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Oak Island Growth since 1999. Oak Island is located in southeastern Brunswick County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 19.9 square miles (51.6 km 2), of which 18.5 square miles (48.0 km 2) is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) (7.02%) is water.
Beginning in 1940, an improved road was created from NC 130 (modern-day NC 211) to Oak Island. [11] A 24-mile (39 km) segment between Belville and Southport first appeared on North Carolina maps beginning in 1941 as an unnumbered gravel-topsoil road.
Southport is a city in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Its population was 3,971 as of the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The current mayor, Rich Alt, was elected to a two-year term in November 2023.
The Brunswick nuclear power plant, named for Brunswick County, North Carolina, covers 1,200 acres (490 ha) at 20 feet (6.1 m) above sea level about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the Atlantic Ocean. The site is adjacent to the town of Southport, North Carolina, and to wetlands and woodlands, and was opened in 1975.
NCDOT Division 3 Office submitted a route change request in June 2014 and the town of Oak Island signed off in December 2015. NC 906 was certified and established on January 26, 2016; traversing from Beach Drive (SR 1104), in Oak Island, to US 17, near Bolivia. [2] It is the highest route number signed as a primary route in North Carolina.
North Carolina Highway 341 (NC 341) was an original state highway that traversed from NC 34, ... NC 133 south – Belville, Southport, Oak Island:
Videos shot by AccuWeather reporters on the scene show cars and roads underwater in Southport and Carolina Beach. And just after noon, the town of Oak Island, 25 miles southwest of Wilmington ...
St. James is located in southern Brunswick County, it is bordered to the south, west, and north by the town of Oak Island. North Carolina Highway 211 forms part of the northern border of the town, leading east 5 miles (8 km) to Southport and west 11 miles (18 km) to U.S. Route 17 at Supply.