Seaboard is a town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States, created as a company town by the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, approximately 10 miles northeast of Weldon in the mid-1840s as a place for railroad employees to live.
As of the 2020 census, Seaboard had a population of 542. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The area was settled in about 1750. It was incorporated in 1877 and named for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
The Seaboard Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
The town is located along North Carolina Highway 186, near the North Carolina-Virginia border, and serves as the northern terminus of North Carolina Highway 305.
Demographics
2020 census
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Seaboard racial composition
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| White (non-Hispanic)
| 91
| 16.79%
|-
!scope="row"| Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
| 427
| 78.78%
|-
!scope="row"| Native American
| 1
| 0.18%
|-
!scope="row"| Other/Mixed
| 18
| 3.32%
|-
!scope="row"| Hispanic or Latino
| 5
| 0.92%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 542 people, 295 households, and 189 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the census