[5][6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all of it land.

The Native Americans left North Carolina and returned to their home in New York where they became members of the Iroquois Nation.

After the Native Americans left the area, there was an influx of settlers who came into the rich Neuse River lands and began to clear plantations.

[7] Samuel Pike moved to the area and settled on the south side of Nahunta Swamp which had been granted by King George II of Great Britain in 1763.

Nathan Pike owned and operated a large tavern, shop, trading post and hotel.

During General Sherman’s Carolinas campaign in 1865, Pikeville suffered the same fate of many southern towns.

It was composed of the schools of Mount Carmel, Sherrad’s Cross Roads, Pleasant Grove, Oak Dale, Possum Trot, Taylor’s Oak Grove, Smith’s Patetown as well as Pikeville grade School.

In 1960, Charles B. Aycock High School was opened in Pikeville in honor of the state governor who was an advocate for quality education.