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Place Description
Jones Creek

See Lick Fork.

Jones Gap

in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the Transylvania County, N.C.-Greenville County, S.C., line near Walker Creek.

Jones Gap

S Macon County between Cadon Gap and the head of Stephens Creek.

Jones Island

See Harwells Island.

Jones Island

See Pittmans Island.

Jones Island

in White Oak River, W Carteret County, near the mouth of Pettivers Creek. Named for Robert Jones.

Jones Knob

N Buncombe County at the N end of Iron Ore Ridge in the Elk Mountains.

Jones Knob

SW Cherokee County between Rocky Ford Creek and Shoal Creek.

Jones Knob

on the Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 6,240-6,260. Formerly known as Jones's Folly because, at a time when Elisha Mitchell and Thomas Clingman were contending over the highest peak in the southern Appalachians, a man named Jones came into the area and reported the knob to be the highest mountain. Upon questioning him, his friends discovered that he had not been near the top, so they called it Jones's Folly. In the 1850s, Arnold Guyot tried to name the peak Mount Junaluska, but the name did not stick.

Jones Knob

W Jackson County between Windy Gap and Poplar Cove Knob. Alt. approx. 4,140.