| Upper Little River | rises in S Lee County and flows SE into Harnett County, where it enters Cape Fear River. Scottish Highlanders settled the fertile lands along its banks during the period 1740-60. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Upper Little River Township | NW Harnett County. |
| Upper Long Creek | rises in SE Swain County and flows SW into Yalaka Creek. |
| Upper Pigeonroost | community on Right Fork [Pigeonroost Creek] in W Mitchell County. |
| Upper Poplar | community on Hollow Poplar Creek in NW Mitchell County. |
| Upper Richlands | See Richlands. |
| Upper Sassafras Gap | N Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Noland Divide near lat. 35°31'56" N., long. 83°27'15" W. |
| Upper Saura Town | former Indian village in Stokes County on Dan River. Site approx. 4 mi. E of Madison. Probably occupied by Saura Indians by the middle of the seventeenth century and abandoned in the early eighteenth century. Saura or Sara meant "a place of tall grass or weeds." The site, occupied by descendants of Europeans, was still known as Sauratown as late as 1894. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Upper Sawra and on the Price map, 1808, as Saurat, but it does not appear on later maps. |
| Upper Spring Creek | rises in NW Goose Creek Island, NW Pamlico County, and flows N to join Campbell Creek at the Beaufort-Pamlico county line to form Goose Creek. |
| Upper Town Creek Township | former township in W Edgecombe County, now township no. 11. |