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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 |
|---|---|
| West Point |
former plantation, tavern, and ferry in W Wayne County at the junction of Thoroughfare Swamp and Neuse River; owned by Andrew Bass, delegate to the Provincial Congress of 1775, whose lands included site of Waynesborough, which see. Wayne County court met there during 1785. Later known as Bass Ferry. West Point was location for receipt and inspection of tobacco in 1784. |
| West Prong Grape Creek |
rises in central Cherokee County and flows SE and SW into Grape Creek. |
| West Prong Horse Branch |
rises in central Duplin County and flows SE into Northeast Cape Fear River. |
| West Prong Little Yadkin River |
rises in W Stokes County and flows SE to join East Prong Little Yadkin River in forming Little Yadkin River. |
| West Prong Roaring River |
See North Prong Roaring River. |
| West Prong [Glady Fork] |
rises in S Transylvania County and flows SE and then NE to join South Prong [Glady Fork] in forming Glady Fork. Also known as Galloway Creek. |
| West Prong [Hickory Fork] |
rises in N Madison County and flows SE into Hickory Fork. |
| West Ridge Branch |
rises in N Transylvania County and flows SW into South Fork Mills River. |
| West Rockingham |
unincorporated outskirts of town of Rockingham, W Richmond County. |
| West Sanford Township |
former township in W central Lee County, now township no. 6. |
