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Place Description
Kadar

community in S Wake County.

Kagle Branch

rises in W central Transylvania County and flows S into Catheys Creek.

Kagle Mountain

central Transylvania County between Catheys Creek and Kuykendall Creek. Alt. 3,908.

Kaiser Lake

S Transylvania County at the head of Morgan Mill Creek. Covers 2 acres and has a max. depth of 20 ft.

Kalamazoo

community in S Madison County.

Kalmia

community in SE Mitchell County. A post office operated there, 1937-54.

Kanady Creek

See Candy Creek.

Kanati Fork

rises in N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the E slope of Nettle Creek Bald and flows NE into Beech Flats Prong.

Kannapolis

city in S Rowan and N Cabarrus Counties. Alt. 765. Until inc. in 1984, it was the seventeenth-largest unincorporated community in the United States and the largest in North Carolina. James William Cannon bought 600 acres there along the Southern Railway tracks in 1905; there he built houses and a mill, which began production in 1908. Cannon Mills, noted for manufacture of towels, was there. Since 2008 the site of North Carolina Research Campus, with focus on nutrition. The name comes from a form of the Cannon family name plus polis, the Greek word for city.

Kannapolis Township

former township in NW Cabarrus County, now township no. 4. Once named Cooks Cross Roads Township.