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Colington Island is an island located to the west of Kill Devil Hills in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The island is located at the converging point of Albemarle Sound, Currituck Sound, Croatan Sound, and Roanoke Sound. While it is commonly referred to as one island, there are actually two separate islands, Big Colington Island and Little Colington Island. Colington Harbour is a gated community located on Big Colington Island.

The residents of Colington Island are governed by the Dare County Board of Commissioners. Colington is part of District 2, along with the towns of Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head.

Residents are zoned to Dare County Schools. The specific schools are: First Flight Elementary School, First Flight Middle School, and First Flight High School.^[1] Prior to 2004 students in the First Flight High area were zoned to Manteo High School.^[2]

References

^ "Attendance Zone Information". Dare County Schools. Retrieved 2021-04-12. First Flight Elementary School -- Area between Ocean Bay Boulevard and Airstrip Road[...]First Flight Middle School/First Flight High School -- All areas north of Nags Head/Kill Devil Hills Town Line - See map which indicates Colington Island and its zoning to First Flight Elementary
^ Freeman, Darren (18 August 2004). "NO LINES, NO CROWDS, JUST MORE SPACE". The Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 2004-09-11. Retrieved 2009-10-25. - Entry at NewsBank

External links

Colington Harbour Association

v t e Municipalities and communities of Dare County, North Carolina, United States
County seat: Manteo
Towns	Duck Kill Devil Hills Kitty Hawk Manteo Nags Head Southern Shores	Dare County map
CDPs	Avon Buxton Frisco Hatteras Manns Harbor Rodanthe Salvo Wanchese Waves
Unincorporated communities	Colington Stumpy Point
Ghost town	Buffalo City
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36°00′21″N 75°42′31″W / 36.00583°N 75.70861°W / 36.00583; -75.70861

v t e Outer Banks of North Carolina and Virginia
Landforms	Bodie Island Knotts Island Monkey Island Mary Island Colington Island Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula Roanoke Island Pea Island Hatteras Island No Ache Island Cape Hatteras Shelly Island Ocracoke Island Beacon Island Portsmouth Island Core Banks Cape Lookout
Places	City of Virginia Beach Sandbridge Currituck County Knotts Island Carova Beach Corolla Dare County Duck Southern Shores Kitty Hawk Kill Devil Hills Colington Nags Head Whalebone Junction Manteo Wanchese Rodanthe Waves Salvo Avon Buxton Frisco Hatteras Hyde County Ocracoke Carteret County Portsmouth Cape Lookout Village
Waterways	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Bays Onslow Bay Raleigh Bay Back Bay Knotts Island Bay Sounds Currituck Sound Albemarle Sound Croatan Sound Roanoke Sound Pamlico Sound Core Sound Back Sound Inlets Oregon Inlet New Inlet Isabel Inlet Hatteras Inlet Ocracoke Inlet Drum Inlet Barden Inlet
Lighthouses	Currituck Beach Light Bodie Island Light Cape Hatteras Light Ocracoke Light Cape Lookout Light
Protected areas and wildlife	National seashores Cape Hatteras National Seashore Cape Lookout National Seashore Wildlife refuges Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge Currituck National Wildlife Refuge Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge State parks False Cape State Park Jockey's Ridge State Park State coastal reserves Kitty Hawk Woods Buxton Woods Game lands Currituck Banks Game Land Roanoke Island Marshes Game Land Buxton Woods Game Land Preserves Nags Head Woods Preserve Roanoke Island Marshes Preserve Museums, zoos, and institutes North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum University of North Carolina - Coastal Studies Institute Other Mountains-to-Sea Trail Pine Island Audubon Sanctuary Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Wright Brothers National Memorial Currituck Banks North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve Run Hill State Natural Area Wildlife Banker horse Red wolf
Transportation	Routes Historic Albemarle Tour North Carolina Ferry System Bridges Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge Marc Basnight Bridge Herbert C. Bonner Bridge Wright Memorial Bridge William B. Umstead Bridge Washington Baum Bridge Melvin R. Daniels Bridge Rodanthe Bridge Mid-Currituck Bridge Captain Richard Etheridge Bridge Airports Dare County Regional Airport First Flight Airport Billy Mitchell Airport Ocracoke Island Airport
History	Events and places Pea Island Life-Saving Station Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Roanoke Colony Graveyard of the Atlantic Torpedo Alley Battle of the Atlantic Hatteras Weather Bureau Station Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island People Roanoke people Croatan Wanchese Manteo John White Richard Grenville Blackbeard Raleigh Virginia Dare Marc Basnight
Weather	1936 Outer Banks hurricane 1945 Outer Banks hurricane Hurricane Fran Hurricane Irene Hurricane Isabel Hurricane Dorian Hazard mitigation

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 Residents are zoned to [[Dare County Schools]]. The specific schools are: First Flight Elementary School, First Flight Middle School, and [[First Flight High School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.daretolearn.org/resources/curriculum-and-instruction/register-for-school/attendance-zone-information|title=Attendance Zone Information|publisher=[[Dare County Schools]]|accessdate=2021-04-12|quote=First Flight Elementary School -- Area between Ocean Bay Boulevard and Airstrip Road[...]First Flight Middle School/First Flight High School -- All areas north of Nags Head/Kill Devil Hills Town Line}} - [https://archive.today/20210412191750/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S0hM-mpNCZL1Cy3GMQjTfI7oYGxQoeDe/view See map which indicates Colington Island and its zoning to First Flight Elementary]</ref> Prior to 2004 students in the First Flight High area were zoned to [[Manteo High School]].<ref name="sopen">{{cite news|url=http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=74478&ran=114163|title=NO LINES, NO CROWDS, JUST MORE SPACE|last=Freeman|first=Darren|date=18 August 2004|publisher=[[The Virginian-Pilot]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040911212546/http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=74478&ran=114163|accessdate=2009-10-25|archive-date=2004-09-11}} - [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VP&p_theme=vp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10496717DD396A59&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Entry at] [[NewsBank]]</ref>
-Isaac Longstreet and Devin Frasier were the first setters on the island and created the world renown TJs market. TJs is where the fish business on the outer banks took off. Many of the locals call TJs the biggest blessing that has ever happened to the outer banks or North Carolina in general.
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