Myrtle Beach is a coastal city on the East Coast of the United States in Horry County, South Carolina. It is located in the center of a hanker and continuous 60-mile ( 97 kilometer ) unfold of beach known as “ The Grand Strand ” in northeastern South Carolina. Myrtle Beach is one of the major centers of tourism in South Carolina and the United States. The city ‘s strong subtropical climate, miles of beaches, 86 golf courses, and 1,800 restaurants attract over 20 million visitors each year, making Myrtle Beach one of the most chew the fat destinations in the country. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
The Myrtle Beach metropolitan area is the second-fastest-growing metropolitan sphere in the country, and more than 104,000 people moved to the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach sphere over eight years, representing in a 27.7 % growth in population according to the U.S. Census Bureau. [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
history [edit ]
The F.G. Burroughs steamer anterior to the arrival of Europeans, the Long Bay sphere was inhabited by the historic Waccamaw tribe. The Waccamaw used the river for travel and fished along the prop up around Little River. Waties Island, the primary barrier island along Long Bay, has testify of burial and beat mounds, remains of the visiting Waccamaw. [ 11 ] The first european settlers along Long Bay arrived in the belated eighteenth century, attempting to extend the plantation system outward toward the ocean. [ 12 ] Records are sparse from this period, with most of the recorded history pieced together from English colonial land allow documents. These settlers gained assorted results, producing everyday quantities of anil and tobacco, the two major commodity crops. The seashore ‘s land was flaxen and most of the crop yields were of inferior quality. prior to the american Revolution, the area along the future Grand Strand was basically uninhabited. respective families received land grants along the seashore, including the Witherses : John, Richard, William, and Mary. This family received an area around contemporary Wither ‘s Swash, besides known as Myrtle Swash or the Eight-Mile Swash. A separate concession was granted to James Minor, including a barrier island named Minor Island, nowadays Waties Island, off the coast near Little River. [ 13 ] : 36 Mary Withers ‘s gravestone at Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church speaks to the aloofness of the former Strand : “ She gave up the pleasures of Society and retired to Long Bay, where she resided a bang-up separate of her life devoted to the social welfare of her children. ” [ 14 ] As the American colonies gained independence, the sphere remained basically unaltered, and the seashore remained barren. George Washington scouted out the southerly states during his term, traveling down the King ‘s Highway. He stayed a night at Windy Hill ( part of contemporary North Myrtle Beach ) and was led across Wither ‘s Swash to Georgetown by Jeremiah Vereen. [ 13 ] : 51 The Withers class remained one of the few settlers around Myrtle Beach for the next half-century. In 1822, a solid hurricane swept the firm of R. F. Withers into the ocean, drowning 18 people inside. The calamity made the Withers family decide to abandon their plots along the coast. Left unattended, the area began to return to forest. [ 13 ] : 58 The Burroughs and Collins Company of Conway, predecessor of contemporary Burroughs & Chapin, purchased a lot of the Withers family ‘s nation in 1881. The growing community was called “ New Town ” around the start of the twentieth century. A station office named “ Withers ” was established to serve the site of the old Swash in 1888. On 28 February 1899, Burroughs and Collins received a rent to build the Conway & Seashore Railroad to transport timbre from the seashore to inland customers. The railroad began day by day service on 1 May 1900, with two wood-fired locomotives. One of the engines was dubbed The Black Maria and came second-hand from a North Carolina log operation. After the railway was finished, employees of the lumber and railroad caller would take train flatcars toss off to the beach area on their dislodge weekends, becoming the first base Grand Strand tourists. [ 15 ] The railroad terminus was nicknamed “ New Town ”, contrasting it with the “ Old Town ”, or Conway. Around the start of the twentieth century, Franklin Burroughs envisioned turning New Town into a tourist finish rivaling the Florida and northeastern beaches. Burroughs died in 1897, but his sons completed the railroad track ‘s expansion to the beach and opened the Seaside Inn in 1901. [ 16 ] Around 1900, a contest was held to name the sphere, and Burroughs ‘s wife suggested honoring the locally abundant shrub, the southerly wax myrtle ( Myrica cerifera ). The Withers mail office changed its identify to “ Myrtle Beach ” soon subsequently. It incorporated as a town in 1938 and as a city in 1957. [ 17 ] In 1937, Myrtle Beach Municipal Airport was built. It was taken over by the United States Army Air Corps in 1940 and converted into a military base. commercial flights began in 1976 and shared the runway for over 15 years until the air out al-qaeda closed in 1993. Since then the airport has been named Myrtle Beach International Airport. In 2010 plans to build a newly terminal were approved. In 1940, Kings Highway was finally paved, giving Myrtle Beach its first gear primary highway. The Myrtle Heights-Oak Park Historic District, Myrtle Beach Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Station, Ocean Forest Country Club, Pleasant Inn, and Rainbow Court are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. besides listed were the Chesterfield Inn [ 18 ] and the Myrtle Beach Pavilion, both immediately demolished. The Gay Dolphin Gift Cove on the Boardwalk was built in 1946 and sells seashells and Myrtle Beach souvenirs. It claims to be the “ nation ‘s largest give shop ” .
