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2019 Map of Pea Island

Name: 2019 Topographic Map of Pea Island
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2019
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2019

About this map

The narrow coastal strip of the Outer Banks dominates this survey, where the land is defined by a fragile geography of marshes, inlets, and sand formations. Managed largely as public lands, the area is split between the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge to the north and the Cape Hatteras National Seashore to the south. The terrain is a complex arrangement of small hummocks and shoals like Cedar Hammock, Liza Lumps, and Ira Lump, illustrating the shifting nature of this barrier island chain.

Waterways such as Beach Slue and Wreck Creek thread through the salt marshes, while Loggerhead Inlet separates the northern Pea Island from the southern reaches of Hatteras Island. For those studying the physical evolution of the North Carolina coast, the placement of the Sand Ridge and Lagerhead Hills provides essential context for how these landforms have persisted or migrated over time against the vast backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean.