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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 |
|---|---|
| Gray Swamp |
S Pasquotank County between Little Flatty Creek and Big Flatty Creek. |
| Gray Wolf Creek |
rises in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SW into Forney Creek. |
| Gray's Point |
central Onslow County in S Farnell Bay. |
| Graybeal |
community in W Ashe County. Alt. approx. 3,000. |
| Graybeard Creek |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows W into Vengeance Creek S of Brushy Head Mountain. |
| Graybeard Mountain |
on the Buncombe-McDowell county line. Alt. 5, 360-5,400. |
| Grays Branch |
rises in SW Caswell County and flows SE into Stony Creek. |
| Grays Chapel |
community in NE Randolph County. Named for a local family. A post office est. there as early as 1882. |
| Grays Creek |
rises in S Cumberland County and flows SE in an arc into Cape Fear River. |
| Grays Creek Township |
SW Cumberland County. |
