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Trantuscommunity in SW Martin County served by post office, 1901-1904.
Trapcommunity in NE Bertie County. Named because a local tavern about 1860 "trapped" men of the community, according to their wives.
Trap Branchrises in NE Swain County and flows W into Straight Fork.
Trap Hill TownshipNE Wilkes County.
Traphillcommunity in N Wilkes County E of Little Sandy Creek. Area settled by 1775. In 1833 a town to be named Johnsonville (for an invalid Revolutionary War veteran wounded at Kings Mountain, Capt. Samuel Johnson, who died the next year) was authorized to be laid out at Trap Hill but never developed. A post office to serve the community was est. there in 1837 and named Trap Hill for hunter William Blackburn's rail-pen snare, which he frequently set on a nearby hill to catch wild turkeys.
Traps BayS Onslow County on the E side of New River nears its mouth. Named for Capt. Cornelius Trap, who was living in the county in 1746.
Traps Creekrises in SE Onslow County and flows SW into Traps Bay.
Traverse Creekrises in E Guilford County and flows NE into Alamance County, where it enters Haw River.
Traviscommunity in NW Tyrrell County N of Scuppernong River.
Trays Island Creekrises in S Jackson County on the N slope of Bald Rock Mountain. It flows N and W around the mountain and then S through Fairfield Lake into Horsepasture River.