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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 |
|---|---|
| Wild Cat Rock |
a rugged precipice in SW Alleghany County near Doughton Park. |
| Wild Cherry Creek |
rises in N Swain County and flows NE into Beech Flats Prong. |
| Wild Cherry Ridge |
N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a short spur of Loggy Ridge near lat. 35°32'35" N., long. 83°31'25" W. |
| Wild Rock Mountain |
SE Watauga County between Joes Creek and Old House Branch. |
| Wild Side, The |
See Big Pocosin. |
| Wildcat Branch |
rises in E Franklin County and flows E into Big Peachtree Creek. |
| Wildcat Cliffs |
on the Jackson-Macon county line SE of Whiteside Mountain. |
| Wildcat Creek |
rises in N central Avery County and flows N into Elk River. |
| Wildcat Gap |
N Graham County at the NE end of Hogback Mountain between Sawyer Creek and Stecoah Creek. |
| Wildcat Hollow |
N Yancey County between Seng Branch and Cane River. |
