on the Buncombe-Yancey county line between Balsam and Rainbow Gaps. Alt. 6,325. Probably named for a surveyor, Nehemiah Blackstock, who worked in the vicinity in 1845.

community in NE Caldwell County. Named for Sir William Blackstone (1723-80), English jurist, by Col. George N. Folk, who conducted a law school there after the Civil War.

rises in E Bertie County and flows E into Chowan River.

rises in Virginia and flows SW into North Carolina, where it joins the Nottoway River a short distance S of the Virginia line on the Hertford-Gates county line to form the Chowan River. The name appears on the Comberford map, 1657.

rises in S Rowan County and flows S into N Cabarrus County, where it enters Dutch Buffalo Creek. The last Indians in Cabarrus County lived along the stream.

community in NW Caswell County. A post office operated there, 1830-1909. A tobacco factory also formerly existed there.

central Cherokee County near the middle of Bates Mountain.

a peak on Bates Mountain, central Cherokee County.

SW Macon County between Long Branch and Curtis Creek.

community in S Orange County. Alt. 487.