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Bear Pen Branchrises in N Transylvania County and flows NE into South Fork Mills River.
Bear Pen Branchrises in N Madison County and flows SW into Little Laurel Creek.
Bear Pen GapN Clay County between Tuni Creek and the Cherokee County line.
Bear Pen Islands SwampN central Brunswick County. A part of Green Swamp.
Bear Pen RidgeSE Clay County.
Bear PocosinNE Sampson County S of Youngs Swamp and E of Six Runs Creek.
Bear Pointextends into Pamlico Sound from E Hyde County.
Bear PointSE Tyrrell County, extends from the mainland into Alligator River.
Bear Poplarcommunity in W Rowan County. Known first as Rocky Mount; present name adopted in 1878, when a post office was est. Name came from the nearby location of a poplar tree in which Capt. Thomas Cowan, Revolutionary hero, treed a bear in the late eighteenth century.
Bear RidgeS Yancey County between Blue Sea Creek and Beech Nursery Creek.