Kennebec, North Carolina

Kennebec is a small unincorporated community in southern Wake County, North Carolina along the border of Harnett County. The community is situated along North Carolina Highway 55 and is the site of the Fuquay-Angier Airfield (Kennebec Flying Club). Much of the area has been recently annexed by the Harnett County town of Angier. Kennebec was named for Kennebec County, Maine (Powell 1968, p. 262). The community was also a stop on the former Durham and Southern Railway.

References

Powell, William S. (1968), The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0-8078-1247-1

Coordinates: 35°32′25″N 78°44′50″W / 35.5401590°N 78.7472358°W / 35.5401590; -78.7472358

Municipalities and communities of Wake County, North Carolina, United States

County seat: Raleigh

Cities	Durham‡ Raleigh‡

Towns	Apex Cary‡ Fuquay-Varina Garner Holly Springs Knightdale Morrisville‡ Rolesville Wake Forest‡ Wendell Zebulon

Unincorporated communities	Auburn Bonsal Carpenter Chestnut Hills Clegg Eagle Rock Falls Feltonville Forestville Friendship Green Level Holland Hopkins Kennebec Lizard Lick McCullers Crossroads Neuse New Hill Purnell Riley Hill Shotwell Stony Hill Swift Creek Willow Spring

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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