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Big Flatty Creekrises in S Pasquotank County and flows SE into Albemarle Sound. Shown on the Hack map, 1684, as Flatt Creek; on the Moseley map, 1733; and the Collet map, 1770, as Flatty Creek.
Big Fork Knobpeak on Big Fork Ridge, NE Buncombe County.
Big Fork RidgeS Yancey County between Cane River and Cattail Creek.
Big Fork RidgeN Swain County, extends NE in a horseshoe shape from between Pilkey Creek and the head of West Fork [Chambers Creek] to Welch Ridge and SE between West Fork and North Fork to their junction forming Chambers Creek.
Big Fork RidgeNE Buncombe County between Mineral and Carter Creeks.
Big Fork RidgeW Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, extending NE from Cataloochee Balsam; a Balsam Mountain summit between Rough Fork and Caldwell Fork. Center near lat. 35°35'40" N., long. 83°07'30" W.
Big Garland GapN Graham County between Sawyer Creek and Stecoah Creek at the SW end of Hogback Mountain.
Big Gooseberry RidgeE Jackson County between Frady Creek and Chastine Creek.
Big Governors Creekrises in E Moore County and flows NW into Deep River on the Moore-Lee county line. Called Millstone Creek in a 1748 grant to Governor Gabriel Johnston. Named for Johnston, who owned 7,000 acres N of the creek. Appears as Governors Creek on the Collet map, 1770.
Big Grassy Creekrises in E central Avery County and flows SW into Linville River.