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Sevenmile Swamprises in NW Sampson County and flows SE into Great Coharie Creek.
Seventy-First TownshipW Cumberland County. Named for the 71st Highland Scots Regiment.
Severntown in NE Northampton County served by post office, 1889-1939. Alt. 59. Settled about 1833 and known first as Meherrin for an Indian tribe that had lived in the vicinity. Inc. 1919. Named for Severn Ayers, a stockholder in the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
Seviercommunity in N McDowell County on North Fork [Catawba River]. Served by post office, 1892-1903. Alt. 1,401.
Sewardcommunity in W Forsyth County.
Sextoncommunity in S Madison County on Bull Creek. Served by post office, 1892-1905.
Sexton's Branchrises in NE Wake County and flows SE into Upper Bartons Creek.
Seymour Johnson Air Force Basecentral Wayne County at Goldsboro. Est. 1941 as an Army Air Forces Technical Training School and named for Lt. Seymour Johnson (1904-41), Navy test pilot from Goldsboro.
Shacklefoot IslandSee Brown's Island.
Shackleford Banksone of the Outer Banks, SE Carteret County; approx. 8½ mi. long. Named for John Shackle ford, who, with Enoch Ward, purchased the "Sea Banks" in 1713. See also Cape Lookout National Seashore.