Place:Arapahoe, Pamlico, North Carolina, United States

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Name
Arapahoe
Type
Town
Coordinates
35.026°N 76.829°W
Located in
Pamlico, North Carolina, United States

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Arapahoe is a town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2004 census, the town population was 434. Arapahoe shares many of its roles and duties with Minnesott Beach, North Carolina. It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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Arapahoe was founded a few years after New Bern, North Carolina by settlers leaving the New Bern colony. The running date of Arapahoe's founding was 1714. Arapahoe was incorporated into a town in 1921, when its post office opened.

Arapahoe has 2 different versions of town's name. One version was that it came from a tribe of Native Americans living in the area. This tribe was a branch from the local Pampticoe. The second version was that the name Arapahoe came from a prized race horse of one of the local inhabitants.

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