Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
Copyright Notice: 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.
"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 |
|---|---|
| New River Township |
central Watauga County. |
| New Salem |
community in N Randolph County served by post office, 1879-1906. |
| New Salem Township |
NE Union County. |
| New Stirling |
community in W central Iredell County. |
| New Topsail Beach |
See Topsail Beach. |
| New Topsail Inlet |
S Pender County between Old Topsail Inlet and the Onslow-Pender county line, through which waters of Topsail Sound flow into the Atlantic Ocean. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. |
| New Town |
See Charles Town. |
| New Years Creek |
rises in S Watauga County on the W limits of the town of Blowing Rock and flows S into N Caldwell County, where it enters Thunderhole Creek. |
| Newasiwac |
an Indian village of the Neusiok tribe located in what is now the S tip of Craven County on the Neuse River estuary. Appears on the White map, 1585. Called Neuustooc on the De Bry map, 1590, and Nustoc on the Smith map, 1624. |
| Newbern District |
at the time of the 1790 census, was composed of Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dobbs, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Pitt, and Wayne Counties. |
