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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 |
|---|---|
| Sugar Grove |
community in W Watauga County on Cove Creek. Settled 1837; named for sugar maple trees in vicinity. Alt. 2,775. Post office est. 1849. |
| Sugar Hill |
community in S McDowell County on Cove Creek. Served by post office, 1846-1917. |
| Sugar Hollow |
SE Buncombe County between Ashworth Creek and Reed Branch. |
| Sugar Loaf |
mountain in N Alexander County. Named for its resemblance to an oldfashioned loaf of sugar. |
| Sugar Loaf Island |
in Bogue Sound off Morehead City in S Carteret County. |
| Sugar Loaf Mountain |
central Transylvania County between curves in the French Broad River. |
| Sugar Loaf Township |
N Alexander County. |
| Sugar Mountain |
central Avery County. Alt. 5,240. |
| Sugar Springs Cove |
NE Buncombe County between Little Craggy Knob and North Fork [Swannanoa River]. |
| Sugar Top |
mountain in E Haywood County near the head of Garden Creek. Alt. 4,400. |
