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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 |
|---|---|
| Couch Mountain |
E Orange County on the head of Little Creek. |
| Couches Creek |
rises in NE Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE into Oconaluftee River. |
| Coulson Ordinary |
appears on the Collet map, 1770, on the Pee Dee River in what is now SE Stanly County E of the town of Norwood. At Colson's Mill nearby, Col. William Lee Davidson's Whig militia defeated Col. Samuel Bryan's Tories in July 1780. |
| Council |
town in S Bladen County. Alt. 64. Inc. 1905. Named for industrialist K. Clyde Council (1886?-1951). Also called Council Station because of depot on railroad. |
| Council Gap |
W central Watauga County near the head of Bairds Creek. |
| Council Mill Pond |
S Bladen County 14 mi. SE of county seat; an artificial pond on Friar Swamp owned by Clyde Council estate. Fishing. Not open to the public. |
| Council Station |
See Council. |
| Counterfeit Branch |
rises in N Haywood County and flows SW into Pigeon River. |
| Country Line |
community in N Granville County. |
| Country Line Creek |
rises in SE Rockingham County and flows NE across Caswell County into Virginia, where it enters Dan River NE of Milton. Mentioned in local records as early as 1754. Named for the eighteenth-century custom of calling the North Carolina-Virginia line the "country line." |
