Caswell Beach
Caswell Beach is a small seaside town located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina, United States. Occupying the eastern part of Oak Island in Brunswick County, its population was listed at 395 in the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gerry Dincher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 472 residents
- Description: human settlement in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States of America
- Also known as: “Caswell Beach, NC” and “Caswell Beach, North Carolina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oak Island Light and Hatch Auditorium.
Oak Island Light
Photo: Matt Trostle, CC BY 2.0.
The Oak Island Lighthouse is located in the Town of Caswell Beach near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in Southeastern North Carolina. It sits next to the Oak Island Coast Guard Station on the east end of Oak Island in Brunswick County looking south out at the Atlantic Ocean.
Hatch Auditorium
Church
Hatch Auditorium is a facility of the North Carolina Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell. The auditorium is situated next to the old Fort Caswell and faces the parade ground. Hatch Auditorium is situated 2 miles east of Caswell Beach.
Yaupon Beach
Residential area
Yaupon Beach, North Carolina is a neighborhood of the coastal town of Oak Island in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Yaupon Beach is situated 2 miles northwest of Caswell Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Caswell Historic District and Southport.
Fort Caswell Historic District
Hamlet
The Fort Caswell Historic District is located on the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina, US, and encompasses 2 sites, 43 buildings, and 23 structures. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Fort Caswell Historic District is situated 2 miles east of Caswell Beach.
Southport
Photo: DiscoA340, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Southport is a city on the North Carolina Coastal Plain. Back in the 18th century, British settlements along this stretch of coast were afflicted by buccaneers and Spanish frigates to the point that a fortification named Fort Johnston had to be built, around which a town then called Smithville after Revolutionary War figure Benjamin Smith took shape, which eventually became known as Southport.
Oak Island
Caswell Beach
- Categories: town in the United States, human settlement, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Smithville Township, Brunswick, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.89601° or 33° 53′ 46″ northLongitude
-78.0511° or 78° 3′ 4″ westPopulation
472Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
8753VWWX+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 158546607OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4459544Wikidata ID
Q2027437
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Caswell Beach” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاسويل بيتش”
- Basque: “Caswell Beach”
- Catalan: “Caswell Beach”
- Cebuano: “Caswell Beach”
- Chechen: “Казвелл-Бич”
- Chinese: “Caswell Beach”
- Chinese: “卡斯韋爾比奇 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “卡斯韋爾比奇”
- Dutch: “Caswell Beach”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاسويل بيتش”
- French: “Caswell Beach”
- German: “Caswell Beach”
- Gilaki: “کاسول بیچ (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “کاسول بیچ”
- Haitian: “Caswell Beach, Kawolin dinò”
- Hungarian: “Caswell Beach”
- Italian: “Caswell Beach”
- Japanese: “カズウェル・ビーチ”
- Japanese: “キャズウェル・ビーチ”
- Ladin: “Caswell Beach”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Caswell Beach”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caswell Beach”
- Norwegian: “Caswell Beach”
- Persian: “کسول بیچ”
- Polish: “Caswell Beach”
- Portuguese: “Caswell Beach”
- Serbian: “Касвел Бич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caswell Beach, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Caswell Beach”
- Spanish: “Caswell Beach”
- Tatar: “Казвелл-Бич”
- Ukrainian: “Казвелл-Біч”
- Uzbek: “Caswell Beach, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Caswell Beach”
- Uzbek: “Cасwелл Беач”
- Volapük: “Caswell Beach, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Caswell Beach”
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