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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 |
|---|---|
| Ferrells Township |
SW Nash County. |
| Ferrin Knob |
on the Buncombe-Henderson county line between Beaverdam and Long Gap. |
| Ferry |
community in S Rutherford County formerly known as Ferry Store. |
| Ferry Branch |
rises in W Madison County and flows NE into French Broad River. |
| Fetner |
community in W Wake County. |
| Few |
community in S Durham County. Formerly known as Oyama, the name taken from that of a Japanese city; a railroad station opened there about 1904. The name was changed after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, to honor William P. Few (1867-1940), first president of Duke University. |
| Fiars Creek |
See Fires Creek. |
| Fiddler Creek |
rises in S Forsyth County and flows SW into South Fork. Named for Fidler or Fiedler family living in the vicinity by 1777. Appears as James Creek on Collet map, 1770. |
| Fiddlers Run |
rises in central Burke County and flows N into Sandy Run Creek. |
| Fidelity |
community in E Jackson County served by post office, 1888-1901. |