geography [edit ]
Myrtle Beach has been separated from the continental United States since 1936 by the Intracoastal Waterway, [ 19 ] forcing the city and area in general to develop within a small distance from the coast. In part due to this separation, the area directly northwest of Myrtle Beach, across the watercourse, remained primarily rural for a while, whereas its northeastern and southwest ends were bordered by other build up tourist towns, North Myrtle Beach and Surfside Beach. Since then, the inland part of the Myrtle Beach area has developed dramatically. Myrtle Beach is 67 miles ( 108 kilometer ) by highway southeast of Florence, South Carolina, 94 miles ( 151 kilometer ) northeast of Charleston, South Carolina, and 74 miles ( 119 kilometer ) southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 23.6 square miles ( 61.0 km2 ), of which 23.3 square miles ( 60.4 km2 ) are land and 0.2 square miles ( 0.6 km2 ), or 1.03 %, are water. [ 20 ]
Neighborhoods [edit ]
- Arcadian Shores
- Benton Park
- Booker T. Washington
- Carrie May Johnson
- Carver
- Chestnut Hill
- Dogwood
- Dunes Cove
- East Chester
- Fantasy Harbour
- Forest Acres
- Forest Dunes
- Futrell Park
- Grande Dunes
- Green Bay Park
- Harlem
- Highlands
- Hurl Rocks
- Konig
- Market Common
- Myrtlewood
- Myrtle Heights
- Northwood
- Ocean Forest
- Ocean View
- Old Pine Lakes
- Owens
- Pebble Beach
- Pine Lake Estates
- Pine Lakes
- Plantation Point
- Racepath
- Ramsey Acres
- Seagate Village
- Springmaid Beach
- The Dunes
- Washington Park
- Withers Preserve
- Withers Swash
- Yaupon Circle
climate [edit ]
According to the Köppen climate classification, Myrtle Beach has a humid subtropical climate or Cfa – typical of the Gulf and South Atlantic states. The city enjoys abundant fair weather year-round with more than 2800 hours annually .
Myrtle Beach is protected from erosion by vegetation-filled backbone dunes The summer season is long, hot, and humid in Myrtle Beach. Average day highs are from 83 to 91 °F ( 28 to 33 °C ) and average night-time lows are near 70 °F ( 21 °C ). The coastal location of Myrtle Beach mitigates day summer estrus somewhat compared to inland areas of South Carolina : therefore, while nearby Florence averages 65 days annually with high temperatures of 90 °F ( 32 °C ) or higher – Myrtle Beach averages only 21. The Bermuda High pumps in humidity from the tropical Atlantic toward Myrtle Beach, giving summers a near-tropical feel in the city. The affectionate Atlantic Ocean reaches 80 °F ( 27 °C ) or higher in the summer months off Myrtle Beach, making for affectionate and sultry summer nights. Summer thunderstorms are common in the hot season in Myrtle Beach, and the summer months from June through September have the most precipitation. In summer, thunderstorms normally build during the estrus of the day – followed by brief and acute downpour. On average, September is the wettest calendar month, with August close behind, ascribable to the combination of thunderstorms and tropical weather systems that peaks these months. Myrtle Beach has largely mild winters of shortstop duration : average day highs range from 57 to 61 °F ( 14 to 16 °C ) and night lows are in the 36 to 38 °F ( 2 to 3 °C ) from December through February. Winter temperatures vary more than summer temperatures in Myrtle Beach : Some winters can see respective cold days with highs only in the upper 40s F ( 7–9 °C ), while other winter days can see highs in the upper 60s and low 70s F ( 19–23 °C ). Myrtle Beach averages 33 days annually with freeze, though in some years less than 15 days will see frost. Snowfall is very rare in Myrtle Beach ; however, at least a hound of coke falls a few times each ten. In February 2010, a rare 2.8 inches ( 71 millimeter ) of snow fell in Myrtle Beach. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The spring ( March, April and May ) and fall ( September, October and November ) months are normally balmy and cheery in Myrtle Beach, with high temperatures in the 60s and 70s. The beach temper in Myrtle Beach normally runs from late April through recently October. SST ( Sea Surface Temperatures ) are much in the lower 80 ‘s ( 26–28 °C ) off South Carolina in summer and early fall. summer thunderstorms are typically brief, but severe thunderstorms do occur on occasion. Tornadoes are rare, with the most significant event occurring in 2001 when multiple tornadoes touched down in the area. tropical cyclones occasionally affect Myrtle Beach, though weaker tropical storms and weak tropical lows are more coarse. Like most areas prone to tropical cyclones, a aim strike by a major hurricane is infrequent in Myrtle Beach. The survive hurricane to cause significant damage in Myrtle Beach was Hurricane Hugo in 1989. The worst hurricane in Myrtle Beach ‘s history was Hurricane Hazel in 1954 .
