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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 |
|---|---|
| Snowbird Gap |
central Graham County between Snowbird Creek and Atoah Creek. |
| Snowbird Mountain |
on the Jackson-Macon county line. |
| Snowbird Mountains |
extend across the E half of the Cherokee-Graham county line between Hawk Knob and Nantahala River. Max. alt. 4,743 at Teyahalee Bald. |
| Snowbird Top |
on the Cherokee-Graham county line in the Snowbird Mountains. Alt. 3,882. |
| Snowden |
community in N Currituck County. Post office est. 1883; named for second postmaster, Milton Snowden. Service discontinued, 1966. Alt. 9. |
| Snows Cut |
canal in S New Hanover County approx. 1 3/5 mi. long, connects Myrtle Sound with Cape Fear River. It forms a part of the Intracoastal Waterway. |
| Snyder Creek |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Tatham Creek. |
| Soakas Creek |
rises in N Davidson County and flows W into S Forsyth County, where it enters South Fork Muddy Creek. |
| Soapstone Branch |
rises in NW Henderson County in Pisgah National Forest and flows E into McDowell Creek. |
| Soapstone Creek |
rises in N Jackson County and flows N into Scott Creek. |
