Moores Creek National Battlefield
Moores Creek National Battlefield is a battlefield managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The park commemorates the 1776 victory of a thousand patriots over about eight hundred loyalists at Moore's Creek.- Type: Park
- Description: national battlefield in Pender County, North Carolina; site of a rebel victory in the American Revolutionary War (February 27, 1776)
- Also known as: “MOCR”, “Moore’s Creek Battlefield”, “Moore’s Creek National Battlefield”, and “Moores Creek National Park”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yamacraw and Atkinson.
Yamacraw
Hamlet
Yamacraw is an unincorporated community in Pender County, North Carolina, United States. Yamacraw is situated 2½ miles north of Moores Creek National Battlefield.
Atkinson
Village
Atkinson is a town in Pender County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Atkinson had a population of 296. It is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town was incorporated in 1909. Atkinson is situated 6 miles northwest of Moores Creek National Battlefield.
Moores Creek National Battlefield
- Categories: archaeological site, National Battlefield, and recreation area
- Location: Pender, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.45829° or 34° 27′ 30″ northLongitude
-78.11048° or 78° 6′ 38″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Operator
National Park ServiceOpen location code
8763FV5Q+8ROpenStreetMap ID
way 100017876OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4480111Wikidata ID
Q14708039
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Moores Creek National Battlefield” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Aragonese: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Arpitan: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Asturian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Basque: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Bavarian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Breton: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Catalan: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Cebuano: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Corsican: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Croatian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Czech: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Danish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Dutch: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Esperanto: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Estonian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Finnish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- French: “champ de bataille national de Moores Creek”
- French: “Champ de bataille national de Moores Creek”
- Friulian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Galician: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- German: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Hungarian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Icelandic: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Ido: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Indonesian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Interlingua: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Interlingue: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Irish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Italian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Japanese: “ムーアズ・クリーク国立戦場跡”
- Kongo: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Ligurian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Limburgan: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Low German: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Luxembourgish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Malagasy: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Malay: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Minangkabau: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Narom: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Neapolitan: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Picard: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Piemontese: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Polish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Portuguese: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Romanian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Romansh: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Sardinian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Scots: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Serbian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Sicilian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Slovak: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Slovenian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Spanish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Swahili: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Swedish: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Swiss German: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Venetian: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Vietnamese: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Vlaams: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Volapük: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Walloon: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Welsh: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Wolof: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
- Zulu: “Moores Creek National Battlefield”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Currie and The Borough.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Moores Creek National Battlefield Visitor Center and Moore Monument.
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