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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 |
|---|---|
| Jenny Branch |
rises in W Swain County and flows SE into Tuckasegee River. |
| Jenny Lind |
community in W Lenoir County. Named for the Swedish singer (1820-87), who, according to local legend, once sang beneath a tree there. |
| Jennys Gut |
rises in central Perquimans County and flows N into Raccoon Creek. |
| Jepha |
community in central Transylvania County served by post office, 1890-1901. |
| Jericho |
community in S Caswell County. A post office operated there, 1904-17. |
| Jericho Run |
rises in E Lenoir County and flows NE into Stonyton Creek. The name appears in local records as early as the 1740s. |
| Jerome |
community in NW Bladen County. |
| Jerome Bog |
a pocosin on the Bladen-Cumberland county line E of the community of Jerome. An almost perfect elliptical shape with its long axis running NW-SE, it is an ancient lake now filled with peat. See also Carolina Bays. |
| Jerry |
See Levels. |
| Jerry Bald |
N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park at the NE end of Jerry Bald Ridge. Alt. 5,080. |
