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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 |
|---|---|
| Shelton Laurel Creek |
rises in N Madison County and flows SW into Big Laurel Creek. |
| Shelton Laurel Township |
former township in N Madison County, now township no. 2. |
| Shelton Town |
community in NE Surry County between Rutledge Creek and Ararat River. |
| Shelton's Store |
community in N Stokes County. Later known as Ziglar's Store. |
| Shepards Mill |
community in central Stokes County on Snow Creek. A mill, still standing, operated there as early as 1819 and as recently as 1957. Snow Creek Ironworks was started there in 1770 by Col. James Martin. Limestone for ironworks at Danbury mined there. |
| Shephard Creek |
drains Osceola Lake in central Henderson County and flows W into Mud Creek. |
| Shephard Ditch |
NW Pasquotank County, drains NE into Pasquotank River. |
| Shepherd Bald |
on Macon-Swain County line between Davis Bald and Leatherman Knob. |
| Shepherd Branch |
rises in N Buncombe County and flows SW into Flat Creek. |
| Shepherd Creek |
rises in N Macon County and flows S into Cowee Creek. |
