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Place	Description
Sigmonsburg	See Glen Alpine.
Signal Bald	peak on the Clay-Macon County line. Alt. 5,275.
Signal Pole Hill	SW Cherokee County on SE end of Pack Mountain. Alt. 3,459.
Sikes Branch	rises in W Carteret County and flows approx. 2 mi. S and E to join East Prong in forming Sanders Creek.
Silas Creek	rises in NW Ashe County and flows SE into North Fork New River.
Silas Creek	rises in SW Beaufort County and flows N into Chocowinity Bay, Pamlico River.
Silas Creek	rises in NW Forsyth County and flows SW into Muddy Creek. Known earlier as Spangenberg Creek for Bishop August G. Spangenberg, who led a surveying party from Edenton to the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1752 in search of a suitable site for a Moravian settlement. Spangenberg Creek appears as Strangenbergs Creek on the Collet map, 1770, and as Spanking Back on the Price map, 1808. By 1833, when the MacRae map appeared, it was called Silas Creek. Reynolda Lake is on Silas Creek.
Silas Creek	community in N Ashe County. Alt. approx. 2,740.
Siler Bald	SW Macon County at the head of Roaring Fork Creek approx. 1 mi. S of Wayah Gap. Alt. 5,216. Part of Nantahala Mountain Range. Named for Jesse Richardson Siler, pioneer settler in the area. See also Silers Bald.
Siler Bald Branch	rises on the S side of Siler Bald in SW Macon County and flows SE into Bryson Branch.