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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.

Atlantic Beach within Horry County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Atlantic 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.

YearPeople Change
2000351
2010334-17 (-5%)
2020195-139 (-42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2011Fireworks2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Horry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Myrtle BeachTitanium, IronUnknownPlacer , Modern , Beach

Every working recorded in Horry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025FloodAtlantic Beach-Flooding was reported at 4301 Highway 17 South.

Every storm recorded in Horry County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Timber Ridge0.5 miles8
Pinewood Acres0.6 miles8
Crescent Beach0.9 miles8
Ingram Beach1.7 miles8
Briarcliffe Acres1.8 miles8
Belle Park2.0 miles8
Skimmer Bay2.0 miles12
North Myrtle Beach2.1 miles8

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1376850The 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.