Johnston County, North Carolna, USA

Johnston County lies in North Carolina, linking established communities with the surrounding rural and suburban landscape. Smithfield is the county seat in a rapidly growing county stretching east from Raleigh’s suburbs into long-established farm country. The community’s older landscape still reflects an era when Indigenous history, farming, railroads and textile development influenced settlement. Education, technology, health care, manufacturing and professional services shape the modern region. Historic places, recreation and close ties to neighboring communities add to Johnston County’s character.