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 |
|---|---|
| Old Billy Top |
on the Cherokee-Graham county line in the Snowbird Mountains. |
| Old Black |
See Mount Chapman. |
| Old Black Mountain |
at the junction of the lines of Haywood County, N.C., and Cocke and Sevier Counties, Tenn., in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near lat. 35°42'44" N., long. 83°15'18" W. Alt. 6,430. |
| Old Catawba River |
rises at the Catawba River Dam on Lake James and flows SE and NE into Catawba River about 1 mi. SE of Linville Dam in W Burke County. |
| Old Cove |
N Swain County on Chambers Creek. |
| Old Dock |
community in SE Columbus County on Waccamaw River 1 mi. SE of Schulkens Pond. Settled about 1800. Alt. 40. |
| Old Field |
an area in what is now Beaufort County between Pungo and Pamlico Rivers; shown on the Ogilby map, 1671. |
| Old Field Bald Mountain |
on Ashe-Watauga county line. Alt. 4,939. Named for muster ground and drill field used by Col. Benjamin Cleveland during the Revolution. |
| Old Field Branch |
rises in NE Ashe County and flows SE into Poison Branch. |
| Old Field Creek |
rises in N Caldwell County and flows NE into Buffalo Creek. |
