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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 |
|---|---|
| Ammon Knob |
on the Cherokee-Clay county line in the Valley River Mountains. |
| Ammons Branch |
rises in W Swain County and flows E into Little Tennessee River. |
| Ammons Branch |
rises in E Macon County and flow SW into Rabbit Creek. |
| Ammons Branch |
rises in SE Macon County and flows SW into Cullasaja River. |
| Ammons Branch |
rises in SE Macon County and flows SE into Chattooga River. |
| Ammons Branch |
rises in S Madison County and flows W into Walnut Creek. |
| Ammons Knob |
S Macon County between the head of Hayes Mill Creek and Nickajack Creek. Alt. 3,916. |
| Amorita |
community in N Alleghany County served by post office, 1899-1906. |
| Amos Creek |
rises in NE Madison County and flows SW into Spillcorn Creek. |
| Amos Creek |
rises in NW Caldwell County and flows S into Mulberry Creek. Probably named for Amos Green, a nineteenth-century resident of the area. |
