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Place Description
Beacon Height

mountain in E Avery County.

Beacon Island

in Pamlico Sound, NE Carteret County, is situated between Wallace Channel and Blair Channel leading through Ocracoke Inlet. Approx. 1,200 ft. long. Name derived from two large beacons on the island formerly used by pilots guiding ships through the channels. Jonathan Price wrote in 1795 that a "fort" was built on the S end of the island in 1794-95 pursuant to an act of Congress. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733.

Beacon Island Road

See Wallace Channel.

Beacon Island Shoal

in Pamlico Sound in NE Carteret County, obstructing passage through Ocracoke Inlet. Located between Beacon Island and Wallace Channel. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733.

Beal's Knob

N Clay County near the Cherokee County line. Alt. 5,000-5,100.

Beals Mill Pond

E Northampton County on a tributary of Potecasi Creek.

Beam Mill

community in E Cleveland County on Magness Creek. Alt. 1,001.

Beaman Run

the S part of Howell Swamp, in N Greene County; it flows SW into Contentnea Creek. Named for the Beaman family, which settled in the vicinity about the time of the Revolution.

Beamans Crossroads

community in N Sampson County between Old Mill Swamp and Marsh Swamp.

Bean Creek

is formed in N Mitchell County by the junction of Right Fork Bean Creek and Left Fork Bean Creek. It flows SE into Big Rock Creek.