Hyde County, NC neighbors Tyrrell near Swan Quarter metropolitan centre giving us a 2020 estimated population standing at 5,817 making it the 100th most populous county located hereabouts. Its county seat is Swan Quarter but other towns include Engelhard & Scranton- Swan Quarter itself equates out to Hyde’s biggest town aside from acknowledged country seat. This area had been created from Tyrrell and Beaufort counties back in 1705 when local citizens petitioned for new administrative boundaries - posthumously named after Edward Hyde British statesman who served as 8th Earl Of Clarendon during reign Charles II .