Severn is a town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States.

It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

[4] The community was settled in about 1833 and named Meherrin after a local Native American tribe.

[6] It was incorporated in 1919 and named for Severn Ayers, a stockholder of the Seaboard Airline Railroad.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all land.