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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 |
|---|---|
| Allison Creek |
rises in S central Transylvania County, just S of Elk Lodge Mountain, and flows SE into French Broad River. |
| Allman Branch |
rises in S Madison County and flows NW into French Broad River. |
| Allmon Branch |
rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SE into Morris Creek. |
| Allmon Creek |
rises in N Cherokee County in the Snowbird Mountains and flows S into Hyatt Creek. |
| Allreds |
community in NE Montgomery County served by post office, 1880-1953. Took its name from Allred family, operators of gristmill on Little River. |
| Alma |
See Daystrom. |
| Almond |
community in W Swain County on Little Tennessee River. Inc. 1905, but no longer active in municipal affairs. Named for Bud Almond, donor of original town site. Alt. 1,613. |
| Almond Township |
W Stanly County. |
| Alora |
community in E Buncombe County served by post office, 1900-1906. |
| Alpha |
community in N Rowan County served by post office, 1894-1904. |
