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Place Description
Commissioners Creek

rises in S Macon County and flows SE into Little Tennessee River. Likely named in honor of the commissioners who surveyed the North Carolina-Georgia state line in 1819.

Como

town in N Hertford County. First known as Buckhorn. Post office est. in 1883 was named Como for Lake Como in Italy. Inc. 1967.

Company Mills

community in NE Guilford County served by post office, 1873-1903.

Company Shops

See Burlington.

Compass Bald Mountain

NE Clay County at the head of Compass Creek. Alt. 3,296.

Compass Creek

rises in central Nash County, flows SE into Edgecombe County, and enters Tar River 1 mi. E of Edgecombe-Nash county line.

Complex

community in SE Davidson County.

Conaby Creek

rises in W Washington County S of the town of Plymouth and flows NE into Roanoke River. It appears as Conalis Creek on the Collet map, 1770, and as Conaly Creek on maps as recent as the 1932 soil survey map. Shown as Coneby Creek on the MacRae map, 1833, and referred to as Conoby Creek in Doc. No. 259, House of Representatives, 63d Congress, 1st Session, 1913.

Conalis Creek

See Conaby Creek.

Conaly Creek

See Conaby Creek.