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Cape Fear is a coastal plain and Tidewater region of North Carolina centered about the city of Wilmington. [ 1 ] The region takes its name from the adjacent Cape Fear headland, as does the Cape Fear River which flows through the region and empties into the Atlantic Ocean near the cape. Much of the region's populated areas are found along the ...
Cape Fear (headland) Coordinates: 33°50′26″N 77°57′37″W. Cape Fear, on the coast of North Carolina. Cape Fear in a NASA satellite photo, showing the estuary of the Cape Fear River. Cape Fear is a prominent headland jutting into the Atlantic Ocean from Bald Head Island on the coast of North Carolina in the southeastern United States.
The Cape Fear River is a 191.08-mile-long (307.51 km) [5] blackwater river in east-central North Carolina. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Fear, from which it takes its name. The river is formed at the confluence of the Haw River and the Deep River (North Carolina) in the town of Moncure, North Carolina.
The river, named for the Cape itself, is formed where the Haw and Deep rivers join together in Moncure, North Carolina. Along with its tributaries, it forms an area called the Cape Fear watershed ...
August 19, 2024 at 5:00 AM. In March 1524, an expedition under Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano viewed the Cape Fear River, becoming the first Europeans to explore the North Carolina coast ...
Course. Northeast Cape Fear River rises about 1 mile southeast of Mount Olive, North Carolina in Wayne County and about 10 mi (16 km) south of Goldsboro and then flows south to the Cape Fear River at Wilmington, North Carolina. [2] On its course it flows past Albertson, Hallsville, and Chinquapin. In Pender County near the Atlantic coast, it ...
The county lies within the Cape Fear River drainage basin. The Cape Fear River begins in the county near the community of Moncure, at the confluence of the Haw River and the Deep River below Jordan Lake. B. Everett Jordan Lake, a major reservoir and flood-control lake, is located within the New Hope River basin and lies mainly in eastern ...
The geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three divisions — the Appalachian Mountains in the west (including the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains), the central Piedmont Plateau, and the eastern Atlantic Coastal Plain. North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) wide by 150 miles (241 km ...