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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: where geog. features get their names
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005
From: Miriam Kennard <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
I looked in the "North Carolina Gazeteer" (William Powell). It does
give place name
origins for some entries, but not all. There were several entries for
Big Butt, Big Butte,
Big Butt Mountain and Big Butte Mountain, but no mention of the place
name origin
for any of these.
Miriam Kennard
Geological Sciences Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:
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> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: where geog. features get their names
> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005
> From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
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> Whoops - I gave the wrong title - it is North Carolina Gazetteer by
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> Powell not Carolina Through Four Centuries. Sorry about that.
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> Russell
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> At 05:05 PM 12/6/2005, you wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: where geog. features get their names
>> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005
>> From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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>> Hi;
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>> For North Carolina, there is a fun book called
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>> "<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs//exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878086820/qid=1133905801/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl14/104-8709095-8610362?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>Talking
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>> Turkey: And Other Stories of North Carolina's Oddly Named Places by
>> Jamie
>> Perry Cox, which discusses the "why" of many unusual place names in
>> NC. $14.95.
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>> There is also the
>> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=William%20Stevens%20Powell&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank//exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807818461/qid=1133906145/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-8709095-8610362?v=glance&s=books>North
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>> Carolina Through Four Centuries by William Stevens Powell that is a more
>> academic and complete approach to place names ($42.50).
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>> Cheers
>> Russell Guy
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>> At 04:35 PM 12/6/2005, you wrote:
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>>> Subject: where geog. features get their names
>>> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005
>>> From: Michael Fry <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Organization: University of Maryland Libraries
>>> To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> Anybody know of a definitive resource that would tell me not *what*
>>> something is called, but *why*?
>>> My patron wants to know why Big Butt, a summit in western North
>>> Carolina
>>> (Buncombe County), is so
>>> named, but the gazetteers we've looked at (i.e., Columbia, Omni and the
>>> GNIS) say only *what* the
>>> standard name is, not why it is. The US Board on Geographic Names has a
>>> "Decisions on geographic
>>> names in the United States" publication, but most of the entries
>>> seem to
>>> lack this kind of info (and
>>> we're missing the relevant edition, anyway).
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>>> I've since directed her to local resources, including libraries,
>>> historical societies, Forest
>>> Service offices, guide and tourist books, etc., but don't know if
>>> anything
>>> will pan out. I've also
>>> called the BGN's domestic names committee--they're checking their
>>> library.
>>>
>>> Is this sort of info lost to history, or does somebody document such
>>> things on a systematic basis?
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>>> Thanks very much for any advice you can provide.
>>>
>>> mf
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>>> Michael Fry
>>> Government Documents & Maps
>>> University of Maryland Libraries
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