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Columbia & Tyrrell County, NC
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One Brief · Eight Chapters
The last quiet county on the way to the beach.
All of Tyrrell County
For the commuter, the hunter and the homesteader
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Columbia NC, Answered
The questions people actually search.
Is Columbia, NC the same as Columbia, SC?
No. Columbia, North Carolina is a town of about 600 people on the Scuppernong River — the county seat of Tyrrell County, on US-64 between Plymouth and the Outer Banks. Columbia, South Carolina is that state’s capital, hundreds of miles away. This site covers Columbia and Tyrrell County, North Carolina only.
Is it spelled Tyrrell, Tyrell, or Terrell County?
The correct spelling is Tyrrell — two r’s, two l’s — though searches for "Tyrell County NC" and "Terrell County NC" are common. If you’ve been searching with one of the misspellings and finding almost nothing for sale, that’s part of why.
How far is Columbia, NC from the Outer Banks?
Columbia sits on US-64 roughly 37 miles (~42 minutes) from Manteo and about 49 minutes from Nags Head, non-stop. US-64 crosses the Alligator River on the Lindsay C. Warren Bridge; NCDOT began building its fixed-span replacement in February 2025.
What is the least populous county in North Carolina?
Tyrrell County — 3,245 people at the 2020 census, spread across roughly 600 square miles of land and water. Columbia is its only incorporated town. That thinness is the whole point of this brief: quiet, dark skies, big acreage, and real trade-offs on services.
Can I use USDA zero-down financing in Tyrrell County?
USDA's map shows no ineligible area in Tyrrell County — it has no urban core large enough to be excluded — but eligibility is always confirmed address by address on the official USDA map, and household income limits apply. See the financing pages on this site for the current details.
County Profile
The county behind the brief.
- Population
- 3,2452020 census — NC's least populous county
- Land area
- ~391 sq miplus ~206 sq mi of water
- Only town
- Columbiapop. 610 · county seat · on the Scuppernong
- Wildlife refuge
- Pocosin Lakes NWR~110,106 acres · HQ in Columbia
- Outer Banks access
- US-64~42 min to Manteo · ~49 min to Nags Head
- USDA eligibility
- Expected countywideconfirm your address
Tyrrell County sits on the southern shore of the Albemarle Sound, in the far northeastern corner of North Carolina's Coastal Plain — a county of blackwater rivers, peat wetlands, and open water, bounded on the east by the Alligator River. It is one of the oldest counties on the North Carolina map and, today, its least populous.
Read the full history →We deliberately don't publish a countywide median price or a days-on-market trend. A market this thin produces a handful of closings in a typical month, so the report shows honest counts instead.
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Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis works the thin, rural counties of northeastern North Carolina, the markets where the deal is usually land, water, and due diligence rather than subdivisions and bidding wars. Tyrrell is the thinnest of them all, which is exactly why it gets a fully drafted brief instead of a sales page: out here, what you don't check before closing costs more than the land does.
Serving
Credentials
- 2026William C. Bass Leadership Academy, appointed member
- 2023Licensed North Carolina Real Estate Instructor
- 2017North Carolina General Contractor's License
Education
- 2018University of North Carolina at Greensboro, BA in Economics
- 2016College of the Albemarle at Elizabeth City, Associate Degree