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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 |
|---|---|
| Bluerock Knob |
E Yancey County near the head of George Fork. Alt. 4,859. |
| Blues Pond |
W Scotland County on Joes Creek. Covers 30 acres. Formed prior to 1909 and known earlier as Gibsons Millpond. |
| Bluewing |
community in NW Granville County. |
| Bluewing Mine |
copper mine on branch of Aarons Creek in NW Granville County. First operated 1898-1900; opened again for a short time during World War I. |
| Bluff |
community in W Madison County on Meadow Fork. Alt. 2,150. |
| Bluff Branch |
rises in N Clay County and flows SW into Tusquitee Creek. |
| Bluff Mountain |
W Madison County near the head of Hickory Ridge Branch. Alt. 4,640. |
| Bluff Park |
See Doughton Park. |
| Bluff Point |
extends from SE Pasquotank County into the Pasquotank River on the N shore of Little Flatty Creek. |
| Bluff Shoal |
formed by the merging waters of the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, extends from Bluff Point on the S mainland of Hyde County to Royal Shoal on the Carteret-Hyde county line. The name appears as early as the Mouzon map, 1775. |
