Perquimans County, North Carolina Map
Explore Perquimans County, North Carolina with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 3 cities and towns in Perquimans County below.
Interactive Map of Perquimans County, North Carolina
| County | Perquimans |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County Seat | Hertford |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 36.165621 |
| Longitude | -76.437625 |
| Cities & Towns | 3 |
| Area Codes | 919, 984 |
About Perquimans County, North Carolina
Perquimans County occupies a low, level stretch of the Albemarle Sound’s northern shore, where the land dissolves into a labyrinth of blackwater creeks and wide, brackish estuaries. The soil here is heavy, dark, and damp, yielding to a horizon that feels remarkably vast because it is rarely broken by anything taller than a stand of loblolly pines or a weathered barn. To the east, the water stretches toward the barrier islands, acting as a great, mirror-like boundary that moderates the temperature and keeps the air perpetually thick with the scent of salt and turning loam. As the sun begins to retreat, the light across these flat fields takes on a bruised, violet quality, turning the irrigation ditches into ribbons of hammered silver that seem to hold the day long after the shadows have claimed the woods.
European settlers arrived here in the mid-seventeenth century, pushing into the dense coastal forests from the north to claim parcels of land along the riverbanks. This territory was organized early in the colonial era, defined by the slow, deliberate work of clearing timber and mapping out plantation boundaries that followed the natural curves of the tidal inlets. The administrative center emerged at a point where the river widened, chosen for its accessibility to the sloops and schooners that once carried tobacco and naval stores to market. The local architecture still bears the mark of these beginnings, with brick foundations and wide porches that were built to catch the cooling drafts coming off the sound, serving as a quiet witness to the generations that have navigated the shifting tides of commerce and governance.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the county, as the flat, expansive acreage is given over to the systematic cultivation of cotton, corn, and peanuts. The people here maintain a quiet, tempered demeanor, a way of moving through the day that acknowledges the unpredictability of the weather and the seasonal demands of the harvest. Life is ordered by the cycles of the fields, and there is a particular, solitary grace in seeing a lone tractor moving against the dusk, its headlights cutting a pale yellow path through the gathering gloom. Beyond the reach of modern congestion, the county preserves a sense of isolation that is not empty, but rather filled with the sounds of the water lapping against cypress knees and the distant, rhythmic call of waterfowl moving across the darkening sky.
Cities and Towns in Perquimans County
About This Perquimans County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Perquimans County, North Carolina alongside links to detailed street maps for 3 cities and towns. The county seat is Hertford. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
