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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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Little Limestone Creek |
rises in E Duplin County and flows SE into Limestone Creek. |
| Little Long Creek |
rises in central Gaston County and flows SE into Long Creek. |
| Little Long Mountain |
SW Randolph County between King Mountain and Poison Fork. |
| Little Lost Cove Creek |
rises in E central Avery County and flows NE into Lost Cove Creek. |
| Little Lyman Branch |
rises in SW Macon County and flows N into Kimsey Creek. |
| Little Manor |
Home of William Person Little, state senator from Warren County (1804-1806). The house was built in 1780 and is still standing. |
| Little Marsh Swamp |
rises in S Hoke County and flows SE into Robeson County, where it enters Gallberry Swamp. |
| Little Matrimony Creek |
rises in N Rockingham County and flows E in an arc into Matrimony Creek, which see. |
| Little Meadow Creek |
rises in SE Cabarrus County and flows SW into Rocky River. |
| Little Middle Mountain |
N Buncombe County between Brank Mountain and Brittain Cove 2½ mi. NE of town of Weaverville. |
