Seaboard, NC

Seaboard is a town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States, created as a company town by the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, approximately 10 miles northeast of Weldon in the mid-1840s as a place for railroad employees to live. The 2020 census counted 542 residents. Seaboard is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area. The area was settled in about 1750. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Seaboard, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Seaboard, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Seaboard was incorporated in 1877 and named for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The town is located along North Carolina Highway 186, near the North Carolina- Virginia border, and serves as the northern terminus of North Carolina Highway 305. Seaboard includes a historic district.