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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Beaverdam Pocosin |
NW Bertie County. |
| Beaverdam Ridge |
W Watauga County extends NW from Watauga River, W of Cove Creek and SE of Ward Hollow. |
| Beaverdam Run |
rises in S Greene County and flows SE in an arc into Contentnea Creek. |
| Beaverdam Swamp |
See Nahunta Swamp. |
| Beaverdam Swamp Canal |
rises in S Harnett County and flows S into Cape Fear River. |
| Beaverdam Township |
N Watauga County. |
| Beaverpond Creek |
rises in NW Northampton County and flows NE into Virginia, where it turns SE to flow back into Northampton County. It again turns NE to flow back into Virginia, where it enters Fontaine Creek. It appears on the map of the North Carolina-Virginia line prepared by William Byrd in 1728. |
| Bechewa Creek |
rises in W Forsyth County and flows SW into Yadkin River. Appears as Bathsheba Creek on Collet map, 1770, and as Barshavia Creek on MacRae map, 1833. |
| Beck |
community in N Wake County served by post office, 1882-1903. |
| Beck Mountain |
a granite formation in SW Chatham County. |
