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River Bend is a town in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,119 as of the 2010 census . [ 4 ] It is part of the New Bern, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area .
New Bern (formerly Newbern [6]) is a city in and the county seat of Craven County, North Carolina, United States.At the 2020 census, it had a population of 31,291. [7] It is located at the confluence of the Neuse and the Trent rivers, near the headwaters of Pamlico Sound on the North Carolina coast.
Geography of Craven County, North Carolina (3 C, 5 P) H. History of Craven County, North Carolina (2 C) P. People from Craven County, North Carolina (3 C, 11 P) T.
The county was created on December 14, 1793, and was named for General James Screven, who died fighting in Georgia during the American Revolutionary War.Some wartime accounts used the alternate spelling of "Scriven" for the general, and the county's name was often spelled that way in its early history, as reflected on 19th-century Georgia maps.
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Brices Creek is located in central Craven County. It is bordered to the north by the tidal Trent River, across which is the town of Trent Woods. New Bern, the county seat, is 5 miles (8 km) to the northeast. The CDP is bordered on the west by Croatan National Forest in Jones County. The waterway of Brices Creek flows across the eastern part of ...
In 1706, the Lords Proprietor established the Church of England Parish system in South Carolina, reducing counties to geographic designations with no administrative functions; the southwestern half of Craven County was organized into St. James Santee Parish, [1] [3] and in 1721, Prince George Parish was organized for the former northeastern ...