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BloomingtonSee Archdale.
Bloomingtoncommunity in W Stanly County. Probably named for an early operator of a cotton gin.
Blossie Creekwaterway off Roanoke Bay separating Off Island from Bodie Island, E Dare County.
Blossom Swamprises in S Pender County and flows NE into Trumpeters Swamp. Probably named for Samuel Blossom, a Portuguese emigrant who operated a ferry across the Northeast Cape Fear River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Blossomtowncommunity in central Macon County on a tributary of Cartoogechaye Creek.
Blount Pocosinthe N section of Big Pocosin in SW Beaufort County.
Blounts Creekrises in central Cumberland County and flows SE into Little Cross Creek.
Blounts Creekrises in Big Pocosin, S Beaufort County, and flows N approx. 10 mi. into Pamlico River. Appears as Slade Creek on the Collet map, 1770.
Blounts Creekcommunity in S Beaufort County approx. 2 mi. from the source of the stream for which it is named. Post office est. there about 1894.
Blounts FordSee Grifton.