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Place	Description
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.
Choga Creek	rises in W Macon County and flows NE into Nantahala Lake.
Choggy Butte Mountain	in E Jackson County on the head of Mull Creek.
Chokeberry Branch	rises in N Swain County and flows W into Forney Creek.
Choowatic Creek	rises in SE Bertie County and flows E into Roquist Creek.
Choratuck Inlet	See Currituck Inlet.
Chowan	an Indian town, shown on the Moseley map, 1733, as lying in the S central part of present Gates County between Bennetts Creek and Trotman Creek.
Chowan Beach	See Mount Gallant.
Chowan Beach	on Chowan River S of the mouth of Meherrin River on the E border of Hertford County. First named Mount Gallant for John Gallant, who operated a ferry there about 1720. Known as Mount Zion in the latter half of the eighteenth century.