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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 |
|---|---|
| Snow Creek Township |
S central Mitchell County. |
| Snow Hill |
community in N Chowan County. |
| Snow Hill Crossroads |
community in N Duplin County. |
| Snow Hill Township |
central Greene County. |
| Snow Marsh |
a series of small tidal marshes, SE Brunswick County in the Cape Fear River below Sunny Point. |
| Snow Mountain |
N Avery County. Alt. 5,332. |
| Snow Point |
SE Brunswick County, extends SE from the mainland into Cape Fear River at the mouth of Walden Creek and on the W side of Snow Marsh. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Snowball Gap |
N Buncombe County SE of Little Snowball Mountain. |
| Snowball Mountain |
NE Buncombe County at the S end of Little Fork Ridge. Also known as Big Snowball Mountain. Alt. 5,494. Named for the fact that in winter the peak is frequently covered at its crest by a low cloud, giving the appearance of a large snowball. |
| Snowbird Creek |
rises in SW Graham County and flows SE and NE into Santeetlah Lake. Called Titiyi (snowbird place) by Indians. |
