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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 |
|---|---|
| Gumberry |
community in N central Northampton County. Settled about 1882. Alt. 134. Name probably derived from fruit of a tree described by John Lawson in 1709 as a type of black gum, the berries of which were used by the Indians in making soup and in cooking peas and beans. |
| Gumberry Swamp |
rises in W Northampton County and flows S to join Lily Pond Creek in forming Wheeler Creek. For origin of name, see Gumberry. |
| Gumflats Creek |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Taylor Creek. |
| Gumlog Creek |
rises in Union County, Ga., and flows NE into Clay County, where it enters Brasstown Creek. |
| Gumstand Gap |
N Transylvania County on Seniard Ridge. |
| Gumtree |
community in N Davidson County; named for a gum tree (cut down about 1948) at the junction of the Thomasville and Lexington roads to Winston-Salem. |
| Gun Creek |
rises in W central Alamance County and flows SE into Great Alamance Creek. |
| Gunlock Ridge |
W Swain County between Hickory Cove and Hazel Creek. |
| Gunna Creek |
rises in NW Swain County and flows SW to join Tub-Mill Creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to form Eagle Creek. |
| Gunntown |
community in central Rockingham County; est. 1854 by James M. Gunn and largely populated by his descendants. |
