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Facts and Stats
Harnett County Fast Facts
Harnett County native General William C. Lee is considered the “Father of the U.S. Army Airborne.” A museum and annual events in Dunn honor the hometown hero.
Nine employers in Dunn have at least 100 employees, led by Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital with 700.
The county is divided into 14 townships.
Besides Dunn, the larger cities and towns in Harnett County are Angier, Coats, Erwin and Lillington. There are also the unincorporated communities of Buies Creek, Johnsonville and Anderson Creek.
Harnett County is the 11th-fastest growing micropolitan community out of 573 in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
A Harnett woman was a winner at the 2005 renowned National Hollerin Contest in nearby Spivey’s Corner. Shelia Frye of Lillington won the ladies callin’ competition.
In 2001, The Wall Street Journal featured The Dunn Daily Record in a front page story about the newspaper having the highest primary-market circulation penetration of any daily newspaper in the United States.
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