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Based on the census in the year 2000, the population was 8,775 and the year 2006 estimate was 10,008. Average age is 46, compared to the state average of 35.
Average winter temperature is 42 degrees; average for summer is 75. It snows only a few times a year; last blizzard was in 1993. Average rainfall has been about 65 inches per year, with a typical growing season of 177 days.
Tusquittee Bald Mountain is the tallest at 5,249 feet. Lowest elevation is 1,700 feet above sea level.
Within an area of 219 square miles, 110,096 acres is forested land, of which 65,935 acres are the Nantahala National Forest.
County has 189 streams that are named.
Fires Creek Recreation Area is a bear sanctuary.
Clay County was once part of Macon and Cherokee Counties.
First U.S. Post Office began in 1843 at Fort Hembree. The first postmaster was Jason Hyatt.
County has two sites designated on the National Register of Historic Places: Clay County Courthouse (built in 1888) and the ancient Spike Buck Indian Mound.
Old Jail Museum blends history with art: Among many interesting artifacts and displays in the Native American Room are new Cherokee tribal masks, a quilt made by women on the “Trail of Tears,” and a diorama based on an archaeological study in the 1970s of the ancient Spike Buck Mound.
Next door to the Old Jail Museum is a farm equipment exhibit, painstakingly moved form a local farm and rebuilt on the site, linking with the County’s agricultural roots.
Hayesville, the County Seat, was incorporated in 1913 and is two hours from Asheville, Greenville, South Carolina, Atlanta, Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Hayesville is closer to the capitals of Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina than to the North Carolina capital city, Raleigh.
First school in 1850, Hicks Academy, was absorbed by Hayesville High School around 1900.
First paid librarian was Eileen Scroggs for $25.00 per month.
John C. Moore brought in first wagon in 1860. In 1914 A.O. Allison purchased the first automobile. The first automobile dealership was owned by Silvey Penland and Sam Hogsed, a Ford agency.
One railroad, the Peavine, started in 1920 and closed in 1951, and ran between Hayesville and Andrews, North Carolina.
Blue Ridge Electric began delivering electrical power to residents in late 1939, with less than 50 miles of power lines. The first electric lines were from Mission Dam near Hayesville, ingeniously using tall chestnut trees left from the great blight a few years before, but “sound enough for poles.”
First electric company was a Co-op of 124 member-residents, two employees, one truck and a great deal of faith in the future. Willard Ledford’s house was the first to have electricity.
TVA Dam was completed in 1942 across the Hiwassee River, creating Lake Chatuge. Today a mostly paved walking trail crosses Chatuge Dam and continues to the Clay County Recreation Park and Gibson Cove Campground.
33.05 primary roads in the County, having 189 paved and 31 unpaved.
County Commissioners meet the first Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. The three-member board is elected every four years and appoints a County Manager.
Hayesville is the County Seat and is governed by an elected Mayor and three-member Council elected for four year terms. The Town Council meets the second Monday in the month at Town Hall, Sanderson Street on Court House Square.
In September 2006, the total student enrollment was 1,373 in Hayesville’s Schools, with 433 at the High School; 940 combined at the Elementary and Middle Schools.
County sales tax is 7 %; Room and Board tax is 3%. County property taxes are assessed at a rate of $0.43 per $100 valuation, plus a small fire tax that is used to fund fire departments in the various Communities.
Corundum the hardest mineral next to diamond, used to be mined here for an abrasive until a synthetic was devised about 1950. Early settlers, Warne and Bill Boe, once owned the Warne Gold Mine.
First business enterprise was a tanyard run by Joab Moore and Hirman Crisp, who used mainly deer skins to tan leather to cut patterns for shoes and boots.
World-famous artists live and work in the County, such as those who make amazing glass-blown creations and wood pottery from rescued diseased and fallen trees. Their studios are open for tours. The John C. Campbell Folks School is internationally famous for its classes in arts, crafts, music, dance, and writing.
Brasstown is considered the “Possum Capital of the World” and celebrates the Possum Drop every New Year’s Eve at Clay’s Corner, near the J .C. Campbell Folks School.
Farmers’ Market is on the Hayesville Town Square every weekend during the summer months.
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