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Manns Harbor North Carolina Map

Explore Manns Harbor, North Carolina, with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Manns Harbor, NC street map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Manns Harbor, North Carolina

How to Use This Manns Harbor, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Manns Harbor, North Carolina. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of North Carolina or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Manns Harbor and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Manns Harbor.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Manns Harbor
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Dare
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	35.885724
Longitude	-75.762679
Population	926
Density	94.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code(s)	27953
Area Code	919, 984
County Seat	Manteo
School District	Dare County Schools

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About Manns Harbor, North Carolina

Manns Harbor is a locality in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 926. The population density is 94.0 people per km². Manns Harbor is located at 35.8857°N, 75.7627°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 27953.

Manns Harbor, North Carolina, exhales the briny breath of the Albemarle Sound, a wide, shallow expanse that dictates much of its character. It lies 39.3 miles southeast of Elizabeth City, NC (from Elizabeth City, NC: bearing 136°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west-southwest of Nags Head. The land here is a low-lying, flat canvas, a place where the sky seems to press down, a vast, ever-shifting dome of cerulean and bruised twilight hues, particularly in the hushed hours before dawn. Waterways, both natural and dredged, lace through the terrain like veins, reflecting the stoic, wind-bent pines and the occasional hardy live oak, their branches draped with Spanish moss like spectral beards. The air itself carries a peculiar humidity, a palpable weight that clings to the skin, thick with the scent of salt, marsh grass, and the distant, sweet decay of the low country. Shacks and modest homes, painted in faded pastels or weathered wood, huddle together as if for warmth against the broad, open vistas. The history of Manns Harbor is as fluid and untamed as the surrounding waters, a testament to lives lived in close communion with the ebb and flow of the Sound. Once a vital nexus for ferry traffic connecting the mainland to the Outer Banks before the bridges were built, its economy has since adapted, leaning heavily on the bounty of the sea. Fishing boats, their hulls scarred from countless voyages, bob gently in the marinas, and the day's catch, from plump oysters to silver-scaled flounder, forms the backbone of local commerce. There's a quiet resilience in Manns Harbor, a sense that its people have always understood the capricious nature of their environment, weathering storms and changing tides with a stoic grace. The local dialect, a soft, melodic cadence, carries echoes of generations who learned their lessons not from textbooks, but from the whisper of the wind through the reeds and the steady pulse of the ocean beyond.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Dare County Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 332° NW
Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.9 mi, 176° S · 456k acres
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust - Croatan Sound Enochs Preserve (Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 046° NE
Lost Colony House (Attraction) — 4.6 mi, 039° NE
Dare County Open Space (Local Park) — 4.8 mi, 091° E
Roanoke Island Marshes Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 092° E
Jumpmasters Trampoline Park (Attraction) — 5.4 mi, 083° E
Outer Banks History Center (Museum) — 5.7 mi, 072° E
Roanoke Island Marshes Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 5.7 mi, 087° E
The Mother Vine (Attraction) — 5.9 mi, 063° NE
Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve (Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 041° NE
Jockeys Ridge State Park (State Park) — 8.5 mi, 054° NE
Soundside Overlook (Viewpoint) — 8.6 mi, 056° NE
Cape Hatteras National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 8.7 mi, 084° E · 58k acres
Dare Game Land (Marine Protected Area) — 9.4 mi, 187° S
Tugboat Explorer Shipwreck (Historic Ruins) — 9.6 mi, 050° NE
1903/12/17 Sculpture (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 031° NE
First Flight Boulder (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 030° NE
Flight 1 (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 029° NE
Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.1 mi, 102° E · 15k acres
Theatre of Dare (Attraction) — 13.0 mi, 017° N
Alligator River Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 15.2 mi, 274° W
Red Wolf Center (Museum) — 26.7 mi, 273° W
Museum of the Albemarle (Museum) — 38.2 mi, 318° NW
Studio 12 (Gallery) — 40.0 mi, 159° S
Perquimans Arts League (Arts Centre) — 44.5 mi, 298° NW
Perquimans County History Museum (Museum) — 44.6 mi, 298° NW
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Pavillion (Theatre) — 45.8 mi, 163° S
Mattie Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 45.9 mi, 224° SW
Hello from Hatteras (Gallery) — 46.6 mi, 174° S

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