North Carolina, United States. As of the
2010 census it had a population of 335.
It is located on
U.S. Route 158 between
Barco and
Grandy, about south of the
Virginia state line, and is at mile marker 50 on the southern portion of the
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, on the
Intracoastal Waterway. Church's Island to the east of Coinjock in the
Currituck Sound has a village called Waterlily, which uses the postal address of Coinjock as well. The island's name is due to a decayed church that was once a landmark of the tiny community. Coinjock is bordered by Currituck Sound to the east; the
North River lies to the west. Its
ZIP Code is 27923.
The name ''Coinjock'' is of
Native American origin, meaning "the place of the blueberry swamps", referring to the
swamp blueberries native to the county. The name has also been spelled "Coenjock", "Cowenjock", or "Cornjack", and sometimes as two words with the second beginning with a capital ''J''. Bishop
Thomas Coke visited Coenjock, as he called it, and preached to a small congregation in its chapel on March 19, 1785.
The
Coinjock Colored School was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Demographics
References
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Census-designated places in Currituck County, North Carolina
Census-designated places in North Carolina