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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 |
|---|---|
| Dry Hill |
community in E Henderson County W of Dana. Named for fact that a local well ran dry. |
| Dry Lake |
NE Surry County. Formed in 1937 by the construction of a dam across a dry hollow into which a small unnamed stream was diverted. Covers approx. 8 acres; max. depth 15 ft. Municipal water supply for Mount Airy. |
| Dry Mountain |
peak on Newfound Mountain on the Buncombe-Haywood county line S of Haywood Gap. |
| Dry Pocosin |
a muck-filled pocosin in E Duplin County. |
| Dry Pond |
See Denver. |
| Dry Pond Gap |
S Watauga County between the heads of Storey Creek, Buffalo Creek, and Joe Creek. |
| Dry Pond Ridge |
W Madison County between Mountain Island Branch and Raccoon Branch. |
| Dry Sand Shoal |
See Vera Cruz Shoal. |
| Dry Sluice Gap |
mountain gap on the Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Alt. 5,375. |
| Dry Wells Township |
SW Nash County. Created 1903 by act of General Assembly. |
