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Place Description
Ring Fire Knob

SE Wilkes County between Little Hunting Creek and Osborne Creek. Alt. approx. 1,300.

Ringstaff Mountains

range in the Cane Creek Mountains, S Alamance County.

Ringwood

town in SW Halifax County. Inc. 1877, but long inactive in municipal affairs. A number of homes there date from the early nineteenth century.

Rio

community in S central Transylvania County.

Rio Jordan

See Cape Fear River.

Rip Shin Mountain

N Caldwell County. Alt. 2,200.

Ripley

former town on the W outskirts of Hendersonville in central Henderson County. Inc. 1909; charter repealed 1917.

Rippetoe Mountain

S Caldwell County. Alt. 1,298. Named for William Rippetoe, who received the mountain in a land grant.

Rippys Township

former township in S Cleveland County, now township no. 3.

Ripshin Mountain

SW Buncombe County N of Mount Pisgah.