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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 |
|---|---|
| Yellow Mountains |
See Unaka Mountains. |
| Yellow Patch Branch |
rises in E Jackson County and flows SW into Wolf Creek. |
| Yellow Spot |
mountain in N Mitchell County. Alt. 5,112. |
| Yellow Swamp |
rises in S Wayne County and flows W into Thoroughfare Swamp. |
| Yellowcreek |
community in N Graham County on Yellow Creek. Served by post office, 1878-1953. Alt. 1,800. |
| Yellowhammer Branch |
rises in NW Graham County and flows E into Cheoah River. |
| Yellowhammer Gap |
NW Graham County between Hangover Lead and Little Tennessee River. |
| Yellowstone Falls |
the final of a series of three waterfalls on Yellowstone Prong, S Haywood County. |
| Yellowstone Prong |
rises in S Haywood County on the S slope of Black Balsam Knob and flows E into East Fork Pigeon River. Named because of the yellow color of mosses growing on stones in the stream. Upper Falls, Second Falls, and Yellowstone Falls are located on the stream. |
| Yeopim |
community in SW Perquimans County served by post office, 1884-88. Named for the Yeopim Indian tribe, which inhabited the region in the seventeenth century. Alt. 15. |
