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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 |
|---|---|
| Itiner |
community in E Harnett County. |
| Itom |
community in central Rutherford County served by post office, 1887-1933. |
| Ivanhoe |
community in S Sampson County on Black River. Named in the 1880s for the hero in Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. Alt. 29. The Colton map, 1861, shows a community at the site named Black River. Corbetts Ferry there was taken by Gen. Richard Caswell on the eve of the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. Corbetts Ferry appears on maps at the site through 1865. Black River Presbyterian Church, est. there in 1740, occupies a building erected in 1859. |
| Ivestor Gap |
S Haywood County on the head of Little East Fork Pigeon River. |
| Ivestor Ridge |
S Haywood County between Grassy Cove Prong and Dark Prong. |
| Ivory Crossroads |
community in E Franklin County. |
| Ivory Ridge |
W Watauga County, extends NE from Hockiday Ridge S of Rush Branch. |
| Ivory Swamp |
rises in N Wayne County and flows NE into Wilson County, where it enters Contentnea Creek. |
| Ivy |
community in E Madison County on Little Ivy Creek. Alt. 2,150. A post office existed there from 1833. Named by early settlers because of the abundance of laurel, which they called ivy. |
| Ivy Creek |
rises in N Northampton County and flows NE into Jordans Mill Pond on Cypress Creek. |
