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Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina Kill Devil Hills Beach Guard Tower, North of the Wright Memorial Kill Devil Hills Beach Guard Tower, North of the Wright Memorial Official seal of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina Kill Devil Hills is a town in Dare County, North Carolina.
The Kill Devil Hills Micropolitan Travel Destination is part of the larger Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC Combined Statistical Area.
The town is home to the site of the Wright brothers' first controlled, powered aircraft flights on December 17, 1903, chosen for its good winds. The town was memorialized by the Wright Brothers National Memorial, which was dedicated in 1932. At the time of their flight, the town of Kill Devil Hills did not exist, having received its municipal charter in 1953. Kitty Hawk, popularly noted as the site of the famous flights, is approximately four miles (6 km) to the north, and was the nearest settlement at the time of the famous flight.
Kill Devil Hills is the site of the Wright Brothers National Memorial, commemorating the siblings' four powered aircraft flights of Thursday, December 17, 1903.
Kill Devil Hills is positioned at 36 1 32 N 75 40 12 W (36.025448, 75.670105), on the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 5.5 square miles (14 km2), of which, 5.5 square miles (14 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.36%) is water.
Federally, Kill Devil Hills is part of North Carolina's 3rd congressional district, represented by Republican Walt Jones, propel in 1994.
Kill Devil Hills is home to the Outer Banks Daredevils of the Tidewater Summer League, a collegiate summer baseball league.
The Daredevils play at First Flight Baseball Complex on Veterans Drive in Kill Devil Hills.
The team, established in 1997, began play in Kill Devils Hills in 2006. First Flight Airport (IATA: FFA, ICAO: KFFA, FAA LID: FFA) is a enhance use airport which is owned by the National Park Service and positioned one mile west of Kill Devil Hills. First Flight Elementary School and First Flight Middle School are in Kill Devil Hills, just south of the Monument.
Kill Devil Hills is also served by First Flight High School.
Previously, high school students from Kill Devil Hills attended Manteo High School. The 2006 album "Black Hole, Blank Canvas" by Norwegian band Motorpsycho contains a track titled "Kill Devil Hills".
The 2005 heavy metal album Tyranny of Souls by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson features a track titled "Kill Devil Hill".
Song "So Fast, So Numb" from the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi, the lyrics mention Kill Devil Hills.
The Clutch song "Four Lords (And One More)" from Slow Hole to China mentions Kill Devil Hills in its lyrics.
Rappers Ill Bill and DJ Muggs have an album entitled "Kill Devil Hills" released in 2010 Dennis Anderson, driver of the Grave Digger monster truck in the Monster Jam touring series, also makes his home in Kill Devil Hills.
The Diane Chamberlain book 'Summers Child' is set in Kill Devil Hills.
"Telegram from Orville Wright in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to His Father Announcing Four Successful Flights, December 17, 1903".
"Kill Devil Hills".
"The National Park Service and the National Air Tour 2003 Announce Plans for Stop at Wright Brothers National Memorial".
Media related to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina at Wikimedia Commons Web Cam of Kill Devil Hills, NC Avalon Fishing Pier Municipalities and communities of Dare County, North Carolina, United States
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Towns in Dare County, North Carolina - Towns in North Carolina - Beaches of North Carolina - Outer Banks - Wright brothers - Beaches of Dare County, North Carolina
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