CONCORD, a city in the southern part of North Carolina, U.S.A., on the Rocky river, 21 m. N.E. of Charlotte; the county seat of Cabarrus county. It is on Federal highway 17o, and is served by the Southern railway. The population in Ig2o was of whom 1,746 were negroes, and was 11,82o in 193o by the Federal census. It is in a cotton-growing district, and has tex tile mills which use 70,00o bales a year. Concord was laid out in and incorporated in 1851.