Name of area: Spring Creek Pond 



County: Brunswick 



Location description: Spring Creek Pond is reached by traTelling south 

 6.85 mi. on Co. Sd. III5 from its junction with highway NC 211, to its 

 intersection with Co. Rd. 1119; proceed southeast (left) 1.10 mi. on 

 Co, Rd. 1119 to its intersection with Co. Rd. 1120; travel 0.10 ni. 

 west (right) on Co. Hd. 1120 to driveway on left (south) side of road; 

 turn left into driveway and proceed south 0.10 mi. to last brick house on 

 left; travel south along trail (extension of driveway; accessible only 

 by foot) from house approximately 290m. Pond is left of trail approxi- 

 mately ^Om through a dense pocosin-like shrub thicket. 



Elevation: 6.1m (20 ft.) above sea level. 



Physiographic region: Atlantic Plain Province; Coastal Plain 

 Section: Sea Islands Downweirp 



Topographic quad nap reference: Lockv/oods Folly 1:31680 (map attached), 



Size: Pond itself is 2 acres in size; with surrounding buffer area 1/8 mi. 

 in width, area is ca. 10 acres in size. 



Ownership information: Cecil Eolden 



Brown's Landing 

 Supply, N.C. 28^62. 



Beport prepared by: Timothy D, Kifong 



Box 29, Coker Hall 

 Department of Botany, UNC 

 Chapel Hill, N.C. 2751^. 



Other persons knowledgeable about site: None known. 



Current use and protection status: 



There is no knovn present usage of this relatively isolated, inr.c- 

 cessible pond, or of the area immediately surrounding it, aJ.though gc::€ 

 hunting activity in season — which poses little or no threat to the intoj- 

 rity of the vegetational communities present — is suspected. The por.d and 

 surrounding --upland area are protected from vehicular traffic by the o\ner, 

 which has largely precluded any outside intrusion into the pond vicinity. 



Vegetation and plant communities: 



Spring Creek Pond is a nearly round, shallow, marshy depression, 

 encircled by a dense thicket of evergreen shrub species occurring; to tho 

 water's edge, v;hile the surrounding uplands are vegetated by pine ( Pir.us 

 sp.)/oak ( ?uercus sp.) flatwoods interspersed with broad sandy ridges occu- 

 pied by a lon;Tleaf pine ( Pinus palustrls ) /turkey oak ( Quercus laovis )/wire- 

 .■> grass ( Aristidg stricta ) vegetational connunity. 



The vegetational conposition of the pond community itself is most 

 striking. The pond is shallow, with the water being approximately 0.5a 



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