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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 |
|---|---|
| Roanoke Sea |
See Albemarle Sound. |
| Roanoke Sound |
between Roanoke Island and the Outer Banks in E Dare County. Known in the eighteenth century as Sanderson's Channel for Richard Sanderson, local landowner. The name Walter Rawleigh appears there on the Collet map, 1770, though it is uncertain whether it was intended to represent the name of the sound. See also Albemarle Sound. |
| Roanoke Township |
E central Northampton County. |
| Roaring Branch |
rises in S Mitchell County and flows NW into Crabtree Creek. |
| Roaring Creek |
rises in W Avery County and flows S into North Toe River. |
| Roaring Creek Township |
SW Avery County. |
| Roaring Fork |
rises in E Madison County and flows S into Big Laurel Creek. |
| Roaring Fork Creek |
rises in W Macon County and flows SW into Nantahala River. |
| Roaring Fork Mountain |
W Madison County parallel to Roaring Fork. |
| Roaring Fork Ridge |
SW Macon County between Roaring Fork Creek and the head of Rough Fork. |
