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Place Description
Coquina Beach

part of Cape Hatteras National Seashore on S Bodie Island, E Dare County across from Bodie Island Lighthouse. Remains of shipwreck Laura A Barnes, grounded 1921, rest there.

Cora

community in S Caldwell County. Named for daughter of Albert G. Corpening. Alt. 1,224.

Corani River

See New River.

Coranine River

See Newport River.

Coranine Sound

See Core Sound.

Corapeake

community in NE Gates County, settled late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries. Known as Orapeake until a post office was est. and the Post Office Department made a mistake in the spelling. Alt. 44. See also Bearpond.

Corapeake Swamp

rises in N Gates County and flows SE into Hamburg Ditch in the Dismal Swamp. Appears as Orapeak Creek on the Moseley map, 1733. The lower course of the stream is called Elm Swamp on the Moseley map but Loosen Swamp on the Collet map, 1770. Later maps, until as recently as 1929, use the name Orapeake Swamp.

Corbett

community in SE Caswell County. Named about 1880 for J. C. and Calvin Corbett, who operated a store there. Alt. 800.

Corbetts Ferry

See Ivanhoe.

Corbin Creek

rises in E Macon County and flows SW into Cat Creek.