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Sidneycommunity in E Beaufort County.
Sidneytown in SW Columbus County. Inc. 1881, but long inactive in municipal affairs.
SigmonsburgSee Glen Alpine.
Signal Baldpeak on the Clay-Macon County line. Alt. 5,275.
Signal Pole HillSW Cherokee County on SE end of Pack Mountain. Alt. 3,459.
Sikes Branchrises in W Carteret County and flows approx. 2 mi. S and E to join East Prong in forming Sanders Creek.
Silas Creekrises in NW Ashe County and flows SE into North Fork New River.
Silas Creekrises in SW Beaufort County and flows N into Chocowinity Bay, Pamlico River.
Silas Creekrises in NW Forsyth County and flows SW into Muddy Creek. Known earlier as Spangenberg Creek for Bishop August G. Spangenberg, who led a surveying party from Edenton to the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1752 in search of a suitable site for a Moravian settlement. Spangenberg Creek appears as Strangenbergs Creek on the Collet map, 1770, and as Spanking Back on the Price map, 1808. By 1833, when the MacRae map appeared, it was called Silas Creek. Reynolda Lake is on Silas Creek.
Silas Creekcommunity in N Ashe County. Alt. approx. 2,740.