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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 |
|---|---|
| Big Branch |
rises in W Wilson County and flows S into Contentnea Creek. Known earlier as Johnson's Branch. |
| Big Branch |
rises in E Yancey County and flows SE and NE into Crabtree Creek. |
| Big Branch |
rises in W Wake County and flows SE into Little Whiteoak Creek. |
| Big Branch |
rises in E Warren County and flows SW to join Walkers Creek in forming Little Fishing Creek. |
| Big Branch |
rises in NE Wake County and flows SE into Little River. |
| Big Branch |
rises in W Wake County and flows S into Whiteoak Creek. |
| Big Branch |
rises in E Wake County and flows N into Walnut Creek. |
| Big Branch |
rises in S Transylvania County and flows SW into East Fork French Broad River. |
| Big Branch |
rises in E Transylvania County near Shuford Mountain and flows SW into Little Mountain. |
| Big Branch |
rises in S Randolph County and flows SW into Little River. |
