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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
Hogeye Branch

rises in NW Buncombe County and flows NE into Sandymush Creek.
Hogg's Folly

name formerly applied to a tract of land in W New Hanover County adjoining Wilmington on the n. John Hogg, in the eighteenth century, by means of a ditch, enclosed a tract of land on which he intended to establish a market garden. Evidently, failure of the project produced the name.
Hoggard Mill Creek

rises in central Bertie County and flows SW into Cashie River. Appears as Wills Quarter Creek on the Collet map, 1770, a name that was in use as late as 1882.
Hoggard Swamp

S Hertford County. Wiccacon River rises there.
Hoggard's Mill

2 mi. N of Windsor in SE Bertie County on Hoggard Mill Creek. The large pond there was the site of Lockhart Mill according to the Collet map, 1770. The surrounding community was known as Wolfington and was the county seat from 1722 until it was moved to Windsor in 1774. By 1833 the site bore its present name. See also Hoggard Mill Creek.
Hogjaw Gap

N Cherokee County.
Hoglot Branch

rises in S Macon County and flows NE into Bates Branch.
Hogpen Bay

in the waters of Core Sound extending into Core Banks in SE Carteret County.
Hogpen Branch

rises in SW Buncombe County near Hogpen Gap and flows NW into Glady Fork.
Hogpen Creek

rises in SE Rutherford County and flows NE into Second Broad River.