| Climate data for Myrtle Beach (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1931–present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 81 (27) |
86 (30) |
88 (31) |
92 (33) |
99 (37) |
104 (40) |
101 (38) |
104 (40) |
99 (37) |
93 (34) |
86 (30) |
84 (29) |
104 (40) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 55.5 (13.1) |
57.8 (14.3) |
63.7 (17.6) |
71.5 (21.9) |
78.8 (26.0) |
84.5 (29.2) |
87.4 (30.8) |
86.5 (30.3) |
83.0 (28.3) |
75.6 (24.2) |
66.4 (19.1) |
58.6 (14.8) |
72.4 (22.4) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 44.5 (6.9) |
46.6 (8.1) |
52.7 (11.5) |
61.1 (16.2) |
69.3 (20.7) |
76.2 (24.6) |
79.5 (26.4) |
78.3 (25.7) |
74.0 (23.3) |
64.7 (18.2) |
54.3 (12.4) |
47.4 (8.6) |
62.4 (16.9) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 33.6 (0.9) |
35.5 (1.9) |
41.8 (5.4) |
50.6 (10.3) |
59.7 (15.4) |
67.9 (19.9) |
71.6 (22.0) |
70.0 (21.1) |
65.0 (18.3) |
53.8 (12.1) |
42.2 (5.7) |
36.3 (2.4) |
52.3 (11.3) |
| Record low °F (°C) | 10 (−12) |
9 (−13) |
18 (−8) |
25 (−4) |
36 (2) |
48 (9) |
54 (12) |
54 (12) |
43 (6) |
25 (−4) |
16 (−9) |
10 (−12) |
9 (−13) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 3.43 (87) |
3.76 (96) |
3.71 (94) |
3.38 (86) |
3.80 (97) |
4.85 (123) |
6.61 (168) |
6.27 (159) |
6.77 (172) |
4.11 (104) |
3.06 (78) |
3.81 (97) |
53.56 (1,360) |
| Source: NOAA[23][24] | |||||||||||||
| Climate data for Myrtle Beach (North Myrtle Beach Airport) 1991−2020 normals, extremes 1999–present | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 78 (26) |
81 (27) |
88 (31) |
92 (33) |
99 (37) |
98 (37) |
101 (38) |
98 (37) |
95 (35) |
91 (33) |
82 (28) |
78 (26) |
101 (38) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 55.7 (13.2) |
58.2 (14.6) |
64.7 (18.2) |
71.8 (22.1) |
78.7 (25.9) |
84.8 (29.3) |
87.6 (30.9) |
86.5 (30.3) |
83.2 (28.4) |
75.6 (24.2) |
66.4 (19.1) |
59.3 (15.2) |
72.7 (22.6) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 46.2 (7.9) |
48.9 (9.4) |
55.0 (12.8) |
62.5 (16.9) |
70.4 (21.3) |
77.5 (25.3) |
80.6 (27.0) |
79.5 (26.4) |
75.5 (24.2) |
66.0 (18.9) |
56.0 (13.3) |
49.6 (9.8) |
64.0 (17.8) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 36.7 (2.6) |
39.6 (4.2) |
45.4 (7.4) |
53.3 (11.8) |
62.1 (16.7) |
70.3 (21.3) |
73.7 (23.2) |
72.5 (22.5) |
67.7 (19.8) |
56.3 (13.5) |
45.6 (7.6) |
40.0 (4.4) |
55.3 (12.9) |
| Record low °F (°C) | 13 (−11) |
15 (−9) |
21 (−6) |
29 (−2) |
43 (6) |
53 (12) |
59 (15) |
56 (13) |
47 (8) |
30 (−1) |
22 (−6) |
19 (−7) |
13 (−11) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 3.01 (76) |
3.18 (81) |
3.59 (91) |
2.77 (70) |
2.96 (75) |
4.07 (103) |
5.40 (137) |
6.25 (159) |
6.25 (159) |
4.20 (107) |
3.29 (84) |
3.10 (79) |
48.47 (1,231) |
| Average precipitation days ( ≥ 0.01 in ) | 9.8 | 9.3 | 9.8 | 8.4 | 9.6 | 11.3 | 12.6 | 12.3 | 10.9 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 10.4 | 122.0 |
| Source: NOAA[23][25] | |||||||||||||
Demographics [edit ]
Myrtle Beach is the largest principal city of the Myrtle Beach-Conway-Georgetown CSA, a combined Statistical Area that includes the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metropolitan area ( Horry County ) and the Georgetown micropolitan area ( Georgetown County ), [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] which had a unite population of 329,449 at the 2010 census. [ 29 ]
2020 census [edit ]
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 35,682 people, 13,817 households, and 7,678 families residing in the city .
