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Place Description
Killpecker Ridge

NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a spur extending SE from Jenkins Trail Ridge.

Killquick

See Lawrence.

Kilmer Memorial Forest

See Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.

Kimbolton

community in N Chatham County served by post office, 1859-1923.

Kimesville

community in W Alamance and E Guilford Counties. Settled about 1745; a mill there dates from about 1788. Named for the Keim (Kime) family, a pioneer German family in the area.

Kimsey Bald

on the Clay-Macon county line.

Kimsey Cove

NE Cherokee County in the Valley River Mountains. An unnamed stream flowing through the cove empties into Vengeance Creek.

Kimsey Creek

rises in S Buncombe County and flows SW into Henderson County, where it enters Cane Creek. A large lime deposit along Kimsey Creek is now used for crushed stone.

Kimsey Gap

S Macon County between Allison Creek and Jones Creek.

Kimsey Ridge

S Clay County, extends NE in an arc from Sweetwater Gap to Sweetwater Creek.