Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 413 square miles (1,070 km 2), of which 399 square miles (1,030 km 2) is land and 15 square miles (39 km 2) (3.6%) is water. Preslar Jr, and more recently by a series of three books by Gary Freeze, called The Catawbans.Īccording to the U.S. An official history of the Scots-Irish and German settlement was documented in 1954, by Charles J. Scots-Irish and German colonial immigrants first settled in the Catawba River valley in the mid-18th century. They now live along the border of North Carolina, near the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Native Americans who once inhabited the region known as the Catawba people, were considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes in the Carolina Piedmont. The word "catawba" is rooted in the Choctaw sound kat'a pa, loosely translated as "to divide or separate, to break." However, scholars are fairly certain that this word was imposed from outside. The county is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.Ĭatawba County formed in 1842 from Lincoln County, was named after the Catawba River. Its county seat is Newton, and its largest city is Hickory. As of the 2020 census, the population was 160,610.
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