| Croatan | community in E Craven County. Settled about 1800. Alt. 28. |
| Croatan National Forest | in parts of Carteret, Craven, and Jones Counties. Est. 1933. Covers 294,610 acres. Includes the Croatan Cooperative Wildlife Management Area. Headquarters are in New Bern. |
| Croatan Sound | connects Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds between Roanoke Island and the mainland of Dare County. Appears as The Narrows on the Moseley map, 1733. Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge, opened 2002 and 5 mi. in length, spans the sound to connect Roanoke Island to Manns Harbor. |
| Croatan Township | central Dare County on the mainland. |
| Croatoan Island | a name applied by John White on his map of 1585 to the S portion of Hatteras Island (Dare County) and a portion of Ocracoke Island (Hyde County). Hatteras Inlet, now dividing this portion of the Outer Banks into two islands, was opened in 1846. Ralph Lane, governor of the first Roanoke colony, named the island "My Lord Admirals Iland" in honor of Lord Howard of Effingham, created Lord High Admiral in 1585. By 1657 Comberford showed the island as "Chowanoke." Smith, in 1624, had called it Abbots Island. The name Croatoan was derived from the Indian village that was on the present Cape Hatteras (Kro-otän [talk town], indicating the chief's residence.) See also Portsmouth Island. |
| Croft | community in N Mecklenburg County. A post office there, Alexandriana, was est. in the home of Joseph McKnitt Alexander in 1804 and continued until 1886. By 1896 the name Croft was in use. Long served by only filling station in N Mecklenburg County. |
| Cromartie | community in central Robeson County served by post office, 1892-1917. |
| Cromarties Bridge | See Hickory Grove Crossroads. |
| Cromartys Ferry | See Hickory Grove Crossroads. |
| Cromwell Canal | a stream, rises in S Edgecombe County and flows SW into Tar River. |