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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 |
|---|---|
| Southwest Creek |
rises in N Carteret County and flows NE into South River. |
| Southwest Fork [Alligator River] |
rises in S Tyrrell County near Alligator Lake and flows NE into Northwest Fork [Alligator River]. |
| Southwest Prong Branch |
rises in W central Carteret County and flows N into Moon Creek. |
| Southwest Stony Fork Creek |
rises in E Watauga County and flows SE into W Wilkes County to enter Stony Fork Creek. |
| Southwood |
community in S Bladen County in Carvers Creek Township. |
| Sowell Run |
rises in S Greene County and flows NE into Rainbow Creek. Named for the Sowell family, which settled in the vicinity before the Revolution. |
| Sowell's Mill Creek |
See Mill Creek. |
| Spaightville |
a town inc. 1802 and authorized to be laid out on the "ne side of French Broad River … opposite, or a little above the upper Warm Springs" to accommodate visitors to the springs. It is not known whether the town ever existed, but it is reasonable to assume that the present Hot Springs, which see, in W Madison County is its "descendant." Spaightville was undoubtedly named for Governor Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802), who died approx. 2 months before the act was passed. |
| Spain Branch |
rises in S Buncombe County and flows SE into Avery Creek. |
| Spainhour Creek |
rises in central Caldwell County and flows SW approx. 4 mi. into Lower Creek. |
