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Place Description
Bullscrape Gap

central Avery County. Alt. 3,882. A salt lick there once attracted cattle; bulls scraped the ground with hooves, pawing before charging one another in combat. See also Montezuma.

Bulltail Swamp

rises in SE Sampson County and flows SE into Duplin County, where it enters Doctors Creek.

Bumgardner Branch

rises in N Swain County and flows SW into Deep Creek.

Bumgardner Ridge

N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a spur extending SW from Sunkota Ridge.

Bumgarner Branch

rises in N Jackson County approx. 2 mi. SE of Sylva and flows SW 1½ mi. into Mill Creek.

Bumgarner Gap

N Wilkes County between North Fork Reddies River and Burke Mountain. Named for Daniel Bumgarner, early nineteenth-century resident.

Bumgartner Mountain

peak in South Mountains on Burke-Rutherford county line.

Bumplanding Creek

rises in SW Currituck County and flows W into North River.

Buna Ridge

E Madison County parallel to Holland Branch.

Bunch

community in SW Randolph County served by post office, 1888-1901.