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www.oakislandnc.com. 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.
Oak Island is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina near the South Carolina border. A barrier island, it contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell (since 1949 home to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly) and the Oak Island Coast Guard Station which is co-located with the Oak Island Lighthouse.
Oak Island Light. The Oak Island Lighthouse is located in the Town of Caswell Beach near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina. It sits next to the Oak Island Coast Guard Station on the east end of Oak Island in Brunswick County looking south out at the Atlantic Ocean. Featuring 16 LED lights which produce four, one ...
Located in North Carolina on the Atlantic Coast, the Fort Caswell Historic District encompasses 2 sites, 43 buildings, and 23 structures; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [2] The fort itself was occupied by various branches of the U.S. armed forces for most of the period between 1836 and 1945 and is now a part ...
FIPS code. 37-31960 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2405849 [3] Website. www.hbtownhall.com. Holden Beach is a seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina. The population was 575 at the time of the 2010 census. [5] It is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Caswell Beach NC Map. Roughly halfway distant from Wilmington, North Carolina and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Caswell Beach is located on the east end of Oak Island.This island is the easternmost of the South Brunswick Islands which were formed in the late 1930s by the construction of the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) which was dredged from Southport, NC at the mouth of the Cape Fear River ...
October 26–30, 2012 – Hurricane Sandy passed by the state, dropping heavy rains and making storm surge. July 3–4, 2014 – Hurricane Arthur hits eastern North Carolina, in particular the Outer Banks, with 100 mph (160 km/h). May 7, 2015 – Tropical Storm Ana produced heavy rainfall and indirectly caused a fatality.
Ocean Isle Beach (or simply Ocean Isle) is a small seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It was incorporated as a town in 1959 [4] and is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 867 at the 2020 census. Located at the southern end of North Carolina's Atlantic coastline, along the ...