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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 |
|---|---|
| Cuccoowink Creek |
See Dawson Creek. |
| Cucklemaker Swamp |
rises in N central Bertie County and flows S into Hoggard Mill Creek. |
| Cucklers Creek |
See Cuckolds Creek. |
| Cuckolds Creek |
rises in E Beaufort County and flows W into Pantego Creek. Perhaps because of the meaning of the word cuckold, the name Cucklers has been applied to the creek. |
| Cucumber Creek |
rises on Noah's Mountain, S Alamance County, and flows S into Wells Creek. |
| Cudda Bum |
a creek, rises in NE Davidson County and flows S into Abbotts Creek. Named for Cuddahy Crouch, who lived nearby. "Bum" was his favorite expression and, when Cuddahy Creek was dammed for a mill, he began to speak of it as "a bum creek." From Cuddahy's Bum Creek the name Cudda Bum evolved. |
| Cuidreach Creek |
See Corndack Creek. |
| Culberson |
town in SW Cherokee County on South Fork Rapier Mill Creek. Inc. 1911. Named for Henry Culberson, who donated the site for the town and the post office. Alt. 1,618. |
| Culbert Branch |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Junaluska Creek. |
| Culbert Ridge |
N Yancey County between Hensley Branch and Bald Mountain Creek. |
