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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Big Black Pine Ridge |
W Watauga County, extends NW to the Avery-Watauga county line N of Grassy Gap Branch. |
| Big Branch |
rises in SE Alexander County and flows SE into Elk Shoal Creek. |
| Big Buckeye Cove |
SE Haywood County on the head of East Fork Pigeon River. |
| Big Buffalo Creek |
rises in central Lee County and flows NW into Deep River. |
| Big Bugaboo Creek |
rises in NE Wilkes County and flows S into Yadkin River. |
| Big Butt |
on the Madison County, N.C.-Greene County, Tenn., line. Alt. 4,836. |
| Big Butt Creek |
rises in NE Buncombe County and flows NW into Straight Creek. |
| Big Butt Knob |
on the Buncombe-Yancey county line between Flat Spring Knob and Little Butt Knob. |
| Big Butt Mountain |
peak of Newfound Mountain on the Buncombe-Haywood county line. Alt. 4,744. |
| Big Butte |
mountain on the Buncombe-Yancey county line SW of Flat Springs Gap. Alt. 6,001. Formerly known as Wilson Knob Mountain; also called Yeates Knob. |
