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Place Description
Stuards Reach

appears on the Smith map, 1624, in what is now the Roanoke River between Halifax and Northampton Counties.

Stuart Creek

rises in NW Henderson County in Pisgah National Forest and flows NE into North Fork.

Stubblefield

community in NW Caswell County. Named for a local family.

Stubbs

community in E Cleveland County on Buffalo Creek. Alt. 950. Settled about 1885. Named for Col. Seth W. Stubbs, who made the clock for the Lincoln County Courthouse, 1856.

Stump Inlet

or former inlet from the Atlantic Ocean to Stump Sound, SE Onslow County. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733, and on other maps through 1882. Apparently closed by 1912.

Stump Sound

skirts the S edge of Onslow County between the Onslow-Pender county line and Alligator Bay in S Onslow County. The sound is filled with tidal-marsh islands and is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a barrier beach.

Stump Sound Township

SW Onslow County.

Stumpy Creek

rises in S Iredell County and flows SW into Cornelius Creek.

Stumpy Inlet

See Stump Inlet.

Stumpy Point

peninsula extending S from the E mainland of Dare County into Pamlico Sound and Stumpy Point Bay. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733.