Coinjock is an

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and

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(CDP) in

Currituck County Currituck County ()
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, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 335. It is located on

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between Barco and Grandy, about south of the

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state line, and is at mile marker 50 on the southern portion of the

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, on the

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. Church's Island to the east of Coinjock in the

Currituck Sound Currituck Sound ()
, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the

North River lies to the west. Its ZIP Code is 27923. The name ''Coinjock'' is of

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origin, meaning "the place of the blueberry swamps", referring to the swamp blueberries native to the county. The name has also been spelled "Coenjock", "Cowenjock", or "Cornjack", and sometimes as two words with the second beginning with a capital ''J''. Bishop Thomas Coke visited Coenjock, as he called it, and preached to a small congregation in its chapel on March 19, 1785. The Coinjock Colored School was listed on the

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in 2013.

Demographics

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