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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 |
|---|---|
| Braden Mountain |
E Cherokee County, extends from the headwaters of Lamb Branch on the S to Slow Creek on the n, due W of Indian Grave Gap. |
| Bradey Branch |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SE into Valley River. |
| Bradford Mountain |
S Caldwell County. Alt. 1,313. Named for Bennet Bradford, eighteenth-century settler who is buried on its slopes. |
| Bradford Mountain |
SE Transylvania County in Blue Ridge Mountains. |
| Bradley Branch |
rises in S Macon County and flows SE into Norton Branch. |
| Bradley Butt |
E Macon County between Fall Branch and Mica City Creek. |
| Bradley Creek |
rises in NE Transylvania County and flows SE into South Fork in Pisgah National Forest. Site of early ironworks; a forge operated there during the Civil War. |
| Bradley Creek |
rises in central New Hanover County and flows SE into Greenville Sound. |
| Bradley Creek |
rises in N Macon County and flows SW into Little Tennessee River. |
| Bradley Creek |
rises in S Transylvania County and flows SW into East Fork French Broad River. |
