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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 |
|---|---|
| Buffalo |
community in NE Cherokee County at the mouth of Gipps Creek. |
| Buffalo Branch |
rises in W Johnston County and flows S into Middle Creek. |
| Buffalo City |
community on the mainland, W Dare County. Settled 1888. Named for Buffalo City Mills, former sawmill there. Alt. 10. |
| Buffalo Cove |
community in N Caldwell County. Named for the cove in which many buffalo were killed. Settled late eighteenth century. |
| Buffalo Creek |
rises in SW Harnett County and flows S into E Moore County (formerly Hoke County), where it enters Little River. |
| Buffalo Ford |
community in SE Randolph County served by post office, 1850-1904. Known as Buffaloford after 1894. |
| Buffalo Island |
swampy land formation on Potecasi Creek in central Hertford County. |
| Buffalo Island Creek |
rises in N Rockingham County and flows SE into Dan River. |
| Buffalo Knob |
a stony elevation on the Cleveland-Lincoln county line. |
| Buffalo Lake |
W Harnett County on the headwaters of Reedys Swamp. Approx. ½ mi. long. Alt. 293. |
