| 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 Creek | rises in SE Guilford County and flows NE into Stinking Quarter Creek. |
| Chocolate Drop Mountain | See Foster Mountain. |
| Chocowinity | town in W Beaufort County. Known as Godleys Crossroads until renamed for nearby creek. Inc. 1917; charter repealed 1947; reincorporated 1959. Railroad station name was Marsden, adopted in 1917 for Marsden J. Perry, a railroad official. Alt. 35. |
| Chocowinity Bay | formed by the mouth of Chocowinity Creek in Pamlico River, W Beaufort County. |
| Chocowinity Creek | rises in SW Beaufort County and flows N into Chocowinity Bay and Pamlico River. Called Worsley Creek on the Collet map, 1770; by 1808 (Price's map) it was called by its present name, though MacRae's map in 1833 called it Chocowinity Swamp. The name is said to be Indian in origin and to mean "fish from many waters." |
| Chocowinity Swamp | See Chocowinity Creek. |
| Chocowinity Township | SW Beaufort County. |
| Choffington | traditional site of the first courthouse of Cumberland County, located at the mouth of Little River near the present site of Linden in the N part of the county. The courthouse was there from 1755 until it was moved to Campbellton in 1765. The name may be derived from the old English word "chuff," meaning a rustic or rude, coarse fellow, and may have been applied by people of English descent to the recently arrived Scots. |