| Poppaw Creek | rises in SW Alamance County and flows N into Stinking Quarter Creek. |
| Populi | community in NW Bladen County served by post office, 1892-1929. |
| Poquoson Point | S Camden County in the mouth of Pasquotank River. Also sometimes called Camden Point. Name derived from an Algonquian word pequessen, meaning a swamp or a dismal. |
| Porcelain | See Linville. |
| Pores Knob | S Wilkes County, the highest peak in the Brushy Mountains. Alt. 2,680. Named for Moses Poore, an eighteenth-century resident. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Mt. Night. See also Brushy Mountains. |
| Pores Knob | community in S Wilkes County near the peak of the same name. Name changed at one time to Fruitland and to East Fruitland, but the original name was soon restored. |
| Pork Creek | See Fork Creek. |
| Porpoise Point | NE Pamlico County on the E side of Goose Creek Island between Big Porpoise Bay and Little Porpoise Bay. |
| Port Fernando | See Hatorask Inlet. |
| Port Grenvil | appears on the White map, 1590, as an inlet through Ocracoke Island a short distance N of the community of Ocracoke, SE Hyde County. Named for Sir Richard Grenville. Appears as "Greenevills Rode" on the Smith map, 1624. There is some doubt that such an inlet actually existed, though it may have been at what is now known as Nigh Inlet, which see. |