Masonboro Township, North Carolina, is a statistical township consisting of part of Wilmington City, the former Masonboro CDP, the Silver Lake CDP, and the Myrtle Grove CDP which is located in New Hanover County, North, Carolina.
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Monkey Junction is an unincorporated area near Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, in New Hanover County at the intersection of College Road and Carolina Beach Road. It is one of several centers of recent commercial and residential growth near Wilmington. In 2008, Wilmington began controversial efforts to annex the community, but in 2012, the annexation requests were overturned by the North Carolina General Assembly.
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Masonboro was a census-designated place in New Hanover County, North Carolina. The last census count in 2000 was 11,812. Masonboro was located southeast of Wilmington near the Atlantic coast.
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Masonboro Island is a barrier island in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The island, which is undeveloped and accessible only by boat, is a component of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve and a North Carolina State Natural Area. It lies south of Wrightsville Beach, separated by Masonboro Inlet, and north of Carolina Beach, separated by Carolina Beach Inlet. The island is a destination for boating, surfing, and camping.
Masonboro Island is a mix of marshes, dunes and tidal flats, with beaches along its Atlantic coastline and a chain of small hills and wetland islands along Masonboro Sound, which is part of the Intracoastal Waterway. The beaches are a nesting ground for loggerheads and green sea turtles, and the waters on the sound side of the island are a nursery for spot, mullet, flounder and pompano.
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Myrtle Grove is a census-designated place in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 11,476 at the 2020 census which is up from 8,875 in 2010. Myrtle Grove is located in the statistical townships of Federal Point and Masonboro. The CDP is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Myrtle Grove was first listed as a CDP at the 1980 United States census.
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Wilmington Academy of Arts and Sciences is a private school in Wilmington, North Carolina that focuses on education for academically gifted students in grades 4–8.