Place:Ahoskie, Hertford, North Carolina, United States

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Name
Ahoskie
Alternate names
Ahoskey     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37000190)
Ahosky     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37000190)
Ahosky Ridge     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37000190)
Ahostskey     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37000190)
Ahostsky     (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS37000190)
Type
Town
Coordinates
36.286°N 76.986°W
Located in
Hertford, North Carolina, United States

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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Ahoskie is a town in Hertford County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,523 at the 2000 census. Ahoskie is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. Ahoskie is known as the "only one" because there is no other town in the world known by the same name. Native Americans are said to have been the origin of he word Ahoskie which means "A hot sky".

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