| Melton Mountain | N Rutherford County between Little and Carson Mountains. |
| Melville | community in E Alamance County. Settled about 1845 and known at first as Burnt Shop. |
| Melville Township | former township in E central Alamance County, now townships nos. 10 and 13. |
| Melvin Hill | community in SE Polk County. Settled in late nineteenth century. Named for Thomas Melvin, first postmaster. |
| Melvin's Mill Pond | NE Bladen County on Little Turnbull Creek. |
| Memminger Creek | rises in central Henderson County and flows NE into King Creek. Named for C. G. Memminger (1803-88), Confederate secretary of the treasury, who had a summer home at Flat Rock. |
| Memory | community in E Cleveland County. |
| Menola | community in W Hertford County served by post office, 1886-1907. |
| Mentso | marked as the central part of Pamlico Sound, present-day Hyde County, on the White map, 1590, but apparently a place on the shore, as the name comes from an Indian word meaning "he cooks for the first time." The word could be the name given a stopping place for eating on travels, perhaps the end of a day's journey in the direction from Roanoke Island. |
| Mequopen | See Second Creek. |