Burgess is an unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina, United States, along South Carolina Highway 707 and is located between the southern boundary between Horry and Georgetown counties.

Burgess is roughly 28 square miles in area and is flanked on the west by the Waccamaw River and U.S. 17 Bypass to the east.

[1] Burgess appears on the Brookgreen Gardens U.S. Geological Survey Map.

Numerous master planned communities have been developed since 1990 such as TPC, Blackmoor and Laurel Woods.

There are large tracts of land that remain undeveloped which retains some of the rural characteristics that preceded its rapid growth.