The county is divided into eighteen townships: Bruce, Center Grove, Clay, Deep River, Fentress, Friendship, Gilmer, Greene, High Point, Jamestown, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Morehead, Oak Ridge, Rock Creek, Sumner, and Washington.

Its county seat is Morehead.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county — a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but containing a " wet " city, in this case Morehead, where package alcohol sales are allowed.

Morehead State University is located here.

The age distribution, strongly influenced by Morehead State University, is: 15. 5 % under the age of 18, 34. 6 % from 18 to 24, 20. 6 % from 25 to 44, 16. 6 % from 45 to 64, and 12. 7 % who were 65 years of age or older.

Morehead City is a port city in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.

By the early 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a land development project known as the " Shepard Point Land Company " which purchased of land on the eastern tip of the peninsula bordering the Newport River known then as " Shepards Point " which is the present day location of Morehead City, North Carolina.

North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, for whom the city of Morehead City is named was also a principal member of the Shepard Point Land Company investment group.

Morehead City's economy is based predominately on a variety of Eco tourism activities and a growing retirement community.

The local economy is based further on the Port of Morehead City, light industrial and manufacturing, land development, light commercial fishing, sport fishing as well as other service-oriented businesses.

Morehead City is one of two existing ports in North Carolina which primarily exports phosphate.

Carteret General Hospital located in Morehead City is the 2nd largest employer in Carteret County, North Carolina behind the Carteret County Public School System.

Morehead City also is home to the Research and Compliance Branch of the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Division, a governmental organization.

Morehead City and the surrounding area is an excellent venue for the fisherman of all varieties.

Morehead City is home to the Morehead City Marlins of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league.

Morehead City is located at ( 34. 727700 ,-76. 746748 ).

Morehead City is part of the Greenville – New Bern – Jacksonville Designated market area, which is the 109th largest in 2007 ( according to Nielsen Media Research ).

The mayor of Newport, Derryl Garner, has served since 1978 and is active with the North Carolina League of Municipalities, the Morehead City Ports Committee and numerous other civic and governmental organizations.

About fifteen minutes to the east of Havelock on U. S. 70 is Morehead City and the Crystal Coast beaches.

Tarboro is also convenient to area and regional airports, freight and passenger train service, interstate and intrastate highway systems, and the deep water ports of Morehead City and Wilmington, NC.

The newest facility under the Department's purview is City Lake, a park on a lake that was opened in 2003, joining Rock Creek Park, Chuck Morehead Memorial Park, Roosevelt Ingram Memorial Park and Don Montgomery Memorial Park.

Morehead has city partnerships with the following cities or regions:

Through Sister Cities International, Morehead has one sister city:

The town of Morehead City was laid out using a grid plan whereby city blocks were equally laid out with each block consisting of 16 equally divided lots.

** Morehead State University, located in this city

Wilmington, located up the Cape Fear River, and Morehead city located on the other side of the bridge from Atlantic beach crossing the Bogue Sound remain the state's only two major ports ; the Cape Fear river often has to be dredged to keep it open to large merchant ships.

In the 1880s, Morehead became the central stage for a notorious conflict known as the Rowan County War ( aka the Martin-Tolliver-Logan Feud ).

Morehead State University ( MSU ) is a public, co-educational university located in Morehead, Kentucky, United States in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rowan County, midway between Lexington, Kentucky, and Huntington, West Virginia.

He attended Morehead State University in Morehead in Rowan County from 1964 to 1967 and graduated from the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1969 with a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science.

Historic communities in Freestone County have included Baty, Beene, Blunt, Bonner, Bowling, Brewster, Butler, Cobb, Cotton Gin, Driver, Flowerdale, Freestone, Goetz, Harp, Israel, Ivory, Keechil, Lakeport, Lanely, Long Bottom, Luna, Mills, Milton, Morehead, Mount Zion, Pinoak, Pyburn, Shanks, St. Elmo, Starling, Steward's Mill, Stonewall, Troy, Turlington, Valota, Wakefield, West Point, Winkler, Yedell, Yerby, and Young.

The high schools are Dalton L. McMichael High School, John Motley Morehead High School, Reidsville High School, and Rockingham County High School.

* Morehead State University at Jackson-Breathitt County Skills Center

Born in Wilson County, North Carolina, Wainwright earned a degree in political science as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before working in agribusiness and real estate in Wilson, North Carolina for over 15 years.

Students at West Carteret High School in Morehead City, North Carolina tried to start a GSA but the Carteret County Board of Education turned it down.

Born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Morehead was the son of Obedience ( Motley ) and John Morehead.

* Morehead-Rowan County Clyde A. Thomas Regional Airport ( FAA LID: M97 ), a public airport located northwest of Morehead, Kentucky, United States

WBTV's studios are located off Morehead Street just west of Uptown Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in north-central Gaston County, North Carolina.

Knott County would become Still ’ s lifelong home, though for many years he was the creative force behind the Morehead Writers ' Workshop at nearby Morehead State University, where he taught literature during the 1960s.

* Morehead State University Jackson campus – Jackson, Kentucky

* Kyle Macy, former University of Kentucky All-American, former NBA player, former Morehead State University head coach ; Macy was raised in Peru and graduated from Peru High School

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Morehead State University was also the first in Kentucky to offer an online MBA program, accredited by the AACSB.

Morehead, long known for its patronage of the arts in Kentucky with such organizations as the Kentucky Folk Art Center and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, was the childhood home of philanthropist Lucille Caudill Little.

He received honorary degrees from the University of Kentucky, Morehead State University, Murray State University, and Eastern Kentucky University in Kentucky, and from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.

* Since 1994: Morehead, Kentucky, United States