{"id":163,"date":"2019-08-05T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T16:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=163"},"modified":"2019-11-13T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:50:56","slug":"chatham","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/chatham\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatham County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chatham County, founded on Jan. 6, 1771, from land previously part of Orange County, has a current population of 71,472 and a total employment of 14,969 (20.9%). The county seat of this Piedmont county is Pittsboro. Other municipalities include Siler City, Goldston and small parts of Apex, Cary and Chapel Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With predominantly hard red clay soil, the county traditionally has depended more on livestock than on the cultivation of commodity cash crops such as tobacco and cotton. Chatham&#8217;s most profitable agricultural product is poultry\/eggs, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the largest agricultural product by acreage is forage land (for grain production). The type of livestock produced most by total number is meat-type chickens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county&#8217;s largest manufacturer is Mountaire Farms, which manufactures poultry products and employs between 250 and 499 people. It is the county&#8217;s fourth-largest employer and part of a nationwide network of farms that ranks No. 7 nationally in poultry production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Central Carolina Community College operates a Chatham County campus in Pittsboro and is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/c3.ncsu.edu\/about\/#community-college-partners\">NC State&#8217;s Community College Collaboration (C3) Program<\/a>, which is a dual-admission partnership between NC State and 10 community college partners near the main Raleigh campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-163","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/163\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}