The Miss North Carolina USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state North Carolina in the Miss USA pageant. This state is part of the RPM Productions group.
In 2005, Miss North Carolina USA Chelsea Cooley won the Miss USA crown and placed in the top 10 at Miss Universe. Cooley is the first former Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title, although not the first to have competed at Miss Teen USA. The second Miss North Carolina Teen USA to win the Miss title was Erin O' Kelley in 2007. She went on to place in the top 15 at Miss USA 2007. Similar to the Miss Utah USA titleholders, both Cooley and Kelley placed at Miss USA, eclipsing their teen performances. In 2009, Kristen Dalton became the second woman from North Carolina to be crowned Miss USA.
Two Miss North Carolina USAs have also competed at Miss America.
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| Year | Name | Hometown | Age1 | Placement at Miss USA | Special awards at Miss USA | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Sydney Perry | Wilmington | 21 | Previously Miss Vermont Teen USA 2008 | ||
| 2011 | Brittany York | Wilmington | 22 | |||
| 2010 | Nadia Moffett | High Point | 24 | |||
| 2009 | Kristen Dalton | Wilmington | 21 | Winner | Top 10 at Miss Universe 2009, Sister of Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008, Daughter of Miss North Carolina USA 1982, 1st runner up at Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2005 | |
| 2008 | Andrea Duke | Hendersonville | 25 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2006 | ||
| 2007 | Erin O'Kelley | Asheville | 21 | Top 15, Finishing in 15th Place | Previously Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2001 | |
| 2006 | Samantha Holvey | Buies Creek | 20 | |||
| 2005 | Chelsea Cooley | Charlotte | 21 | Winner | Top 10 at Miss Universe 2005, previously Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2000, Miss United States Teen 2001 (1st runner-up at Miss Teen International 2001) | |
| 2004 | Ashley Puleo | Pinehurst | 25 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 2003 | Kristen Luneberg | Durham | 22 | Previously Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1998 | ||
| 2002 | Alison English | Archdale | 22 | |||
| 2001 | Monica Palumbo | Charlotte | 19 | Miss Congeniality | ||
| 2000 | Portia Lyndell Johnson | Greensboro | 24 | |||
| 1999 | Joy Hall | Sanford | 24 | |||
| 1998 | Vera Morris | Nashville | 23 | Miss Congeniality | ||
| 1997 | Crystal McLaurin-Coney | Durham | ||||
| 1996 | Jessica McMinn | Tuxedo | ||||
| 1995 | Michelle Mauney | Stanley | semifinalist in Miss World USA 1994 | |||
| 1994 | Lynn Jenkins | Gastonia | 26 | 2nd runner-up | ||
| 1993 | Christa Tyson | Monroe | ||||
| 1992 | Tess Elliott | High Point | 20 | Semi-finalist, Finishing in 10th Place | Died in a sky-diving accident only weeks after the conclusion of her reign.[1] | |
| 1991 | Pat Arnold | 21 | Finalist, Finishing in 5th place | Miss Photogenic | ||
| 1990 | Altman Allen | |||||
| 1989 | Jacqueline Padgette | |||||
| 1988 | Tammy Tolar | |||||
| 1987 | Donna Wilson | Jefferson | ||||
| 1986 | Rhonda Nobles | Fayetteville | 20 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1985 | Kate Kenney | Raleigh | ||||
| 1984 | Cookie Noak | Hickory | 23 | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1983 | Allison Payge Pinson | Mooresville | ||||
| 1982 | Jeannie Boger | Sanford | Mother of Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton (Miss North Carolina USA 2009) and Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2008 Julia Dalton (second-runner up at Miss Teen USA 2008). | |||
| 1981 | Lisa Colleen Swift | Southport | ||||
| 1980 | Lori Boggs | Kannapolis | ||||
| 1979 | Dianne Jamerson | Asheville | Semi-finalist | |||
| 1978 | Kathryn Norman | |||||
| 1977 | Vikki Verbyla | |||||
| 1976 | Dianne Bowen | Windsor | ||||
| 1975 | Constance Ann Dorn | Kinston | 2nd runner-up | Previously Miss North Carolina 1972, 1st runner up to Miss America 1973 | ||
| 1974 | Marcia Burton | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1973 | Vivian Craig | |||||
| 1972 | Deborah Ann Falls | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1971 | Mary Rudroff | |||||
| 1970 | Susan Bodsford | |||||
| 1969 | Faye Bass | Durham | 19 | received United Artist Special Talent Award | ||
| 1968 | Kelli Ann Moore | |||||
| 1967 | Patty Jean Effron | |||||
| 1966 | Brenda Moye | |||||
| 1965 | Sandra Farmer | |||||
| 1964 | Did Not Compete | |||||
| 1963 | Trudy Ann Cauthen | |||||
| 1962 | Brenda Joyce Smith | |||||
| 1961 | Marie Clyburn | |||||
| 1960 | Lyndia Ann Tarlton | 3rd runner-up | ||||
| 1959 | Peggy Anne Brown | |||||
| 1958 | Carol Jean Edwards | |||||
| 1957 | Peggy Ann Dennis | |||||
| 1956 | Shirley Bagwell | Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1955 | Mary Grace Ratliffe | |||||
| 1954 | Ann Pickett | |||||
| 1953 | Libby Walker | |||||
| 1952 | Doris M. Stanley |
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
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