Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Eagle Mills Township |
NE Iredell County. |
| Eagle Rock |
town in E Wake County. A printing press operated there as early as 1854. Named for a rock on which an eagle fell when shot by Thomas Richard Debnum, around whose home the town developed. Inc. 1911, when lumber industry thrived there. Long inactive in municipal affairs. Alt. 326. |
| Eagle Rock Cove |
valley of Eagle Rock Creek, NE Buncombe County. |
| Eagle Rock Creek |
rises in Great Craggy Mountains, NE Buncombe County, and flows SW into Beetree Reservoir. |
| Eagle Springs |
community in W Moore County. Settled about 1890. Site of a mineral spring, it probably was named for the Eagle family, which settled in the vicinity in the eighteenth century. Alt. 668. |
| Eagle Swamp |
rises in N Lenoir County and flows SE into Contentnea Creek. |
| Eaglenest Branch |
rises in E Transylvania County near Black Knob and flows NE into Little River. |
| Eaglenest Creek |
rises in W Haywood County and flows SE into Richland Creek. |
| Eaglenest Mountain |
W Haywood County on the head of Eaglenest Creek. |
| Eaglenest Ridge |
W Haywood County, extends E from Rattlesnake Knob to Eaglenest Mountain. |