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Place Description
Banks

community in S Wake County.
Banks Branch

rises in W Hertford County and flows NE into Meherrin River.
Banks Channel

in Topsail Sound, S Pender County near New Topsail Inlet.
Banks Channel

a channel through a mass of tidal-marsh islands in the extreme W end of Bogue Sound in SW Carteret County.
Banks Creek

rises in S Yancey County and flows NW into Price Creek.
Banner Branch

rises in N Stokes County and flows SW into Snow Creek.
Banner Elk

town in NE Avery County on Elk River at the mouth of Shawneehaw Creek. Alt. 3,710. Inc. 1891 as Shawneehaw; reincorporated 1911 as Banner Elk. First settlers said to have arrived at the site about 1825. Named for the Banner family, early settlers on the Elk River. Lees-McRae College is there.
Banner Elk Creek

rises in E Avery County and flows N into Elk River.
Banner Elk Township

NE Avery County.
Banner Township

S Johnston County.