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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 |
|---|---|
| Pinnacle Gap |
NE Buncombe County near Craggy Pinnacle in Great Craggy Mountains. |
| Pinnacle Knob |
at the junction of Buncombe-McDowell-Yancey county lines. Alt. 5,665. |
| Pinnacle Mountain |
NE Buncombe County between Town Branch and Corner Rock Creek. |
| Pinnacle Ridge |
SW Haywood County, extends NE from Wesner Bald to Pinnacle Knob. |
| Pinnacle Spring |
S Yancey County, the source of Left Prong South Toe River. |
| Pinnacle, The |
a peak on Kings Mountain, which see, on the Cleveland-Gaston county line. Alt. 1,705. |
| Pinner Cove |
the valley through which Robinson Creek flows in S Buncombe County W of Merrill Mountain. |
| Pinner Creek |
rises in S Buncombe County and flows SE into Henderson County, where it enters Cane Creek. |
| Pinnix |
community in central Davidson County served by post office, 1894-1904. |
| Pino |
community in NW Davie County. First known as Piney Grove, but changed to Pino in 1890 when a post office was est. (closed 1906). |
