Indian Beach, North Carolina
Indian Beach is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 112 as of the 2010 census. Geography Indian Beach is located in southern Carteret County at (34.687911, -76.891498), on Bogue Banks, a barrier island along the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered to the west by the town of Emerald Isle and to the east by Pine Knoll Shores. To the north is Bogue Sound, separating the town from the mainland, and to the south is the Atlantic. The town consists of two sections, separated by the unincorporated neighborhood of Salter Path. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Indian Beach has a total area of , of which is land and , or 62.05%, is water, consisting of portions of Bogue Sound. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 95 people, 50 households, and 31 families in the town. The population density was 159.9 people per square mile (62.2/km). There were 1,218 housing units at an average density of 2,049.9 per square mile (797.1/ ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, ...
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