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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 |
|---|---|
| Gunpowder Creek |
rises in central Caldwell County and flows SE into Catawba River. |
| Gunt, Gun, |
or from the Atlantic Ocean into Pamlico Sound through Bodie Island, opened prior to 1733 and closed in the 1770s. Appears as Gun Inlet on the Moseley map, 1733. |
| Gunter Branch |
rises in N Madison County and flows SW into Big Laurel Creek. |
| Gunter Fork |
rises on the E slope of Luftee Knob, W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and flows NE into Big Creek. |
| Gunter Gap |
on the Jackson-Swain county line near the head of Connelly Creek in SE Swain County. |
| Gunter Knob |
S Madison County at the head of Simmons Branch. |
| Guntertown |
community in N Madison County on Barnes Creek. |
| Gupton |
community in Franklin County. Alt. 300. Settled about 1898. Named for J. E. Gupton, local landowner. |
| Gurley Store |
community in W Wayne County between Little River and Nahunta Swamp. |
| Gurleys Store |
community in E central Rutherford County between Heaveners and Robinson Creeks. |
