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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 |
|---|---|
| Coles Creek |
rises in N Buncombe County near Watershed Ridge and flows NW into Flat Creek. |
| Colesville |
See Coleville. |
| Coleville |
community in N Stokes County near Cadwell Creek. Post office there in the late nineteenth century was Colesville. |
| Coley Gap |
W Madison County between Puncheon Camp Branch and Divide Mountain. |
| Coleys Branch |
rises in N Gaston County and flows NE into South Fork Catawba River. |
| Coleys Crossroads |
See Vicksboro. |
| Colfax |
community in W Guilford County. Alt. 972. Named for Schuyler Colfax (1823-85), vice president of the United States (1869-73). |
| Colfax Township |
E Rutherford County. Named for Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1823-85). |
| Colington |
scattered fishing community on Colington Island, NE Dare County. |
| Colington Creek |
a waterway between Kitty Hawk Bay and Buzzard Bay; E of Colington Island and separating it from N Bodie Island, E Dare County. |
