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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 |
|---|---|
| Alpine |
community in S Sampson County served by post office, 1894-1915. |
| Alspaugh |
community in central Forsyth County. |
| Alston |
community in central Warren County. Post office est. there in 1903 but discontinued in 1918. |
| Altamahaw |
community in W Alamance County on Haw River. Founded about 1860 with the establishment of a cotton gin there. Later the site of several textile mills. The community of Ossipee lies directly s. Name of Indian origin, meaning unknown. |
| Altamont |
community in S Avery County. Name means high mountain. Thomas Wolfe adopted name for his fictitious Asheville in Look Homeward, Angel (1929). |
| Altamont Township |
S Avery County. |
| Altan |
community in S central Union County. Served by post office from 1890 to 1904. |
| Altapass |
community in SE Mitchell County on Little Rose Creek. Alt. 2,623. |
| Alto |
See Lasker. |
| Alum Knob |
N Madison County between Alum Ridge and Shelton Laurel Creek. |
