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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 |
|---|---|
| Tanyard Creek |
rises in N Yadkin County and flows NE into Yadkin River. |
| Tanyard Gap |
N Madison County at the head of Silvermine Branch. |
| Tapoco |
resort community in NW Graham County on Cheoah River. Served by post office, 1916-36. Alt. 1,110. Name coined by the Tallassee Power Company using the first two letters of the three words in the company name. |
| Tar Corner |
community in NE Camden County. Name said to derive from a barn painted with tar that stood at intersection of two roads. |
| Tar Creek |
rises in E Pamlico County and flows N into Broad Creek. |
| Tar Heel |
a town in NW Bladen County. Settled 1875. Inc. 1963. Alt. 100. Named either for the appellation said to have been given, by Confederates from other states, to North Carolina troops who emerged from a river with tar adhering to their heels, or for tar produced in the vicinity taken to the Cape Fear River and then by raft to Wilmington. Along the riverfront, the ground was covered with tar, and so were the feet that passed over it. |
| Tar Kiln Creek |
rises in S Pamlico County and flows S into Dawson Creek. |
| Tar Kiln Ridge |
NW Clay County, extends from Short Off to the Tusquitee Mountains. |
| Tar Landing |
community in N Onslow County between Blue Creek and New River. Early deeds refer to the landing on New River as Owen Jones's Tar Landing. |
| Tar Landing Bay |
in the extreme E end of Bogue Banks on the sound side, S Carteret County. |
