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Place Description
Una Mountain

SE Swain County on the head of Una Creek.

Unahala

community in S Swain County on Yalaka Creek and Una Creek.

Unaka

community in NW Cherokee County near the junction of Copper and Beaverdam Creeks.

Unaka Mountain

on the Mitchell County, N.C.-Unicoi County, Tenn., line. Alt. approx. 5,190. See also Unicoi Mountains.

Unaka Mountains

in Avery and Mitchell Counties, N.C., and Unicoi and Carter Counties, Tenn., form the common boundary line between the two states from the Nolichucky River to the Doe River (in Tennessee). Of 40 miscellaneous maps dating from 1795 to 1930, 22 called the ridge, in whole or in part, Iron Mountains; others divide between Iron and Yellow Mountains; and 5 call them Unaka Mountains the entire distance. Unaka is a corruption of Unega, meaning "white"; it is used in the 1789 act passed by the General Assembly of North Carolina that ceded what is now the state of Tennessee to the U.S. government.

Uncas

community in E Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1893-1903.

Under Hills

See Piedmont.

Underwood Branch

rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SE into Webb Creek.

Underwood Mountain

W Henderson County, extends E in an arc between Little Willow Creek and South Fork. Alt. approx. 3,250.

Unicoi Gap

on the Cherokee County, N.C.-Monroe County, Tenn., line in the Unicoi Mountains.