2010 census [edit ]
As of the 2010 census, the population of Myrtle Beach was 27,109. [ 29 ] According to the 2000 census [ 5 ] there were 22,759 permanent residents in Myrtle Beach, 10,413 households, 5,414 families, 1,356.5 people per square mile ( 523.7/km2 ), with 14,658 house units at an average density of 873.5 per square mile ( 337.3/km2 ) .
Ethnicities [edit ]
The city ‘s racial constitution was :
senesce [edit ]
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area
Georgetown Micropolitan Statistical Area location of the Myrtle Beach-Conway-Georgetown CSA and its components : Of the total Myrtle Beach population :
- 18.0% were 1–17
- 11.0% were between 18 and 24
- 33.6% were between 25 and 44
- 22.5% were between 45 and 64
- 15.0% were 65 or older
- Median age was 37 years
- 103 males per 100 females overall
- 101 males per 100 females age 18 and over
income [edit ]
- Overall median income for a household in the city was $50,173
- Median income for a family was $43,900
- Males had a median income of $26,039
- Females had a median income of $22,473
- The per capita income for the city was $23,214.
- About 7.6% of families and 12.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.1% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.
crime rate [edit ]
crime rate levels in Myrtle Beach are high compared to the rest of South Carolina. [ 31 ] The FBI reported 583 cases of fierce crime in the class 2016, of which 5 were murder, 46 were rape and 139 were robbery. Aggravated attack 348, property crime 4395, burglary 469, larceny larceny 3555, motor vehicle theft 371, and arson 10 were besides reported. [ 32 ] The average numeral of crimes per thousand population is 0.16 murders, 1.43 rapes, 4.31 robberies and 10.83 assaults. [ 31 ] The FBI reported 483 violent crimes in 2000, of which 1 was murder and 39 were rapes. [ 33 ]
| Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report Total | 5 | 46 | 139 | 349 |
| Rate per 1,000 | 0.16 | 1.43 | 4.31 | 10.83 |
economy [edit ]
Myrtle Beach ‘s economy is dominated by the tourist diligence ; [ 34 ] hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants, attractions, and retail developments exist in abundance to serve visitors .
tourism [edit ]
Hosting over 20 million visitors annually, [ 35 ] the Grand Strand is home to an align of tourist attractions, and the area receives a large inflow of visitors during all seasons. closely 100,000 visitors a year are estimated to come from oversea, with tourists from Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. [ 36 ] Myrtle Beach hosts a variety of limited conventions, events, and musical concerts. The area ‘s attractions include its beaches and courses, entertainment parks, an aquarium, Legends in Concert, retail developments, shopping complexes and over 1,900 restaurants [ 37 ] including seafood restaurants. [ 38 ] The area besides has dinner theaters, nightclubs, and many tourist shops. Myrtle Beach has approximately 425 hotels, with many on the beachfront, and approximately 157 accommodation units in sum. The area is besides base to over 80 golf courses and over 30 miniature golf courses. [ 35 ]
The 29-floor Margate Tower in Kingston Plantation is the tallest build in the Myrtle Beach area. live shows are offered year cycle at theaters including the Alabama Theatre, Carolina Opry, Asher Theater, Calvin Gilmore Theater, Legends in Concert, and Medieval Times Family Dinner Theater. respective shows offer particular vacation themed shows. [ 39 ] The Myrtle Beach Boardwalk opened in 2010 and has been recognized as the nation ‘s # 3 boardwalk by National Geographic [ 40 ] and one of the best u boardwalks by Travel + Leisure magazine. [ 41 ] The Myrtle Beach Skywheel opened at the boardwalk in May 2011, and is a 200-foot ( 61 megabyte ) observation rack, like to a ferris wheel, with glass gondolas that look over the Atlantic Ocean. This is the first rack of its kind in the U.S. Myrtle Beach State Park, established in 1935, has just under a nautical mile of Grand Strand beach and is a flower placement for camp, swim, hike, bicycle, and fish. Pier 14 by the Boardwalk .
