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.

rises in W Northampton County and flows S to join Lily Pond Creek in forming Wheeler Creek. For origin of name, see Gumberry.

rises in NE Cherokee County and flows NW into Taylor Creek.

rises in Union County, Ga., and flows NE into Clay County, where it enters Brasstown Creek.