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Place Description
Buggs Island Lake

See Kerr Lake.

Buie

community in N Robeson County. Inc. 1909. Charter repealed 1947, though previously long inactive in municipal affairs. Railroad name was Buies.

Buies

See Buie.

Buies Creek

rises in NE Harnett County and flows SW into Cape Fear River. Known as Archie Buie's Creek on early maps of the region.

Buies Falls

rapids in Cape Fear River in central Harnett County at the junction of Buies Creek with the river. Called Bowies Falls by Hamilton Fulton in his 1819 survey of the rivers of North Carolina.

Buies Pond

N Robeson County on a branch of Richland Swamp. Covers approx. 150 acres, with a max. depth of 10 to 12 ft.

Buladean

community in N Mitchell County on Big Rock Creek. Known first as Magnetic City for its location near large deposits of magnetic iron ore. Present name said to have been for Beulah Dean, daughter of the first postmaster.

Bull Bay

NW Tyrrell County and NE Washington County, formed by the Scuppernong River estuary in Albemarle Sound. Surface area approx, 10,000 acres; max. depth 14 ft.

Bull Branch

is formed in NE Pender County by the junction of Bullhead Branch and Bull Tail Branch. It flows SE into Moore's Creek.

Bull Cove

SE Clay County between Bear Pen Ridge and Fairfield Ridge.