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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 |
|---|---|
| Crooked Creek Township |
SW McDowell County. |
| Crooked Fork |
rises in NW Granville County and flows SE in an arc into Aarons Creek. |
| Crooked Run |
rises in N Cleveland County and flows SE into First Broad River. |
| Crooked Run Creek |
rises in S Stokes County and flows SW into N Forsyth County, where it flows back NW into Stokes County again and into Little Yadkin River. |
| Crooked Swamp |
rises in N Nash County and flows SE then NE into Fishing Creek. |
| Cross Branch |
rises in S Columbus County and flows SW into Horry County, S.C., where it enters Buck Creek. |
| Cross Canal |
drains water from NW Camden County (Dismal Swamp) to the E into Dismal Swamp Canal. |
| Cross Creek |
rises in N Cumberland County and flows SE through Lake Wood and Fayetteville into Cape Fear River. So named because early settlers found that Cross Creek and Little Cross Creek crossed each other. See also Fayetteville. |
| Cross Creek Township |
central Cumberland County. Coextensive with the city of Fayetteville. |
| Cross Hill |
former community near Carthage, central Moore County. There, at Alexander Morrison's home, Tories gathered before going to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, February 27, 1776. |
