Country United States County Carteret FIPS code 37-16480 Elevation 1.5 m Zip code 28524 | State North Carolina Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) GNIS feature ID 0983982 Population 422 (2010) Area code 252 | |
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Area 5.672 km² (5.646 km² Land / 3 ha Water) | ||
Davis is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 422.
Geography
Davis is located east of the center of Carteret County, on the northwest shore of Core Sound, between Jarrett Bay to the west and Oyster Creek to the northeast. To the southeast, across Core Sound, is Core Banks, a barrier island that is part of Cape Lookout National Seashore, with access by ferry from Davis. U.S. Route 70 passes through the town, leading southwest 18 miles (29 km) to Beaufort and northeast 13 miles (21 km) to its eastern terminus at Atlantic.
The Davis CDP has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2), or 0.59%, is water.