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Soco Fallson Soco Creek, W Haywood County. Water falls in a double stream over a series of rocky ledges for about 60 ft. into a cuplike basin. Said to have been named by the Cherokees for their word Sog-wah (one).
Soco Fallson the head of Soco Creek in N Jackson County.
Soco Gapon the Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 4,344. The most important passageway through Balsam Mountain for the Indians before the arrival of Europeans.
Soco RidgeS Macon County between North Fork Coweeta Creek and the head of Hoglot Branch.
Soda Hillcommunity in NE Watauga County.
Sodomcommunity in N Madison County served by post office, 1898-1901. Laurel River and its tributaries drain the area. Local legend is that, after Presbyterian missionaries visited, name was changed to Revere, which see.
Sodom Branchrises in NW Madison County near Sodom Mountain and flows N into Big Laurel Creek.
Sodom Branchrises in SW Yancey County and flows NW into Indian Creek. Named for an early sawmill camp, at which prostitution, violence of all kinds, and drunkenness were common. Nearby settlers drew upon the Bible for an appropriate name for the camp.
Sodom Hollowcentral Buncombe County, the valley through which French Broad River flows NW of Asheville toward Dryman Mountain. Named by an early circuit rider, who compared the rough pioneers living there with the inhabitants of the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
Sodom Mountaincentral Madison County between Walnut Gap and Lumptown.