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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 |
|---|---|
| Union Grove Township |
N central Iredell County. |
| Union Hill |
community in W Surry County between Little Mountain and South Fork. |
| Union Hope |
community in SW Nash County. |
| Union Mills |
community in N Rutherford County. Est. 1892. Inc. 1907; charter repealed 1924. Named for the consolidation of several small sawmills in the period 1885-90. |
| Union Ridge |
community in N Alamance County. Named for an old church that stood on the ridge there between Tom's Creek and Jordan Creek. |
| Union Township |
S central Randolph County. |
| Unionville |
town in N Union County at the head of Chinkapin Creek. Inc. 1911; reincorporated 1998. |
| Unity |
community in NE Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1891-1902. |
| Unity Parish |
Church of England, Guilford County, est. 1771 with the formation of the county and coextensive with it. |
| Unity Township |
N Rowan County. Named for local Presbyterian church. |
