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Emerald Isle is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.It is part of the Crystal Coast and is located entirely on Bogue Banks.The population was 3,847 at the 2020 census, [4] but as many as 50,000 tourists each week inhabit the area during the summer season, filling up vacant rental properties that do not count toward official census results.
Bogue Sound is a lagoon in the state of North Carolina separating the Bogue Banks, a 21-mile-long (34 km) barrier island, from the mainland. The sound is part of North Carolina's " Crystal Coast ", a tourism marketing term that is also used interchangeably with the term "Southern Outer Banks ."
Bogue Banks is the narrow barrier island separated from the mainland by Bogue Sound Bogue Banks form a 21-mile (34 km) barrier island off the mainland of North Carolina in Carteret County . The island, separated from the mainland by Bogue Sound , runs east to west, with the ocean beaches facing due south.
Atlantic Beach is located on the eastern portion of Bogue Banks, a barrier island on the Atlantic coast. The town is bordered to the south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north by Bogue Sound , which separates it from the mainland.
BT-11 Piney Island in Davis [54] and Cat Island in Bogue Sound are former Marine Corps bombing ranges. [55] The Marine Corps also has a facility in Beaufort, at the southern tip of Radio Island [56] (between the NC State Port in Morehead City, and the marine science laboratories on Pivers Island in Beaufort). It is military property, but is ...
Across the river to the east is the town of Beaufort, while to the south across Bogue Sound is Atlantic Beach. According to the United States Census Bureau , Morehead City has a total area of 8.5 square miles (22.1 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (17.7 km 2 ) is land and 1.7 square miles (4.3 km 2 ), or 19.55%, is water.
The B. Cameron Langston Bridge over Bogue Sound. NC 58 begins from the visitor center parking lot at Fort Macon State Park—formerly County Road 1190—and begins heading west along Bogue Banks. It passes through Atlantic Beach, Pine Knoll Shores, Indian Beach, and Emerald Isle as it runs along the Bogue Banks as a main highway. Approaching ...
Located on Bogue Banks near Atlantic Beach, the park opened in 1936. Fort Macon State Park is the second most visited state park in North Carolina, with an annual visitation of 1.3 million, despite being one of the smallest state parks in North Carolina with 424 acres (1.72 km 2 ). [ 1 ]