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Browns KnobSW Buncombe County between Billy Cove and Sheep Rock. Alt. 3,760.
Browns LandingU.S. Lock Number 2 on Cape Fear River in central Bladen County.
Browns Mill Creekises in S Transylvania County and flows NE into French Broad River.
Browns MountainSW Wilkes County between Yadkin River and Long Fork of Beaver Creek. Named for James Brown, eighteenth-century resident who lived at its foot. Alt. 2,075. Joins Jerry Mountain in NE Caldwell County.
Browns SidingSee Vaughan.
Browns Summitcommunity in N Guilford County. Alt. 805. Land there acquired by Jesse Brown, 1858. Named for him in 1863 when Richmond and Danville Railroad was built; the Brown farm was the highest point on the line. Also called Brown Summit.
Browns Swamprises in SE Onslow County and flows SW into Turpentine Creek. Appears in local records as Brown's Creek as early as 1744.
Browns Swamprises in E Cumberland County and flows SE into Big Creek.
Browns TurnoutSee Vaughan.
Brownsvillecommunity in NE Granville County on Grassy Creek. A post office as early as 1822.