NE Buncombe County at the NW end of Big Fork Ridge.

peak in N Transylvania County on Mills River.

rises in E Jackson County and flows SE into Mull Creek.

part of Cape Hatteras National Seashore on S Bodie Island, E Dare County across from Bodie Island Lighthouse. Remains of shipwreck Laura A Barnes, grounded 1921, rest there.

community in S Caldwell County. Named for daughter of Albert G. Corpening. Alt. 1,224.

See New River.

See Newport River.

See Core Sound.

community in NE Gates County, settled late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries. Known as Orapeake until a post office was est. and the Post Office Department made a mistake in the spelling. Alt. 44. See also Bearpond.

rises in N Gates County and flows SE into Hamburg Ditch in the Dismal Swamp. Appears as Orapeak Creek on the Moseley map, 1733. The lower course of the stream is called Elm Swamp on the Moseley map but Loosen Swamp on the Collet map, 1770. Later maps, until as recently as 1929, use the name Orapeake Swamp.