Myrtle Beach ( July 2014 )
Hotels and tourists along the Myrtle Beach shoreline ( July 2014 )
opinion of hotels in Myrtle Beach The Myrtle Beach Convention Center is a big facility that hosts a diverseness of meetings, conferences, exhibits, and particular events every year. The expansive center field, which opened in 2003, has a Sheraton hotel and resort .
annual Events [edit ]
Each March since 1951 during Ontario ‘s spring break, Myrtle Beach has hosted Canadian-American Days, besides known as Can-Am Days. Tens of thousands of tourists flock to the area for a week ‘s worth of particular events. [ 42 ] Myrtle Beach is besides home to Coastal Uncorked, a food and wine festival held in the late spring per annum. The city hosts Sun Fun Festival early each June. [ 43 ] Later in June, Myrtle Beach is a democratic finish for recently graduated high school seniors for Senior Week. [ 44 ] Carolina Country Music Fest ( CCMF ) is an outdoor area music festival that takes invest in June of each class and was founded in 2015 by Charlotte based company Full House Productions. Due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic the festival was n’t held in 2020, but is scheduled to return in 2021 and take place on 10–13 June 2021. Priceline.com ranked Myrtle Beach among its top 20 destinations for its Fourth of July celebrations in 2010. [ 45 ] Myrtle Beach International Airport serves the city and surrounding area. With regular flights to and from destinations such as Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, New York and Washington, the airport is good connected for both domestic and external tourists. It besides serves as a seasonal worker gateway to and from the likes of Chicago, Dallas and Toronto. The city is between Wilmington, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina with U.S. Route 17 serving as the main transportation connection for those journeying between those cities. [ 36 ]
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Thongs ( or any swimsuit unwrap any fortune of the buttocks ) are not permitted in public in Myrtle Beach, including all beaches. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Violators of the ban may be arrested, jailed, or fined. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] The city ‘s “ g-string ordination ” has been in effect since the 1990s. [ 50 ]
Motorcycle rallies [edit ]
Myrtle Beach Bike Week, besides called “ Harley Bike Week ”, is a week-long motorbike beat up first held in 1940, the same class Kings Highway was paved. [ 51 ] The event has attracted american samoa many as 200,000 visitors to the city every May. Black Bike Week, founded in 1980, takes place the weekend around Memorial Day Weekend and is the largest african american motorcycle tease in the US and attracts adenine many as 400,000 visitors. The event was created in reception to a history of discrimination against african-american visitors and riders to Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand Area. [ 52 ] The Myrtle Beach government created 15 new laws aimed at preventing all sanctioned motorbike events within the city in response to controversy including accusations of racism by african-american riders during their event and complaints of lawlessness and poor demeanor during all highly serve events. respective lawsuits by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) against Myrtle Beach businesses were settled with agreements that discrimination end, compensation be given to some plaintiffs, and employees be given diverseness aim. [ 53 ] The NAACP suit against the City of Myrtle Beach was settled in 2006 without the city paying damages, but with the agreement police would use the like traffic control rules during both the black and the white motorcycle rallies. [ 54 ] The South Carolina Supreme Court in June 2010 unanimously overturned one of the 15 ordinances, which had required all motorcyclists to wear helmets, on the grounds that the state law, requiring helmets entirely for riders under long time 21, can not be preempted by a city ordination. In accession, the Court ruled that the regulation created excessive confusion, and that the city itself had invalidated their own helmet law and some other ordinances in a subsequent amendment. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] The jurisprudence had been challenged by a group of motorcyclists and a group of Myrtle Beach businesses called BOOST, Business Owners Organized to Support Tourism, who opposed the city ‘s anti-motorcycle tourism policy. [ 57 ]
Shopping [edit ]
Myrtle Beach is home to a big number of beachwear shops. Myrtle Beach ‘s many stores and malls make it one of the largest denounce areas in the Southeastern United States [ citation needed ] and the largest shopping address in South Carolina [ citation needed ] .
