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Pamlico County, North Carolina

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1872formed

12,276pop. 2020

4cemeteries

2CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Oriental.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Pamlico titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
China Grove	Oriental	Building	1973
Holt’s Chapel School	Oriental	Building	2023

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pamlico was formed in 1872 (1872-05-02) from Beaufort, Craven.

PAMLICO created from BEAUFORT and CRAVEN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Pamlico County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,323	8,045	9,060	9,706	9,993	9,850	10,398	12,934	12,276

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Cape Lookout National Seashore	Park unit	47.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

4 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cayton Cemetery	35.05438	-76.90663
Hollywood Cemetery	35.13688	-76.9605
Sand Hill Cemetery	35.13373	-76.92164
Watson Cemetery	35.30004	-76.58195

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
New Berne	1,699	33.4 km	NC003
Fort Anderson	841	33.7 km	NC010

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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