Editing Coharie

{{Short description|North Carolina place name}}
'''Coharie''' is the name for the [[Great Coharie Creek]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Great Coharie Creek at SR 1214 near Butler Crossroads (21NCMONITORING-B8604000) site data in the Water Quality Portal |url=https://www.waterqualitydata.us/provider/STORET/21NCMONITORING/21NCMONITORING-B8604000/ |website=National Water Quality Monitoring Council |access-date=27 August 2022}}</ref> and its tributary the Little Coharie Creek, both in [[Sampson County, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |title=LITTLE COHARIE CREEK NEAR ROSEBORO, NC (USGS-02106000) site data in the Water Quality Portal |url=https://www.waterqualitydata.us/provider/NWIS/USGS-NC/USGS-02106000/ |website=National Water Quality Monitoring Council |access-date=27 August 2022}}</ref> The Great Coharie Creek is a tributary of the [[Black River (North Carolina)|Black River]] that joins the [[Cape Fear River]] that flows into the [[Atlantic Ocean]].

Coharie also refers to the [[Coharie Formation]], named for the creeks, a terrace, and shoreline at about 215 feet above sea level on the mid- to southern East Coast.<ref>{{cite web |title=Geologic Unit: Coharie |url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/UnitRefs/CoharieRefs_1148.html |website=National Geologic Map Database |access-date=27 August 2022}}</ref>

The name ''Coharie'' was adopted by the [[Coharie Intra-tribal Council, Inc.]], a [[state-recognized tribe]] in [[North Carolina]]. The tribe claims "descent from certain tribes of Indians originally inhabiting the coastal regions of North Carolina."<ref>{{cite web |title=Chapter 71A. Indians |url=https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/ByChapter/Chapter_71A.html |website=NC General Assembly |access-date=16 October 2023}}</ref> In 1910, residents of Herrings Township along the Coharie creeks identified as being of [[Croatan]] descent.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Butler |first1=George Edwin |title=The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status |date=1916 |publisher=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=978-1-4696-4181-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yL9dDwAAQBAJ&q=Coharie}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
''Coharie'' could be an [[Iroquoian languages|Iroquoian]], perhaps [[Tuscarora language]], word that translates as ''driftwood''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fullam |first1=Brandon |title=Manteo and the Algonquians of the Roanoke Voyages |date=2020 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=9781476638249 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdnKDwAAQBAJ}}</ref>

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