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Place Description
First Gum Swamp

See Gum Swamp.

First Hurricane Branch

rises in S Swain County and flows SW into Yalaka Creek.

First Potts Creek

rises in W Davidson County and flows SE into High Rock Lake on Yadkin River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Potts Creek.

Fish Creek

rises in E Guilford County and flows NE across the NW corner of Alamance County into Caswell County, where it enters Buttermilk Creek.

Fish Creek

rises in W Harnett County and flows NE into Cape Fear River.

Fish Dam

community in E Durham County served by post office, 1881-1902. Spelled Fishdam after 1895.

Fish Hawk Point

NE Carteret County extending into Rumley Bay.

Fish Ridge

N Haywood County, extends S beside Morgan Creek.

Fish Trap Creek

See Fishdam Creek.

Fishcreek

See Mamers.