Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Pasquotank County
Pasquotank County
U.S. county
	Pasquotank County Courthouse
	Location within the U.S. state of North Carolina
	North Carolina's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 36°16′N 76°16′W / 36.26°N 76.26°W
Country	United States
State	North Carolina
Founded	1739
Named for	The Pasquotank Indians, an Algonquian people
Seat	Elizabeth City
Largest city	Elizabeth City
Area
• Total	289 sq mi (750 km2)
• Land	227 sq mi (590 km2)
• Water	63 sq mi (160 km2) 22%%
Population (2010)
• Total	40,661
• Density	179/sq mi (69/km2)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Congressional districts	1st, 3rd
Website	www.co.pasquotank.nc.us

Pasquotank County /ˈpæskwətænk/ (listen) ^[1] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 40,661.^[2] Its county seat is Elizabeth City.^[3] The county was originally created as Pasquotank Precinct and gained county status in 1739.^[4]

Pasquotank County is part of the Elizabeth City, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC Combined Statistical Area.

Pasquotank is the birth county of Nikita Pavlunenko.

ReferencesEdit

↑ Talk Like A Tarheel Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
↑ "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
↑ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
↑ "North Carolina: Individual County Chronologies". North Carolina Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. The Newberry Library. 2009. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2015.

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