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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 |
|---|---|
| Black Branch |
rises in E Hoke County and flows S into Beaver Creek. |
| Black Branch |
rises in E Clay County and flows SW into Buck Creek. |
| Black Branch |
rises in SW Duplin County and flows NE into Rockfish Creek. |
| Black Brothers |
former name of two peaks approx. 1 mi. N of Mount Mitchell, S Yancey County. Renamed Mount Craig and Big Tom, which see, in 1947. |
| Black Camp Gap |
on the Haywood-Swain county line near the head of Bunches Creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Balsam Mountain. A log-house camp was built there for the use of cattle rangers and hunters. A forest fire partially burned the camp, burning off the bark and charring the logs of the cabins. Later campers lodging there got themselves black from contact with the burnt logs, hence the name Black Camp. Alt. 4,492. |
| Black Creek |
See Back Creek. |
| Black Creek |
town in S Wilson County named for nearby stream. Alt. 120. Est. 1840 as a station and post office on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Inc. 1870. |
| Black Creek |
rises in SW Wilson County and flows E into Contentnea Creek. |
| Black Creek |
rises in S Wake County and flows SE into Johnston County, where it enters Neuse River. |
| Black Creek |
rises in W central Wake County and flows NE into Crabtree Creek. |
