Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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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. |