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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Belva |
community in N Madison County on Shelton Laurel Creek. Alt. 1,689. |
| Belvidere |
community in W Perquimans County on the Perquimans River. Settled by Quakers early in the eighteenth century. The Moseley map, 1733, shows "G. Newby's Ferry" at about the site; appears as Newbes Bridge on the Collet map, 1770. A post office, Newby's Bridge, est. there, 1827; changed to Belvidere, 1861. |
| Belvidere Township |
N Perquimans County. |
| Belville |
community in S Brunswick County. |
| Belvoir Township |
N central Sampson County. |
| Belwood |
community in NE Cleveland County. Alt. 990. Served by post office, 1882-1954. |
| Bems Creek |
rises in W Halifax County and flows SE into Little Fishing Creek. |
| Ben Bolen Creek |
rises in SW Ashe County and flows W into Three Top Creek. |
| Ben Cove Branch |
rises in E Jackson County and flows SE into Sols Creek. |
| Ben Creek |
rises in N Macon County and flows NW into Cold Spring Creek. |
