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Place Description
Farlow Gap

NW Transylvania County between Klesee Creek and Shuck Ridge Creek. Alt. 4,559.

Farmer

town in W Randolph County. Inc. 1897, but long inactive in municipal affairs. In center of a rich farming community.

Farmer Branch

rises in S Haywood County and flows NW into Richland Creek.

Farmer Top

central Cherokee County near the headwaters of Dockery and Rose Creeks.

Farmer's Branch

rises in W central Wilson County and flows S into Toisnot Swamp. Named prior to 1770 for Isaac Farmer Sr.

Farmers Creek

rises in N Yadkin County and flows N into Yadkin River.

Farmers Store

community in NW Ashe County.

Farmers Turnout

See Maco.

Farmington

community in N Davie County. As early as 1805, former residents of Currituck County began to move into the area. Two hurricanes in 1830 and another one in 1839 caused extensive crop damage in the Currituck County area; the population of the county dropped from 7,655 in 1830 to 6,703 in 1840. The community was known as Little Currituck until 1837, when a post office was est. and named Farmington for the fertile farming land there. Alt. 758.

Farmington Township

NE Davie County.