Chadbourn is a town in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States.

[4] It was incorporated in 1883,[5] being named after a local family engaged in the lumber industry.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,574 people, 797 households, and 387 families residing in the town.

Until 1955, the town was a transfer point for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad passenger trains to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

At Chadbourn, connections could be made to trains bound for Florence, South Carolina, Sumter, South Carolina and Columbia's Union Station, Augusta, Georgia's Union Station to the west, and Wilmington to the east.