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Holiday Island North Carolina Map

Explore Holiday Island, North Carolina, with this interactive street and satellite map.

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.

Interactive Map of Holiday Island, North Carolina

How to Use This Holiday Island, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Holiday Island, 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. Drag the map to pan to any area of North Carolina or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, 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).

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 in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. 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 Holiday Island.

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	Holiday Island
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Perquimans County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	36.08766
Longitude	-76.382993
Population	680
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	27944, 27949
Area Code	919, 984
County Seat	Hertford

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About Holiday Island, North Carolina

Holiday Island is a locality in Perquimans County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 680. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Holiday Island is located at 36.0877°N, 76.3830°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 27944, 27949.

Holiday Island emerges from the flat, salt-kissed plains where the earth yields gradually to the expansive reach of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 16.1 miles south-southwest of Elizabeth City, NC (from Elizabeth City, NC: bearing 207°T), and is situated 12.7 miles east of Edenton. Minzies Creek snakes through the landscape with a sluggish, rhythmic persistence, carving a narrow vein of dark water through the reeds before surrendering its current to the tides. The air here holds a heavy, briny moisture that clings to the skin, cooling the afternoon and turning the horizon a bruised, iridescent violet as the sun retreats. While the distant, hazy silhouette of Sandy Ridge suggests a rugged interior far to the west, the immediate terrain remains defined by the soft, yielding sand and the persistent whisper of grasses bending under the weight of the coastal breeze.

Holiday Island carries the quiet weight of generations who learned to read the shifting moods of the water, finding their livelihood in the harvest of the sound and the modest, persistent labors of the shore. Economic life here remains tethered to the sea, where the ebb and flow of the tide dictates the tempo of the day, far removed from the bustling commerce found near Town of Hertford - Missing Mill Park. Travelers passing through may notice the solitary, weathered geometry of nearby Crow Point Island rising above the surface, a silent sentinel that has watched over these waterways for longer than any recorded ledger. Though the deep, inland waters of Bennett Millpond remain a distant memory in the minds of those who prefer the salt air, the people of Holiday Island find a singular, grounded contentment in the simple cycle of the seasons and the enduring, unadorned beauty of the coast.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Perquimans County History Museum (Museum) — 8.4 mi, 326° NW
Perquimans Arts League (Arts Centre) — 8.4 mi, 327° NW
Perquimans County Open Space (Local Recreation) — 9.2 mi, 340° N
Pettigrew State Park (State Park) — 12.1 mi, 156° SE
Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.2 mi, 148° SE · 230k acres
The Conservation Fund - Palmetto-Peartree Preserve (Conservation Area) — 14.0 mi, 118° SE
Red Wolf Center (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 148° SE
U.S. Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross (Monument) — 16.2 mi, 041° NE
Lantern Acres Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 16.2 mi, 179° S
Museum of the Albemarle (Museum) — 17.1 mi, 032° NE
Alligator River Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 17.1 mi, 127° SE
Chowan High School (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 303° NW
Lake Phelps State Lake (State Park) — 19.9 mi, 189° S
Moccasin Overlook (Viewpoint) — 20.1 mi, 191° S
Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.0 mi, 241° SW · 43k acres
Emily and Richardson Preyer Buckridge Coastal Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 24.5 mi, 149° SE
Buckridge Coastal Reserve Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 24.7 mi, 148° SE
Brick House Landing (Monument) — 25.6 mi, 234° SW
Bear-ology (Museum) — 25.6 mi, 234° SW
105mm (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 053° NE
Theatre of Dare (Attraction) — 38.5 mi, 092° E
Lost Colony House (Attraction) — 39.0 mi, 105° E
Belhaven Memorial Museum (Museum) — 40.2 mi, 200° S
The Mother Vine (Attraction) — 41.5 mi, 105° E
Tugboat Explorer Shipwreck (Historic Ruins) — 42.8 mi, 100° E
Cape Hatteras National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 45.3 mi, 107° E · 58k acres
Red Thread Studio (Gallery) — 45.7 mi, 346° N
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 46.1 mi, 004° N
Mattie Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 47.2 mi, 176° S
Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 48.9 mi, 178° S · 8,920 acres

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