| Left Fork [Redman Creek] | rises in NE Swain County and flows SW to join Right Fork [Redman Creek] in forming Redman Creek. |
| Left Fork [Swannanoa River] | rises in NE Buncombe County and flows E into North Fork [Swannanoa River]. Often known locally as Left Hand Fork. |
| Left Hand Fork | See Left Fork [Swannanoa River]. |
| Left Prong Bent Creek | rises in N Yancey County and flows SE to join Right Prong Bent Creek in forming Bent Creek. |
| Left Prong South Toe River | has its origin at Pinnacle Spring, S Yancey County, and flows E to join Right Prong South Toe River in forming South Toe River. |
| Left Prong Three Forks Creek | rises in SE Yancey County and flows SW to join Right Prong in forming Three Forks Creek. |
| Left Prong [Bridge Creek] | rises in N central Swain County and flows NE into Bridge Creek. |
| Legal | community in central Harnett County served by post office, 1894-1908. |
| Legerwood | community in N central Caldwell County. Named for Samuel Legerwood Patterson (1850-1908), onetime state commissioner of agriculture, who donated his plantation, "Palmyra," for a farm school for boys there. |
| Leggett | town in N Edgecombe County inc. 1895 and reincorporated 1925 but not now active in municipal affairs. Post office name was Leggettsville, 1886-1913. |