Summer months are characterized as having cool to warm nights with very warm to hot temperatures during the day. The area receives a generous amount of rainfall at per year, with February and April being the two driest months. Rainfall in the winter is lighter but more frequent, whereas rainfall in the summer is heavier but less frequent. Thunderstorms, both light and strong, are common in the spring and summer months. The sun shines 70 percent of the time in summer and 55 percent in winter. The prevailing wind is from the southwest, with the average highest wind speed of in spring. }}

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  9,977
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  8,105
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  7,400
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  6,594
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,196
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  6,148
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  5,921
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,544

Largest nearby schools

• West Cabarrus High
  High · Concord · 1,833 students · 21.1:1 ratio
• Cox Mill High School
  High · Concord · 1,762 students · 22:1 ratio
• A L Brown High
  High · Kannapolis · 1,741 students · 18.3:1 ratio
• Hickory Ridge High
  High · Harrisburg · 1,720 students · 21:1 ratio
• Central Cabarrus High
  High · Concord · 1,305 students · 16.9:1 ratio
• Kannapolis Middle
  Middle · Kannapolis · 1,238 students · 15.9:1 ratio
• Harris Road Middle
  Middle · Concord · 1,235 students · 18.4:1 ratio
• Northwest Cabarrus High
  High · Concord · 1,138 students · 16.3:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2019-03-26
  8 km E of Archdale, North Carolina
• M 2.58 — 2015-11-15
  10 km S of Denton, North Carolina
• M 2.5 — 2012-07-29
  7 km NNW of Wallace, South Carolina
• M 2.9 — 2011-03-21
  9 km S of Cordova, North Carolina
• M 2.5 — 2006-11-03
  6 km S of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• M 2.6 — 2006-10-17
  7 km S of Winston-Salem, North Carolina