| Colfax | community in W Guilford County. Alt. 972. Named for Schuyler Colfax (1823-85), vice president of the United States (1869-73). |
| Colfax Township | E Rutherford County. Named for Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1823-85). |
| Colington | scattered fishing community on Colington Island, NE Dare County. |
| Colington Creek | a waterway between Kitty Hawk Bay and Buzzard Bay; E of Colington Island and separating it from N Bodie Island, E Dare County. |
| Colington Island | in Roanoke Sound, NE Dare County. About 2 mi. from N to S and from E to w, it is separated from Bodie Island by Colington Creek. Consists of two islands, Little Colington and Big Colington. Named for Sir John Colleton (1608-66), one of the Lords Proprietors, to whom it was granted in 1663. Settled by the winter of 1664-65. Earlier known as Carlile Island in honor of Christopher Carleill, stepson of Sir Francis Walsingham, who accompanied Sir Francis Drake on his 1586 Florida-Virginia expedition as Drake's lieutenant general. Appears as Carlile Island on the Ogilby map, 1671, and as Colleton Island on both the Blome map, 1672, and the Moseley map, 1733. The Collet map, 1770, and the Mouzon map, 1775, have Collintons Island. |
| Colington Island Shoal | lies off the NW tip of Roanoke Island, Dare County, in the waters of Albemarle and Croatan Sounds. |
| Colkins Neck | a sandy area about 2 mi. long and 1 mi. wide, almost surrounded by tidal marsh, SW Brunswick County along the South Carolina line. |
| Colleton County | was est. prior to 1691 by the Lords Proprietors of Carolina in what is now SE South Carolina. Named for Landgrave James Colleton, who resided in the area. |
| Colleton Island | See Colington Island. |
| Collett Camp Branch | rises in N Clay County and flows SW into Long Branch. |