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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 |
|---|---|
| Peru |
community in NE Haywood County served by post office, 1852-1905. |
| Pescud |
See Thermal City. |
| Petche Gap |
S central Burke County. |
| Peter Cove |
S Haywood County on the head of Peter Cove Branch. |
| Peter Cove Branch |
rises in S Haywood County and flows SE into Bird Creek. |
| Peter Cove Creek |
rises in NE Madison County and flows SW into Foster Creek. |
| Peter Cove Mountain |
E Madison County between Foster Creek and Roaring Fork. |
| Peter Dick Gap |
central Cherokee County near the head of Cook Creek and N of Flea Mountain. Named for an early settler. |
| Peter Mashoes Creek |
a bay off the mainland of central Dare County in the waters of Croatan Sound. The community of Mashoes is located on the creek. See Mashoes. |
| Peter Swamp |
rises at the SE shore of Warwick Bay in E Robeson County and flows E into Big Swamp. |
