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Conetoe (cuh-NEAT-uh)town in SE Edgecombe County, inc. 1887. Known earlier as Warren's Station. Named for nearby Conetoe Creek. Produces tobacco, cotton, and peanuts. Alt. 49.
Conetoe Creekrises in E Edgecombe County and flows s, where it forms a part of the Edgecombe-Pitt county line. It then flows S and SW into Tar River in Pitt County. The Collet map, 1770, shows Great Coneghta Pocosin as a swampy area on the W side of present-day Conetoe Creek in Edgecombe County. The name appears in county records as early as 1745.
Upper Conetoe Townshipformer township in E Edgecombe County, now township no. 3.
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