| Laurel Top | peak on Graham County, N.C.-Monroe County, Tenn., line. Alt. approx. 5,325. |
| Laurel Top | peak on Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near the head of Gulf Prong. Alt. 5,900-5,950. |
| Laurel Township | W central Ashe County. |
| Laurelton | community in N Madison County on Foster Creek. |
| Laurenceville | See Lawrenceville. |
| Laurinburg | city and county seat, S Scotland County. Appears on maps as early as 1865. Inc. 1877 as Laurenburg; charter amended 1883 and name spelled Laurinburg. Named for McLaurin family, early Scottish settlers. Alt. 227. St. Andrews Presbyterian College, est. 1961, is there. |
| Lawhon | community in central Moore County served by post office, 1892-1905. |
| Lawndale | town in central Cleveland County on First Broad River. Alt. 843. Settled 1870; inc. 1903. Named for spreading green lawns of Maj. H. F. Schenck, owner of local mills, est. in 1888, and local power company. |
| Lawrence | town in NE Edgecombe County. Known as Killquick as early as 1837, the name by which it was chartered in 1883. Laid off in an area ½ mi. square from Richard H. Gatlin's "big new store." Name changed to Hickory Hill in 1885 and to Lawrence in 1889. Original Killquick charter repealed in 1893; chartered as Lawrence in 1901, but long in active in municipal affairs. |
| Lawrence Run | rises in W Pitt County and flows NW into Tyson Creek. |