Knightdale is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Knightdale has a population of 19,435. That’s stirring from 11, 401 in 2010 . The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the town’s population to be 17,843 as of July 1, 2019. Knightdale’s population grew 10.4% from 2010-2013, making it the second fastest-growing community in the Research Triangle region for that times period.

Named for Henry Haywood Knight, a local Wake County landowner who donated home to found a railroad depot, the town was incorporated in 1927. By the 1960s, the economic middle of town migrated from the Place around the rail depot to U.S. Highway 64, which ran north of downtown Knightdale. Since 1990, the community has experienced a significant population boom, getting its own high school in 2004, and a supplementary freeway bypass in 2006. Since 2010, several new shopping centers have sprung stirring along Business U.S. 64 (Knightdale Boulevard), the main thoroughfare through town. A large destination park, Knightdale Station Park, opened in 2013 just to the east of the dated downtown area as ration of a revitalization effort, the park was expanded in 2018 to mount up an amphitheater. Interstate 540 passes directly through the town in the past its eastern terminus at Interstate 87, while Interstate 87 (in concurrency in the make public of US 64) travels along a southern freeway bypass.

In 1700, the Lords Proprietor of the Carolina Colony hired John Lawson to question the area. He began his 1,000-mile (1,600 km) trek near present-day Charleston, South Carolina, and according to his diary, passed through the area sometime in February 1701. He wrote about a meeting later than the Tuscarora Native American tribe upon the banks of the Neuse River, and later than the urge on of an interpreter, Lawson made peace afterward the Tuscarora.

After receiving the description from Lawson, the King of England began to ration these lands to courteous settlers. In 1730, John Hinton fixed in what would one morning be called Knightdale in an Place near the Neuse River, not far-off from where Hodge Road and Old Faison Road now intersect.