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Place Description
Upper Town Creek Township

former township in W Edgecombe County, now township no. 11.

Upper Township

former township in N Chowan County, now township no. 3.

Upper Trail Ridge

SW Macon County between Nichols Branch and Big Shoal Branch.

Upton

community in NW Caldwell County. Alt. 1,420.

Upward

community in E Henderson County served by post office, 1877-1905. First called Crossroads, being at junction of Ridge Road and Howard Gap Road. Took present name from a local estate of a South Carolina summer resident.

Urahaw Swamp

rises in S Northampton County and flows NE into Potecasi Creek. The name appears in local records as early as 1719.

Uree

community in NW Rutherford County on Broad River.

Utah Mountain

central Haywood County between Snakeden Top and Fulbright Cove. Named for the fact that a band of Mormons lived there in the 1880s and 1890s. Their practice of polygamy made them unpopular with their neighbors, and the Mormons were forced to leave North Carolina. Their houses, barns, fences, and other property were abandoned, and the ruins still exist. Orchards and vineyards, as well as ornamental flowering shrubs, are now growing wild in the vicinity.

Utley's Creek

rises in S Wake County near Holly Springs and flows SW into Big White Oak Creek.

Uwharrie (u-whar-ee)

community in NW Montgomery County served by post office, 1876-1914.