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rises in W central Yancey County and flows NE into Toe River.

NE Yancey County.

rises in S Greene County and flows N into Tyson Marsh.

S Jackson County, is bordered on the E by Scotsman Creek. Alt. approx. 3,440.

rises in N Northampton County and flows NE into Virginia, where it enters Fountains Creek. Appears on the map of the North Carolina-Virginia line run by William Byrd and others, 1728.

town authorized in 1818 to be laid off by Isaac Medley, Eustis Hunt, Gideon Johnston, John May Sr., and Joseph Porter "on the north side of Dan river, at the Eagle falls in Rockingham county." The scheme for developing a town there was proved to be a fraud in the case Morehead vs. Hunt, December 1826. See also Eagle Falls.

rises in central Cherokee County and flows SE into Colvard Creek.

community in N Pasquotank County.

was formed in 1851 from Haywood and Macon Counties. Located in the W section of the state, it is bounded by the states of South Carolina and Georgia and by Macon, Swain, Haywood, and Transylvania Counties. It was named for Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), president of the United States. Area 499 sq. mi. County seat: Sylva, with an elevation of 2,047 ft. Townships are Barkers Creek, Canada, Caney Fork, Cashiers, Cullowhee, Dillsboro, Greens Creek, Hamburg, Mountain, Qualla, River, Savannah, Scott Creek, Sylva, and Webster. Produces corn, dairy products, livestock, hogs, paper, fish, lumber, Christmas trees, textiles, mica, granite, olivine, and crushed stone.

rises in SE Buncombe County and flows NE into McDowell County, where it enters Crooked Creek.