HENDERSON, a city of North Carolina, U.S.A., 44m. N. by E. of Raleigh; the county seat of Vance county. It is on Federal highway 1, and is served by the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern railways. The population was 5,222 in 1920 ; in 193o. It has large cotton mills (Ioo,000 spindles in 1928), and is an important market for cotton and leaf tobacco.