Bucksport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Horry County, South Carolina, United States.

[5] It is a rural port on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at the merger point with the Waccamaw River.

Henry Buck of Bucksport, Maine, moved to South Carolina in the 1820s to start lumber mills; Horry County had a significant timber industry with its cypress, pine and hardwood forests.

Sawmills in Bucksport and Bucksville produced three million board feet of lumber annually by 1850.

Buck used his ships to transport lumber to Georgetown and Charleston in South Carolina and as far away as New York City and Boston, and even to other countries.

[5] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 745 people, 280 households, and 163 families residing in the CDP.