Beaufort
Beaufort is the easternmost town in the Crystal Coast region of North Carolina; the county seat; and the third-oldest town in the state. Established in 1713 on the Newport River, Beaufort was named after Henry Somerset, the Duke of Beaufort.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Michelle Underhill, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 4,460 residents
- Description: town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Postal code: 28516
Notable Places in the Area
North Carolina Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The North Carolina Maritime Museum is a system of regional museums within the North Carolina Museum of History, which in turn part of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Michael J. Smith Field
Aerodrome
Michael J. Smith Field is a public airport located one mile north of the central business district of Beaufort and northeast of Morehead City, in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.
Beaufort
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat and locality
- Location: Beaufort Township, Carteret, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.7181° or 34° 43' 5" northLongitude
-76.6592° or 76° 39' 33" westPopulation
4,460Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BFOOpen Location Code
8765P89R+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 5654130342OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4454370Wikidata ID
Q813374Beaufort Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Arabic: Beaufort, North Carolina
- Arabic: بوفورت
- Arabic: بوفورت، كارولاينا الشماليه
- Azerbaijani: Beaufort
- Basque: Beaufort (Ipar Carolina)
- Basque: Beaufort
- Catalan: Beaufort
- Cebuano: Beaufort (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina)
- Cebuano: Beaufort
- Chechen: Боферт (Къилбаседа Каролина)
- Chechen: Боферт
- Chinese: Beaufort
- Chinese: 博福特 (北卡羅萊納州)
- Dagbani: Beaufort
- Danish: Beaufort
- Dutch: Beaufort
- English: Beaufort, NC
- English: Beaufort, North Carolina
- French: Beaufort
- French: Beaufort (Caroline Du Nord)
- French: Beaufort (caroline du nord)
- German: Beaufort
- Haitian: Beaufort, Kawolin dinò
- Hebrew: בופורט
- Hebrew: בופרט
- Hungarian: Beaufort
- Irish: Beaufort, Carolina Thuaidh
- Italian: Beaufort
- Japanese: ボーフォート
- Korean: 보퍼트
- Ladin: Beaufort (North Carolina)
- Ladin: Beaufort
- Min Nan Chinese: Beaufort
- Norwegian Bokmål: Beaufort
- Persian: بووفرت، کارولینای شمالی
- Polish: Beaufort (Karolina Północna)
- Polish: Beaufort
- Portuguese: Beaufort
- Romanian: Beaufort, Carolina de Nord
- Romanian: Beaufort, North Carolina
- Romanian: Beaufort
- Serbian: Бофорт (Северна Каролина)
- Serbian: Бофорт
- Serbo-Croatian: Beaufort, North Carolina
- Spanish: Beaufort
- Spanish: Beaufort (Carolina del Norte)
- Swedish: Beaufort, North Carolina
- Swedish: Beaufort
- Tatar: Боферт (Төньяк Каролина)
- Tatar: Боферт
- Ukrainian: Боферт
- Urdu: بیوفورٹ، شمالی کیرولائنا
- Uzbek: Beaufort
- Volapük: Beaufort (NC)
- Volapük: Beaufort (North Carolina)
- Volapük: Beaufort, NC
- Volapük: Beaufort, North Carolina
- Waray (Philippines): Beaufort, North Carolina
- Fishtown
- Wareiock
Other Places Named Beaufort
Localities in the Area
- Steep Pines ForkHamlet
- Beaufort MeadowsHamlet
- LenoxvilleHamlet
- The Black CatHamlet
- McDanielsHamlet, 2½ miles north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Beaufort. Photo: Michelle Underhill, CC BY 2.0.