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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.

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Place Description
First Hurricane Branch

rises in S Swain County and flows SW into Yalaka Creek.
First Potts Creek

rises in W Davidson County and flows SE into High Rock Lake on Yadkin River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Potts Creek.
Fish Creek

rises in E Guilford County and flows NE across the NW corner of Alamance County into Caswell County, where it enters Buttermilk Creek.
Fish Dam

community in E Durham County served by post office, 1881-1902. Spelled Fishdam after 1895.
Fish Hawk Point

NE Carteret County extending into Rumley Bay.
Fish Ridge

N Haywood County, extends S beside Morgan Creek.
Fish Trap Creek

See Fishdam Creek.
Fishcreek

See Mamers.
Fishdam

See Fish Dam.
Fishdam Creek

rises in W Wilkes County and flows SE into Yadkin River. Known as Fish Trap Creek until the 1960s, when the spillway of one of the flood-control dams in connection with the W. Kerr Scott Dam emptied into it and the name was changed.