Horry County · South Carolina
Excavation & Land Clearing in Loris, SC
Loris is a crossroads town in northern Horry County, closer to the North Carolina state line than to the Myrtle Beach strip. SC-9 and US-701 cross here, connecting Loris east toward the state line and North Myrtle Beach and putting it on the same US-701 corridor that runs from Tabor City down to Conway. The area around Loris is agricultural and rural residential — tobacco farms, timber tracts, and scattered houses on large lots. The Loris Bog-Off Festival, a chili-cooking competition held annually since 1980, is one of the town’s best-known traditions.
Ward Excavation reaches Loris in about forty-five minutes from our Whiteville yard, crossing the state line near Tabor City. We pair Loris jobs with Tabor City and Conway work on the same route. The work here is rural in character — land clearing, farm driveway construction, drainage ditch maintenance, and residential lot prep for properties with acreage.
Why Ward works in Loris
Loris sits in the part of Horry County that the coastal contractors rarely reach. The Myrtle Beach-based crews gravitate toward the strip and the beach communities where the commercial volume is highest. Loris-area property owners looking for excavation or clearing work are often geographically closer to Ward Excavation’s Whiteville yard than to any coastal contractor’s base. That proximity — combined with our dual-state licensing — makes us a practical fit for the rural Horry County work that does not interest the beach-oriented operations.
The same geography applies to paving. The Grand Strand paving crews stay busy on parking lots and subdivision streets near the beach, and a long farm driveway off SC-9 or US-701 rarely justifies their mobilization. For us it does — Loris is on the same route as Tabor City, and driveway paving here looks like driveway paving there: chip-seal on the long agricultural runs, hot-mix asphalt for driveways closer to town, gravel where a paved surface is not worth the cost. We will tell you which one your driveway actually needs, and the base prep is in the quote either way.
The land around Loris is flat, agricultural, and similar in character to the Columbus County ground we work every day. Driveway grading, fence-line clearing, small-acreage lot prep, and ditch maintenance are the recurring jobs. We price and schedule Loris work the same way we price Columbus County work — by the scope of the job, not by the state line it happens to sit across.
Services we offer in Loris
Rural land clearing, driveway construction, and drainage work are what Loris properties call for most. The full list covers everything we handle on this side of the state line.
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- What paving work does Ward Excavation take on around Loris?
- Driveway paving is the core of it — hot-mix asphalt, chip-seal on long farm lanes, and gravel construction where paving is not the right answer. We also quote small commercial work like parking areas and driveway aprons. Loris pairs with Tabor City on the same route out of our Whiteville yard, about forty-five minutes away, and we are licensed in South Carolina, so the state line does not complicate the quote. What we do not do is talk a rural property into asphalt it does not need; if gravel or chip-seal fits the traffic better, that is what we will recommend.
Local resources for Loris
Useful local links if you are pulling permits, recording deeds, or doing site work that requires official paperwork.
Rural Horry County, on our route.
Loris pairs with Tabor City on the same trip. Call and describe the job.
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