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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Hickory Spur |
peak in W Madison County between Levy Branch and French Broad River. |
| Hickory Tavern |
See Hickory. |
| Hickory Top |
S Buncombe County between Billy Cove Gap and Little Hickory Top. |
| Hickory Township |
W Catawba County. Was Hickory Tavern Township prior to 1876. |
| Hickorynut Branch |
rises in E Swain County on Yalaka Mountains near Hickorynut Knob and flows S into Una Creek. |
| Hickorynut Knob |
E Swain County on Yalaka Mountains near the head of Hickorynut Branch. |
| Hickorynut Mountain |
in E Swain County between Second Hurricane Branch and Hickorynut Branch. |
| Hickorynut Mountains |
a long ridge, S McDowell County between Crooked Creek and Cove Creek. |
| High Hickory Knob |
SE Buncombe County between Patton Gap and Flat Top in the Swannanoa Mountains. |
| High Hickory Ridge |
SE Buncombe County N of High Hickory Knob. |
