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Swan Quarter (also spelled Swanquarter [2]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hyde County, North Carolina, United States. [4] It is the county seat of Hyde County. As of the 2010 census , it had a population of 324.
Hyde County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census , the population was 4,589, [ 1 ] making it the second-least populous county in North Carolina . Its county seat is Swan Quarter . [ 2 ]
The Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge is located in Hyde County, North Carolina near the village of Swan Quarter. The area is a federally protected land and home to many species of wildlife and waterfowl. The refuge is administered from the nearby Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge has a total area of 16,411 acres (66.41 km 2 ...
Swan Quarter, North Carolina: ... The Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge is a federally protected wildlife refuge located within Hyde County, North Carolina, ...
David S. Cecelski, author of Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South, stated that in the era of de jure school segregation, schools for white children had full services, facilities, and transportation via school bus, and that schools for black children, all inferior to those for white children, "varied considerably" with "decades of official ...
Swanquarter Wilderness was designated in 1976, and it covers 8,785 acres (36 km 2) in the Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina. The most prevalent bird wintering species residing in refuge marshes include northern pintail, green-winged teal, gadwall, American wigeon, mallard, and American black duck.
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.
Hyde County: 095: Swan Quarter: 1712: Bath County: Edward Hyde (1667–1712), a governor of colonial North Carolina: 4,607: 1,459 sq mi (3,779 km 2) Iredell County: 097: Statesville: 1788: Rowan County: James Iredell (1751–1799), a comptroller at the port of Edenton and one of the original justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ...