Inner Banks
The Inner Banks designate an approximately 57,568 -square-mile area on the east coast of the United States, part of the coastal region to the east of the state of North Carolina. This section of the coastal region is called the Inner Banks (Inside the banks ) to distinguish it from the barrier island chain of the Outer Banks (outer coast), to distinguish a popular tourist attraction. The Inner Banks include over 4500 kilometers domestic coast and more than 2.5 million people live in the region. Crystal Coast and the Albemarle region are also usually considered one of the Inner Banks. The area is of small business owners and as a retreat for retirees increasingly appreciated .. " Inner Banks " is normally abbreviated with the acronym IBX, the term itself is an invention of the developers and the tourism industry to the predominantly rural area a more attractive appeal for visitors and retirees to give, it is rarely used in everyday speech.
- 4.1 Inner Banks
- 4.2 Albermarle region
Geography
According to the general definition are the Inner Banks of Interstate 95 on the west, the Outer Banks to the east and extending from the border of the neighboring state of Virginia in the north to the southern border to South Carolina. The 41 counties that make up the region, cover an area three times larger than the state of New Jersey, although many regions that are farther from the coast, themselves not feel as part of the Inner Banks and rarely are included. From the history of an embossed out of agriculture and the textile industry area, the East North Carolina is in an economic upheaval around the region to the requirements of a globalized economy to adapt.
Albemarle region
Northeast North Carolina or the Albemarle region consists of 16 counties in the northeast of the state, adjacent to the Albemarle Sound and its tributaries, such as the Chowan River and the Roanoke River. Although the region historically lags economically far behind other regions of North Carolina, the region has a wealth of unexplored beaches, rivers and small towns. The region forms the northern part of the Inner Banks.
History
The region comprising the present-day northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, was one of the first areas in North America that was colonized by Europeans. The first British child was born in the New World, Virginia Dare, was born in 1587 in Roanoke Iceland in present-day North Carolina. The majority of this region flourished until the American Civil War, in which the farmland and the shipping companies have been the target of Union forces. Many cities in the region were completely destroyed in this period, including Plymouth and Winton. One of the first steel-clad warship, the CSS Albemarle was used by the Confederates in Plymouth.
Economy
Six small towns of the Inner Banks have to create the Creative Communities Initiative Affiliated to the regional economy by creating an appropriate environment for scientists, artists and other creative professions. The places are Ayden, Edenton, Hertford; Murfreesboro; Plymouth; and Tarboro.
Structure
Counties
The region is composed of the following counties:
- Beaufort County
- Bertie County
- Camden County
- Carteret County
- Chowan County
- Craven County
- Currituck County ( mainland )
- Dare County ( mainland )
- Edgecombe County (eastern part of the county )
- Gates County
- Hertford County
- Halifax (eastern part of the county )
- Hyde County ( mainland )
- Jones County (eastern part of the county )
- Martin County
- Onslow County (eastern part of the county )
- Pamlico County
- Pasquotank County
- Perquimans County
- Pitt County
- Tyrrell County
- Washington County
Cities and Towns
A selection of the located in the region of the Inner Banks Cities and Towns:
- Ahoskie
- Ayden
- Arapahoe
- Bath
- Bayboro
- Beaufort
- Belhaven
- Bethel
- Camden
- Chocowinity
- Columbia
- Creswell
- Currituck
- Edenton
- Elizabeth City
- Farmville
- Gatesville
- Greenville
- Hampstead
- Harkers Iceland
- Havelock
- Hertford
- Jacksonville
- Morehead City
- Moyock
- Murfreesboro
- New Bern
- Oriental
- Pantego
- Plymouth
- Robersonville
- Roper
- Swan Quarter
- Swansboro
- Tarboro
- Trenton
- Vanceboro
- Washington
- Williamston
- Windsor
- Winton
State Parks
In the region there are some provided by the State under nature protection areas, the so-called state parks:
- Goose Creek State Park
- Merchants Millpond State Park
- Pettigrew State Park
National Wildlife Refuges
Some areas of the Inner Banks with a high conservation value wildlife as National Wildlife Refuges are under the federal protection.
- Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
- Cedar Iceland National Wildlife Refuge
- Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge
- Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
- Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge
- Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge