SE Bertie County. Named for its location in a neck of the Roanoke River. See also Town Swamp.

town in E Lee County. Inc. 1907. Settled in the 1870s and named for a broad, level opening in the vast pine forest that covered the area.

S Macon County between Little Scaly Mountain and Fork Mountain.

community in N Graham County on Sawyer Creek.

on French Broad River in W Henderson County.

former community in S Warren County on Shocco Creek. A post office was est. there in 1879; apparently the community died out after the post office was discontinued in 1913.

community in S Wayne County.

S Wayne County. Named for the family of Curtis Hooks Brogden (1816-1901), governor of North Carolina and a native of the county.

on Graham-Swain county line between Tyre Knob and Peachtree Gap.

rises in NE Cherokee County and flows S into Gipp Creek.