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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 |
|---|---|
| Johns Millpond |
SE Scotland County on Leiths Creek. Formed 1840. Covers 150 acres; max. depth 15 ft. |
| Johns River |
rises in N Caldwell County near the foot of Blowing Rock. Approx. 32 mi. long, it flows s, sw, and SE across W Caldwell and into N Burke County, where it enters Catawba River. Named for John Perkins, local black landowner. |
| Johns River Township |
W Caldwell County. |
| Johns Swamp |
rises in SE Bladen County and flows S into Colly Creek. |
| Johnson Branch |
rises in E Wayne County and flows NE into Exum Mill Branch. |
| Johnson Cove |
SE Buncombe County E of Turkey Ridge. |
| Johnson Creek |
a tidal creek in Core Sound near the Core Banks, E Carteret County. |
| Johnson Drainage Ditch |
rises S of Hendersonville in central Henderson County and flows NE into Bat Fork near its junction with Mud Creek. |
| Johnson Gap |
near the NW end of the Henderson-Transylvania county line. |
| Johnson Knob |
NW Henderson County on Laurel Mountain between Sassafras Gap and Rich Gap Mountain. Alt. 5,540. |
