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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 |
|---|---|
| Beech Branch |
rises in E Nash County and flows SE into W Edgecombe County and SE into Tar River. |
| Beech Cove Branch |
rises in W Macon County and flows W into Nantahala River. |
| Beech Creek |
rises in SE Clay County and flows SW into Towns County, Ga., where it enters Tallulah River. |
| Beech Flats Prong |
rises in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Luftee Gap and flows SE to join Kephart Prong in forming Oconaluftee River. |
| Beech Gap |
on the Haywood-Transylvania county line between Tanasee Bald and Devils Court House. |
| Beech Glen |
community in E Madison County on Little Ivy Creek. Alt. 2,105. |
| Beech Knob |
on the Jackson-Haywood county line. |
| Beech Mountain |
See Bucks Peak. |
| Beech Mountain Township |
N Avery County. |
| Beech Nursery Creek |
rises in S Yancey County and flows NW into Cane River. |
