Wilbur-By-The-Sea, Florida

Wilbur-By-The-Sea is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, Florida, United States. It is one of the two unincorporated areas in Volusia County along the coast that does not have a condominium or hotel (the other being Highbridge); instead, the area uses beachfront homes. Tom Wilbur Bay is a body of water that only has docks on the east side of the bay. The major roads of the area are State Road 441 and CR 4075; both roads border a body of water, Peninsula Drive on the west and South Atlantic Avenue on the east. 29°07′43″N 80°57′28″W / 29.12861°N 80.95778°W / 29.12861; -80.95778

The community gained national attention after Hurricane Nicole in 2022 when many oceanfront homes collapsed into the ocean due to the erosion Hurricane Ian had caused weeks before.^[1]

See also

• Atlantic Ocean
• Halifax River

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Municipalities and communities of Volusia County, Florida, United States

County seat: DeLand

Cities

• Daytona Beach
• Daytona Beach Shores
• DeBary
• DeLand
• Deltona
• Edgewater
• Flagler Beach‡
• Holly Hill
• Lake Helen
• New Smyrna Beach
• Oak Hill
• Orange City
• Ormond Beach
• Port Orange
• South Daytona

Towns

• Pierson
• Ponce Inlet

CDPs

• DeLeon Springs
• DeLand Southwest
• Glencoe
• North DeLand
• Ormond-by-the-Sea
• Samsula-Spruce Creek
• Seville
• West DeLand

Unincorporated
communities

• Alamana
• Allandale
• Barberville
• Bethune Beach
• Benson Junction
• Cassadaga
• Creighton
• Emporia
• Enterprise
• Farmton
• Fort Florida
• Glenwood
• Lemon Bluff
• Maytown
• Osteen
• Pennichaw
• Senyah
• Volusia
• Wilbur-by-the-Sea

Ghost town

• Eldora

Footnotes

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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• United States portal

References

• "Wilbur-by-the-Sea". Merrick Library Miami. J.W. Wilbur Company. Retrieved August 31, 2017.