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The Yadkin River is one of the longest rivers in the US state of North Carolina, flowing 215 miles (346 km). It rises in the northwestern portion of the state near the Blue Ridge Parkway's Thunder Hill Overlook. Several parts of the river are impounded by dams for water, power, and flood control. The river becomes the Pee Dee River at the confluence of the Uwharrie River south of the community of Badin and east of the town of Albemarle. The river then flows into South Carolina near Cheraw, which is at the Fall Line. The entirety of the Yadkin River and the Great Pee Dee River is part of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin.
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cycle, North Carolina
- ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
- ↑ Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 141.
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Cycle: community in w. Yadkin County on Dobbins Creek. Known first as Pea Ridge. Post office est. about 1913 and named Cycle from the fact that the patrons it served lived in a circle from the post office. Post office name gradually replaced the older name. (The North Carolina Gazetteer by William S. Powell)