| Beard | community in NE Cumberland County. |
| Beard Cove | central Buncombe County, between Beard Mountain and Gooch Peak in the Elk Mountains. |
| Beard Creek | rises in S Pamlico County and flows S into Neuse River. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. Local tradition attempts to associate the origin of the name with Blackbeard, the early eighteenth-century pirate. |
| Beard Mountain | central Buncombe County in the Elk Mountains. |
| Beards Creek | community in S Pamlico County on Beard Creek, which see, and Neuse River, where a recreational area has been developed. Settled prior to 1750; a post office operated there from 1878 to 1914 as Bairds Creek. |
| Bearford Bay | a marshy bay in SW Duplin County. |
| Beargarden Pocosin | central Greene County. Named because it was a favorite haunt of bears and numerous flowering plants grow there. Yellow jasmine and honeysuckle were so fragrant that they could be smelled a mile or so away downwind. |
| Beargrass | town in S Martin County on a tributary of Beargrass Swamp. Settled about 1828. Inc. 1909, but inactive in municipal affairs until 1961, when the General Assembly appointed new officers. Alt. 65. |
| Beargrass Swamp | rises in S Martin County and flows W into Turkey Swamp. |
| Beargrass Township | S central Martin County. |