Newport is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.

It was the location of the Newport Barracks, a Union camp during the American Civil War.

In 1858, the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad was completed when the final 96-mile (154 km) stretch of rail from Goldsboro through Newport to Beaufort was laid.

The community is also the site of numerous Civil War battlefields, forts, and strategic locations.

Part of the town's residential area known as the "housing project" was originally developed as housing for civil service employees and military serving at nearby Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.

The town is protected by a paid fire department with an active volunteer force, founded in the 1940s by Leon Mann, Jr.

Members of the Newport Consolidated School Alumni Association operate a small school museum in a depot warehouse owned by the North Carolina Railroad in Newport.

[4] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 4,364 people, 1,772 households, and 1,161 families residing in the town.