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Place Description
Crooked Run Creek

rises in S Stokes County and flows SW into N Forsyth County, where it flows back NW into Stokes County again and into Little Yadkin River.

Crooked Swamp

rises in N Nash County and flows SE then NE into Fishing Creek.

Cross Branch

rises in S Columbus County and flows SW into Horry County, S.C., where it enters Buck Creek.

Cross Canal

drains water from NW Camden County (Dismal Swamp) to the E into Dismal Swamp Canal.

Cross Creek

rises in N Cumberland County and flows SE through Lake Wood and Fayetteville into Cape Fear River. So named because early settlers found that Cross Creek and Little Cross Creek crossed each other. See also Fayetteville.

Cross Creek Township

central Cumberland County. Coextensive with the city of Fayetteville.

Cross Hill

former community near Carthage, central Moore County. There, at Alexander Morrison's home, Tories gathered before going to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, February 27, 1776.

Cross Knob

N Buncombe County between Chestnut Ridge and Rattlesnake Ridge.

Cross Landing

community in W Tyrrell County E of Scuppernong River.

Cross Millpond

See Hunters Millpond.