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Place Description
Burnt Coat Branch

rises in NE Duplin County and flows SW into Northeast Cape Fear River.

Burnt Coat Swamp

rises in W central Halifax County and flows SW into Beech Swamp. Appears on the Collet map, 1770.

Burnt Hill

See Burnthill.

Burnt Mill Creek

rises in Bear Swamp, SE Chowan County, and flows SE on the Chowan-Perquimans county line into Yeopim River. The Collet map, 1770, shows Mingo Mill on the headwaters of Yeopim River; the present name appears in local records as early as 1800.

Burnt Mills

community in N central Camden County. Tradition says watermills were destroyed by fire in the vicinity, hence the name. Last mill there discontinued about 1910, but water still flows down the mill race.

Burnt Mountain

E Transylvania County on the head of McCrary Branch.

Burnt Ordinary

formerly an inn on the post road in what is now N central Warren County, about ¾ mi. NE of the present town of Macon. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. The correct name for the inn is thought to have been Burnet Ordinary.

Burnt Pocosin

N Sampson County between Little Coharie Creek and Sevenmile Swamp.

Burnt Ridge

E Yancey County between the head of Browns Creek and the head of Shuford Creek.

Burnt Rock Ridge

follows the course of Sassafras Creek in SW Graham County.