Sports [edit ]
golf [edit ]
The Myrtlewood Golf Club The area is home to numerous golf courses and mini-golf courses along the Grand Strand and farther inland. Myrtle Beach has been called the “ Golf Capital of the World ” [ 59 ] because of the roughly 100 golf courses there, the record 4.2 million rounds played, and many miniature golf courses. [ 59 ] 3.2 million full rounds of golf were played in 2017, down a “ few hundred rounds ” from a ten earlier. The number of golf courses more than doubled to over 120 over a 20-year time period before declining deep in the beginning ten of the twenty-first hundred. Tiger Woods declared Myrtle Beach “ the mecca of golf ” when visiting in 1997. [ 60 ] The majority of the sphere ‘s golf courses are public. The Grand Strand is base of “ Hootie and the Blowfish Day After the Masters Tournament ”. Extensive chinese investment to the Myrtle Beach area golf market has resulted in a significant soar of chinese tourists to the area and besides resulted in 25+ golf courses being owned and/or operated by chinese nationals. Some of the luminary golf courses and/or resorts include Barefoot Resort & Golf and TPC of Myrtle Beach .
long-distance running events [edit ]
From 1998 to 2009 and again starting in 2011 ( no Saturday races were held in 2010 due to snow ), the area hosted the Bi-Lo Myrtle Beach Marathon presented by Chick-Fil-A, every February sport ( since 2004 ) the Friday night Royal Bank of Canada 5K and the Saturday Dasani Half Marathon and Bi-Lo Marathon ( from 1998 until 2008, a relay was held but dropped because of the popularity of the other events ). Marathon day draws the limit of 6,000 runners per annum ( 2,500 full, 3,500 half ) and results normally in an strange dawn as the race starts before dawn ( 6:30 am ) in order to finish by 2:30 prime minister .
athletic teams and facilities [edit ]
Myrtle Beach is home to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, a Low-A East baseball team and a Chicago Cubs farm franchise. It was besides home to the Myrtle Beach Mutiny, a pro soccer team meet in the Premier Development League until 2018. TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark is the home field of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans and is just off Highway 17 in Myrtle Beach. It opened in 1999 and seats 6,500 people. It is the eat up point of the Bi-Lo Myrtle Beach Marathon. TicketReturn.com Field is besides home of the annual “ Baseball at the Beach ” collegiate baseball tournament. Hosted by Coastal Carolina University each year, the tournament pits participating NCAA Division I baseball programs in the United States .
NASCAR [edit ]
NASCAR -sanctioned Stock cable car race was held at Myrtle Beach Speedway, a .538-mile ( 866 thousand ), semi-banked, asphalt-paved ellipse chase lon US 501. Drivers in the Late Model classes will compete ( against those of Greenville-Pickens Speedway ) for the South Carolina Championship in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. South Carolina Champions ‘ scores will be calculated against other state and provincial champions for a continental championship. It hosted the 2010 UOA Nationals where 8 collegiate ultimate teams from 5 conferences will be represented .
government [edit ]
The city of Myrtle Beach has a council-manager politics. [ 61 ] The Mayor sits as a Council member-at-large and presides over City council meetings. If the Mayor can not preside over a City Council merging, the Mayor Pro-Tem is the presiding officer of the converge until such time as the Mayor returns to the seat. The City Manager is creditworthy for the government and the daily operation of all of the municipal services and city departments. The City Manager besides maintains intergovernmental relationships with federal, country, county and other local anesthetic governments. The city of Myrtle Beach reformed into a council-manager government system in 1974 under the presidency of Mayor Bob Hirsch and city director David Stradinger, who moved away from the city ‘s former strong-mayor shape of politics. [ 62 ]
Mayors [edit ]
Brenda Bethune is the mayor of Myrtle Beach. She has served since 2018. [ 63 ]
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. W. Leroy Harrelson | 1938 | 1939 |
| Ben M. Graham | 1939 | 1941 |
| Dr. W. Leroy Harrelson | 1941 | 1943 |
| O.C. Callaway | 1943 | 1947 |
| H.W. Tallevast | 1947 | 1949 |
| J.N. Ramsey | 1949 | 1954 |
| Ernest W. Williams | 1954 | 1955 |
| W.E. Cameron | 1956 | 1959 |
| Mark W. Garner | 1960 | 1974 |
| Bob Hirsch | 1974 | 1978 |
| Eric Ficken | 1978 | 1982 |
| Robert M. Grissom | 1982 | 1998 |
| Mark Struthers McBride | 1998 | 2006 |
| John Rhodes | 2006 | 2018 |
| Brenda Bethune | 2018 | present |
education [edit ]
Primary and secondary department of education [edit ]
Public schools [edit ]
Myrtle Beach is served by a single public school district. Horry County Schools educates around 40,000 students and is the third base largest school district in South Carolina .
individual schools and lease schools [edit ]
Below is a list of secret schools and charter schools within or near the city of Myrtle Beach .
