Roanoke River

… is formed in Montgomery County, Va., by the junction of North Fork and South Fork and flows SE into North Carolina in NE Warren County. It flows across a corner of Warren and along the Halifax-Northampton, Halifax-Bertie, Bertie-Martin, and Bertie-Washington county lines into Batchelor Bay of Albemarle Sound. The John H. Kerr Dam on Roanoke River in Virginia creates Kerr Lake, a part of which is in Granville, Vance, and Warren Counties. Appears as Morattico River on the Comberford map, 1657, and as Noratake River on the Ogilby map, 1671. The Moseley map, 1733, specifies Roanoke River.