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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 |
|---|---|
| Gum Lake |
NE Nash County on Beaverdam Swamp. |
| Gum Log Creek |
rises in S Union County and flows SE into Lanes Creek. |
| Gum Neck |
community in S Tyrrell County on a canal, which flows SE into Alligator River. |
| Gum Neck Creek |
commonly called Gum Neck Landing, rises in SE Tyrrell County and flows S into Alligator River. Appears as Landing Creek on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Gum Neck Landing |
See Gum Neck Creek. |
| Gum Neck Township |
S Tyrrell County. |
| Gum Pond |
swamp in Grindle Pocosin in N Pitt County. |
| Gum Swamp |
SE Beaufort and NW Pamlico Counties. |
| Gum Swamp Creek |
rises in N Lenoir County and flows SW into Falling Creek. Name appears in local records dating from before the Revolution. Named for sweet gum trees in the area; sometimes locally called Sweetgum Swamp. |
| Gum Swamp Run |
rises in SE Beaufort County in Gum Swamp and flows W into South Creek. |