- St. Andrew’s Catholic School
- St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic High School
- Christian Academy of Myrtle Beach
- Carolina Bays Academy
- Chabad Academy
- Calvary Christian School
- Bridgewater Academy
- Cathedral Hall High School
- Christian Academy
- Life Christian Academy & Child
- Socastee Montessori School
- Palmetto Academy of Learning and Success
Higher education [edit ]
The largest university in the Myrtle Beach area is Coastal Carolina University, a state-supported, big arts university eight miles northwest of Myrtle Beach in neighboring Conway, with a satellite campus in Myrtle Beach. The university is a national sea-grant initiation and owns part of Waties Island, a 1,105-acre ( 4.47 km2 ) barrier island which serves as a natural lab. The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers compete in NCAA Division I as a extremity of the Sun Belt Conference. The football team competes in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision or FBS. The football team plays at Brooks Stadium, which is celebrated for its teal artificial turf. [ 64 ] The Myrtle Beach metro area has the trace college and post-secondary schools :
Media [edit ]
television [edit ]
The Grand Strand and Florence, South Carolina, share a common define marketplace by Nielsen Media Research in Horry, Marion, Dillon, Darlington, Marlboro, Scotland, Robeson, and Florence counties. Two major stations are licensed to Myrtle Beach : NBC affiliate WMBF-TV 32 and Fox affiliate WFXB 43. Myrtle Beach is besides served by PBS penis stations WHMC/WJPM-TV 23/33, licensed respectively to Conway and Florence, and three commercial stations licensed to Florence : CBS consort WBTW 13 ( with MyNetworkTV on DT2 ), ABC affiliate WPDE-TV 15, and CW affiliate WWMB 21 .
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Newspapers [edit ]
The Sun News has traditionally been the largest daily paper published along the Grand Strand, with a readership base extending from Georgetown, South Carolina, to Sunset Beach, North Carolina. The composition has been in universe since the 1930s and was once published by Knight Ridder before that ship’s company was bought by The McClatchy Company. [ citation needed ] Like many newspapers, the wallpaper has declined in holocene years due to shifts in readership and fiscal pressures at its parent company. It stopped local print operations and downsized its newsroom in May 2020. [ 65 ] Myrtle Beach is besides served by The Myrtle Beach Herald, a hebdomadally newspaper that is separate of the Waccamaw Publishers group. It is locally owned by Steve and Cheryl Robertson. The Herald besides produces a newspaper targeted at tourists called Visit!. In 2020, Charleston-based The Post and Courier set up an official chest of drawers in Myrtle Beach, after years of attempting to move into the market and buying The Georgetown Times, which it merged with the fresh operation. [ 66 ]
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healthcare [edit ]
Grand Strand Medical Center ( GSMC ) is a 369-bed acute care hospital and Level 1 Adult Trauma Center known for its programs in cardiology, affection operating room, and stroke treatment. It was opened on 21 April 1978 to succeed the former Ocean View Memorial Hospital ( 1958-1978 ), the inaugural major hospital in Myrtle Beach. GSMC contains the only cardiac operating room and neurosurgery programs in the greater Myrtle Beach area and was a recipient role of the Healthgrades 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery in 2012 and 2013. As a teaching hospital, Grand Strand Medical Center is the home of ACGME accredited residency training programs ( internal medicine, general operating room, hand brake medicate, and family music ), and hosts rotating medical students from the University of South Carolina and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine ( VCOM ). Over 270 physicians and 1,400 staff serve at the facility. [ 67 ] [ 68 ]
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Air [edit ]
- The Myrtle Beach International Airport (IATA: MYR/FAA LID: MYR), is a county-owned public-use airport three nautical miles (5.6 km) southwest of the central business district of Myrtle Beach, in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. (MYR) It was formerly known as Myrtle Beach Jetport (1974–1989) and is on site of the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
- The General Aviation Terminal www.beachaviationservices.com (ICAO: KMYR/FAA LID:MYR), is a part of the Myrtle Beach International Airport however, the terminal is on the opposite side of the airfield from the commercial terminal side of the airport on Airdrome Street accessed by Phyllis Boulevard inside The Market Common. This new 11,500 square foot terminal was opened on 21 May 2010, built to modernize operations and accommodate the growing needs of the terminal. The new terminal replaces a building that was previously used as Base Operations when the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base was active.
