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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 |
|---|---|
| Johnsons Mills |
community in S Pitt County. A post office was est. there in 1882. |
| Johnsons Pond |
S Wake County on Terrible Creek. |
| Johnsonville |
community in SW Cherokee County at the mouth of Hothouse Branch. |
| Johnston |
former county seat in S Onslow County on New River. Est. 1741; destroyed by a hurricane in September 1752 and abandoned. Named for Gabriel Johnston (1699-1752), governor of North Carolina, 1734-52. |
| Johnston County |
was formed in 1746 from Craven County. Located in the E section of the state, it is bounded by Wilson, Wayne, Sampson, Cumberland, Harnett, Wake, and Nash Counties. It was named for Gabriel Johnston (1699-1752), governor of North Carolina, 1734-52. Area: 795 sq. mi. County seat: Smithfield, with an elevation of 155 ft. Townships are Banner, Bentonville, Beulah, Boon Hill, Clayton, Cleveland, Elevation, Ingrams, Meadow, Micro, O'Neals, Pine Level, Pleasant Grove, Selma, Smithfield, Wilders, and Wilson's Mills. Produces tobacco, corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, cotton, poultry, hogs, livestock, dairy products, sweet potatoes, turkeys, lumber, watermelons, furniture, chemicals, cottonseed oil, pharmaceuticals, wood products, heavy equipment, and crushed stone. |
| Johnston Court House |
See Smithfield. |
| Johnston Swamp |
rises in S Johnston County and flows NE into Stone Creek. |
| Johnstonville |
former town est. 1788 in NE Randolph County as the county seat. Named for Governor Samuel Johnston (1733-1816), who was chief executive at the time. The town declined after 1796, when Asheboro was est. as the county seat in a more central location. The community of Brown's Crossroads is now at the site. |
| Johnstonville Township |
SW Harnett County. |
| Johnstown |
community in S Lincoln County on Indian Creek. |
