NC Gazetteer

Southwest Creek

Also known as: Canterbury Creek, Salmon Creek
A creek in Lenoir County
… rises in SW Lenoir County and flows NE into Neuse River. Appears as Salmon Creek on the Moseley map, 1733; called Canterbury Creek by Governor Arthur Dobbs; and appears as Southwest Creek on the Collet map, 1770. Scene of 1863 Battle of Wyse Fork, which see.