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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 Island |
50-acre sandy island in Yadkin River, NE Yadkin County. |
| Big Island |
in Yadkin River, Rowan-Davidson Counties. Area: 100 acres. Trading Ford, which see, was located at the E end of Big Island. See also Island Borough. |
| Big Island |
a land formation in E Duplin County surrounded by swamp. |
| Big Island |
off the W shore of S Hatteras Island in the waters of Pamlico Sound, S Dare County. |
| Big Island |
lies off the SW shore of Roanoke Island, Dare County, in the waters of Croatan Sound. |
| Big Island |
in Green Swamp, central Brunswick County. |
| Big Ivy Creek |
See North Fork Ivy Creek. |
| Big Junction |
a mountain on the Graham County, N.C.-Monroe County, Tenn., line. |
| Big Juniper Creek |
rises in W Moore County and flows NE into McLendons Creek. |
| Big Kennedy Creek |
rises in S Yadkin County and flows S into Iredell County. It enters Flat Rock Creek NE of Houstonville. |
