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Place Description
Sharp Top

mountain in central Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Noland Divide near lat. 35°28'05" N., long. 83°27'27" W. Alt. 3,430.

Sharper Mountain

W Wilkes County near the head of Cole Creek.

Sharpes Township

SE Alexander County.

Sharpesburg Township

NW Iredell County. Named for the Sharpe family.

Sharps

community in W Rockingham County. Named for John Sharp, local landowner.

Sharpsburg

town at the coincident corners of Edgecombe, Nash, and Wilson Counties. Inc. 1883. Settled about 1851. Named for John Jay Sharp, who moved there in 1844 and was later representative in the General Assembly. Alt. 143.

Sharptop

peak in S Yancey County N of Little Creek. Alt. approx. 5,500.

Sharptop Ridge

SE Clay County NW of Hightower Bald, Ga. See also Montgomery Corner.

Sharpy Mountain

N Transylvania County between Sandy Gap and Sampson Gap in Pisgah National Forest. Alt. 3,383.

Sharron Branch

rises in S central Brunswick County and flows SW into Sharron Creek.