Edisto Beach South Carolina Map

About Edisto Beach, South Carolina

Edisto Beach is a locality in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,033. The population density is 186.6 people per km². Edisto Beach is located at 32.4987°N, 80.3135°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Edisto Beach is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 29438.

Edisto Beach remains a singular expanse of salt-bleached shoreline where the Atlantic Ocean exhales a steady, rhythmic brine against the shifting sands. It lies 19.8 miles east of Beaufort, SC (from Beaufort, SC: bearing 80°T), and is situated 18.4 miles south-southwest of Hollywood. The horizon is punctuated by the low, swaying silhouettes of palmettos that seem to lean into the wind, their fronds catching the amber light of late afternoon. Beyond the immediate reach of the surf, the landscape dissolves into the intricate, protected waterways of the Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, where the mudflats of Big Bay Creek harbor a quiet, teeming vitality. On clear, crisp days, the distant phantom of Fiddlers Ridge might seem to haunt the western sky, though the reality here is one of flat, sprawling maritime forest and the slow, tidal pulse that defines the edge of the world.

History at Edisto Beach is written in the layers of sediment and the persistent echoes of Gullah-Geechee tradition, a heritage that persists in the local cadence and the ways the land is still worked and honored. Economic life here eschews the frantic pulse of the modern resort, favoring instead a quiet reliance on the harvest of the tides and a modest, seasonal influx of those seeking the restorative silence of the coast. To the north, the salt-crusted silence of Edings Island serves as a reminder of the barrier islands’ fragile, shifting nature, while the occasional traveler might wander as far as Greenway Plantation Pond in search of a different, freshwater stillness. Life at Edisto Beach moves with the tide, unconcerned with the ambitions of the mainland, tethered instead to the ancient, brackish equilibrium of the marsh.

About This Edisto Beach Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Edisto Beach, South Carolina. Coordinates: 32.498719, -80.313487. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Edisto Beach includes the ZIP code (29438), telephone area code (864), county seat of Colleton County (Walterboro), and school district assignment (Colleton County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.