Long Beach, North Carolina

Long Beach, North Carolina is a coastal neighborhood on Oak Island incorporated in 1955. It is well known for the total devastation it sustained during Hurricane Hazel in 1954; only five of the 357 buildings survived the storm.[1] It merged with neighboring Yaupon Beach in 1999 to form the town of Oak Island and is now a neighborhood of the town.

Long Beach, North Carolina
Seaside town
CountryUnited States
StateNorth Carolina
CountyBrunswick
Time zoneEastern

The community derives its name from one of the longest stretches of beach in the area.[2]

References
  1. Gifford, Jim (2004). Hurricane Hazel: Canada's Storm of the Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press. p. 22. ISBN 1-55002-526-0.
  2. "Long Beach". Star-News. May 24, 1998. p. 36. Retrieved 1 November 2015.

33°54′38″N 78°07′04″W


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