Map of Pantego town, North Carolina

Pantego is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 179 at the 2010 Census.

Pantego town overview:
Name:	Pantego town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	North Carolina
County:	Beaufort County
Elevation:	3 ft (1 m)
Total Area:	0.80 sq mi (2.08 km²)
Land Area:	0.80 sq mi (2.08 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	164
Population Density:	204.23/sq mi (78.88/km²)
ZIP code:	27860
Area code:	252
FIPS code:	3750080
GNISfeature ID:	0991817

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History

The town formerly had a school named Pantego High School. The town was hit by a tornado in 1991, and another on October 11, 2002, the latter an F2 tornado that was spawned by Hurricane Kyle, and destroyed two houses and a farm. The most recent tornado, rated EF2, was on April 7, 2014. It rolled along Pantego Creek, ran along one of its canals, Cuckold’s Creek, and almost hit a railroad bridge and Highway 264, it took a turn, hit through a small marsh, split a house in half, and threw a truck over 40 feet high and threw it in a nearby field, the two occurred five feet from each other, the tornado then curved into a forest, destroying a Hardee’s billboard, and rolled across the Cuckold’s Creek again, and it slid along a field, until it curved into four houses on one side of the road, turned, hit another house across the street, hit another field. A man in a plane flew over the field it crossed, and he saw curved and grooves in the dirt, revealing “arcs” in the field suggesting it was a multiple-vortex tornado. It also hit a two-story house, taking the top floor off the house, and leaving the bottom floor, continued until it hit a house in Ponzer, approximately 15 miles from Pantego, and leveled that house. Marc Van Essendelf, his seven children, and his wife, who was eight months pregnant, hid in a ditch; the house was splintered and obliterated. There was a near-miss with another tornado that hit Whichard’s Beach and Washington. It was the first EF-3 tornado of the 2014 season, and it almost continued into Pantego.

The Pantego Academy was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.