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White Oak Riverrises in N Onslow and S Jones Counties and flows SE on the Jones-Onslow county line to the Carteret-Onslow county line and into the Atlantic Ocean through Bogue Inlet. It is approx. 20 mi. long. Name derived from the Weetock Indian tribe. Appears as Weetock on the Lawson map, 1709; as Weitock River on the Moseley map, 1733; and as White Oak River on the Collet map, 1770.
White Oak Spring CanalSee Hamburg Ditch.
White Oak Stampa peak in SE Clay County at the SE end of Little Mountain.
White Oak Swamprises in SE Bladen County and flows SE into Cape Fear River.
White Oak Swamprises in NE Edgecombe County near the town of Whitakers and flows SE into Swift Creek. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Peachtree Creek.
White Oak Swamprises in NE Franklin County and flows SE into Nash County, where it turns NE to flow into Fishing Creek.
White Oak Swamprises in S Nash County and flows NE into Toisnot Swamp.
White Oak TownshipN Bladen County.
White Oak TownshipW Carteret County on White Oak River and Bogue Sound. For a time called township no. 1.
White Oak TownshipN central Haywood County.