Editing Pantego, North Carolina (section)

==History==
The town formerly had a school named Pantego High School.  The town was hit by a tornado in 1991, and another on October 11, 2002, the latter an F2 tornado that was spawned by [[Hurricane Kyle (2002)|Hurricane Kyle]], and destroyed two houses and a farm.  The most recent tornado, rated EF2, was on April 7, 2014. It rolled along Pantego Creek, ran along one of its canals, Cuckold's Creek, and almost hit a railroad bridge and Highway 264, it took a turn, hit through a small marsh, split a house in half, and threw a truck over 40 feet high and threw it in a nearby field, the two occurred five feet from each other, the tornado then curved into a forest, destroying a Hardee's billboard, and rolled across the Cuckold's Creek again, and it slid along a field, until it curved into four houses on one side of the road, turned, hit another house across the street, hit another field. A man in a plane flew over the field it crossed, and he saw curved and grooves in the dirt, revealing "arcs" in the field suggesting it was a multiple-vortex tornado.  It also hit a two-story house, taking the top floor  off the house, and leaving the bottom floor, continued until it hit a house in Ponzer, approximately 15 miles from Pantego, and leveled that house.  Marc Van Essendelf, his seven children, and his wife, who was eight months pregnant, hid in a ditch; the house was splintered and obliterated.  There was a near-miss with another tornado that hit Whichard's Beach and [[Washington, North Carolina|Washington]]. It was the first EF-3 tornado of the 2014 season, and it almost continued into Pantego.

The [[Pantego Academy]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>