Fishing Creek rises in east Vance County and flows North east in Vance and Warren counties, and southeast and south in Warren County, to the Franklin-Warren, Halifax-Nash, and Halifax-Edgecombe County lines to a point approx. 7 miles north of Tarboro from where it flows south to enter Tar River. It appears as Great Fishing Creek on the Moseley map, 1733, and on the Collet map 1770.