North Carolina Coastal Plain
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Federal Point Township

Kure Beach

Kure Beach is a beach town near , – "nice, slow-mo and conservative" in the words of its former mayor.
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  • Type: Town with 2,310 residents
  • Description: human settlement in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Kure Beach, NC” and “Kure Beach, North Carolina”
  • Postal code: 28449

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Fisher.

Museum
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was a Confederate fort during the American Civil War. It protected the vital trading routes of the port at , from 1861 until its capture by the Union in 1865.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carolina Beach.

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is a beach town just south of , . The eastern side of the town is an ordinary built-up beach community, a popular summer destination for students and other beachgoers.

Kure Beach

Latitude
33.9968° or 33° 59′ 49″ north
Longitude
-77.9072° or 77° 54′ 26″ west
Population
2,310
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
Open location code
8754X3WV+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158359186
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4474609
Wiki­data ID
Q2027465
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Kure Beach” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوري بيتش”
  • Basque: “Kure Beach”
  • Catalan: “Kure Beach”
  • Cebuano: “Kure Beach”
  • Chechen: “Кюр-Бич”
  • Chinese: “Kure Beach”
  • Chinese: “庫雷比奇 (北卡羅萊納州)”
  • Chinese: “庫雷比奇”
  • Dutch: “Kure Beach”
  • French: “Kure Beach”
  • German: “Kure Beach”
  • Gilaki: “کیور بیچ (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “کیور بیچ”
  • Haitian: “Kure Beach, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hebrew: “קיורי ביץ‘”
  • Hungarian: “Kure Beach”
  • Italian: “Kure Beach”
  • Ladin: “Kure Beach”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kure Beach”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kure Beach”
  • Norwegian: “Kure Beach”
  • Persian: “کور بیچ”
  • Polish: “Kure Beach”
  • Portuguese: “Kure Beach”
  • Serbian: “Kure Beach, North Carolina”
  • Serbian: “Kure Beach”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kure Beach, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kure Beach”
  • Spanish: “Kure Beach”
  • Tatar: “Кюр-Бич”
  • Ukrainian: “Кюр-Біч”
  • Uzbek: “Kure Beach, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Kure Beach”
  • Uzbek: “Куре Беач”
  • Volapük: “Kure Beach, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Kure Beach”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Kure Beach”. Photo: Jeremy Markovich, CC BY 2.0.