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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 |
|---|---|
| Ball Island |
small tidal-marsh island in the Bay River estuary, E Pamlico County. Used as a target for practice bombing by Marines. |
| Ball Mountain |
S Buncombe County. |
| Ball Pocosin |
E Lenoir County between Vine Swamp and Southwest Creek. |
| Ball's Point |
point of land extending from W Carteret County into White Oak River. |
| Ballard |
community in N Martin County, named for the plantation of John Bryant located near there in 1734. The first court in Martin County met in the community on the land of John Griffin, 1774. |
| Ballard Cove |
the valley through which Ballard Creek flows in SW Buncombe County. |
| Ballard Creek |
rises in N Lincoln County and flows SE into Anderson Creek. |
| Ballard Crossroads |
community in SW Gates County. |
| Ballard Gap |
E Transylvania County between Fodderstack Mountain and Pine Mountain. |
| Ballards Crossroads |
community in W Pitt County. |
