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Eagle Rock Covevalley of Eagle Rock Creek, NE Buncombe County.
Eagle Rock Creekrises in Great Craggy Mountains, NE Buncombe County, and flows SW into Beetree Reservoir.
Eagle Springscommunity in W Moore County. Settled about 1890. Site of a mineral spring, it probably was named for the Eagle family, which settled in the vicinity in the eighteenth century. Alt. 668.
Eagle Swamprises in N Lenoir County and flows SE into Contentnea Creek.
Eaglenest Branchrises in E Transylvania County near Black Knob and flows NE into Little River.
Eaglenest Creekrises in W Haywood County and flows SE into Richland Creek.
Eaglenest MountainW Haywood County on the head of Eaglenest Creek.
Eaglenest RidgeW Haywood County, extends E from Rattlesnake Knob to Eaglenest Mountain.
Eagles Islanda group of swampy islands in W New Hanover County between Cape Fear and Brunswick Rivers opposite Wilmington. Named for Joseph and Richard Eagle, eighteenth-century settlers in the vicinity. See also Dram Tree Point. Appears as Cranes Island on the Ogilby map, 1671.
Eagleton Pointpoint of land extending NW from Colington Island into the waters of Kitty Hawk Bay, N Dare County. Also known as North Point and Eggleston Point.