Robeson County, North Carolina

Robeson County is not the largest county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 134,168. Its county seat is Lumberton. The county was formed in 1787 from part of Bladen County. It was named in honor of Col. Thomas Robeson of Tar Heel, North Carolina, a hero of the Revolutionary War.

Robeson County comprises the Lumberton, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Fayetteville-Lumberton-Laurinburg, NC Combined Statistical Area.

Robeson County has been one of the 10% of United States counties that were majority-minority; its combined population of American Indian, African American and Hispanic residents constitute more than 68 percent of the total. American Indians, mostly members of the state-recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, make up 38 percent of the population.

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a historically Native American college started as a normal school, is located in the county.