NC Gazetteer

Fishing Creek

Also known as: Great Fishing Creek
A creek in Nash County, Vance County, Edgecombe County, Halifax County, Franklin County and Warren County
… rises in E Vance County and flows NE in Vance and Warren Counties and SE and S in Warren County to the Franklin-Warren, Halifax-Nash, and Halifax-Edgecombe county lines to a point approx. 7 mi. N of Tarboro. From there, it flows S to enter Tar River. It appears as Great Fishing Creek on the Moseley map, 1733, and on the Collet map, 1770.