Bladen County, NC sits along Cape Fear River near Fayetteville metropolitan centre with an estimated 2020 census population standing at 36,190 making it the 74th most populous county located hereabouts. Its county seat is Elizabethtown whilst other towns include Bladenboro & White Oak – Elizabethtown itself equates out to Bladen’s biggest town aside from mentioned county seat. This area had been formed out of New Hanover & Brunswick Counties back in 1734 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Prince William Augustus (also known as ‘Captain General’) thanks George III who appointed him earlier that decade.