Bent Creek
Bent Creek is a census-designated place in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,287 at the 2010 census. The Bent Creek area has mountain bike trails within the Pisgah National Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,400 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Buncombe County, North Carolina
- Also known as: “Bent Creek, Buncombe County, North Carolina” and “Bent Creek, NC”
Places of Interest
Highlights include North Carolina Arboretum.
North Carolina Arboretum
Park
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
The North Carolina Arboretum is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Avery Creek and Enka.
Avery Creek
Neighborhood
Avery Creek is a census-designated place in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,950 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Avery Creek is situated 3½ miles southeast of Bent Creek.
Enka
Quarter
Enka is an unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It lies on U.S. Routes 19, 23, and 74 Business near the interchange of Interstates 26, 40, and 240. It has a post office with the ZIP code 28728. Enka is situated 3½ miles northwest of Bent Creek.
Skyland
Locality
Skyland is an unincorporated community in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is on U.S. Route 25, where North Carolina Highway 146 starts, east of Interstate 26. Skyland is situated 5 miles east of Bent Creek.
Bent Creek
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Avery Creek Township, Buncombe, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.509° or 35° 30′ 32″ northLongitude
-82.6079° or 82° 36′ 29″ westPopulation
1,400Elevation
2,201 feet (671 metres)Open location code
867VG95R+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 154075724OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4454988Wikidata ID
Q1987784
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Bent Creek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بنت كريك”
- Basque: “Bent Creek”
- Catalan: “Bent Creek”
- Cebuano: “Bent Creek”
- Chechen: “Бент-Крик”
- Chinese: “Bent Creek”
- Chinese: “本特克里克”
- Chinese: “本特溪”
- Dutch: “Bent Creek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنت كريك”
- French: “Bent Creek, Buncombe County, North Carolina”
- French: “Bent Creek”
- German: “Bent Creek”
- Irish: “Bent Creek”
- Italian: “Bent Creek”
- Ladin: “Bent Creek”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bent Creek”
- Persian: “بنت کریک، کارولینای شمالی”
- Persian: “بنت کریک”
- Polish: “Bent Creek”
- Portuguese: “Bent Creek”
- Serbian: “Бент Крик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bent Creek, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bent Creek”
- Spanish: “Bent Creek”
- Tatar: “Бент-Крик”
- Ukrainian: “Бент-Крік”
- Uzbek: “Bent Creek”
- Volapük: “Bent Creek”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bent Creek Ranch Lake (dry) and Old Lakebed.
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