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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 |
|---|---|
| Rockfield Creek |
rises in central Graham County and flows SW into Santeetlah Lake. |
| Rockfish |
community in E Hoke County. Settled about 1900 and named for nearby creek. Alt. 218. |
| Rockfish Creek |
rises in SW Duplin County and flows S and E into Northeast Cape Fear River on the Duplin-Pender county line. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. |
| Rockfish Township |
W Cumberland County. |
| Rockford |
town in S Surry County on Yadkin River. Est. 1790 as the county seat and so remained until 1851, when the county was divided and the county seat removed to Dobson. Alt. 838. Inc. 1819, but long inactive in municipal affairs. |
| Rockford Township |
S central Surry County. |
| Rockhouse Branch |
rises in SW Madison County and flows E into Sugar Camp Branch. |
| Rockhouse Creek |
rises in E Avery County and flows SE into Caldwell County, where it enters Wilsons Creek. |
| Rockhouse Knob |
S Macon County between Long Ridge and Wolfpen Gap. Alt. 3,100. A weather station there has recorded in various years the greatest amount of rainfall E of the Rocky Mountains. |
| Rocking Chair Branch |
rises in S Clay County and flows S into Shooting Creek. |
