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is formed in Montgomery County, Va., by the junction of North Fork and South Fork and flows SE into North Carolina in NE Warren County. It flows across a corner of Warren and along the Halifax-Northampton, Halifax-Bertie, Bertie-Martin, and Bertie-Washington county lines into Batchelor Bay of Albemarle Sound. The John H. Kerr Dam on Roanoke River in Virginia creates Kerr Lake, a part of which is in Granville, Vance, and Warren Counties. Appears as Morattico River on the Comberford map, 1657, and as Noratake River on the Ogilby map, 1671. The Moseley map, 1733, specifies Roanoke River.

See Albemarle Sound.

between Roanoke Island and the Outer Banks in E Dare County. Known in the eighteenth century as Sanderson's Channel for Richard Sanderson, local landowner. The name Walter Rawleigh appears there on the Collet map, 1770, though it is uncertain whether it was intended to represent the name of the sound. See also Albemarle Sound.

E central Northampton County.

rises in S Mitchell County and flows NW into Crabtree Creek.

rises in W Avery County and flows S into North Toe River.

SW Avery County.

rises in E Madison County and flows S into Big Laurel Creek.

rises in W Macon County and flows SW into Nantahala River.

W Madison County parallel to Roaring Fork.