| Pochike River | See Meherrin River. |
| Pocket Creek | rises in W Lee County and flows N into Deep River. |
| Pocket Township | former township in W Lee County (formerly Moore County), now township no. 7. A post office named The Pocket was est. there 1828 and continued to 1905. Named for the fact that it was isolated from the remainder of the county by a bend in Deep River, hence a "pocket." |
| Pocket, The | See Pocket Township. |
| Pocomoke | community in W Franklin County. |
| Pocosin Branch | rises in S Jones County and flows N into Trent River. |
| Pocosin Branch | rises in E Pitt County and flows SE into Tranters Creek. |
| Pocosin Point | See Poquoson Point. |
| Poe-li-co | See French Broad River. |
| Poga Mountain | N Avery County at the N end of Beech Mountain. Alt. 3,790. Local tradition is that a man was lost on the mountain for several days, and when he returned home he explained to his friends that he had "been to Pogey." He may have been using the English-dialect word "poggy," meaning boggy or sloppy, as a field in wet weather. |