Former North Carolina Fire Departments Database
Last updated January 15, 2021
This page presents a database of former fire
departments in North Carolina. The criteria for inclusion:
(a.) any fire department no longer operating or
(b.) any fire department operating with a new name. Contact Mike Legeros to contribute
or correct information.
View the database (pdf).
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Sources
Abbreviated sources include:
- DOI - North Carolina Department of Insurance, notably directories of
departments from the 1970s and 1980s
- CMCFPS - Charlotte/Mecklenburg County Fire Protection Study, 1948
- GNA- Google News Archives
- MJL - Mike Legeros
- NCSFA - North Carolina State Firefighters' Association, notably rosters
as appeared in annual conference proceedings
- OH - Oral history
- RCF - The History of Firefighting in Randolph County,
published in Courier Tribute on
Oct. 8, 1993.
- Sanborn - Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
- SOS - North Carolina Secretary of State corporeate records
- TH - Ted Heinbuch, military fire department historian
- Wiki - Wikipedia
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