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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 |
|---|---|
| Cedar Forks |
community in W Northampton County. |
| Cedar Grove |
community in NW Orange County. A post office was est. there in 1826. |
| Cedar Grove Township |
NW Orange County. |
| Cedar Hammock |
an island in Bogue Sound, SW Carteret County. |
| Cedar Hill |
community in N Anson County. |
| Cedar Inlet |
an inlet approx. in the middle of Core Banks in E Carteret County on Outer Banks. |
| Cedar Island |
large island in NE Carteret County between West Bay and Core Sound. Appears on Moll map, 1729. |
| Cedar Island Bay |
in the waters of Currituck Sound on the W side of Church Island in central Currituck County. Named for the small tidal-marsh island in the bay. |
| Cedar Island Point |
on Pamlico and Core Sounds, NE Carteret County, formerly a part of Hunting Quarters (now Atlantic) Township. |
| Cedar Knob |
on Buncombe-Rutherford county line S of Cedar Cliff. |
