Buxton
Buxton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on Hatteras Island near Cape Hatteras. It is located in Dare County in the U.S. state of North Carolina.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 1,270 residents
- Description: unincorporated community of North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Buxton, NC”, “Buxton, North Carolina”, and “The Cape”
- Postal code: 27920
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Photo: Henryhartley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Hatteras Light is a lighthouse located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks in the town of Buxton, North Carolina and is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Buxton
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Hatteras Township, Dare, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.26768° or 35° 16′ 4″ northLongitude
-75.54238° or 75° 32′ 33″ westPopulation
1,270Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87767F95+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 158520225OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4458391Wikidata ID
Q745614
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Buxton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Buxton”
- Chechen: “Бакстон”
- Chinese: “巴克斯頓 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “巴克斯頓”
- French: “Buxton”
- Gilaki: “باکستن (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “باکستن”
- Hebrew: “בקסטון”
- Irish: “Buxton”
- Italian: “Buxton”
- Ladin: “Buxton”
- Persian: “بوکستون، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “بوکستون”
- Polish: “Buxton”
- Portuguese: “Buxton”
- Serbian: “Бакстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buxton, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buxton”
- South Azerbaijani: “بوکستون، قوزئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Buxton”
- Swedish: “Buxton, North Carolina”
- Swedish: “Buxton”
- Tatar: “Бакстон”
- Ukrainian: “Бакстон”
- Volapük: “Buxton”
- Welsh: “Buxton, Gogledd Carolina”
- Welsh: “Buxton”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Buxton”. Photo: Vbofficial, Public domain.