rises in E Watauga County and flows SE into Wilkes County and into Stony Fork Creek.

community in central Gates County on Raynor Swamp.

is formed in S Yancey County by the junction of Left Prong South Toe River and Right Prong South Toe River. It flows N to join North Toe River on the Mitchell-Yancey county line to form Toe River.

S Yancey County.

community in E Hertford County.

rises on the Buncombe-Haywood county line near Turkey Creek Gap and flows NE to join North Turkey Creek in forming Turkey Creek.

a name frequently applied from about 1612 to about 1663 to the area that subsequently became the County of Albemarle in the colony of Carolina. William Strachey's The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britannia (1612) contains a brief description of South Virginia. After the region began to be settled (ca. 1650), it was also referred to as the Southern Plantation. In 1662 Samuel Stephens was made commander of the Southern Plantation by the Virginia Council.

town in central Anson County. Wadesboro Cotton Mill built there in 1892. Town inc. in 1893, but long inactive in municipal affairs.

former town in N central Pender County on Washington Creek near its mouth in Northeast Cape Fear River. Laid out about 1740 by Malatiah Hamilton as the center of trade for the Welsh Tract, which see. Inc. 1791 as South Washington. About 1840 moved approx. 1½ mi. SW to a site on the newly completed railroad and came to be called Hiawatha, corrupted into Watha, which see.

See St. Paul's Parish; Society Parish.