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Buncombe County| County in western North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains; area 1,707 sq km/659 sq mi; population (1990) 174,800. Its capital is Asheville. Farming, lumbering, and tourism are important. Industries, focused in Asheville, manufacture textiles, furniture, and paper products. |
| The county includes sections of the Pisgah National Forest in the east and southwest. It is drained by the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers. |
| It gave its name to a popular term, now usually bunkum or bunk, when its congressman Felix Walker made a long, pointless speech in the House of Representatives in about 1820. Asked what he had meant, he said that he had felt it his duty to speak ‘for Buncombe’. |
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