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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 |
|---|---|
| Rattle Snake Island |
a small tidal-marsh island in Currituck Sound off the SE shore of the mainland of Currituck County. |
| Rattler Branch |
rises in E Cherokee County and flows NW into Valley River. |
| Rattler Ford |
across Santeetlah Creek in W Graham County. |
| Rattlesnake Branch |
rises in E central Brunswick County and flows E to join Lewis Swamp in forming Town Creek. |
| Rattlesnake Cliff |
mountain in E Swain County between Hayes Ridge and Hickorynut Knob. Alt. 4,950. |
| Rattlesnake Creek |
rises in N Macon County and flows NE into Swain County, where it enters Little Tennessee River. |
| Rattlesnake Knob |
SW Macon County between Bryson Branch and Moore Creek. |
| Rattlesnake Mountain |
on Jackson-Swain county line near the head of Owl Branch. |
| Rattlesnake Pocosin |
S Duplin County on Island Creek. |
| Rattlesnake Ridge |
N Buncombe County between Greenfield Ridge and Snowball Gap. |
