Atlantic Beach, South Carolina
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Little River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29582. It stands on Camp Branch Run. The Survey maps it on the Wampee quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
On record in Atlantic Beach
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Atlantic Beach Historic Districtlisted 2025
Population over time
3 figuresAtlantic Beach fell from 351 to 195 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 351 | |
| 2010 | 334 | -17 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 195 | -139 (-42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1943 USGS Wampee quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Myrtle Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wampee quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Atlantic Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,269 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 July 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 2011 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Carolina Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Atlantic Beach: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Beach | Titanium, Iron | Unknown | Placer , Modern , Beach |
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlantic Beach in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Flood | Atlantic Beach | - | Flooding was reported at 4301 Highway 17 South. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timber Ridge | 0.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pinewood Acres | 0.6 miles | 8 | |
| Crescent Beach | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| Ingram Beach | 1.7 miles | 8 | |
| Briarcliffe Acres | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Belle Park | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Skimmer Bay | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| North Myrtle Beach | 2.1 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Atlantic Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1376850 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231019. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






