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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 |
|---|---|
| Thomasville |
city in NE Davidson County. Founded 1852; inc. 1857. Named for John Warwick Thomas (1800-1871), founder. Produces furniture, textiles, hosiery, apparel, lumber, and concrete pipe. |
| Thomasville Township |
NE Davidson County. |
| Thompkins Knob |
at the junction of the Ashe-Watauga-Wilkes county lines in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Alt. 4,100. Also spelled Tomkins Knob. |
| Thompson |
See Westover. |
| Thompson Branch |
rises in S Swain County and flows N into Sawmill Creek. |
| Thompson Creek |
rises in N Transylvania County and flows S into South Fork Mills River. |
| Thompson Knob |
N of Shuckpen Gap on the Buncombe-Haywood county line on Smathers View Mountain. Alt. 4,192. |
| Thompson River |
rises in SW Transylvania County and flows SE into Oconee County, S.C., where it enters Whitewater River. |
| Thompson Store |
community in NE Mecklenburg County. |
| Thompson Township |
former township in SE Alamance County, now township no. 9. |
