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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 |
|---|---|
| Double Branch |
rises in W Transylvania County and flows SE into Parker Creek. |
| Double Creek |
is formed in S Surry County by the junction of East Double Creek and West Double Creek. It flows S approx. ¼ mi. into Yadkin River. |
| Double Gap |
W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Cataloochee Divide near lat. 35°34'17" N., long. 83°06' W. |
| Double Gap Branch |
rises in W Haywood County and flows NW into Caldwell Fork. |
| Double Gap Ridge |
W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a short spur of Cataloochee Divide extending NW near lat. 35°34'45" N., long. 83°06'12" W. |
| Double Head |
a mountain on the Buncombe-Henderson county line. Also known as Double Knob. Alt. 3,399. |
| Double Knob |
See Double Head. |
| Double Knob Mountain |
in S Jackson County on the head of Packs Creek. Alt. 4,412. |
| Double Knobs |
twin peaks in central Clay County near Downing Creek. |
| Double Shoals |
community in central Cleveland County between Big Harris Creek and First Broad River. Settled in the nineteenth century and named for two shoals in the nearby river. Alt. 995. |
