North Carolina
Dare
Nags Head Township

Nags Head

Nags Head is a city on the . Legend has it that the names comes from when pirates used to put a lantern around a horse's neck and walk along the beach.
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  • Type: Town with 3,050 residents
  • Description: town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Nag’s Head”, “Nags Head, NC”, and “Nags Head, North Carolina”
  • Postal code: 27959

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jockey’s Ridge State Park and The Outer Banks Hospital.

Park
Photo: Zrudisin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jockey's Ridge State Park is a North Carolina state park in , in the . Located in Nags Head, North Carolina, it covers a 427-acre area, and includes the tallest active sand dune system in the eastern United States.

Hospital
Photo: Packer1028, CC0.
is a critical access hospital located in Nags Head, on the . It is 60%/40% partnership of the ECU Health and Chesapeake Regional Healthcare.

Disaster remains
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
was an iron-hulled gunboat of the United States Navy. She was a screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail, built by John Roach & Sons in from 1873 to 1875 and commissioned at on 15 November 1875.

Nags Head

Latitude
35.9574° or 35° 57′ 27″ north
Longitude
-75.6241° or 75° 37′ 27″ west
Population
3,050
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US KQV
Open location code
8776X94G+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158243585
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4481427
Wiki­data ID
Q2028067
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Nags Head” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناغس”
  • Basque: “Nags Head”
  • Catalan: “Nags Head”
  • Cebuano: “Nags Head”
  • Chechen: “Нагс-Гед”
  • Chinese: “Nags Head”
  • Chinese: “納格斯黑德”
  • Chinese: “纳格斯黑德”
  • Dagbani: “Nags Head”
  • Dutch: “Nags Head”
  • French: “Nags Head”
  • German: “Nags Head”
  • Gilaki: “ناگس هد (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “ناگس هد”
  • Haitian: “Nags Head, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hungarian: “Nags Head”
  • Italian: “Nags Head”
  • Japanese: “ナグスヘッド（ノースカロライナ州）”
  • Japanese: “ナグスヘッド”
  • Korean: “내그스헤드 (노스캐롤라이나주)”
  • Korean: “내그스헤드”
  • Ladin: “Nags Head”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nags Head”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nags Head”
  • Norwegian: “Nags Head”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Naggeshēafod”
  • Persian: “نگ هد”
  • Polish: “Nags Head”
  • Portuguese: “Nags Head”
  • Serbian: “Нагс Хед”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nags Head, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nags Head”
  • Spanish: “Nags Head (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Nags Head”
  • Tatar: “Нагс-Гед”
  • Ukrainian: “Нагс-Гед”
  • Uzbek: “Nags Head, North Carolina”
  • Uzbek: “Nags Head”
  • Uzbek: “Нагс Ҳеад”
  • Volapük: “Nags Head, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Nags Head”

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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 “Nags Head”. Photo: James Willamor, CC BY-SA 3.0.