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Beech Swamprises in central Halifax County and flows SE into Fishing Creek. Appears as Rogers Creek on the Moseley map, 1733, and as Beech Creek on the Collet map, 1770.
Beechertowncommunity in NW Macon County on Nantahala River. A large hydroelectric power development is there.
Beechflat Creekrises in E Jackson County and flows SW into Mull Creek.
Beechgrovecommunity in NW Washington County.
Beechnut Gapon the Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Beechvillecommunity in NE Beaufort County.
Beef Market TopNE Jackson County on Grassy Ridge. Alt. 5,040. Said to have been named (1) because deserters from the Confederate army, hiding in the area, stole and slaughtered cattle there; or (2) because a young man killed cattle there that belonged to the father of his sweetheart when he was forbidden by her father to see her again.
Beer Rice Gapon the Madison County, N.C.-Unicoi County, Tenn., line.
Beetree Branchrises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Valley River.
Beetree Creekrises in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SW into Right Fork Deep Creek.