Bear Creek
Bear Creek is an unincorporated community in southwestern Chatham County, North Carolina, United States. It is named for a nearby creek that eventually flows into the Rocky River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Bear Creek, Chatham County, North Carolina”, “Bear Creek, NC”, and “Richmond”
- Postal code: 27207
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Devil’s Tramping Ground.
Devil’s Tramping Ground
Locality
Photo: Jdhorne, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Devil's Tramping Ground is a camping spot located in a forest near the Harper's Crossroads area in Bear Creek, North Carolina. It has been the subject of persistent local legends and lore, which frequently allege that the Devil "tramps" and haunts a barren circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow. Devil’s Tramping Ground is situated 6 miles southwest of Bear Creek.
Bear Creek
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Gulf Township, Chatham, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.61681° or 35° 37′ 1″ northLongitude
-79.38474° or 79° 23′ 5″ westElevation
463 feet (141 metres)Open location code
8772JJ88+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 158227969OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bear Creek” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bear Creek”
- Aragonese: “Bear Creek”
- Arpitan: “Bear Creek”
- Asturian: “Bear Creek”
- Basque: “Bear Creek”
- Bavarian: “Bear Creek”
- Breton: “Bear Creek”
- Catalan: “Bear Creek”
- Chinese: “貝爾克里克 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “貝爾克里克”
- Corsican: “Bear Creek”
- Croatian: “Bear Creek”
- Czech: “Bear Creek”
- Danish: “Bear Creek”
- Dutch: “Bear Creek”
- Esperanto: “Bear Creek”
- Estonian: “Bear Creek”
- Finnish: “Bear Creek”
- French: “Bear Creek”
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- Galician: “Bear Creek”
- German: “Bear Creek”
- Hungarian: “Bear Creek”
- Icelandic: “Bear Creek”
- Ido: “Bear Creek”
- Indonesian: “Bear Creek”
- Interlingua: “Bear Creek”
- Interlingue: “Bear Creek”
- Irish: “Bear Creek”
- Italian: “Bear Creek”
- Kongo: “Bear Creek”
- Ligurian: “Bear Creek”
- Limburgan: “Bear Creek”
- Low German: “Bear Creek”
- Luxembourgish: “Bear Creek”
- Malagasy: “Bear Creek”
- Malay: “Bear Creek”
- Minangkabau: “Bear Creek”
- Narom: “Bear Creek”
- Neapolitan: “Bear Creek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bear Creek”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bear Creek”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bear Creek”
- Picard: “Bear Creek”
- Piemontese: “Bear Creek”
- Polish: “Bear Creek”
- Portuguese: “Bear Creek”
- Romanian: “Bear Creek”
- Romansh: “Bear Creek”
- Sardinian: “Bear Creek”
- Scots: “Bear Creek”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bear Creek”
- Serbian: “Bear Creek”
- Sicilian: “Bear Creek”
- Slovak: “Bear Creek”
- Slovenian: “Bear Creek”
- Spanish: “Bear Creek”
- Swahili: “Bear Creek”
- Swedish: “Bear Creek”
- Swiss German: “Bear Creek”
- Venetian: “Bear Creek”
- Vietnamese: “Bear Creek”
- Vlaams: “Bear Creek”
- Volapük: “Bear Creek (NC)”
- Volapük: “Bear Creek, NC”
- Volapük: “Bear Creek, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Bear Creek”
- Walloon: “Bear Creek”
- Welsh: “Bear Creek”
- Wolof: “Bear Creek”
- Zulu: “Bear Creek”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bear Creek”. Photo: southernfoodwaysalliance, CC BY 2.0.