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Horry County
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county in South Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- South Carolina
- Named after
- Peter Horry
- Seat
- Conway
- Largest community
- Myrtle Beach
- Total
- 1,254.73 sq mi (3,249.7 km )
- Land
- 1,133.31 sq mi (2,935.3 km )
- Water
- 121.42 sq mi (314.5 km ) 9.69%
- Estimate 2025
- 427,551
- Density
- 309.738/sq mi (119.590/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 29511, 29526, 29527, 29528, 29544, 29545, 29566, 29567, 29568, 29569, 29572, 29575, 29576. 29577, 29578, 29579, 29581, 29582, 29587, 29588, 29597, 29598
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- www .horrycountysc .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Horry County (/ˈɒriː/ OR-ree, silent "h" like its namesake Peter Horry) is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 351,029. It is the fourth-most populous county in South Carolina. The county seat is Conway. Horry County is the central county in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, about 90 miles (140 km) north of Charleston, and about 130 miles (210 km) east of the state capital, Columbia.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Horry County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.