Long Beach, North Carolina is a coastal

neighborhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, ...

Oak Island Oak Island is a privately owned island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. The tree-covered island is one of several islands in Mahone Bay, and is connected to the mainland by a causeway. The nearest community is the ...

incorporated in 1955. It is well known for the total devastation it sustained during

Hurricane Hazel Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest, second costliest, and most intense hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed at least 469 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South ...

in 1954; only five of the 357 buildings survived the storm. It merged with neighboring

Yaupon Beach Yaupon Beach, North Carolina is a neighborhood of the coastal town of Oak Island in Brunswick County, North Carolina. History Yaupon Beach was incorporated as a town in 1955. The town was named for the abundance of yaupon near the original town s ...

in 1999 to form the town of

and is now a neighborhood of the town. The community derives its name from one of the longest stretches of beach in the area.

References

Geography of Brunswick County, North Carolina Populated places established in 1955 Populated places disestablished in 1999 1955 establishments in North Carolina Former municipalities in North Carolina {{BrunswickCountyNC-geo-stub