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Place Description
Buck Shoals

community in SW Yadkin County on North Hunting Creek. Named for the herds of deer that once gathered in the shoals of the creek.

Buck Shoals Township

SW Yadkin County.

Buck Spring

E Haywood County, springs forming in part the headwaters of Pisgah Creek.

Buck Spring

NE Warren County between Hub-quarter Creek and Stonehouse Creek. Formerly the plantation of Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837), member of Congress (1791-1828) and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; he is buried there. House burned by vandals, 1977, and reconstructed. Post office operated there from 1901 to 1905. Site owned and maintained by Warren County.

Buck Spring Gap

on the Haywood-Transylvania county line on Pisgah Ridge just S of Little Pisgah Mountain at the head of Pisgah Creek. Alt. 4,980.

Buck Swamp

rises in S Wayne County and flows NW into Thoroughfare Swamp.

Buck Swamp Township

NW Wayne County.

Buck Water Creek

See Buck Quarter Creek.

Buck Water Mountain

E Macon County between Little Buck Creek and Katie Creek.

Buckeye Branch

rises in E Haywood County and flows SE into Bald Creek.