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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 |
|---|---|
| Broad |
community in W Rutherford County. |
| Broad Branch |
rises in N Mitchell County and flows W into Big Fork Creek. |
| Broad Creek |
a canal in SE Bertie County connecting two sides of a loop in the Roanoke River. |
| Broad Creek |
See Scranton Creek. |
| Broad Creek |
rises in E Pamlico County and flows E into Neuse River estuary. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. Known locally as Lower Broad Creek. |
| Broad Creek |
rises in SE Macon County and flows SE into Clear Creek. |
| Broad Creek |
a tidal creek in the waters of Roanoke Sound on E Roanoke Island in E Dare County. |
| Broad Creek |
rises in W Carteret County and flows SE into Bogue Sound. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. |
| Broad Creek |
a bay near the NW end of South Lake, central Dare County. |
| Broad Creek |
stream in Nelson Bay, cuts into mainland in NE Carteret County. |
