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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 |
|---|---|
| Deerfield |
community in S Watauga County near East Fork [South Fork New River]. |
| Deerlick Gap |
on the McDowell-Mitchell county line. |
| Deerlick Knob |
in E Macon County between Corbin Creek and the head of Laurel Creek. |
| Deerlick Ridge |
E Haywood County between Rice Cove Creek and Rough Creek. |
| Deerplay Gap |
on the Avery-Mitchell county line. |
| Deerstand Creek |
rises in NW McDowell County on the S slope of Woods Mountain and flows S into Slim Creek. |
| Deets |
community in W Jackson County served by post office, 1900-1913. |
| Defeat Branch |
rises in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SW to join Roaring Creek in forming Bone Valley Creek. Named after an early hunter there had his shoes burned in the campfire while he slept during a snowstorm. |
| Defeat Knob |
on the Cherokee-Clay county line in the Valley River Mountains. |
| Dehart |
community in N Wilkes County near North Prong Roaring River. |
