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Fall Creekrises in E Lee County and flows NE into Cape Fear River.
Fall Creekrises in E Haywood County and flows SW into Crabtree Creek.
Fall Creek TownshipNE Yadkin County.
Fall Linethe dividing line between Coastal Plain and Piedmont North Carolina where the soft sedimentary soils of the Coastal Plain meet the hard rocks of the Piedmont. It often is marked in streams by falls and rapids. The fall line runs W of Wilson and E of Sanford in an irregular progression N and s.
Fall RidgeS Watauga County, extends S in Watauga Township and causes a bend in Boone Fork.
Fallcliffcommunity in W Jackson County on Cullowhee Creek.
Falling Branchrises in N Franklin County and flows SW into Tooles Creek.
Falling CreekSee Thoroughfare Swamp.
Falling Creekcommunity in N Lenoir County on the stream of the same name. The Croom family operated a store there early in the nineteenth century, and it was the site of a free public school in 1840.
Falling Creekrises in NE Sampson County and flows NE into W Wayne County, where it enters Beaverdam Creek. See also Thoroughfare Swamp.