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Place Description
Shooting Ridge

N Transylvania County, extends NE from Funneltop Mountain to Bradley Creek.

Shop Branch

rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Worm Creek.

Shop Cove

on the Beaufort-Pitt County line at the confluence of Tar River and Tranters Creek.

Shop Creek

rises in W Macon County and flows S into Little Choga Creek.

Shope Branch

rises in S Macon County and flows SE into North Fork [Skennah Creek].

Shope Cove

N Macon County on a tributary of Burningtown Creek.

Shope Creek

rises in N Buncombe County and flows SE into Bull Creek.

Shope Fork

rises in S Macon County and flows NE into Coweeta Creek.

Shope Knob

S Swain County between Cullasaja Branch and Jones Creek.

Shopton

community in SW Mecklenburg County on the head of Steele Creek. Around 1880 J. R. Hays started a general store there. By 1890 several shops operated there, and the area became known as Shop Town or Shopton.