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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 |
|---|---|
| Brushy Ridge |
S Macon County between Rock Branch and Falls Branch. |
| Brushy Ridge Branch |
rises in W Transylvania County and flows SW into Cathey's Creek. |
| Bryan |
community in S Chatham County served by post office, 1891-1904. |
| Bryan Creek |
rises in central Pitt County and flows SE into Tar River. |
| Bryan Township |
W Surry County. |
| Bryan's Settlement |
area in Yadkin River valley of NE Davie County. In 1748 Morgan Bryan moved there with his large family. Their holdings totaled over 5,000 acres. |
| Bryant Branch |
rises in N Davie County near Pino and flows SE approx. 4 mi. into Dutchmans Creek. Named for the Bryant family, which settled in the area prior to 1752. |
| Bryant Mountain |
SW Cherokee County between Wolf Creek and Hothouse Branch. |
| Bryant Swamp |
rises in Big Bay in SW Bladen County and flows W into Robeson County, where it enters Big Swamp. |
| Bryantown |
community in S Northampton County. |
