Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Four Diamond Ridge |
mountain in NE Avery County. |
| Four Forks |
community in central Pasquotank County. |
| Four Oaks |
town in W Johnston County. Settled about 1885; inc. 1889. Named for four oaks growing from the stump of a tree that had been cut down in an opossum hunt in the yard of K. L. Barbour, first to build a house there. Alt. 208. |
| Fourmile Branch |
rises in S Buncombe County and flows NW into French Broad River ½ mi. S of The Lagoon. |
| Fourmile Creek |
rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows SW into McAlpine Creek. |
| Fourth Creek |
rises in W Iredell County and flows E into Rowan County, where Third and Fourth Creeks join before entering South Yadkin River. It is the fourth creek in a series of creeks crossed by early settlers from Salisbury. The name appears on the Collet map, 1770. A settlement on the creek about 1750 later became the city of Statesville, which grew up around Fourth Creek (Presbyterian) Church. |
| Fourway |
community in S Greene County. Community took the name of a filling station built there in the late 1920s or early 1930s. |
| Foust's Creek |
See Moulder Branch. |
| Foust's Mill |
See Coleridge. |
| Fowler Bend |
formerly a sharp bend in Hiwasee River in W central Cherokee County, now a peninsula extending into Hiwassee Lake. |