| Hatcher's Run | rises in W Granville County and flows S and E into Fishing Creek. Appears on 1770 Collet map as Hatches Run. |
| Hatorask | See Hatteras Island. |
| Hatorask Inlet | from the Atlantic Ocean into Roanoke Sound through Bodie Island, opened prior to 1585 and closed prior to 1657. The site was a short distance N of present Oregon Inlet, E Dare County. At various times, Hatorask Inlet was also known as Port Fernando and under other spellings of Hatorask. |
| Hatrask | See Hatteras Island. |
| Hattaway Mountain | E Stanly County between Little Mountain Creek and Sugarloaf Mountain. |
| Hatteras | community near the S end of Hatteras Island, E Dare County. Inc. 1931, but never active in municipal affairs. The name apparently is an English rendition of the Algonquian Indian expression meaning "there is less vegetation." Post office est. there, 1858. Alt. 10. |
| Hatteras Bight | a cove in the Atlantic Ocean off the S shore of Hatteras Island at Cape Hatteras, S Dare County. |
| Hatteras Inlet | from the Atlantic Ocean into Pamlico Sound, lies between Hatteras Island, S Dare County, on the N and Ocracoke Island, S Hyde County, on the S. It was opened by a storm in 1846. Previously was closer to Ocracoke Inlet and closed in 1760s. From 1760s to 1846, Cape Hatteras was joined to Ocracoke Island. |
| Hatteras Island | one of the Outer Banks of E Dare County extending from Hatteras Inlet on the S to New Inlet and Oregon Inlet on the n. Appears as Hatrask on the White map, 1585, though at that time the name was not applied to as much of the Island as today. The name appears as Hattorask, though misplaced, on the Comberford map, 1657. Smith's map, 1624, calls it Hertfords Island, while the Moseley map, 1733, gives it its present name. See also Croatoan Island; Paquiac. |
| Hatteras Shoals | See Diamond Shoals. |