Gazetteer
Place | Description |
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Beetree Reservoir |
on Beetree Creek, NE Buncombe County. Alt. 2,669. The 55-acre lake is part of the water system of the city of Asheville. |
Beetree Ridge |
N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a spur extending SW from Thomas Ridge. |
Begonia |
community in S Gaston County served by post office, 1880-1905. |
Belcross |
community in central Camden County named for Bell family. Post office est. 1882. |
Belew Creek |
community in NE Forsyth County. A post office est. 1870. Originally est. as Belews Creek Mill. |
Belews Creek |
rises in NE Forsyth, NE Guilford, and SW Rockingham Counties and flows NE across the SE edge of Stokes County and into the Dan River on the Stokes-Rockingham county line. The creek rises independently of East and West Belews Creeks, both of which flow into it. Belews Creek appears on Collet map, 1770. |
Belews Creek Township |
NE Forsyth County. |
Belews Lake |
on Belews Creek, Rockingham County, was constructed 1970-73 by Duke Power Company. The 3,863-acre lake serves as cooling lake for power plant. |
Belfast |
community in central Wayne County. Named by John Robinson, native of Ireland, for his wife's birthplace, Belfast, Ireland. Formerly called Scottsville. |
Belford |
community in NW Nash County near the Franklin County line. Named by David Sills, who settled there in 1798, for his home in N England. A post office operated there, 1804-55. |