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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 |
|---|---|
| Sessoms Mill Pond |
on Chinkapin Creek in SE Hertford County; approx. ½ mi. long. |
| Setrock Creek |
rises in S Yancey County and flows SE into South Toe River. |
| Settle |
community in NE Iredell County served by post office, 1873-1906. Alt. 700. A weather station from the 1880s until mid-twentieth century. |
| Setzer Mountain |
W Haywood County parallel to Campbell Creek. Named for a prominent family of early settlers. Maggie Setzer, for whom the community of Maggie was named, was a descendant of the family. The highest peak of the ridge, which is 2½ mi. long, is 4,810 ft. in elevation. |
| Setzer's Creek |
rises in N central Caldwell County and flows SE into Warrior Creek. Named for John Setzer, who settled nearby about 1830. |
| Setzers Depot |
See Claremont. |
| Setzers Gap |
central Caldwell County. Alt. 1,342. |
| Seven Bridges |
community in W Robeson County. |
| Seven Creeks |
is formed in S Columbus County by Big Cypress Swamp and Monie Swamp. It flows SE into Waccamaw River. |
| Seven Devils |
commercially developed recreation area opened in 1966 in E Avery and W Watauga Counties on a 1,288-acre tract. |
