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Place Description
Mack Hill Gap

N Yancey County on McKinney Branch.
Mack Perry Pond

on Fowlers Creek, NE Wake County. Covers 38 acres; max. depth 20 ft. Used for fishing and irrigation.
Mack Williams Branch

rises in W Yancey County and flows SE into Jacks Creek.
Mackay Island

a portion of SW Knotts Island, NE Currituck County. It is separated from Knotts Island by Indian Creek and Back Creek, an inlet of North Landing River. Approx. 2 mi. long and 2 mi. wide. Appears as Notts or Mackys Island on the Collet map, 1770.
Mackerel Mountain

on the Henderson County, N.C.-Greenville County, S.C., line. Alt. 3,031.
Mackey Mountain

W McDowell County. Alt. 3,994.
Mackeys

community in N Washington County W of the mouth of Kendricks Creek on Albemarle Sound. Alt. 8. Settled about 1765 near the S terminus of Mackeys Ferry, which see, named for Col. William Mackey, local landowner. Post office est. 1856 as Mackeys Ferry; name changed to Mackeys in 1913. Mackeys Ferry appears on the Collet map, 1770.
Mackeys Creek

rises in W McDowell County and flows SE into Catawba River.
Mackeys Ferry

formerly located at the present community of Mackeys in N Washington County on Kendricks Creek. Shown as T. Bells Ferry on the Moseley map, 1733; purchased from Bell by Col. William Mackey in 1735; was in continuous operation until 1938. At the time it was dismantled, the ferry operated between Edenton in S Chowan County and the S shore of Albemarle Sound immediately N of Pleasant Grove in N Washington County.
Macks

community in W Johnston County.