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Place Description
Uno

community in central Henderson County on Clear Creek.

Upchurch

community in W Wake County. Named for William B. Upchurch, around whose farm the community grew after a railway station was built there. Upchurch is said to have built first flue-cure tobacco barn in Wake County.

Upchurch Pond

on Rockfish Creek, E Hoke and W Cumberland Counties. Approx. 5 mi. long.

Upland

community in SW Chatham County.

Upper Bartons Creek

rises in NW Wake County NW of community of Leesville and flows NE into Neuse River W of mouth of Lower Bartons Creek. Formerly called Great Elliby and Little Elliby.

Upper Beaverdam Creek

rises in W Scotland County and flows SE into Richmond Millpond (Gum Swamp Creek).

Upper Broad Creek

rises in NE Craven County on the Craven-Pamlico county line and flows SW along the line into Neuse River. Appears as Broad Creek on the Moseley map, 1733; mentioned in local records as early as 1723. Sometimes referred to in eighteenth century local records as Ashes Creek.

Upper Campbellton

See Fayetteville.

Upper Conetoe Township

former township in E Edgecombe County, now township no. 3.

Upper Creek

rises in NW Burke County and flows S and SE to join Irish Creek in forming Warrior Fork [Catawba River].