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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 |
|---|---|
| Watch Knob |
central Buncombe County near the junction of Beetree Creek and Swannanoa River. |
| Water Creek |
rises in S Scotland County and flows SW into Gum Swamp Creek. |
| Water Fork |
rises in W Orange County and flows S into Bear Creek. |
| Water Gap |
central Graham County between Mountain Creek and Sweetwater Creek. |
| Water Oak Gap |
N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Welch Ridge near lat. 35°30'32" N., long. 83°36'21" W. |
| Water Tank Branch |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SE into Valley River. Named because the Southern Railway used it as a source of water for its steam locomotives. |
| Waterfall Branch |
rises in N Mitchell County and flows S into Right Fork Bean Creek. |
| Waterfall Creek |
rises in NE Buncombe County and flows NW into Carter Creek. |
| Waterhole Mine |
mica and feldspar mine, SW Avery County. |
| Watering Hole Swamp |
rises in W Robeson County and flows S into Wilkinson Swamp. Also sometimes known as Waterhole Swamp. |
