Gum Swamp Creek | rises in N Lenoir County and flows SW into Falling Creek. Name appears in local records dating from before the Revolution. Named for sweet gum trees in the area; sometimes locally called Sweetgum Swamp. |
Gum Swamp Creek | rises in E Richmond County and NW Scotland County and flows S across Scotland County into South Carolina, where it enters Little Pee Dee River. |
Gum Swamp Run | rises in SE Beaufort County in Gum Swamp and flows W into South Creek. |
Gumberry | community in N central Northampton County. Settled about 1882. Alt. 134. Name probably derived from fruit of a tree described by John Lawson in 1709 as a type of black gum, the berries of which were used by the Indians in making soup and in cooking peas and beans. |
Gumberry Swamp | rises in W Northampton County and flows S to join Lily Pond Creek in forming Wheeler Creek. For origin of name, see Gumberry. |
Gumflats Creek | rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Taylor Creek. |
Gumlog Creek | rises in Union County, Ga., and flows NE into Clay County, where it enters Brasstown Creek. |
Gumstand Gap | N Transylvania County on Seniard Ridge. |
Gumtree | community in N Davidson County; named for a gum tree (cut down about 1948) at the junction of the Thomasville and Lexington roads to Winston-Salem. |
Gun Creek | rises in W central Alamance County and flows SE into Great Alamance Creek. |