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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 |
|---|---|
| Lake Gresham |
in N central Wake County on Perry Creek. Formed in 1939. Covers 100 acres and has max. depth of 30 ft. Used for recreation. |
| Lake Hickory |
on Catawba River, within Alexander and Caldwell Counties on the N and Burke and Catawba Counties on the s. Formed by a dam constructed in 1928 by Duke Power Co. Covers 4,110 acres. Source of hydroelectric power; fishing, boating, and swimming. Dam at the site of former Oxford Ford across the river; named for Samuel Oxford, pioneer settler who opened the ford. Alt. 829. Lake formerly known as Oxford Lake or Oxford Reservoir. |
| Lake Hunt |
S Rockingham County. Built on N fork of Piney Creek in 1956. Covers approx. 175 acres. Named for George Hunt, mayor of Reidsville. |
| Lake James |
on Catawba River, Burke and McDowell Counties. Formed when Bridgewater Dam was built, 1916-23, and formerly called Bridgewater Reservoir. Fed by North Fork [Catawba River], Linville River, and numerous smaller tributaries in addition to Catawba River. Owned by Duke Power Co. and named for James B. Duke (1856-1925). Covers 6,510 acres, with a shoreline of 150 mi. Used for recreation and generation of hydroelectric power. |
| Lake Johnson |
in S central Wake County on Walnut Creek. Covers 160 acres and has max. depth of 18 ft. Owned by city of Raleigh. Used for fishing, boating, and municipal water supply. |
| Lake Juanita |
See Lake Louise. |
| Lake Junaluska |
central Haywood County on Richland Creek. Formerly covered 250 acres, but silt filled it until it is much smaller. Named for the Cherokee Indian chief, Junaluska (ca. 1758-1858). The lake covers the site of the former community of Tuscola, which had a post office in the 1870s and 1880s. |
| Lake Kawana |
SE Avery County on Linville River. Two acres in area; max. depth 10 ft. Owned by Linville Resort and used for fishing, boating, swimming, and, sometimes in the winter, ice skating. Also known as Linville Lake. |
| Lake Kelly |
water-supply reservoir in SE Henderson County for town of Saluda. Located at the head of Kelly Creek. |
| Lake Kenilworth |
central Buncombe County in the city of Asheville. Approx. ½ mi. long. |
