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Place Description
Chinquapin Ridge

a loamy section in N Pitt County between Great Swamp and Gum Pond (swamp).

Chinquapin Township

W Jones County.

Chip

community in S Montgomery County between Thickety Creek and Little River. Served by post office, 1920-32. Likely named for byproducts of local sawmills.

Chisholm's Store

See Pekin.

Chiska Creek

rises in W central Bertie County and flows E into Cashie River. Hills Mill on the creek is shown on the Collet map, 1770, but not on later maps.

Chisman

community in SE Stokes County.

Chockeyotte

town in N Halifax County. Inc. 1901.

Chockoyotte Creek

rises in N Halifax County and flows SE into Roanoke River. Name believed to be a Tuscarora Indian word. A stone aqueduct, part of the pre-Civil War Roanoke Navigation Canal, remains over the creek. It appears as Chocolate Creek on the Collet map, 1770.

Chocolate Creek

See Chockoyotte Creek.

Chocolate Drop Mountain

See Foster Mountain.