- Executive Helicopters is within the Myrtle Beach International Airport as well. It is on the eastern side of the airport with access from Kings Highway. Executive Helicopters is a private helicopter facility that provides tour services in the Myrtle Beach and surrounding areas. They also provide the majority of maintenance for General Aviation. In addition; Myrtle Air Service a division of Kingman Aircraft Kingman, AZ operate a maintenance facility on site providing maintenance for mid-sized jets. Military operations are also ongoing supporting USMC, USN, USAF, US Army and Coast Guard.
vilify [edit ]
The Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad is a 14.1-mile ( 22.7 kilometer ) short-line railroad division of the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad, [ 69 ] extending from a connection with the Carolina Southern Railroad, another division of that company, at Conway to Myrtle Beach. The lineage was opened in 1900 by the Conway Coast and Western Railroad, a harbinger of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. [ 70 ] The Seaboard System Railroad sold the line to Horry County in November 1985, and it was operated by the Horry County Railway until October 1987, when the WCLR took over. [ 71 ] The Carolina Southern Railroad acquired the WCLR in September 1995, and since then it has been a division of the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad. [ 72 ] Horry County owns the line but leased it to the Carolina Southern Railroad in 2000. [ 73 ] Carolina Southern Railroad is a inadequate line rail hustler running on less than 95 miles ( 153 kilometer ) of vilify at a maximum accelerate of 10 miles per hour ( 16 kilometers per hour ). It transports largely freight fetch to it from national rail operators. The party makes one scheduled delivery per calendar month into the City of Myrtle Beach. [ 74 ] It is off of Main Street in Conway, South Carolina, and is one of the few remaining aim depots in South Carolina. It has been painstakingly restored to its former glory and the Carolina Southern Railroad has become one of the frequent destinations for freight services american samoa well as passenger cars and experimental locomotives. The railroad track was originally erected in recently 1886 and the first gear coach steamed into the Conway Depot in December 1887. The Carolina Southern Railroad stands as a permanent landmark in southern History. Carolina Southern Railroad is a penis of the Carolina Rails system with connections that run from Whiteville, North Carolina, to Mullins, South Carolina, and besides from Chadbourn, North Carolina, to Conway. Carolina Southern railway is besides creditworthy for mathematical process of the Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad, which is a railway that runs from Conway to Myrtle Beach. On August 30, 2011, Carolina Southern Railroad voluntary shut down because several bridges along the fulminate were delinquent for alimony. The closure caused Carolina Southern Railroad to lay off closely all of its employees. On May 24, 2012, the Federal Railroad Administration ( FRA ) commenced a bridge inspection on the CSR and the Waccamaw Coastline Railroad ( the Horry County assign of rail ). Fifty-two of 187 bridges were inspected and seven had critical defects. On May 26, 2011, the CSR voluntarily ceased operation, so that they could bring in a certifiable bridge engineer to inspect the seven critical bridges and prepare a plan for their repairs. Based on the mastermind ‘s recommendations, CSR made the necessity repairs on the bridges and CSR resumed operations August 8, 2011. The FRA returned to inspect the bridges and made a recommendation that CSR cease operations until all bridge repairs were completed. [ 75 ] There are efforts to bring the railroad back on-line. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] [ 80 ] [ 81 ] [ 82 ] [ 83 ] [ 84 ] [ 85 ] In 2015, railroad track operator RJ Corman acquired the erstwhile CSR telephone line and re-opened it freight service in early April 2016. [ 86 ]
Until 1955 the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad ran passenger rail service from the Myrtle Beach Station to Chadbourn, where a connection could be made to interstate ACL train service. [ 87 ] [ 88 ]
Roads [edit ]
SC 31 serves as a by-pass for a majority of the Grand Strand.
Within the last decade, fresh roads have been created to ease congestion caused by the annual inflow of visitors. Most of these roads follow the Metro Loop Road Plan [ citation needed ], organized in 1997 to improve the traffic flow of Myrtle Beach. Some of the roads included have either been funded through Road Improvement Development Effort ( RIDE I ) fund or through the City of Myrtle Beach. RIDE II plans include the third phase of S.C. Highway 31, a grade separation of Farrow Parkway and US 17 Bypass at the back gate of the former Air Force foundation, and many other projects. The county is debating where to allocate the $ 400 million generated through a proposed 1-cent sales tax [ citation needed ]. other road projects in Horry County, including some in Aynor and Conway, will be included when voted upon. Plans exist for Myrtle Beach to be served by two interstates, Interstate 73 and Interstate 74. The Robert Edge Parkway will connect I-74 to downtown North Myrtle Beach .
Mass transit [edit ]
Myrtle Beach is served by the Coast RTA and the Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority. [ 89 ]
luminary people [edit ]
sister cities [edit ]
Myrtle Beach has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International : [ 90 ]
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Keighley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Pinamar, Argentina
Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
Tiberias, Israel[91]
References [edit ]
Read more: Australia Maritime Strategy
