Engelhard is a census-designated place and unincorporated fishing community in Lake Landing Township on the mainland of Hyde County, North Carolina, United States. It has access to Pamlico Sound. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 445.Inkwell and Wynne's Folly are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Engelhard is in eastern Hyde County along U.S. Route 264, which leads northeast 46 miles to Manteo and west 47 miles to Belhaven.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Engelhard CDP has a total area of 3.22 square miles, all of it recorded as land. The community is at the head of Far Creek, a small tidal inlet of Pamlico Sound.