{"id":16331,"count":1,"description":"Kure Beach (\u02c8kj\u028a\u0259r\u026a KYUR-ee) is a town in New Hanover County, North Carolina about 15\u00a0miles south of Wilmington. It is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,507 at the 2000 census. It is found on Pleasure Island directly south of the Wilmington Beach annex of Carolina Beach and just north of Fort Fisher.\nOn the night of July 24\/25, 1943, a German U-boat fired at least three shells to attack the \"Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company\" plant at \"Kure's Beach\" (post-war: Kure Beach), but instead hit the Cape Fear River. The plant was the only one on the East Coast producing bromine from seawater for use in aviation gasoline \nAs of the census of 2000, there were 1,507 people, 723 households, and 495 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,931.6 people per square mile (746.0\/km\u00b2). There were 1,560 housing units at an average density of 1,999.6 per square mile (772.2\/km\u00b2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.74% White, 0.07% African American, 0...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/kure-beach\/","name":"Kure Beach","slug":"kure-beach","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}