rises in central Yancey County and flows SE into Little Crabtree Creek.

was formed in 1861 from Yancey, Watauga, Caldwell, Burke, and McDowell Counties. Located in the W section of the state, it is bounded by the state of Tennessee and by Avery, McDowell, and Yancey Counties. It was named for Elisha Mitchell (1793-1857), professor at the University of North Carolina who was killed while exploring the peak that now bears his name—the highest point E of the Mississippi. Area: 220 sq. mi. County seat: Bakersville, with an elevation of 2,550 ft. Townships are Bakersville, Bradshaw, Cane Creek, Fork Mountain, Grassy Creek, Harrell, Little Rock Creek, Poplar, Red Hill, and Snow Creek. Produces tobacco, Christmas trees, apples, corn, hay, dairy products, livestock, textiles, apparel, hosiery, lumber, mica, gypsum, feldspar, kaolin, and quartz.

W Haywood County on the head of Mitchell Cove Branch.

rises in W Haywood County and flows SE into Jonathans Creek.

rises in SE Craven County and flows NE into Clubfoot Creek.

S Yancey County on Mitchell Creek. It was there that Elisha Mitchell fell to his death in June 1857.

on Cherokee-Graham county line approx. ½ mi. from the North Carolina-Tennessee state line on the headwaters of Snowbird Creek. It is a site at which early settlers salted stock and to which wild animals also came for salt.

NE Henderson County.

S Yancey County between Mitchell and Timber Creeks.

rises in SE Alleghany County and flows E into Surry County, where it enters Yadkin River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770.