Carolina Beach
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town in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- New Hanover
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Lynn Barbee
- Mayor pro tem
- Jay Healy
- Total
- 2.74 sq mi (7.09 km )
- Land
- 2.45 sq mi (6.35 km )
- Water
- 0.29 sq mi (0.74 km )
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4.0 m)
- Density
- 2,677.0/sq mi (1,033.61/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Area codes
- 910, 472
- Fips code
- 37-10500
- Website
- www .carolinabeach .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Carolina Beach
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Hanover County
- Population
- 6564
- Area
- 7.12514
- Elevation
- 1
- Official website
- carolinabeach.org
- Image
- Carolina Beach Pier.jpg
- Households
- 2799
- Dialing code
- 910
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- Commons category
- Carolina Beach, North Carolina
- postal code
- 28428
- water as percent of area
- 10.4387
- per capita income
- 42878
- webcam page URL
- www.surfchex.com/cams/carolina-beach-web-cam
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Encyclopedic overview
Carolina Beach is a beach town in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States, situated about 12 miles (19 km) south of Wilmington International Airport in southeastern coastal North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 6,564. It is part of the Wilmington metropolitan area. The community of Wilmington Beach was annexed by the town in 2000.
Carolina Beach lies at the northern end of Pleasure Island, which it shares with the community of Kure Beach, south of the inlet that separates the island from the unincorporated community of Sea Breeze. The town has a land area of 2.45 square miles (6.3 km), extending along the island from Freeman Park in the north to Alabama Avenue in the south. The town borders Kure Beach, which is directly to the south of Carolina Beach. During the summer months, the town of Carolina Beach has live Beach music every Friday night on the boardwalk right near town center.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carolina Beach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.