Bucksport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 876 at the 2010 census. It is a rural port on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at the merger point with the Waccamaw River.
History
Henry Buck of Bucksport, Maine, moved to South Carolina in the 1820s to start lumber mills; Horry County had a significant timber industry with its cypress, pine and hardwood forests. One of Buck's mills was in what became Bucksport. Sawmills in Bucksport and Bucksville produced three million board feet of lumber annually by 1850. Buck used his ships to transport lumber to Georgetown and Charleston in South Carolina and as far away as New York City and Boston, and even to other countries. Lumber from Buck's operation even went into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Independent Republic Quarterly said, "By 1860, due largely to Bucksville and Bucksport, Horry District had become one of the five greatest timber-producing districts in the state."
Geography
Bucksport is in southwestern Horry County. The CDP extends from the Waccamaw River in the southeast to U.S. Route 701 in the north, with Bucksport Road forming the main road through the community. US 701 leads northeast to Conway, the Horry county seat, and southwest to Georgetown. Myrtle Beach, to the east as the crow flies, is away by highway across the Waccamaw River and Intracoastal Waterway.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Bucksport CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.48%, are water.
2020 census
{| class="wikitable"
|+Bucksport racial composition
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|White (non-Hispanic)
|51
|6.85%
|-
|Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
|660
|88.59%
|-
|Other/Mixed
|27
|3.62%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino
|7
|0.94%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 745 people, 280 households, and 163 families residing in the CDP.
2000 census
As of the census