sentences:  Guilford County is included in the Greensboro-High Point, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area.At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Guilford County were a Siouan-speaking people called the Cheraw.Beginning in the 1740s, settlers arrived in the region in search of fertile and affordable land.