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History. Yaupon Beach was incorporated as a town in 1955. [1] The town was named for the abundance of yaupon near the original town site. [2] It has weathered many hurricanes, including Hazel in 1954 and Floyd in 1999. It merged with neighboring Long Beach in 1999 to form the town of Oak Island.
Eastern. 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 ...
Ilex vomitoria, commonly known as yaupon (/ ˈjɔːpɒn /) or yaupon holly, is a species of holly that is native to southeastern North America. [2] The word yaupon was derived from the Catawban yą́pą, from yą- tree + pą leaf. [3] Another common name, cassina, was borrowed from Timucua [4] (despite this, it usually refers to Ilex cassine).
Oak Island is a seaside town located in the southeastern corner of North Carolina, United States. Part of Brunswick County, the major portion of the town is on Oak Island which it shares with Caswell Beach. Founded in 1999 as the result of the consolidation of two existing towns, Oak Island's main industry is tourism.
Located near Singleton Beach, Coco’s on the Beach offers 24-hour livestreams from a “deck cam” and “beach cam.” The restaurant also runs a “surf report” webcam that can be viewed on ...
Cape Fear is a coastal plain and Tidewater region of North Carolina centered about the city of Wilmington. [2] The region takes its name from the adjacent Cape Fear headland, as does the Cape Fear River which flows through the region and empties into the Atlantic Ocean near the cape. Much of the region's populated areas are found along the ...
A view of the long strand at Kure Beach (on Pleasure Island) looking north towards Carolina Beach. The combined island now stretches from Carolina Beach Inlet in the north, the Cape Fear River to the west, Onslow Bay (Atlantic Ocean) to the east and Long Bay (Atlantic Ocean) to the south. It is 17 miles long, 2 miles wide in the far north, 3 ...
Long Beach, North Carolina; Y. Yaupon Beach, North Carolina This page was last edited on 12 November 2011, at 00:33 (UTC). ...