Morehead City
Morehead City is the largest town in the Crystal Coast region of North Carolina, with a population of 7,691. Morehead is not actually in the Outer Banks, being situated on the opposite shore of the Bogue Sound from Atlantic Beach, and is the main gateway to the island of Bogue Banks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: James Willamor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 9,560 residents
- Description: city in North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Morehead City, NC”, “Morehead City, North Carolina”, “Morehead, North Carolina”, and “Shepherds Point”
- Postal code: 28557
Places of Interest
Highlights include O’Neal Field at Big Rock Stadium and Carteret General Hospital.
O’Neal Field at Big Rock Stadium
Stadium
Puck O'Neal Field at Big Rock Stadium is a baseball venue in Morehead City, North Carolina, United States. Also known as simply Big Rock Stadium, the venue is home to the Morehead City Marlins of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league.
Carteret General Hospital
Hospital
Carteret Health Care is a 135-bed, non-profit hospital in Morehead City, North Carolina. Carteret General was founded in 1967.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atlantic Beach.
Atlantic Beach
Photo: James Willamor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Atlantic Beach is a small town of 1,500 people in the Crystal Coast region North Carolina. A popular seaside vacation town since the 1920s, Atlantic Beach is on Bogue Banks, part of the southern Outer Banks chain of barrier islands, between Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
Morehead City
- Categories: city in the United States, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Morehead Township, Carteret, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.7229° or 34° 43′ 23″ northLongitude
-76.726° or 76° 43′ 34″ westPopulation
9,560Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MRHOpen location code
8765P7FF+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 157580623OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Morehead City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مورهيد سيتي (كارولاينا الشمالية)”
- Arabic: “مورهيد سيتي”
- Basque: “Morehead City”
- Catalan: “Morehead City”
- Cebuano: “Morehead City”
- Chechen: “Моргед-Сити”
- Chinese: “Morehead City”
- Chinese: “莫尔黑德城”
- Chinese: “莫尔黑德市”
- Chinese: “莫爾黑德城”
- Chinese: “莫爾黑德市”
- Czech: “Morehead City”
- Dagbani: “Morehead City”
- Danish: “Morehead City”
- Dutch: “Morehead City”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورهيد سيتى”
- Finnish: “Morehead City”
- French: “Morehead City”
- German: “Morehead City”
- Gilaki: “مؤرهد سيتي (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “مؤرهد سيتي”
- Haitian: “Morehead City, Kawolin dinò”
- Indonesian: “Kota Morehead, Carolina Utara”
- Irish: “Morehead City”
- Italian: “Morehead City”
- Japanese: “モアヘッドシティ”
- Korean: “모어헤드 시티”
- Korean: “모어헤드시티”
- Ladin: “Morehead City”
- Malagasy: “Morehead City, North Carolina”
- Malagasy: “Morehead City”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morehead City”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morehead City”
- Norwegian: “Morehead City”
- Persian: “مورهاد سیتی، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “مورهاد سیتی”
- Persian: “مورهدسیتی”
- Polish: “Morehead City”
- Portuguese: “Morehead City”
- Serbian: “Morehead City, North Carolina”
- Serbian: “Morehead City”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morehead City, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morehead City”
- Slovak: “Morehead City”
- South Azerbaijani: “مورهدسیتی، قوزئی کارولینا”
- Spanish: “Morehead City (Carolina del Norte)”
- Spanish: “Morehead City”
- Tatar: “Моргед-Сити”
- Ukrainian: “Моргед-Сіті”
- Urdu: “مورہیڈ سٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
- Uzbek: “Morehead City”
- Volapük: “Morehead City”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morehead City, North Carolina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morehead City”
- Welsh: “Morehead City, Gogledd Carolina”
- Welsh: “Morehead City”
- “Morehead City”
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