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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 |
|---|---|
| Firescald Creek |
rises in N McDowell County on the SW slope of Betsy Ridge and flows SW into Slim Creek. |
| Firescald Mountain |
W Avery County. |
| Firescald Ridge |
N Graham County, extends NE from Bearpen Gap to Little Tennessee River. |
| First Broad River |
rises in E Rutherford County and flows SE into Cleveland County. There it flows SE and SW into Broad River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Sandy River. |
| First Gum Swamp |
See Gum Swamp. |
| First Hurricane Branch |
rises in S Swain County and flows SW into Yalaka Creek. |
| First Potts Creek |
rises in W Davidson County and flows SE into High Rock Lake on Yadkin River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Potts Creek. |
| Fish Creek |
rises in E Guilford County and flows NE across the NW corner of Alamance County into Caswell County, where it enters Buttermilk Creek. |
| Fish Dam |
community in E Durham County served by post office, 1881-1902. Spelled Fishdam after 1895. |
| Fish Hawk Point |
NE Carteret County extending into Rumley Bay. |
