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Place Description
Poplar Swamp

See Poplar Creek.
Poplar Tent Township

former township in W Cabarrus County, now township no. 2.
Poplar Township

NW Mitchell County.
Poppaw Creek

rises in SW Alamance County and flows N into Stinking Quarter Creek.
Populi

community in NW Bladen County served by post office, 1892-1929.
Poquoson Point

S Camden County in the mouth of Pasquotank River. Also sometimes called Camden Point. Name derived from an Algonquian word pequessen, meaning a swamp or a dismal.
Porcelain

See Linville.
Pores Knob

S Wilkes County, the highest peak in the Brushy Mountains. Alt. 2,680. Named for Moses Poore, an eighteenth-century resident. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Mt. Night. See also Brushy Mountains.
Pork Creek

See Fork Creek.
Porpoise Point

NE Pamlico County on the E side of Goose Creek Island between Big Porpoise Bay and Little Porpoise Bay.