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Bear Wallow Branchrises in NE Madison County and flows SW into Foster Creek.
Bear Wallow GapNE Haywood County on the head of Wesley Creek.
Bear Wallow KnobS Yancey County at the E end of Bear Wallow Ridge.
Bear Wallow KnobS Yancey County between Hurricane Gap and Ogle Gap. Alt. 5,085.
Bear Wallow RidgeS Yancey County between Middle Fork and Grassy Knob Branch.
Bear Wallow Stand RidgeS Yancey County between Raven Fork and Blue Sea Creek.
Bearcamp Creekrises in SW Transylvania County and flows SE into South Carolina and into Toxaway River.
Beardcommunity in NE Cumberland County.
Beard Covecentral Buncombe County, between Beard Mountain and Gooch Peak in the Elk Mountains.
Beard Creekrises in S Pamlico County and flows S into Neuse River. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. Local tradition attempts to associate the origin of the name with Blackbeard, the early eighteenth-century pirate.