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Place Description
State Line Gap

N the Watauga County, N.C.-Johnson County, Tenn., line near the head of Little Beaverdam Creek. Alt. 3,738.

State Line Ridge

on the Watauga County, N.C.-Johnson County, Tenn., line, extends SE from State Line Gap to the head of Cove Creek.

State Ridge

in the N tip of Cherokee County along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line.

State Road

community in W Surry County near the head of Camp Creek. Said to have taken its name from a "state road camp" est. there temporarily during the construction of a highway.

Stateline

See Collinstown.

Statesville

city and county seat, central Iredell County. Authorized to be laid out in 1789 and probably named in honor of the fact that North Carolina had approved the federal Constitution a few weeks previously and thus had become a state. Inc. 1847. Settlement grew up around Fourth Creek Presbyterian Church, organized there in 1753. Home of Mitchell Community College. Produces textiles, apparel, fabricated metals, furniture, flour, lumber, and machinery. Alt. 925. See also Fourth Creek.

Statesville Township

central Iredell County.

Staton

community in N Pitt County. Alt. 42.

Statons Pond

central Martin County, is fed by the waters of several streams: Hardison Mill Creek, Ready Branch, and Smithwick Creek. It is drained by Sweetwater Creek. The pond is approx. 2 mi. long.

Stauken's Quarter Creek

See Stinking Quarter Creek.