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Place Description
Deep Gully Creek

rises in N Onslow County and flows SW into Mill Creek.

Deep Hole Point

See Marshallberg.

Deep Inlet

appears on the Price map, 1808, in E New Hanover County just N of the present Masonboro Inlet. Deep Inlet closed after 1838 but before 1861.

Deep Point

point of land extending into Alligator River, E of junction of Intracoastal Waterway and Alligator River, N Hyde County.

Deep River

is formed in SW Guilford County at High Point Lake by the junction of East Fork Deep River and West Fork Deep River. It flows SE through Randolph County, continues across the NE edge of Moore County, and forms a part of the Chatham-Lee county line. It joins Haw River in SE Chatham County to form Cape Fear River. The junction of Haw and Deep Rivers, site of the town of Haywood, which see, was one of six sites suggested in 1788 for the location of the state capital.

Deep River Township

NE Moore County.

Deep River Township

former township in N Lee County. Now township no. 4.

Deep River Township

W Guilford County.

Deep Run

town in SW Lenoir County. Inc. 1925. Est. in the 1880s when Ira D. Sparrow and Ike Stroud opened a turpentine distillery and built several stores at the site. A Baptist church erected there about 1850 is still in use. For a time, the place was nicknamed "Red Town" because a number of the earliest houses were painted red.

Deep Run

rises in W Onslow County and flows SE into Southwest Creek.