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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 |
|---|---|
| Duck |
community near the S end of the North Banks in NE Dare County. Inc. 2002. Situated next to Currituck Sound. Named for wild ducks in the area. Alt. 10. |
| Duck Branch |
rises near Cross Mountain on the Buncombe-McDowell county line and flows SW into Broad River. |
| Duck Creek |
rises in central Beaufort County and flows S into Pamlico River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Duck Island |
in Roanoke Sound at the S end of Bodie Island in E Dare County. |
| Duck Mountain |
S Macon County between Saltrock Gap and Middle Creek. |
| Duck Pond Swamp |
pocosin in E central Cumberland County drained by Reese Creek. One of the Carolina Bays, which see. |
| Duckenfield Estate |
See Avoca. |
| Ducker Creek |
rises near Ducker Mountain in S Buncombe County and flows SW into French Broad River. |
| Ducker Mountain |
S Buncombe County. |
| Duckett Top |
W Madison County between Meadow Fork and Spring Creek. |
