Name of area: Boiling; Springs Lakes Natural Area , ,■ : 



County: Brunswick 



Location description: The community of Boiling Springs Lakes lies approximately 

 3.9 miles north of the NC 211 — NG 8? junction on highway NC B?. The Boiling 

 Springs Lakes Natural Area encompasses approximately 15 square miles and 

 includes some 98 "natural" ponds (originally there was a slightly greater 

 number of individual ponds, but closely adjacent ponds have been "consoli- 

 dated" during development of the area in several instances), all lying to 

 the east of highway NC 8? and west of highway NC 133. 



Elevation: 7.5 to iSm (25 to 60 ft.) above sea level. 



Topographic quad map reference: Funston 1:31680 (map attached). 



Ownership information: 



I-65 ponds — Boiling Springs Lakes, Inc. 



Boiling Springs Lakes, N.C. 23^61 



2-20 ponds — Kenneth M. Sprunt 



1726 Fairway Drive or Orton Plantation 



Wilmington, N.C. 28405 Clarendon, N.C. 23^+52 



3-11 ponds — Ownership unknown, possibly International Paper Co. 



k- 1 pond — Girl Scouts of America (Pretty Pond) 



Heport prepared by: Timothy D. Nifong 



Box 29, Coker Hall - . ;. 



Dept. of Botany, UNC 

 Chapel Hill, N.C. 2751^ 



Other persons knowledgeable about site: Edgar P. Roberts, Jr. 



2710 Bartran 3d. 

 Winston-Salem, N.C. 27IO6 



Current use and protection status: 



The majority of the icreage in the Boiling Springs Lakes 'area is^ included 

 within the confines of the city limits of the town of Boiling Springs Lakes 

 (pop. 2^5^ see map), and is thus administered by the Boiling Springs Lakes, 

 Inc. land development company. Extending on both the eaat and west sides of 

 highway NC 87, the tract owned by the development company is bordered to the 

 north and northeast by paper company holdings (V/eycrhauser and International 

 Paper Co.), and to the southoaGt by Orton Plantation. 



The entire tract is narked by a network of 'aved and unp-^.vcd roads and 

 has been subdivided into lots, many of which ire either occupied by mobile 

 homes or have houses erected on them. A large artificial lake — Boiling Springs 

 Lake--'.-;- 3 created in 1960 at the inception of developr.ent in the area, by 

 damming Allen Creek, which drains the entire upland area. In addition to this 

 "primary" body of water, some 65 natural ponds, more or less, constitute the 

 other "lakes" of the developed community. ■,;aterfror.t lots have proved to be 

 the choicest plots within the subdivision, and the majority of the houses are 

 erected in those areas. '/.hile many of the dwellings front the main lake, most 

 of the natural nonds also have one or more dwollin-'s adjacent to them. Many 



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