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Place Description
Bear Pen Branch

rises in N Transylvania County and flows NE into South Fork Mills River.
Bear Pen Branch

rises in N Madison County and flows SW into Little Laurel Creek.
Bear Pen Gap

N Clay County between Tuni Creek and the Cherokee County line.
Bear Pen Islands Swamp

N central Brunswick County. A part of Green Swamp.
Bear Pen Ridge

SE Clay County.
Bear Pocosin

NE Sampson County S of Youngs Swamp and E of Six Runs Creek.
Bear Point

extends into Pamlico Sound from E Hyde County.
Bear Point

SE Tyrrell County, extends from the mainland into Alligator River.
Bear Poplar

community in W Rowan County. Known first as Rocky Mount; present name adopted in 1878, when a post office was est. Name came from the nearby location of a poplar tree in which Capt. Thomas Cowan, Revolutionary hero, treed a bear in the late eighteenth century.
Bear Ridge

mountain in W Avery County.