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Bearpen Mountainon the Jackson-Transylvania county line between Sassafras Mountain and Horsepasture River. Alt. 4,025.
Bearpen RidgeSW Yancey County between Sodom Branch and Indian Creek.
Bearpen RidgeN Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a short spur of Noland Ridge extending se.
Bearpen RidgeN Madison County between Hickeys Fork and Rock Branch.
Bearpen RidgeNE Mitchell County between Laurel Creek and Bearpen Creek.
Bearpen RidgeW Haywood County between Bearpen Branch and Caldwell Fork.
Bearpen RidgeS Haywood County between Daniels Cove and Correll Branch.
Bearpen Rocka mountain in W Avery County.
Bearpondcommunity in S Vance County, named for a local tradition of a celebrated bear hunt there. In 1785 a practical joke was played on Zeke Brown to put an end to his tall tales of bear killing. A mock bear hunt was arranged at the present site of Bearpond in which a local citizen, Jake Sims, dressed in bearskins and gave Brown such a scare he left the county for "Orrapeake." The community is now known locally as Buena Vista, after the plantation of Dr. Robert Christian Pritchard (b. 1812) in nearby S Warren County.
Bearskincommunity in W central Sampson County near Bearskin Swamp.