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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.
Some place names included in The North Carolina Gazetteer contain terms that are considered offensive.
"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 Governors Creek |
rises in E Moore County and flows NW into Deep River on the Moore-Lee county line. Called Millstone Creek in a 1748 grant to Governor Gabriel Johnston. Named for Johnston, who owned 7,000 acres N of the creek. Appears as Governors Creek on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Big Grassy Creek |
rises in E central Avery County and flows SW into Linville River. |
| Big Green Mountain |
SE Jackson County between Little Green Mountain and Panthertown Creek. Alt. 4,100. |
| Big Grill Ridge |
NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, extending SE from Devils Tater Patch. |
| Big Harris Creek |
rises in central Cleveland County and flows SE into First Broad River. |
| Big Haw Mountain |
central Avery County. |
| Big Head Branch |
rises in NE Swain County and flows SE into Straight Fork. |
| Big Hogback Creek |
rises in SE Jackson County and flows SW into Horsepasture River. |
| Big Horse Creek |
rises in SW Grayson County, Va. and flows SE into N central Ashe County, where it enters North Fork New River. |
| Big Hungry Creek |
rises in E Henderson County and flows SW into Green River. |
