The Map Poster to accompany Professional Paper 1827 Outerof Banks By Robert Dolan, Harry Lins, and Jodi Jones Smith 77°00' 76°30' 76°00' 75°30' SOUTHAMPTON SUFFOLK COUNTY CHESAPEAKE COUNTY COUNTY VIRGINIA BEACH COUNTY VIRGINIA NORTHAMPTON COUNTY GATES COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA Currituck Inlet (closed) Lighthouses 36°30' CURRITUCK Currituck COUNTY ATLANTIC OCEAN CAMDEN COUNTY Corolla Currituck Beach Lighthouse HERFORD COUNTY Corolla Beach PERQUIMANS COUNTY CHOWAN COUNTY PASQUOTANK COUNTY Duck BERTIE COUNTY Currituck Sound Southern Shores Currituck Beach Bodie Island Lighthouse Cape Hatteras Cape Lookout Lighthouse Lighthouse Lighthouse Albemarle Sound Kitty Hawk Ocracoke Lighthouse Kill Devil Hills 36°00' Colington Island WRIGHT BROTHERS NATIONAL MEMORIAL Bodie Island 36°00' Nags Head Woods Jockey’s Ridge Nags Head Northwest Fort Raleigh City Point Manteo Shallowbag Wright Brothers National Memorial Bay Roanoke Inlet Roanoke (closed) Island Croatan Sound Roanoke Sound Bodie Island Lighthouse WASHINGTON COUNTY TYRRELL COUNTY DARE COUNTY Oregon Inlet Herbert C. Bonner Bridge MARTIN COUNTY P e a I s l a n d E R BEAUFORT COUNTY O H S A Wilbur and Orville Wright used the Outer Banks at Kitty Hawk for their first flight E tests because of its gently rolling, barren terrain, flat beaches, and steady winds. S The location is now incorporated into the Wright Brothers National Memorial. PITT COUNTY Today this region bears little resemblance to the barren terrain of the Wright brothers’ Rodanthe time; undeveloped land now is rare in the Outer Banks except in preserves such as Waves this memorial, a national wildlife refuge, and two national seashores. Long Shoal Lightship L A N 35°30' O I 35°30' T A N HYDE COUNTY Cape Hatteras S National Seashore A Hatteras Island R E Avon T T A Pamlico Sound H E Buxton P A C Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Frisco Hatteras Billy Mitchell Village Airport Cape Hatteras Hatteras Inlet Diamond Shoal PAMILCO COUNTY Lightship Brant Island Shoal Lightship Royal Shoal Lightship Ocracoke Nine Foot Shoal Lightship Ocracoke Island Portsmouth Ocracoke Lighthouse Ocracoke Inlet 35°00' Harbor Island Portsmouth Island Lightship Cape Lookout JONES CRAVEN COUNTY COUNTY E North Core Banks National Seashore R O H S Astonishingly beautiful Cape Hatteras National Seashore—the United States’ A CARTERET COUNTY E first national seashore—is one of the world’s best examples of coastal barrier S Drum Inlet (closed?) Old Drum Inlet (closed?) islands, a chain of narrow, landward-shifting sand islands parallel to the coast. L These islands are a dynamic system, formed and continually reshaped by wind, A Core New Drum Inlet waves, and longshore currents. Despite their beauty, barrier islands can be harsh N Sound O places for plants and animals, and indeed for the islands themselves. Only I T robust species thrive in the islands’ loose sandy soils, salt spray, and periodic A N saltwater flooding. T U O K ONSLOW O Core Banks COUNTY O L Beaufort Inlet In 1966, Congress authorized Cape Lookout National Seashore to ensure that Core and Back South Core Banks Shackleford Sound E Shackleford Banks would be preserved in their natural state. In contrast to the northern P B a n k s A Outer Banks, which are stabilized by protective engineered structures, the area from C N APE C AT LO Barden Inlet Portsmouth Island to Core Banks and west along Shackleford Banks generally is without ION OK AL OU SE T permanent structures or settlements; access is by boat or ferry. Only National Park Service ASH Cape Lookout Lighthouse ORE Cape Lookout concessionaires provide services to birders, botanists (who come to see oak and pine Cape Lookout 0 5 10 15 20 MILES maritime forests), photographers, day-hikers, and campers who visit this serene seashore. 0 5 10 15 20 KILOMETERS Cape Point 34°30' 77°00' 76°30' 76°00' 75°30' Publishing support provided by Denver Publishing Service Center Edited by Mary-Margaret Coates Layout and graphic design by Carol A. Quesenberry U.S. Department of the Interior ISSN 1044-9612 (print) This publication is available online at: ISSN 2330-7102 (online) U.S. Geological Survey https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1827 https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1827.