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Place Description
Four Diamond Ridge

mountain in NE Avery County.

Four Forks

community in central Pasquotank County.

Four Oaks

town in W Johnston County. Settled about 1885; inc. 1889. Named for four oaks growing from the stump of a tree that had been cut down in an opossum hunt in the yard of K. L. Barbour, first to build a house there. Alt. 208.

Fourmile Branch

rises in S Buncombe County and flows NW into French Broad River ½ mi. S of The Lagoon.

Fourmile Creek

rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows SW into McAlpine Creek.

Fourth Creek

rises in W Iredell County and flows E into Rowan County, where Third and Fourth Creeks join before entering South Yadkin River. It is the fourth creek in a series of creeks crossed by early settlers from Salisbury. The name appears on the Collet map, 1770. A settlement on the creek about 1750 later became the city of Statesville, which grew up around Fourth Creek (Presbyterian) Church.

Fourway

community in S Greene County. Community took the name of a filling station built there in the late 1920s or early 1930s.

Foust's Creek

See Moulder Branch.

Foust's Mill

See Coleridge.

Fowler Bend

formerly a sharp bend in Hiwasee River in W central Cherokee County, now a peninsula extending into Hiwassee Lake.