rises in S Union County and flows SE into Lanes Creek.

community in S Tyrrell County on a canal, which flows SE into Alligator River.

commonly called Gum Neck Landing, rises in SE Tyrrell County and flows S into Alligator River. Appears as Landing Creek on the Collet map, 1770.

See Gum Neck Creek.

S Tyrrell County.

swamp in Grindle Pocosin in N Pitt County.

SE Beaufort and NW Pamlico Counties.

rises in N Lenoir County and flows SW into Falling Creek. Name appears in local records dating from before the Revolution. Named for sweet gum trees in the area; sometimes locally called Sweetgum Swamp.

rises in SE Beaufort County in Gum Swamp and flows W into South Creek.

community in N central Northampton County. Settled about 1882. Alt. 134. Name probably derived from fruit of a tree described by John Lawson in 1709 as a type of black gum, the berries of which were used by the Indians in making soup and in cooking peas and beans.