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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 |
|---|---|
| Ilex |
community in central Davidson County served by post office, 1886-1902. |
| Immer |
community in N Montgomery County served by post office, 1888-1932. |
| Improvement Cove |
E Swain County between Middle Ridge and Connelly Mountain on Improvement Creek. |
| Improvement Creek |
rises in E Swain County and flows NE into Wesser Creek. |
| Inadu Knob |
on Haywood County, N.C.-Cocke County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near lat. 35°43'37" N., long. 83°14'27" W. Formerly Snake Knob but, to prevent duplication within the park, the name was changed to Inadu, the Indian word for snake. Alt. 5,941. |
| Inanda |
former town in central Buncombe County on French Broad River at the mouth of Hominy Creek. Inc. 1893; charter repealed 1901. Served by post office, 1891-1904. A church at the site still bears the name. |
| Independence Hill |
community in N Mecklenburg County. |
| Index |
community in SE Ashe County. |
| Indian Branch |
rises in E Haywood County and flows SE into Bald Creek. |
| Indian Camp Bay |
an arm of Big Colly Bay, NE Bladen County. |
