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77000997 [1] Added to NRHP. August 19, 1977. Nags Head Beach Cottages Historic District, also known as the Nags Head Beach Cottage Row Historic District, is a national historic district located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 41 contributing buildings dating from the late-19th and early-20th century.
FIPS code. 37-45880 [ 4] GNIS feature ID. 1021599 [ 5] Website. nagsheadnc .gov. Nags Head is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It is a busy vacation spot because of its beaches and sand dunes of Jockey's Ridge. The population was 3,146 at the 2020 census.
Cape Hatteras / ˈhætərəs / is a cape located at a pronounced bend in Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands of North Carolina . As a temperate barrier island, the landscape has been shaped by wind, waves, and storms. There are long stretches of beach, sand dunes, marshes, and maritime forests in the area. A large area of the Outer ...
Coquina Beach is a beach in North Carolina, US, located in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. It is located not far from the Wright Brothers National Memorial and is off highway 12 at milepost 22, 8 miles (13 km) south of Nags Head, North Carolina. Local activities include swimming, crabbing, surf fishing, surfing, shell collecting, bird and ...
July 4, 2003. The current Bodie Island Lighthouse (pronounced “body island”) is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It stands 156 feet (48 m) tall and is located on the Roanoke Sound side of a portion of a peninsula that is the first part of the Cape Hatteras ...
The crash was reported in Dare County, about 10 miles south of the popular vacation destination of Nags Head. N.C. 12 stretches more than 140 miles and connects parts of the Outer Banks barrier ...
The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a 200 mi (320 km) string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States. They line most of the North Carolina coastline, separating Currituck Sound, Albemarle Sound, and Pamlico Sound from the Atlantic Ocean.
Jockey's Ridge State Park. / 35.96194°N 75.63417°W / 35.96194; -75.63417. Jockey's Ridge State Park is a North Carolina state park in Dare County, North Carolina in the United States. Located in Nags Head, North Carolina, it covers a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) [1] area, and includes the tallest active sand dune system in the eastern United ...