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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 |
|---|---|
| Outlaws Bridge |
community in NE Duplin County. |
| Outlaws Pond |
on Halls Marsh Branch in N Duplin County. |
| Outlook |
community in S Madison County. |
| Outz Creek |
rises in E Alexander County and flows E into Iredell County. |
| Oval |
community in S Ashe County served by post office, 1898-1953. |
| Over Hills |
See Mountain Region. |
| Overcup Creek |
rises in NE Chatham County and flows SE into New Hope Creek. |
| Overflow Creek |
is formed in S Macon County by the junction of East Fork Overflow Creek and West Fork Overflow Creek and flows SE into Rabun County, Ga., where it enters Chattooga River. |
| Overhills |
community in SW Harnett County. Approx. 20,000 acres developed by the Rockefeller family as a hunting and timber-growing preserve. |
| Overlook Ridge |
NE Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, lat. 35°33'37" N., long. 83°10'50" W. |
