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Pantego North Carolina Map

Explore Pantego, 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 Pantego, North Carolina

How to Use This Pantego, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pantego, 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 Pantego.

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.

CityPantego
StateNorth Carolina (NC)
CountyBeaufort County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude35.589054
Longitude-76.662157
Population164
Density78.9 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code27860
Area Code919, 984
County SeatWashington
School DistrictBeaufort County Schools

About Pantego, North Carolina

Pantego is a locality in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 164. The population density is 78.9 people per km². Pantego is located at 35.5891°N, 76.6622°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Pantego is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 27860.

Pantego defines the landscape where the dark, humic earth of the coastal plain meets the slow, deliberate movement of the water. It lies 39.6 miles north-northeast of New Bern, NC (from New Bern, NC: bearing 33°T), and is situated 19.3 miles east-northeast of River Road. Pantego Creek carves a narrow, tea-colored vein through the low-lying terrain, its banks lined with ancient cypress knees and dense, tangled thickets that hold the morning mist long after the sun has climbed the sky. To the west, the subtle rise of Beech Ridge breaks the absolute flatness of the horizon, while the proximity to the coast keeps the air perpetually heavy, thick with the scent of damp soil and the salt-tinged breath of the distant atmosphere. Beyond the immediate fields, the wide expanse of Pungo Lake reflects the shifting, bruised purples of a gathering storm, and the solitude of the nearby Woodstock Savanna offers a vast, open silence that defines the scale of this quiet geography.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Pantego, where the rhythm of the seasons is dictated by the planting and harvest of crops that thrive in the rich, dark muck of the basin. The history of the land is written in the furrows of these fields, a legacy of labor that has sustained the local economy for generations and shaped the character of the people who call this place home. Life moves at the pace of the slow-turning tides, far removed from the bustle of the coast, yet intrinsically connected to the water that defines the region. Residents often find their way to Northside Community Park for a moment of stillness, or watch the light change over the distant, marshy reaches of Gaylords Island, where the boundary between land and water blurs into a singular, shimmering gray. Here, the economy is quiet, grounded in the hard reality of the soil and the persistent, flowing influence of Battalina Creek.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Northside Community Park (Local Park) — 3.9 mi, 145° SE
  • Belhaven Memorial Museum (Museum) — 4.1 mi, 147° SE
  • Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.2 mi, 040° NE · 230k acres
  • Pungo River Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 094° E
  • Van Swamp Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 320° NW
  • West Lake Road Observation Point (Viewpoint) — 9.6 mi, 029° NE
  • North Carolina Historic Bath (Museum) — 11.5 mi, 228° SW
  • Edward “Blackbeard” Teach Historical Marker (Monument) — 11.8 mi, 227° SW
  • Pettigrew State Park (State Park) — 14.3 mi, 035° NE
  • Lake Phelps State Lake (State Park) — 14.3 mi, 035° NE
  • Goose Creek State Park (Marine Protected Area) — 14.9 mi, 237° SW
  • Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 16.9 mi, 125° SE · 50k acres
  • Bear-ology (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 345° N
  • Brick House Landing (Monument) — 19.9 mi, 346° N
  • Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 20.1 mi, 137° SE · 8,920 acres
  • Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge.Proposed Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 20.6 mi, 102° E · 755 acres
  • Aurora Fossil Museum (Museum) — 20.9 mi, 200° S
  • Mattie Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 22.6 mi, 124° SE
  • Extreme Action Park (Attraction) — 23.7 mi, 260° W
  • Gull Rock Game Land (Marine Protected Area) — 24.2 mi, 089° E
  • Indian Woods (Monument) — 30.2 mi, 320° NW
  • Red Wolf Center (Museum) — 32.1 mi, 048° NE
  • Sudan Shriners (Public Artwork) — 39.3 mi, 212° SW
  • Neuse Boulevard Cinema (Cinema) — 40.0 mi, 216° SW
  • Bear Town Cinema (Cinema) — 41.5 mi, 215° SW
  • New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park (Registered Battlefield) — 42.4 mi, 208° SW
  • Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 42.4 mi, 211° SW · 162k acres
  • Perquimans Arts League (Arts Centre) — 42.9 mi, 015° N
  • Cedar Island Rentals (Attraction) — 44.2 mi, 154° SE
  • Fort Ocarcoke (Historic Ruins) — 48.5 mi, 134° SE

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About This Pantego Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pantego, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.589054, -76.662157. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Pantego includes the ZIP code (27860), telephone area code (919, 984), county seat of Beaufort County (Washington), and school district assignment (Beaufort County Schools).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.