Lakewood South Carolina Map

About Lakewood, South Carolina

Lakewood is a locality in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,810. The population density is 144.0 people per km². Lakewood is located at 33.8341°N, 80.3489°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 29072, 29841, 29732.

Lakewood holds the heavy, salt-thickened air of the Lowcountry, where the horizon dissolves into a shimmering haze of humidity and low-hanging pines. It lies 3.5 miles northeast of Garden City, SC (from Garden City, SC: bearing 48°T), and is situated 6.1 miles southwest of Myrtle Beach. The land here sits low and stubborn against the encroaching tides, defined by a flat, sandy topography that mirrors the stillness of the nearby Atlantic Ocean, which exerts its rhythmic influence just one mile to the east. Water defines the edges of the terrain, from the dark, reflective surface of Dick Pond to the brackish, slow-moving veins of Negro Field Swamp that carve through the damp earth miles away. At the edge of the afternoon, the light turns a bruised, liquid gold, catching the needles of the loblolly pines and casting long, spindly shadows that seem to anchor the shifting soil. Even the local flora at Bark Park thrives in this moisture, where the ground remains perpetually soft and the scent of brine lingers long after the breeze has died down.

Lakewood bears the quiet weight of generations who learned to navigate the swampy hinterlands and the unpredictable coastal shifts long before the modern grid arrived. The economy remains tethered to the slow pulse of the coast, moving at a pace dictated by the tides rather than the urgent ticking of a clock, favoring the harvest of the sea and the maintenance of a landscape that resists easy development. While the distant silhouette of Sand Ridge hums on the far horizon like a forgotten memory, the people here look toward the sea, their lives shaped by the same currents that have dictated the region's character for centuries. History exists in layers beneath the topsoil, where the legacies of the Gullah-Geechee culture persist in the cadence of local speech and the enduring methods of land stewardship. Life in Lakewood moves with a deliberate, unforced gravity, grounding its inhabitants in a place where the distinction between the land and the encroaching water is always a matter of perspective.

About This Lakewood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lakewood, South Carolina. Coordinates: 33.834108, -80.348877. 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 Lakewood includes the ZIP code (29072, 29841, 29732), telephone area code (864, 803), county seat of Horry County (Conway), and school district assignment (Sumter County Consolidated 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.