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Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County
Dare County, North Carolina

Dare County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 29,967. Its county seat is Manteo, North Carolina....
, North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 2,991 at the 2000 census. It was established in the early 1700s as Chickahawk.

Kitty Hawk was made famous on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers
Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two United States who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air Flight#Mechanical flight, on December 17, 1903....
 made the first controlled, powered airplane
Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of heavier-than-air flight whose Lift is generated not by wing motion relative to the aircraft, but by forward motion through the air....
 flights six kilometres (4 miles) away near the sand dunes known as Jockey's Ridge
Jockey's Ridge State Park

Jockey's Ridge State Park is a List of North Carolina state parks in Dare County, North Carolina, North Carolina in the United States. Located in Nags Head, North Carolina, it covers 420 acres and includes the largest natural sand dune system in the eastern United States....
.

The aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a navy force to project air power great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations....
 USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk , formerly CVA-63, is the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight....
, the B-2 Spirit
B-2 Spirit

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is a multirole heavy bomber with "low observable" stealth aircraft technology capable of penetration dense anti-aircraft warfare to deploy both conventional weapons and nuclear weapon weapons....
 stealth
Stealth

Stealth may refer to:Stealth technology, technology used to conceal ships, aircraft, and missiles*Stealth aircraft, aircraft which use stealth technology...
 bomber
Bomber

A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground and sea targets, primarily by dropping bombs on them....
 AV-19, the aircraft transport ship USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1)
USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1)

USS Kitty Hawk , formerly SS Seatrain New York, was built in 1932 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation of Chester, Pennsylvania for Seatrain Lines, Inc....
, and the Apollo 14
Apollo 14

Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the Moon. The 9 day mission was launched on January 31 1971, with lunar touch down on February 5....
 command module
Apollo Command/Service Module

The Command/Service Module was a spacecraft built for NASA by North American Aviation. It was one of the two spacecraft that were utilized for the Apollo program, along with the Apollo Lunar Module, to land astronauts on the Moon....
 have been named for the town.

f the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 2,991 people, 1,265 households, and 866 families residing in the town.






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Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County
Dare County, North Carolina

Dare County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 29,967. Its county seat is Manteo, North Carolina....
, North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 2,991 at the 2000 census. It was established in the early 1700s as Chickahawk.

Kitty Hawk was made famous on December 17, 1903, when the Wright brothers
Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two United States who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air Flight#Mechanical flight, on December 17, 1903....
 made the first controlled, powered airplane
Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of heavier-than-air flight whose Lift is generated not by wing motion relative to the aircraft, but by forward motion through the air....
 flights six kilometres (4 miles) away near the sand dunes known as Jockey's Ridge
Jockey's Ridge State Park

Jockey's Ridge State Park is a List of North Carolina state parks in Dare County, North Carolina, North Carolina in the United States. Located in Nags Head, North Carolina, it covers 420 acres and includes the largest natural sand dune system in the eastern United States....
.

The aircraft carrier
Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a navy force to project air power great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations....
 USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

The supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk , formerly CVA-63, is the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight....
, the B-2 Spirit
B-2 Spirit

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is a multirole heavy bomber with "low observable" stealth aircraft technology capable of penetration dense anti-aircraft warfare to deploy both conventional weapons and nuclear weapon weapons....
 stealth
Stealth

Stealth may refer to:Stealth technology, technology used to conceal ships, aircraft, and missiles*Stealth aircraft, aircraft which use stealth technology...
 bomber
Bomber

A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground and sea targets, primarily by dropping bombs on them....
 AV-19, the aircraft transport ship USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1)
USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1)

USS Kitty Hawk , formerly SS Seatrain New York, was built in 1932 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation of Chester, Pennsylvania for Seatrain Lines, Inc....
, and the Apollo 14
Apollo 14

Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program and the third mission to land on the Moon. The 9 day mission was launched on January 31 1971, with lunar touch down on February 5....
 command module
Apollo Command/Service Module

The Command/Service Module was a spacecraft built for NASA by North American Aviation. It was one of the two spacecraft that were utilized for the Apollo program, along with the Apollo Lunar Module, to land astronauts on the Moon....
 have been named for the town.

Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 2,991 people, 1,265 households, and 866 families residing in the town. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 365.8 people per square mile (141.2/kmē). There were 2,618 housing units at an average density of 320.1/sq mi (123.6/kmē). The racial makeup of the town was 98.13% White, 0.64% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.20% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 0.50% from two or more races. 0.94% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 1,265 households out of which 27.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.7% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.5% were non-families. 23.8% of all tribes were made up of individuals and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.79.

In the town the population was spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 103.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $42,813, and the median income for a family was $48,676. Males had a median income of $31,250 versus $25,744 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the town was $22,960. About 4.3% of families and 6.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.9% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.

Sister city

  • (fr) - Coulaines
    Coulaines

    Coulaines is a communes of France of the Sarthe departments of France, in France....
     (signed in 2005)


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