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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 |
|---|---|
| Toodies Creek |
rises in S Yancey County and flows NE into Cane River. |
| Tooles Creek |
rises in N Franklin County and flows SW into Lynch Creek. |
| Tooleys Creek |
rises in SE Beaufort County and flows S into South Creek. |
| Tooleys Point |
point of land in E Beaufort County on the N side of Pungo River at the mouth of Pantego Creek, SE limits of Belhaven. |
| Tools Ford |
former passage across Catawba River between Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties E of the present site of Mount Holly. Named for Matthew Tool, who had a grant of land in the vicinity in 1750. The ford was used by troops crossing the Catawba River during the Revolutionary War. |
| Toomer |
See Summerville. |
| Toot Hollow Branch |
rises in central Swain County and flows S through Bryson City into Tuckasegee River. |
| Topnot |
community in central Caswell County. A post office operated there, 1883-1936. |
| Topsail |
community in S Pender County. Alt. 40. |
| Topsail Beach |
town in SE Pender County on the Atlantic Ocean side of Topsail Island. Inc. 1963. Known prior to 1963 as New Topsail Beach. |
