NC Gazetteer

Silas Creek

Also known as: Strangenbergs Creek, Spanking Back Creek, Spangenberg Creek
A creek in Forsyth County
… rises in NW Forsyth County and flows SW into Muddy Creek. Known earlier as Spangenberg Creek for Bishop August G. Spangenberg, who led a surveying party from Edenton to the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1752 in search of a suitable site for a Moravian settlement. Spangenberg Creek appears as Strangenbergs Creek on the Collet map, 1770, and as Spanking Back on the Price map, 1808. By 1833, when the MacRae map appeared, it was called Silas Creek. Reynolda Lake is on Silas Creek.