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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 |
|---|---|
| County Line |
community in W Davie County served by post office, 1828-1906. |
| County Line Gap |
on the Caldwell-Wilkes county line. |
| County Line Ridge |
on the Caldwell-Wilkes county line. |
| County of Norfolk |
was created in 1636 by authorities in Virginia to give Henry Frederick Howard, Lord Maltravers, a specific area for his proposed settlement. Maltravers in 1632 acquired the Heath grant (see Carolana). The new county extended from about the site of present Suffolk, Va., to New Bern, N.C. It was into the area that the earliest settlers of what is now North Carolina began to move from Virginia. The County of Norfolk was soon divided into Upper Norfolk and Lower Norfolk Counties, with the latter containing the region that later became a part of North Carolina. |
| Court House Bald |
SE Clay County on the SE end of Ravenrock Ridge. |
| Court House Bay |
S Onslow County in New River. The county's first courthouse was on the banks of New River there, 1734-35. |
| Court House Creek |
rises in NW Transylvania County and flows SE into North Fork French Broad River. |
| Court House Falls |
NW Transylvania County in Court House Creek. |
| Courthouse Knob |
N peak of Richland Mountains in N Buncombe County near lat. 35°41' N., long. 82°27'30" W. |
| Courthouse Township |
central Camden County. |
