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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 |
|---|---|
| Frying Pan, The |
E Tyrrell County, is a large body of water roughly shaped like a frying pan. It flows SE into Alligator River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Fryingpan Bend |
in Roanoke River in N Martin County. |
| Fryingpan Gap |
on the Haywood-Transylvania county line. Said to be so named because a frying pan was left there at a common camping ground for the use of all comers. |
| Fryingpan Mountain |
in Haywood and Transylvania Counties. Part of Pisgah Ridge, N of Beech Knob in Pisgah National Forest. |
| Fuda Creek |
rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows NE into Cabarrus County, where it enters Back Creek. Said locally to be named for a Scottish word, sometimes spelled "foody," meaning "slightly crazy." |
| Fulbright Cove |
central Haywood County 1 mi. N of Lake Junaluska. |
| Fulcher Branch |
rises in S Macon County and flows W into Little Tennessee River. |
| Fulcher Landing |
S Onslow County on New River, now the principal landing at the community of Sneads Ferry, which see. |
| Fulcher Mountain |
N Surry County between Fisher River and Buck Mountain. |
| Fulchers Creek |
a stream about 1 mi. long flowing SE into Core Sound about midway between Nelson Bay and Brett Bay, E Carteret County. |
