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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 |
|---|---|
| Devils Elbow Landing |
on Pungo River, E Beaufort County. |
| Devils Fork |
rises in E Henderson County and flows W into Mud Creek. |
| Devils Fork Gap |
on the Madison County, N.C.-Unicoi County, Tenn., line. |
| Devils Garden |
a strip of rough, stony land beside another strip of steep, eroded land, SE Buncombe County between Trantham Creek and Laurel Branch. |
| Devils Gut |
stream in NE Martin County connecting a bend in the Roanoke River. Mentioned in local records as early as 1729 and shown on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Devils Head |
W Rutherford County near Chimney Rock, a natural rock formation suggestive of the devil's head. |
| Devils Nest |
peak in N Mitchell County on Big Ridge. |
| Devils Prong |
rises in SW Macon County and flows N into Kimsey Creek. |
| Devils Race Patch |
peak in NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Jenkins Trail Ridge. Alt. approx. 5,160. |
| Devils Shoals Ford |
former ford across the Catawba River, S Caldwell and NE Burke County. Site now under the waters of Lake Hickory. |
