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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 |
|---|---|
| Jutts Gap |
on the Cherokee-Graham county line in the Snowbird Mountains. |
| Kadar |
community in S Wake County. |
| Kagle Branch |
rises in W central Transylvania County and flows S into Catheys Creek. |
| Kagle Mountain |
central Transylvania County between Catheys Creek and Kuykendall Creek. Alt. 3,908. |
| Kaiser Lake |
S Transylvania County at the head of Morgan Mill Creek. Covers 2 acres and has a max. depth of 20 ft. |
| Kalamazoo |
community in S Madison County. |
| Kalmia |
community in SE Mitchell County. A post office operated there, 1937-54. |
| Kanady Creek |
See Candy Creek. |
| Kanati Fork |
rises in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the E slope of Nettle Creek Bald and flows NE into Beech Flats Prong. |
| Kannapolis |
city in S Rowan and N Cabarrus Counties. Alt. 765. Until inc. in 1984, it was the seventeenth-largest unincorporated community in the United States and the largest in North Carolina. James William Cannon bought 600 acres there along the Southern Railway tracks in 1905; there he built houses and a mill, which began production in 1908. Cannon Mills, noted for manufacture of towels, was there. Since 2008 the site of North Carolina Research Campus, with focus on nutrition. The name comes from a form of the Cannon family name plus polis, the Greek word for city. |
