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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 |
|---|---|
| Little Elk Mountain |
central Avery County. |
| Little Elk Ridge |
central Avery County. |
| Little Elkin River |
rises in NE Wilkes County and flows SE into Yadkin River. |
| Little Elliby |
See Upper Bartons Creek. |
| Little Fall Branch |
rises in N Haywood County and flows NW into Cold Springs Creek. |
| Little Fall Creek |
rises in N central Wake County E and flows NE into Fall Branch. |
| Little Fires Creek |
rises in N Clay County and flows SW into Fires Creek. |
| Little Fisher River |
rises in N Surry County and flows SE into Fisher River. |
| Little Fishhawk Mountain |
S Macon County between Fishhawk Mountain and Whiterock Gap. Alt. 4,706. |
| Little Fishing Creek |
is formed in E central Warren County by the junction of Walkers Creek and Big Branch. It flows SE into W Halifax County, where it enters Fishing Creek on the Halifax-Nash county line. Appears as Conway Creek on the Moseley map, 1733, and as Little Fishing Creek on the Collet map, 1770. |
