Engelhard, NC

Engelhard is a census-designated place and fishing community in Lake Landing Township on the mainland of Hyde County, North Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 374 residents. Engelhard has access to Pamlico Sound. Inkwell and Wynne's Folly are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The local school is Mattamuskeet School of Hyde County Schools. In the de jure segregation era, the grade school for black students was, by the 1960s, Davis School, a consolidation of earlier such schools, in Engelhard.

The through line in Engelhard is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Engelhard makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Engelhard is in eastern Hyde County along U.S. Route 264, which leads northeast 46 miles to Manteo and west 47 miles to Belhaven. The community is at the head of Far Creek, a small tidal inlet of Pamlico Sound.