Haw Branch | rises in SW Nash County and flows S into Turkey Creek. |
Haw Branch | community in NW Onslow County on New River. |
Haw Cove | SW Avery County. |
Haw Creek | rises in central Buncombe County and flows SW into Swannanoa River. Named in 1860 for the black haw bushes growing along its banks. |
Haw Creek | rises in W Orange County and flows SW into Alamance County, where it enters Haw River. Appears as Jumping Run on the Moseley map, 1733. |
Haw Fields | name given by traders in the early eighteenth century to the region occupied by Saxapahaw and Sissipahaw Indians between the Haw and Eno Rivers in what is now Alamance and Orange Counties. The Indians had left by the time the first white settlers arrived, and they called the region "Haw old fields," a name mentioned in 1728 by William Byrd. Haw Fields was used in 1736 in connection with a land grant there. Edward Moseley patented 10,000 acres of land in the region on November 6, 1728. |
Haw Gap | central Avery County. |
Haw Gap | NW Swain County on Jenkins Trail Ridge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. |
Haw Gap Branch | rises in NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE across the park boundary for a distance of 4.5 mi. into Hazel Creek. |
Haw Knob | on Jess Ridge in N Buncombe County near lat. 35°44' N., long. 82°27' W. Known as Rocky Knob until 1932, when the name was changed to eliminate duplication of names in the same vicinity. |