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Place Description
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.