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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 |
|---|---|
| Unionville |
town in N Union County at the head of Chinkapin Creek. Inc. 1911; reincorporated 1998. |
| Unity |
community in NE Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1891-1902. |
| Unity Parish |
Church of England, Guilford County, est. 1771 with the formation of the county and coextensive with it. |
| Unity Township |
N Rowan County. Named for local Presbyterian church. |
| University |
community in E Orange County on Southern Railway approx. 9 mi. N of Chapel Hill; a former rail station serving the University of North Carolina. Railroad name for the station is Glenn. Alt. 471. |
| University Lake |
on Morgan Creek in S Orange County. Formed 1932 as a municipal water supply for Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Covers 219 acres; max. depth 30 ft. |
| Uno |
community in central Henderson County on Clear Creek. |
| Upchurch |
community in W Wake County. Named for William B. Upchurch, around whose farm the community grew after a railway station was built there. Upchurch is said to have built first flue-cure tobacco barn in Wake County. |
| Upchurch Pond |
on Rockfish Creek, E Hoke and W Cumberland Counties. Approx. 5 mi. long. |
| Upland |
community in SW Chatham County. |
