| Bethabara | See Old Town. |
| Bethania | town in W Forsyth County on Muddy Creek. Settled 1759, inc. 1839, but no longer active in municipal affairs. Named by the Moravians, whose second or "new town" it was, for the biblical town of Bethany. Refugees during the French and Indian War found protection within the Bethania stockade, and many of them remained to build homes there. Alt. 789. |
| Bethania Township | NW Forsyth County. |
| Bethany | See Milwaukee. |
| Bethany | community in SW Rockingham County. |
| Bethany | community in E central Iredell County named for Bethany Presbyterian Church, organized there in 1775. Ebenezer Academy, building still standing, operated there, 1822-57. |
| Bethany | community in N Davidson County. Settled in late eighteenth century by Germans and called Fredericktown. Later known as Possumtown. In 1861 a new church was built and named Bethany, a name soon applied to the community. |
| Bethany Township | central Iredell County. |
| Bethel | See Whortonsville. |
| Bethel | community in NW Watauga County on Rube Creek. |