rises in SW Gaston County and flows NE and SE into South Carolina, where it enters Catawba River.

SW Gaston County. Named for Ulrich Crowder, an early settler who soon moved away. Some action against Tories took place there during the Revolution. Alt. 1,624. See also All Healing Springs.

community in central Halifax County between Tillery and Enfield. Named for two brothers, Edward and Joseph Crowell, who settled there about 1730.

community in E Stanly County on Mountain Creek.

community in S Pender County. An abandoned railroad station nearby was named Richards.

rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows E into Cabarrus County, where it enters Ready Creek.

community in NE Ashe County on North Fork New River. Named for Maj. Thomas Newton Crumpler, who died of wounds received in the Civil War. Thompson's Bromine-Arsenic Springs nearby discovered in 1885; hotel and cottages built in 1887. This and nearby All Healing Springs made the region a popular resort in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

community in E Haywood County on East Fork Pigeon River. Est. 1885 and named by first postmaster, who had just read Robinson Crusoe Alt. 2,900.

community in central Haywood County served by post office, 1892-1942.

See River View Community.