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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 |
|---|---|
| Warrenton Township |
central Warren County. |
| Warrick |
See Peterson. |
| Warrick Branch |
rises in W Mitchell County and flows S into Toe River. |
| Warrington |
See Fort Landing. |
| Warrior |
African American community in central Caldwell County. |
| Warrior Creek |
rises in central Caldwell County and flows NE into Yadkin River in W end of Happy Valley. |
| Warrior Fork [Catawba River] |
is formed in W central Burke County by the junction of Irish and Upper Creeks and flows SE into Catawba River. |
| Warrior Gap |
central Caldwell County. |
| Warrior Mountain |
central Caldwell County. Alt. approx. 2,000. |
| Warsaw |
town in W Duplin County. Alt. 160. Settled about 1825. Inc. 1855. Early known as Mooresville. Renamed by the conductor of the first train to run through what was then a crossroads community because he was reading a popular novel, Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter (1776-1850). |
