town, Dare county, northeastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies on Bodie Island, a narrow sand barrier (one of the Outer Banks) facing the Atlantic Ocean opposite Albemarle Sound. Immediately south at Kill Devil Hills is Wright Brothers National Memorial (1927; see
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Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. [Credit: Milt and Joan Mann from CameraMann]), commemorating the flight there of
Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, the first powered airplane flight in the United States (see
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Orville Wright beginning the first successful controlled flight in history, at Kill Devil Hills, &elipsis; [Credit: Courtesy of National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]).
The name Kitty Hawk is probably derived from a Native American (Algonquian) name recorded on maps of the early 1700s as Chickahauk; its meaning is uncertain.
The town's economy is based on tourism. Kitty Hawk was the site of one of the seven original U.S. Coast Guard lifesaving stations built on the Outer Banks (1874). Jockey's Ridge State Park is just south of Kill Devil Hills. Pop. (l990) 1,937; (2000) 2,991.
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