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Place Description
Chickasaw Knobs

N Henderson County near Clear Creek. Alt. 2,686.

Chickehauk

See Kitty Hawk.

Chickinacommock

See New Inlet.

Chickinnaccomac

See Chicamacomico Banks.

Chickorack River

See South Creek.

Chicod

See Simpson.

Chicod Creek

rises in W Beaufort County and flows NW into Pitt County, where it enters Tar River. Appears as Cheecods Creek on the Collet map, 1770.

Chicod Township

SE Pitt County.

Chicora

a name applied to the Carolina coastal area, probably from the Cape Fear River to the Savannah River, explored by the Spaniard Louis Vázques de Ayllón in 1526.

Chiking Indian Fort

was referred to in grants made in 1730 for land in what is now Greene County. It was located 3 to 4 mi. downstream from Hookerton, SE Greene County, on the N side of Contentnea Creek, approx. ¾ mi. above the mouth of Polecat Branch.