rises in N Buncombe County near Cherry Log Gap and flows N into Dillingham Creek.

rises in SW Nash County and flows S into Turkey Creek.

community in NW Onslow County on New River.

rises in NW Beaufort County and flows SW into Tranters Creek.

SW Avery County.

rises in W Orange County and flows SW into Alamance County, where it enters Haw River. Appears as Jumping Run on the Moseley map, 1733.

rises in central Buncombe County and flows SW into Swannanoa River. Named in 1860 for the black haw bushes growing along its banks.

name given by traders in the early eighteenth century to the region occupied by Saxapahaw and Sissipahaw Indians between the Haw and Eno Rivers in what is now Alamance and Orange Counties. The Indians had left by the time the first white settlers arrived, and they called the region "Haw old fields," a name mentioned in 1728 by William Byrd. Haw Fields was used in 1736 in connection with a land grant there. Edward Moseley patented 10,000 acres of land in the region on November 6, 1728.

NW Swain County on Jenkins Trail Ridge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

central Avery County.