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Place Description
Island Fort

community in S Rutherford County served by post office, 1827-1907.

Island Swamp

rises in E Pitt County and flows NE into Chicod Creek.

Isle Hatton

island in Pamlico Sound that cannot now be identified; appears on the Smith map, 1624.

Isothermal Belt

See Thermal Belt.

Ita

community in N Nash County.

Itiner

community in E Harnett County.

Itom

community in central Rutherford County served by post office, 1887-1933.

Ivanhoe

community in S Sampson County on Black River. Named in the 1880s for the hero in Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. Alt. 29. The Colton map, 1861, shows a community at the site named Black River. Corbetts Ferry there was taken by Gen. Richard Caswell on the eve of the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge. Corbetts Ferry appears on maps at the site through 1865. Black River Presbyterian Church, est. there in 1740, occupies a building erected in 1859.

Ivestor Gap

S Haywood County on the head of Little East Fork Pigeon River.

Ivestor Ridge

S Haywood County between Grassy Cove Prong and Dark Prong.