Loris is a city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,396 at the 2010 census, up from 2,079 in 2000. Loris was founded on December 7, 1887, as a railroad town, originally serving the Wilmington, Chadbourn, and Conway Railroad. Loris was later incorporated on July 26, 1902. The first brick building, which housed the Bank of Loris, opened in 1907. Telephone lines to Conway were first used in 1909. The town grew steadily in the 1920s and 1930s; a high school opened in 1920, and by the 1930s, Loris had around 1,000 residents. In the 1970s, Loris legally became a city.
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