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Blackrock RidgeN Jackson County, extends N from Scott Creek to Soco Creek.
Blacksnake Branchrises in N Transylvania County and flows SE into Turkey Creek.
Blackstock Branchrises in N Buncombe County and flows NW into Madison County, where it enters Ivy River.
Blackstock Knobon the Buncombe-Yancey county line between Balsam and Rainbow Gaps. Alt. 6,325. Probably named for a surveyor, Nehemiah Blackstock, who worked in the vicinity in 1845.
Blackstonecommunity in NE Caldwell County. Named for Sir William Blackstone (1723-80), English jurist, by Col. George N. Folk, who conducted a law school there after the Civil War.
Blackwalnut Swamprises in E Bertie County and flows E into Chowan River.
Blackwater Riverrises in Virginia and flows SW into North Carolina, where it joins the Nottoway River a short distance S of the Virginia line on the Hertford-Gates county line to form the Chowan River. The name appears on the Comberford map, 1657.
Blackwater Runrises in S Rowan County and flows S into N Cabarrus County, where it enters Dutch Buffalo Creek. The last Indians in Cabarrus County lived along the stream.
Blackwellcommunity in NW Caswell County. A post office operated there, 1830-1909. A tobacco factory also formerly existed there.
Blackwell Gapcentral Cherokee County near the middle of Bates Mountain.