Henrico North Carolina Map

About Henrico, North Carolina

Henrico is a locality in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 12.0 people per km². Henrico is located at 36.5343°N, 77.8308°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 27842.

Henrico lies low and wide, a broad sweep of earth where the land seems to hold its breath. It lies 41.2 miles north of Rocky Mount, NC (from Rocky Mount, NC: bearing 357°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north-west of South Rosemary. The terrain here is a gentle descent, a gradual yielding toward the unseen waters that shape its contours, a place where the sky feels vast enough to swallow the hum of the cicadas. Fields stretch out in muted greens and ochres, broken by stands of stoic pine and the occasional, gnarled oak, their branches like ancient, arthritic fingers reaching towards the perpetually hazy sun. The air itself carries a damp, earthy scent, a perpetual whisper of the coming rain and the damp soil that supports it all. This quiet pocket of Northampton County carries the imprint of lives lived in service to the soil. For generations, the rhythms of planting and harvest dictated the pulse of Henrico, a tradition still evident in the sprawling fields of corn and tobacco that define its economic backbone. The echoes of early settlers, who navigated these same waterways and cleared these same woods, linger in the names of roads and the weathered clapboard of older homes. While larger industries have largely bypassed this specific locality, a sturdy resilience persists, a quiet pride in enduring the cycles of nature and the ebb and flow of agricultural fortune, a character forged in the patient waiting for sun and rain.

About This Henrico Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Henrico, North Carolina — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 36.534315, -77.83082. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Henrico and Northampton County.

Detailed location data for Henrico includes the ZIP code (27842), telephone area code (919, 984), county seat of Northampton County (Jackson), and school district assignment. These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Henrico is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.