rises in W Martin County and flows SW into SW Edgecombe County. It then flows SE and forms a portion of the Edgecombe-Pitt county line before entering Conetoe Creek.

community in SE Clay County served by post office, 1898-1906.

W Carteret County in White Oak River. Named for a species of fish. Formerly one of two channels used to reach Swansboro in the days of sailing vessels. Boats moving up Bogue Sound used Croaker Channel, while those approaching from the Atlantic Ocean used Ship (or West) Channel. Croaker Channel is now almost completely filled with sand.

an island shown on the White map, 1585, in what is now a part of Currituck Banks in E Currituck County. Smith, 1624, calls it Arundells Island; Comberford, 1657, makes it Lucks Island. As the latter, is the N boundary of the Carolina territory granted to the Lords Proprietors in 1663. See also Lucks Island.

community in E Craven County. Settled about 1800. Alt. 28.

in parts of Carteret, Craven, and Jones Counties. Est. 1933. Covers 294,610 acres. Includes the Croatan Cooperative Wildlife Management Area. Headquarters are in New Bern.

connects Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds between Roanoke Island and the mainland of Dare County. Appears as The Narrows on the Moseley map, 1733. Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge, opened 2002 and 5 mi. in length, spans the sound to connect Roanoke Island to Manns Harbor.

central Dare County on the mainland.

a name applied by John White on his map of 1585 to the S portion of Hatteras Island (Dare County) and a portion of Ocracoke Island (Hyde County). Hatteras Inlet, now dividing this portion of the Outer Banks into two islands, was opened in 1846. Ralph Lane, governor of the first Roanoke colony, named the island "My Lord Admirals Iland" in honor of Lord Howard of Effingham, created Lord High Admiral in 1585. By 1657 Comberford showed the island as "Chowanoke." Smith, in 1624, had called it Abbots Island. The name Croatoan was derived from the Indian village that was on the present Cape Hatteras (Kro-otän [talk town], indicating the chief's residence.) See also Portsmouth Island.

community in N Mecklenburg County. A post office there, Alexandriana, was est. in the home of Joseph McKnitt Alexander in 1804 and continued until 1886. By 1896 the name Croft was in use. Long served by only filling station in N Mecklenburg County.