Ocracoke is a place of calculation (CDP), unincorporated town at the southern end of Ocracoke Island, which lays entirely Hyde County, North Carolina.
The total population of the town was 769 at the 2000 census. It’s also a popular place of death of Blackbeard. Ocracoke area of securities on the weekend of July, Independence Day 2009, when a truck carrying fireworks finally exploded, killing three people and injuring many others.
Ocracoke Island is a part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is one of the most remote islands in the Outer Banks; it can be accomplished by one of three public ferries (two of which are toll ferries), private boat or private plane. With the exception of the village of Ocracoke and a few other areas (a ferry terminal, a pony pen, a small track), the island is part of the coast of Cape Hatteras National.
A single two-lane paved road, NC 12, links the village to the southern tip of the island to the ferry dock on the northern tip of the island, where a ferry with 40 minutes of free time to connect Hatteras Island. The ferry dock second, situated in the village, has toll connections to Swan Quarter, North Carolina on the mainland and the island of Cedar, near the Atlantic in North Carolina. Ocracoke Island Airport (FAA identifier W95) is located just south of the village, allowing small planes to land.
Ocracoke village is located around a small sheltered harbor called Silver Lake, and a second small residential area built on a series of channels called human Oyster Creek. The village is located at the widest point of the island protected by sand dunes and the Atlantic salt marshes.
As per to the U.S Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 9.6 square miles (24.9 km ²), of which, 9.6 square miles (24.8 km ²) of land and 0.1 miles square (0.2 km ²) of it (0.62%) is water.
