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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 |
|---|---|
| Brown Branch |
rises in E Watauga County and flows NW into South Fork New River. |
| Brown Branch |
rises in S Buncombe County and flows SW into Fourmile Branch. |
| Brown Branch |
rises in SW Beaufort County and flows SW into Chocowinity Creek. |
| Brown Cove |
E Haywood County between Medford Cove and Sorrells Cove. |
| Brown Creek |
rises in N Carteret County and flows N into Neuse River. |
| Brown Creek |
community in SE Union County. Nation's first soil conservation district est. there, 1937. |
| Brown Creek |
rises in South Carolina and flows NE through the SE corner of Union County and into Anson County, where it enters Pee Dee River in N central Anson County. |
| Brown Creek |
rises in W Transylvania County and flows SE into Parker Creek. |
| Brown Creek |
rises in E Pamlico County and flows S into Broad Creek. |
| Brown Creek |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows N and NW into Valley River. |
