N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a short spur of Noland Ridge extending se.

NE Mitchell County between Laurel Creek and Bearpen Creek.

W Haywood County between Bearpen Branch and Caldwell Fork.

S Haywood County between Daniels Cove and Correll Branch.

a mountain in W Avery County.

community in S Vance County, named for a local tradition of a celebrated bear hunt there. In 1785 a practical joke was played on Zeke Brown to put an end to his tall tales of bear killing. A mock bear hunt was arranged at the present site of Bearpond in which a local citizen, Jake Sims, dressed in bearskins and gave Brown such a scare he left the county for "Orrapeake." The community is now known locally as Buena Vista, after the plantation of Dr. Robert Christian Pritchard (b. 1812) in nearby S Warren County.

community in W central Sampson County near Bearskin Swamp.

rises in N Granville County and flows N into Grassy Creek.

rises in W Union County and flows E through the city of Monroe into Richardson Creek.

rises in W central Sampson County and flows SW into Little Coharie Creek.