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Welcome to Guide ...

Guide is located in Columbus County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Guide, you might consider that their post office opened in 1901.

Guide is 40 feet [12 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Guide lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Guide: 910 & 472<3>

Communities Also Named Guide ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Guide - it's located in Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Guide.

Communities near Guide ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Guide.

  • North Myrtle Beach
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Whiteville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Carolina Shores
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Carolina Shores is located in Brunswick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carolina Shores
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,802 people
  • Sunset Beach
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Tabor City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Loris
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Loris is located in Horry County (SC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loris
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,807 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loris <4>
  • Calabash
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Chadbourn
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Brunswick
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Briarcliffe Acres
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Briarcliffe Acres is located in Horry County (SC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briarcliffe Acres
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 612 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Guide. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Guide.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Guide. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Guide.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Guide. See our Newspapers Page for Guide.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Guide ...

Looking for more information about Guide? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Guide, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Guide.

Adding Guide to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Guide in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Guide was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Guide post office opened in 1901. The Guide post office closed in 1933.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Guide.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Columbus, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Guide - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 910 code has been Overlayed with the 472 area code. New phone numbers in the Guide area will be assigned with one of these codes: 910 or 472. As a result, placing a call in the Guide area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/