Long Beach, North Carolina is a coastal

neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...

on Oak Island 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 it struck the United States near the border between North and Sou ...

in 1954; only five of the 357 buildings survived the storm. It merged with neighboring Yaupon Beach in 1999 to form the town of Oak Island and is now a neighborhood of the town. The community derives its name from one of the longest stretches of beach in the area.

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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