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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 |
|---|---|
| Footsville |
community in S Yadkin County near South Deep Creek. Known first as Footville. |
| Forbes |
community in W Mitchell County on Toe River. Alt. 2,185. |
| Forbes Bay |
E Pasquotank County between Cottage Point and Cobb Point on the Pasquotank River. |
| Forbes Millpond |
central Pitt County on Greens Mill Run. |
| Forbush |
community in central Yadkin County on Logan Creek. |
| Forbush Creek |
rises in N Yadkin County and flows SE into Logan Creek. |
| Forbush Township |
SE Yadkin County. |
| Ford Creek |
rises in SE Granville County and flows NE into W Franklin County, where it enters Tar River. |
| Forest |
community in central Craven County. |
| Forest City |
town in S central Rutherford County. Alt. 869. Inc. 1877 as Burnt Chimney; name changed to Forest City in 1887 in honor of Forest Davis, lumber merchant. |
