Hillweb.com - serving the Chapel Hill and Carrboro community for over fifteen years. Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - the oldest state-supported university in the U.S. The population was 48,715 at the 2000 census; its population was listed at 54,492 in the Census Bureau's 2007 estimates. Chapel Hill, Durham and Raleigh make up the three corners of the Research Triangle, so named in 1959 with the creation of Research Triangle Park, a research park between Durham and Raleigh.