Wilmington Beach was a coastal
unincorporated community
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on
Pleasure Island in
North Carolina
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, United States
that was annexed by the town of
Carolina Beach in 2000. Prior to the annexation, the small community was a buffer between Carolina Beach and
Kure Beach
Kure Beach ( ) is a town in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States, approximately 15 miles south of Wilmington. It is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,012 at the 2010 census. It is fou ...
.
U.S. Highway 421
U.S. Route 421 (also U.S. Highway 421, US 421) is a diagonal northwest–southeast United States Numbered Highway System, United States Numbered Highway in the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana. The highwa ...
and Ocean Boulevard are the major roads through the area. Its name is derived from
Wilmington, which lies approximately ten miles to the north. The annexed area consists almost entirely of residential housing.
History
The Wilmington Beach area is partially isolated from the other two beach towns since nearly all the secondary streets terminate before reaching Kure Beach in the south or the former town limits of Carolina Beach in the north. This makes the Wilmington Beach's limits in the north at Carolina Sands Drive and at Alabama Avenue in the south.
Many of Wilmington Beach's streets were unpaved, and since the annexation, Carolina Beach has paved the streets and introduced
sewer lines into the area.
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Annexed places in North Carolina
Unincorporated communities in North Carolina