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Place Description
Chinquapin Township

W Jones County.

Chip

community in S Montgomery County between Thickety Creek and Little River. Served by post office, 1920-32. Likely named for byproducts of local sawmills.

Chisholm's Store

See Pekin.

Chiska Creek

rises in W central Bertie County and flows E into Cashie River. Hills Mill on the creek is shown on the Collet map, 1770, but not on later maps.

Chisman

community in SE Stokes County.

Chockeyotte

town in N Halifax County. Inc. 1901.

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 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 Inc. 1917; charter repealed 1947; reincorporated 1959.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.