Lasker

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Lasker

Total population

152

Elevation26 m

Land area2.9 km²

Weather90°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms

Coordinates36.35°, -77.31°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Lasker is a town in Northampton County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lasker had a population of 64. It is part of the Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Lasker, NC from NOAA NWS API.

Notable people from here

Charles Robert Jenkins

United States Army soldier (1940–2017)

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Mebane Holoman Burgwyn

American writer

Shelia P. Moses

American writer

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Stu Martin

American baseball player (1912–1997)

Walter E. Boomer

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

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Thomas Raeburn White

Attorney and political reformer

Zack Parrish

independent game composer

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Florenza Moore Grant

American civil rights activist (1921–2001)

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Kathy Hoyt

American politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in North Carolina

• Woodland
  5.2 mi away
• Milwaukee
  5.5 mi away · pop. 139
• Scotland Neck
  16.5 mi away · pop. 2,006
• South Weldon
  17.1 mi away · pop. 500
• Lewiston Woodville
  17.7 mi away
• Weldon
  17.8 mi away · pop. 1,642
• Enfield
  23.4 mi away · pop. 2,153
• South Rosemary
  23.8 mi away · pop. 2,475
• Askewville
  26.2 mi away
• Speed
  27.5 mi away · pop. 64
• Leggett
  29.2 mi away
• Windsor
  32 mi away · pop. 3,269

Browse all places in North Carolina →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Lasker

Your diamond dreams cut open my arteries

Else Lasker-Schüler · 1982

Human bondage in southeast Asia

Bruno Lasker · 1950

Human bondage in Southeast Asia

Bruno Lasker · 1950

Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries

Else Lasker-Schüler · 1982

Encyclopedia Of Smoking And Tobacco:

Arlene B. Hirschfelder · 1999

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Carolina Burying Beetle

Nicrophorus carolina

Seen 2026-06-23

yellow passionflower

Passiflora lutea

Seen 2026-05-19

American pokeweed

Phytolacca americana

Seen 2026-05-19

Carolina desert-chicory

Pyrrhopappus carolinianus

Seen 2026-05-11

black oak

Quercus velutina

Seen 2026-05-11

downy rattlesnake plantain

Goodyera pubescens

Seen 2026-04-27

wild comfrey

Andersonglossum virginianum

Seen 2026-04-04

mayapple

Podophyllum peltatum

Seen 2026-04-04

turkey-tail

Trametes versicolor

Seen 2026-02-19

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).