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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 |
|---|---|
| Deer Branch |
rises in N Yancey County and flows SE into Big Branch. |
| Deer Creek |
a creek in Core Sound near Core Banks in E Carteret County. |
| Deer Creek Gap |
on the Haywood County, N.C.-Cocke County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near lat. 35°43'04" N., long. 83°15' W. |
| Deer Gap |
S Macon County between High Knob and Rich Knob. |
| Deer Island |
SE Onslow County W of Swansboro in the mouth of Hawkins Slough. Formerly 3 acres but now considerably reduced. The name is now applied to the nearby peninsula between Swansboro and The Hammock. |
| Deer Lick Branch |
rises in S Mitchell County and flows N into East Fork Crabtree Creek. |
| Deer Mountain |
S Yancey County between Winter Star Ridge and the head of Locust Creek. Alt. 6,212. |
| Deer Park Mountain |
W Madison County between Ferry Branch and Spring Creek. |
| Deer Pond Branch |
rises in N Granville County and flows NE into Spewmarrow Creek. |
| Deer Ridge |
N Yancey County parallel to Deer Creek. |
