Triangle Township is one of six townships in Durham County, North Carolina

Durham County, North Carolina

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 223,314 people, 89,015 households, and 54,032 families residing in the county. The population density was 769 people per square mile . There were 95,452 housing units at an average density of 329 per square mile...

, United States

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. The township had a population of 67,870 according to the 2000 census

United States Census, 2000

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census...

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Geographically, Triangle Township occupies 73.85 square miles (191.3 km²) in southern Durham County and is the largest township in the county by land area. The township is almost completely occupied by portions of the city of Durham

Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...

, the county seat

County seat

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 of Durham County.

Triangle Township consists of the former Patterson Township in the southwest (originally, Patterson was an Orange County

Orange County, North Carolina

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 township) and Cedar Fork Township in the southeast (Cedar Fork was carved from Wake County's

Wake County, North Carolina

Wake County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 900,993 making it North Carolina's second most populated county...

 Cedar Fork Township

Cedar Fork Township, Wake County, North Carolina

Cedar Fork Township is one of twenty townships within Wake County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, Cedar Fork Township had a population of 10,911, a 309.6% increase over 1990, and a population density of 0.37 people per acre .Cedar Fork Township, occupying 29,376 acres in northwestern Wake...

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