Conetoe Creek

… rises in E Edgecombe County and flows s, where it forms a part of the Edgecombe-Pitt county line. It then flows S and SW into Tar River in Pitt County. The Collet map, 1770, shows Great Coneghta Pocosin as a swampy area on the W side of present-day Conetoe Creek in Edgecombe County. The name appears in county records as early as 1745.