Manteo is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States, located upon Roanoke Island. The population was 1,602 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dare County.

Manteo is located at 35°54′17″N 75°40′10″W / 35.90472°N 75.66944°W / 35.90472; -75.66944 (35.904595, -75.669385), on the north central Place of Roanoke Island. It is located off the exit at the South 16 mile post on US Hwy 158 at Whalebone Junction, the junction of NC Highways 158, 64, and 12, known as the Beach Road.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total Place of 1.98 square miles (5.13 km), of which 1.92 square miles (4.97 km²) is home and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km), or 3.09%, is water.

The town is named for an American Indian named Manteo, who was of the Croatans tribe of American Indians. Manteo traveled when the English to London in 1584 where he and unusual Indian, Wanchese, learned to become the liaisons amid the Roanoke Colony settlers and the Indians. He furthermore had approving interaction like British colonist John White. In fact, Manteo was christened and truth the post Lord of Roanoke, making him the first American Indian to get a title of nobility. Eventually, John White’s daughter Eleanor married Ananias Dare, and they had the first American-born English child, Virginia Dare. In 1587, Manteo was kind to White with he returned to locate what the resolution stage of the Roanoke Colony became. When the colonists disappeared after supplies from England were delayed for three years, the ongoing inscrutability of “The Lost Colony” began.