| Maple Swamp | central Currituck County near the W shore of Currituck Sound. |
| Maple Swamp | rises in N Edgecombe County and flows SE into Fishing Creek. |
| Maple Swamp Creek | rises in E central Burke County and flows SE into Laurel Creek. |
| Mapleton | town in N Hertford County. Inc. 1901, but long inactive in municipal affairs. |
| Mapleville | community in central Franklin County. Alt. 350. Settled about 1877. Known first as Maple Spring because a maple tree grew by the spring that furnished water for a church there. |
| Maplewood | community in E Watauga County. |
| Maraco | See Maco. |
| Marasanico | apparently an Indian village, appears on the White map, 1585, located in what is now S Craven County on the Neuse River. |
| Marathon | former community in N New Hanover County near Castle Hayne. An agricultural colony of Greek farmers was est. there by Hugh MacRae of Wilmington in the early twentieth century, but it was not successful. |
| Maraton | village of the Moratuc Indian tribe, is shown on the Smith map, 1624, as being on the Chowan River in present E Chowan County downstream from Rockyhock Creek. The Comberford map, 1657, places the village farther upstream. |