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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 |
|---|---|
| Cranberry Creek |
rises in SE Watauga County and flows N into S Ashe County, where it enters South Fork [New River]. |
| Cranberry Gap |
central Avery County between Minneapolis and Cranberry. Alt. 3,500. |
| Cranberry Iron Mine |
surface iron mines in N central Avery County. Believed to have been worked by Cherokee Indians. Discovered by white settlers in 1781; worked from 1826, most actively from 1865 to 1930. Supplied iron to the Confederacy. See also Cranberry. |
| Cranberry Island |
high ground in N Tyrrell County surrounded by peat lands N of community of Levels. |
| Cranberry Knob |
NW Burke County. Alt. 4,223. |
| Cranberry Ridge |
N Jackson County between Cranberry Creek and Hornbuckle Creek. |
| Cranberry Township |
SW Alleghany County. |
| Crane Branch |
rises in central Madison County and flows N into Revere Creek. |
| Crane Creek |
rises in S Cherokee County and flows SW into Nottely River. |
| Crane Island |
See Campbell Island. |
