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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 |
|---|---|
| Upper Saura Town |
former Indian village in Stokes County on Dan River. Site approx. 4 mi. E of Madison. Probably occupied by Saura Indians by the middle of the seventeenth century and abandoned in the early eighteenth century. Saura or Sara meant "a place of tall grass or weeds." The site, occupied by descendants of Europeans, was still known as Sauratown as late as 1894. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Upper Sawra and on the Price map, 1808, as Saurat, but it does not appear on later maps. |
| Upper Spring Creek |
rises in NW Goose Creek Island, NW Pamlico County, and flows N to join Campbell Creek at the Beaufort-Pamlico county line to form Goose Creek. |
| Upper Town Creek Township |
former township in W Edgecombe County, now township no. 11. |
| Upper Township |
former township in N Chowan County, now township no. 3. |
| Upper Trail Ridge |
SW Macon County between Nichols Branch and Big Shoal Branch. |
| Upton |
community in NW Caldwell County. Alt. 1,420. |
| Upward |
community in E Henderson County served by post office, 1877-1905. First called Crossroads, being at junction of Ridge Road and Howard Gap Road. Took present name from a local estate of a South Carolina summer resident. |
| Urahaw Swamp |
rises in S Northampton County and flows NE into Potecasi Creek. The name appears in local records as early as 1719. |
| Uree |
community in NW Rutherford County on Broad River. |
| Utah Mountain |
central Haywood County between Snakeden Top and Fulbright Cove. Named for the fact that a band of Mormons lived there in the 1880s and 1890s. Their practice of polygamy made them unpopular with their neighbors, and the Mormons were forced to leave North Carolina. Their houses, barns, fences, and other property were abandoned, and the ruins still exist. Orchards and vineyards, as well as ornamental flowering shrubs, are now growing wild in the vicinity. |
