Talk:Pungo River

"Great Dismal Swamp"
The article currently reads that the Pungo river "originally began in the Great Dismal Swamp in Washington County, North Carolina." The name of this wetland/swamp feature is ambiguous at best, and at worst very easily confused with the much better-known Great Dismal Swamp about a hundred miles north on the state border with VA. I would suggest changing it to at least alleviate the confusion.

If anyone would like to get into the weeds with swamp etymology, here is an excerpt from John Paul Lily's "The Big Swamp":

"...this wetland has no common name. McDonald and Ash (1981) simply refer to the whole peninsula from the Suffolk Scarp to the Alligator River as the "Washington-Hyde-Tyrrell Pocosin System". On county road maps, the western portion in Washington and Beaufort counties is called The East Dismal Swamp, but this name is seldom used. Instead, parts have been given names related primarily to land development activity. Names such as the Parker Tract, Wenona, Wonderland, Terra Cecia, North Slope, South Slope, North Line, Carolina Meadows, Grassy Ridge, Hyde Park, and probably others. Drainage of the southern portion is to the Pamlico Sound by way of Bath Creek, the Pungo River, and other streams. Drainage of the northern part is to the Albemarle Sound by way of Conaby Creek, Mackeys Creek, and the Scuppernong River" 173.95.80.250 (talk) 19:21, 18 April 2023 (UTC)