Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Green Mountain Township |
NE Yancey County. |
| Green Oak Creek |
rises in E Pender County and flows SW into Northeast Cape Fear River. |
| Green Park |
former community in N Caldwell County, now within the limits of Blowing Rock, which see. Named for the Green family, descendants of Richard Green, who settled there in the late eighteenth century. |
| Green Point |
NE Carteret County at mouth of Lewis Creek on E side of Cedar Island. |
| Green Pond |
See Highs Crossroads. |
| Green Ridge |
S Haywood County between Tom Creek and Green Creek. |
| Green River |
rises in SW Henderson County and flows NE into Polk County, where it turns SE to enter Broad River on the Polk-Rutherford county line. Lake Summit in Henderson County and Lake Adger in Polk County are on Green River. The Peter Guice Bridge on Interstate 26 across the river is the second-highest bridge in the eastern United States after the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. |
| Green River Gap |
on the Henderson-Polk county line. Alt. 2,700. Green River rises nearby. |
| Green River Township |
S Henderson County. |
| Green Swamp |
NW Brunswick and E Columbus Counties, an area of approx. 140 sq. mi. of peat and muck timberland. In 1795 the state of North Carolina granted 170,120 acres there to Benjamin Rowell, William Collins, and Stephen Williams. See also River View Community. |