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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 |
|---|---|
| Gilkey |
community in N Rutherford County. Formerly known as Millwood until renamed for a local family. |
| Gilkey Creek |
rises in N Rutherford County and flows SE into Mill Creek. |
| Gilkey Township |
central Rutherford County. |
| Gill |
community in S Vance County; named for a local family. |
| Gill Branch |
rises in N Buncombe County near Weaverville and flows SW into Reems Creek. |
| Gill Mountain |
S Wilkes County extending NE from Morris Knob to Owen Knob. |
| Gillam Gap |
on the Ashe-Wilkes county line. |
| Gillburg |
community in S Vance County on the head of Gills Little Mill Creek. |
| Gillespie Gap |
on the McDowell-Mitchell county line. Alt. 2,800. Troops en route to the Battle of Kings Mountain passed through the gap on September 29, 1780. The North Carolina Mineral Museum is located on the Blue Ridge Parkway on the Mitchell County side of the gap. |
| Gillett |
former community in S Onslow County E of Stones Bay. Abandoned 1941 with the establishment of Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Air Station. |
