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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 |
|---|---|
| Cable Creek |
rises in central Randolph County and flows SW and NW into Back Creek. |
| Cable Gap |
N Graham County at the E end of Yellow Mountain between the headwaters of Yellow Creek and Cables Cove Creek. |
| Cables Cove Creek |
rises in N central Graham County and flows N into Fontana Lake. |
| Cabo de Trafalgar |
See Cape Fear. |
| Cabot |
community in S Cleveland County served by post office, 1898-1902. |
| Cackalacky |
modern variant homonym of Carolina that gained use in popular culture after World War II. Origin variously attributed to tsalaki, Cherokee word for native people, and to cocklaleechie, a traditional Scottish soup. |
| Cadon Branch |
rises in S Macon County and flows SW into Tessentee Creek. |
| Cadon Gap |
S Macon County at the head of Whiterock Branch. |
| Cadwell Creek |
rises in Virginia and flows SW into N Stokes County. Turning slightly to the NW, it flows back into Virginia. |
| Caesar Austin Branch |
rises in central Clay County and flows SE into Tusquitee Creek. Named for an early black settler who lived on the branch. |
