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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 |
|---|---|
| Kings Branch |
rises in S Mecklenburg County and flows S into Sugar Creek. Appears as Kings River on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Kings Creek |
rises in S Vance County and flows S into N Franklin County, where it enters Tar River. |
| Kings Creek Township |
NE Caldwell County. |
| Kings Crossroads |
community in NW Guilford County. |
| Kings Island |
S Dare County in the waters of Pamlico Sound off Brooks Point, Hatteras Island. |
| Kings Mountain |
a range about 3 mi. long in SE Cleveland and SW Gaston Counties extending into South Carolina. The highest peak, The Pinnacle, is at the N end of the range, separated from the rest of the range by Sherrars Gap. The Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780, was fought a short distance S in South Carolina. |
| Kings Mountain Township |
former township in SE Cleveland County, now township no. 4. |
| Kings Point |
peninsula extending from the mainland of NE Carteret County into Brett Bay. |
| Kings River |
See Kings Branch. |
| Kingsboro |
community in central Edgecombe County. Alt. 113. |
