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Ocean Isle Beach (or simply Ocean Isle, or OIB) is a small seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It was incorporated as a town in 1959 [4] and is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 867 at the 2020 census.
A seaside resort is a city, town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of an official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements such as in the German Seebad. [a] Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort.
The Cherry Grove Pier is a popular landmark of Cherry Grove. It was built early in the 1950s. It has weathered many hurricanes, and was remodeled and lengthened in 1999 after Hurricane Floyd. In 1968 Cherry Grove Beach merged with Windy Hill Beach, Ocean Drive Beach, and Crescent Beach to form the city of North Myrtle Beach.
The District of Columbia does not currently have a true beach; several areas (such as Georgetown Waterfront Park) have boundaries along the Potomac river, but lack a true beach. From 1914 to 1925, there was a beach at the District of Columbia’s Tidal Basin .
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Cherry Grove Beach in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, [243] a largely gay-oriented beach; Colonial House Inn, a B&B in Chelsea, Manhattan with a clothing-optional area [244] Coxing Kill Stream at Mohonk Preserve in Gardiner, [245] sanctioned clothing-optional hiking trail; Empire Haven [246] in Moravia [247] Full Tan Sun Club [248] in Sprakers [249]
The town occupies an 8-mile-long (13 km) barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by Shallotte Inlet to the west, Lockwoods Folly Inlet to the east, and the Intracoastal Waterway to the north. One road, North Carolina Highway 130 , crosses the Intracoastal Waterway to connect Holden Beach with the mainland.
Ocean Isle Beach is to the east, just past the easternmost point of Sunset Beach, Krause Point. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town of Sunset Beach has a total area of 7.3 square miles (19.0 km 2), of which 6.4 square miles (16.7 km 2) is land, and 0.89 square miles (2.3 km 2) (12.22%) is water. [4]