| Spot Knob | on Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 5,900-6,000. |
| Spout Branch | rises in W Avery County and flows E into Roaring Creek. |
| Spout Branch | rises in SW Madison County and flows SE into Little Creek. |
| Spout Springs | community in SW Harnett County. Once the center of a lumber and naval-stores industry. Alt. approx. 330. |
| Sprawls Old Field | See Norman. |
| Spray | former town in N Rockingham County on Smith River. Settled about 1813, when James Burnett est. gristmill at falls of Smith River. Site of cotton mill founded by future governor John M. Morehead; later operated by his son J. Turner Morehead. Known first as Splashy from the water thrown up by a waterwheel at a local mill; name later changed in 1890 to the more sophisticated Spray. Inc. 1951; merged with Leaksville and Draper in 1967 to form Eden, which see. Alt. 625. |
| Spread Branch | rises in NE Swain County and flows N into Bunches Creek. |
| Spread Eagle Branch | rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SW into Pile Creek. |
| Spring | community in SE Iredell County served by post office, 1898-1903. |
| Spring Bank | former plantation and ferry, central Wayne County on Neuse River midway between the mouths of Stoney and Sleepy Creeks. Owned by Joseph Green Sr., largest slave owner in the county in 1790 and a member of the General Assembly. In 1784 Spring Bank was designated as a location for the receipt and inspection of tobacco. The Price map, 1808, shows only Green's Ferry at the location. |