| Lisenberry Mountain | NE Rutherford County between First Broad River and Duncans Creek. It is said that carpetbaggers lived in a cave there during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. |
| Lisha | See Elisha Creek. |
| Lisk | community in SE Rowan County served by post office, 1890-1906. |
| Lissa | community in central Sampson County served by post office, 1894-1902. |
| Listen Knob | peak in central Caldwell County about 5 mi. NE of Lenoir. Named for the fact that foxhunters built fires on the top as they listened to their dogs running foxes. |
| Listers Corner | community in S Pasquotank County. |
| Litaker Township | S Rowan County. |
| Lithia Springs | community in central Lincoln County that was a popular nineteenth-century resort. Gen. Robert F. Hoke (1837-1912) owned the springs and marketed bottled water from them. |
| Little Abrams Gap | in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Swain County, N.C.-Blount County, Tenn., line near lat. 35°33'18" N., long. 83°46'34" W. |
| Little Alamance Creek | rises in W Alamance County and flows SE into Great Alamance Creek. |