NC Gazetteer

Upper Broad Creek

Also known as: Ashes Creek
A creek in Craven County
… rises in NE Craven County on the Craven-Pamlico county line and flows SW along the line into Neuse River. Appears as Broad Creek on the Moseley map, 1733; mentioned in local records as early as 1723. Sometimes referred to in eighteenth century local records as Ashes Creek.