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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 |
|---|---|
| Fork Swamp |
rises in SW Beaufort County in Reedy Pocosin and flows S into Craven County, where it enters Palmetta Swamp. Named because an adjacent road forks, one road leading to Pinetown and the other route to Washington, N.C. |
| Fork Township |
SE Warren County. |
| Forkade |
community in NE Moore County served by post office, 1886-1905. |
| Forked Mountain |
on the Henderson-Transylvania county line. |
| Forked Ridge |
NE Buncombe County SW of Slaty Branch. |
| Forked Tree Mountain |
NE Buncombe County between Burleson Branch and North Fork Ivy Creek. |
| Forks of Ivy |
community on the Buncombe-Madison county line on Ivy Creek. Named for the fact that it is near the junction of Ivy and Little Ivy Creeks. Alt. 1,978. |
| Forks of Pigeon |
See Canton. Post office operated by the name, 1841-1901. |
| Forks of Tar River |
See Washington. |
| Former Camp Branch |
rises in N Madison County and flows S into Big Laurel Creek. |
