Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Cotton Hammock |
E Carteret County between community of Stacy and Piney Point. |
| Cotton Patch |
former community on Pigeon River in N Haywood County. A number of years ago, a resident planted a small patch of cotton there, and his wife used it to weave cloth. The patch is now grown over and the place abandoned, but the name persists. |
| Cotton Patch Bay |
an arm of Big Colly Bay in NE Bladen County. |
| Cotton's Crossing |
See Tuscarora Beach. |
| Cottonville |
community in S Stanly County. Named prior to the Civil War because of the quantity of cotton grown in the vicinity. |
| Cottonwood |
community in S Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1890-1900. |
| Cottrell Hill |
community in E Caldwell County on Zacks Fork. Named for William Cottrell, who settled there shortly before the Civil War. |
| Couch Mountain |
E Orange County on the head of Little Creek. |
| Couches Creek |
rises in NE Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE into Oconaluftee River. |
| Coulson Ordinary |
appears on the Collet map, 1770, on the Pee Dee River in what is now SE Stanly County E of the town of Norwood. At Colson's Mill nearby, Col. William Lee Davidson's Whig militia defeated Col. Samuel Bryan's Tories in July 1780. |