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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 |
|---|---|
| Campground Knob |
on Buncombe-Yancey county line between Sugartree Gap and Campground Gap. |
| Campground, The |
SW Gates County approx. 3 mi. NW of Gatesville, the site of religious camp meetings from the 1820s until the early 1900s. Popular with the people from Hertford, Bertie, and Chowan Counties. An artesian well at the site supplied water. |
| Camping Creek |
rises in SW Franklin County and flows NE into Cedar Creek. |
| Camping Fork |
rises in N Mitchell County and flows SW into Right Fork Bean Creek. |
| Camping Island Creek |
rises in central Stokes County and flows NE between Hanging Rock and Flat Shoal Mountain into Dan River. |
| Camprock Branch |
rises in S Macon County and flows SE into Shope Fork. |
| Camps Store |
See Gaston. |
| Cana |
community in N Davie County. Made a post office in 1875 and named for James H. Cain, first postmaster. |
| Canada Township |
SE Jackson County. |
| Canadian Hole |
deep trough just offshore in Pamlico Sound, N of Buxton, E Dare County. Frequented by windsurfers, many of them Canadian. Term also used by N.C. Department of Transportation to describe section of highway 12 subject to frequent washouts. |
