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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 |
|---|---|
| Cold Mountain Branch |
rises in S Transylvania County and flows NE into East Fork French Broad River. |
| Cold Spring |
community is NW Burke County. |
| Cold Spring Branch |
rises in SE Swain County and flows NW into Yalaka Creek. |
| Cold Spring Creek |
rises in N Macon County and flows SW into Whiteoak Creek. |
| Cold Spring Gap |
N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near the head of Bear Creek. Called in Cherokee Aha-lu-na (ambushed) or U-ni-ha-lu-na (where they watched). Cherokees are said to have ambushed a large party of invading Iroquois, slaying all but one. His ears were cut off, as was the custom, and he was sent home to take the news to his people. |
| Cold Spring Knob |
on the Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park at the junction of Miry Ridge and the main divide of the Great Smoky Mountains. Alt. 5,240. Named for spring of cold water near the summit. |
| Cold Springs Creek |
rises in N Haywood County and flows SW into Pigeon River. |
| Cold Water Creek |
See Coldass Creek. |
| Coldass Creek |
rises in NW Caldwell County and flows E into Johns River. Both it and Pinchgut Creek were named by two men hunting in the area. They followed a stream until it came to a fork. There they separated, each following one of the forks; they agreed to meet later and name each stream according to their feelings toward it. One man carried the food and the other the sleeping equipment. They became lost but finally met the next day, when they named the creeks. Sometimes shown as Cold Water Creek on modern maps. |
| Coldside Mountain |
in S Jackson County between Heddie Mountain and Terrapin Mountain. |
