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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 |
|---|---|
| Fall Creek |
rises in SW Polk County and flows NE into Pacolet River. |
| Fall Creek Township |
NE Yadkin County. |
| Fall Line |
the dividing line between Coastal Plain and Piedmont North Carolina where the soft sedimentary soils of the Coastal Plain meet the hard rocks of the Piedmont. It often is marked in streams by falls and rapids. The fall line runs W of Wilson and E of Sanford in an irregular progression N and s. |
| Fall Ridge |
S Watauga County, extends S in Watauga Township and causes a bend in Boone Fork. |
| Fallcliff |
community in W Jackson County on Cullowhee Creek. |
| Falling Branch |
rises in N Franklin County and flows SW into Tooles Creek. |
| Falling Creek |
See Thoroughfare Swamp. |
| Falling Creek Township |
central Lenoir County. |
| Falling Hollow |
SW Watauga County on the head of Watauga River. |
| Falling Rock Creek |
rises in W Haywood County, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near lat. 35°36'56" N., long. 83°10'40" W. Flows NE to join Beech Creek in forming Palmer Creek. Named when an overhanging rock cliff on a stream where hunters, fishermen, and others camped fell after being heated by a big campfire. One person was killed and others were injured. |
