North Carolina
Dare
Atlantic Township

Kill Devil Hills

Kill Devil Hills is a colorfully-named town on the coast of . It is part of the , and is best known for its association with the Wright Brothers' historic flights in the first airplane in 1903.
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  • Type: Town with 7,330 residents
  • Description: town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Croatan Shores”, “Kill Devil Hills, NC”, and “Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina”
  • Postal code: 27948

Places of Interest

Highlights include First Flight Airport and Wright Brothers National Memorial.

Aerodrome
Photo: Ke7dlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a public use airport located one nautical mile west of the central business district of Kill Devil Hills, a town in , United States.

Park
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates Wright Flyer; the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.

Movie theater
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is a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colington and Kitty Hawk.

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is a city in .

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, located on the of , consists of a thriving village that has been around for generations, a newer beach community of residential cottages, and a maritime forest called Woods which features a wide variety of plant and animal life.

Kill Devil Hills

Latitude
36.0321° or 36° 1′ 56″ north
Longitude
-75.6776° or 75° 40′ 39″ west
Population
7,330
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
IATA airport code
FFA
United Nations Location Code
US FFA
Open location code
878628JC+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 157632625
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4474274
Wiki­data ID
Q2029051
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Kill Devil Hills” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيل ديفل هيلز”
  • Basque: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Catalan: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Cebuano: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Chechen: “Килл-Девил-Гилс”
  • Chinese: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Chinese: “基爾德弗爾希爾斯”
  • Chinese: “屠魔岗”
  • Chinese: “屠魔崗 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “屠魔崗”
  • Chinese: “除魔山”
  • Dutch: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • French: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • German: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Gilaki: “کیل دیول هیلز (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “کیل دیول هیلز”
  • Haitian: “Kill Devil Hills, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “קיל דוויל הילס”
  • Hungarian: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Italian: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Japanese: “キル・デヴィル・ヒルズ”
  • Japanese: “キル・デビル・ヒルズ”
  • Japanese: “キルデビルヒルズ”
  • Korean: “킬데블힐스”
  • Ladin: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Persian: “کیل دول هیل”
  • Polish: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Portuguese: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Russian: “Килл-Девил-Хиллз”
  • Russian: “Килл-Девил-Хилс”
  • Serbian: “Кил Девил Хилс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Silesian: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Spanish: “Kill Devil Hills (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Swedish: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Tatar: “Килл-Девил-Гилс”
  • Ukrainian: “Кілл-Девіл-Гілс”
  • Urdu: “کل ڈیول ہل، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Uzbek: “Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Kill Devil Hills”
  • Uzbek: “Килл Девил Ҳиллс”
  • Volapük: “Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Kill Devil Hills”

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