| Colon | community in N Lee County. Coal from Egypt mine formerly delivered to the Seaboard Railroad there; later the center of a large gas-fired brick industry. Post office est. in 1891 as Buckner; changed to Colon in 1892. |
| Colonial Assembly | See General Assembly. |
| Colson's Mill | See Coulson Ordinary. |
| Colt Creek | rises in SE Henderson County and flows NE into Polk County, where it enters Pacolet River. |
| Columbia | See Ramseur. |
| Columbia | town and county seat in N Tyrrell County on Scuppernong River. Alt. 10. Originated as a trading post, Shallop's Landing; inc. 1793 as Elizabeth Town. Name changed to Columbia in 1801. Became county seat in 1802. Name is poetic appellation for the United States. Produces lumber. |
| Columbia Township | N central Tyrrell County. |
| Columbia Township | E central Randolph County. |
| Columbia Township | NE Pender County. |
| Columbus | town authorized to be est. on the lands of Jesse Nixon, NE Randolph County, in 1812. Apparently the town was never laid out. A post office at the proposed site on Sandy Creek in 1828 was called Nixon's. |