THE HORRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carolina Flatwoods setting.
Horry County has 1,133.2 square miles of land in South Carolina. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Horry County: Carolina Flatwoods, Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces, Atlantic Southern Loam Plains, among others.
Low coastal plains contain terraces, estuaries, marshes and barrier islands. Unconsolidated sediments underlie this varied coastal setting, with forest patterns changing near streams and low-lying areas.
Regional context: Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Horry County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carolina Flatwoods75.5%
- Mid-Atlantic Floodplains and Low Terraces16.6%
- Atlantic Southern Loam Plains7.1%
- Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes0.7%
- Southeastern Floodplains and Low Terraces0.2%
Southeastern Plains in Horry County
Irregular plains of sand, silt and clay support a mix of pine and hardwood landscapes. The region has more relief than the lower coastal plain, with generally gentle stream gradients.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Horry County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Horry County, including Conway, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Horry County by land and water
The Census records 121.6 square miles of water within Horry County, or 9.7% of its total area. That share is close to Horry County’s 9.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Horry County has 558.2 times the land area of nearby Homewood CDP (2.03 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dillon County, Georgetown County, Marion County within South Carolina. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

