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Blue Clay Farms, North Carolina

Unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Blue Clay Farms is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. Blue Clay Farms is located in the statistical township of Cape Fear. Its population was 168 as of the 2020 census. Blue Clay Farms was first listed as a CDP in the 2010 United States census.

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“Blue Clay Farms, North Carolina” enters the record as unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blue, Clay and Farms can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Blue, Clay and Farms.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blue Clay Farms, North Carolina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.