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The Shallotte River name dates back to at least 1734. [1] According to some accounts, the waterway was once known as the "Charlotte River", a name coined by a traveler who crossed it by ferry. [1] Over time the word Charlotte morphed into Shallotte. [7] Another explanation is the river was so named on account of there being wild shallots along ...
Worrell Mill Swamp. Hares Branch; Blackwater River; Nottoway River; ... Shallotte River; Calabash River; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of North Carolina ...
Shallotte is located in west-central Brunswick County. U.S. Route 17 (Ocean Highway) passes through the town, bypassing the town center to the northwest. (Main Street is designated US 17 Business.) US 17 leads northeast 33 miles (53 km) to Wilmington and southwest 38 miles (61 km) to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
White Oak River; Bogue Sound. NC 58; Bay View Road; Newport River. Future I-42 / US 70; manmade canal NC 101; Adams Creek; Neuse River; Pamlico Sound; manmade canal NC 33 / NC 308; Goose Creek; Pamlico River; Pungo River; manmade canal US 264 / NC 45; NC 94; Alligator River. US 64; Albemarle Sound; North River; Great Swamp; manmade canal US 158 ...
The 65-acre Swamp Park made international news in 2018 when it became one of the first sites in the world to document alligators had mysteriously found a way to adapt to sudden freezes. The ...
Lake Waccamaw State Park is a North Carolina state park in Columbus County, North Carolina, in the United States. Located near the town of Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina , it covers 2,398-acre (9.70 km 2 ), [ 3 ] along the shores of Lake Waccamaw , a Carolina bay .
A section of the Intracoastal Waterway in Pamlico County, North Carolina, crossed by the Hobucken Bridge Inland Waterways, Intracoastal Waterways, and navigable waterways. The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Massachusetts southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the ...
US 17 enters Brunswick County in Carolina Shores amid a variety of golf course communities. Carolina Shores was part of Calabash until 1998. In Wilmington, US 17 (here concurrent with US 76 and US 421) crosses the Cape Fear River between New Hanover and Brunswick counties over the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge.