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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 |
|---|---|
| Upper Pigeonroost |
community on Right Fork [Pigeonroost Creek] in W Mitchell County. |
| Upper Poplar |
community on Hollow Poplar Creek in NW Mitchell County. |
| Upper Richlands |
See Richlands. |
| Upper Sassafras Gap |
N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Noland Divide near lat. 35°31'56" N., long. 83°27'15" W. |
| Upper Saura Town |
former Indian village in Stokes County on Dan River. Site approx. 4 mi. E of Madison. Probably occupied by Saura Indians by the middle of the seventeenth century and abandoned in the early eighteenth century. Saura or Sara meant "a place of tall grass or weeds." The site, occupied by descendants of Europeans, was still known as Sauratown as late as 1894. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Upper Sawra and on the Price map, 1808, as Saurat, but it does not appear on later maps. |
| Upper Spring Creek |
rises in NW Goose Creek Island, NW Pamlico County, and flows N to join Campbell Creek at the Beaufort-Pamlico county line to form Goose Creek. |
| Upper Town Creek Township |
former township in W Edgecombe County, now township no. 11. |
| Upper Township |
former township in N Chowan County, now township no. 3. |
| Upper Trail Ridge |
SW Macon County between Nichols Branch and Big Shoal Branch. |
| Upton |
community in NW Caldwell County. Alt. 1,420. |
