Copyright Notice: 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Kendall Beach |
community on Neuse River in SW Pamlico County. Developed after World War I by a man named Kendall. |
| Kendrick Crossroad |
community in SW Mecklenburg County. |
| Kendricks Creek |
rises in East Dismal Swamp, central Washington County, and flows approx. 9 mi. N into Albemarle Sound. Formerly called Mackeys Creek. The part of Kendricks Creek that is S of the town of Roper is sometimes called Mill Creek locally. |
| Kenilworth |
former town in central Buncombe County. Inc. 1891; became a part of Asheville, 1905. |
| Kenly |
town in E Johnston County. Settled about 1875; inc. 1887. Named for J. I. Kenly, an official of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Alt. 220. |
| Kennebec |
community in S Wake County. Named for a county in Maine. |
| Kennedy Creek |
central Beaufort County. A short but rather wide stream at the W limit of Washington, N.C. It flows S into Pamlico River. |
| Kennedy Crossroads |
community in S Wayne County W of Mount Olive. |
| Kennedy Falls |
community in NE Cherokee County. |
| Kennedy Ford |
NE Union County in Rocky River. |
