This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rich, Poteet, Hains, Blanton, Hamrick, Braddy, Smawley, Dickson, Denton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5UB.2ACI/2794 Message Board Post: Does anyone know of an area that was known as "Hee Creek" somewhere in Burke County? A cousin, now deceased, said that he was born there in 1903. He said it was in the mountains. It is possible that it could have been in McDowell...he wasn't sure. I checked the North Carolina Gazetteer but did not find it.