Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Hooker Gap |
SW Buncombe County at the E end of Holland Mountain. |
| Hookers Knob |
E Madison County between Jarvis Mountain and Gabriels Creek. |
| Hookerton |
town in SE Greene County on Contentnea Creek. Alt. 75. Inc. as Hookerton, 1817, on the lands of William Hooker. Known as Caswells Landing prior to the Revolution for Benjamin Caswell, brother of Governor Richard Caswell. Several early nineteenth-century academies flourished there, and a public library was est. in 1817. |
| Hookerton Township |
S Greene County. |
| Hooks Branch |
rises in W Johnston County and flows S into Black Creek. |
| Hoop Pole Creek |
a waterway between several small islands near the E end of Bogue Banks, S Carteret County in Bogue Sound. |
| Hooper Bald |
W Graham County between McGuires community and Huckleberry Knob. Alt. 5,429. Named for Enos Hooper, who moved to Graham from Jackson County and had a farm in the valley below the mountain. |
| Hooper Branch |
rises in S Graham County and flows NW into Snowbird Creek. |
| Hooper County |
was authorized to be est. from Robeson and Richmond Counties in 1851 provided the people in the territory voted for its creation. The people voted against the new county, however. It was to have been named in honor of William Hooper, one of the North Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence. |
| Hooper Cove |
W Graham County between Cedar Top and Rattler Ford. |