| Quaker Meadows Township | central Burke County. |
| Quaker Neck | W central Wayne County, is formed by a crook in Neuse River. Location of a Quaker settlement prior to 1758. See also Goldsboro Cooling Pond. |
| Quaker Scrub Creek | rises in NE Alamance County and flows S into Back Creek. |
| Qualla | community in NW Jackson County on Shoal Creek. The name is from the Cherokee word kwalli (old woman), because an old Cherokee woman, Polly, lived there. Also called Quallatown. Alt. 2,250. |
| Qualla Boundary | home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Swain, Jackson, and Haywood Counties in Great Smoky Mountains. Est. by the United States after the Cherokee removal of 1838. Covers 63,000 acres and is the largest Indian reservation E of the Mississippi. The reservation is divided into Big Cove Town, Wolf Town, Yellow Hill Town, Paint Town, and Bird Town townships. In addition, a number of Cherokees living off the reservation in Cheoah Township, Graham County, are under tribal jurisdiction. Land is held in common and assigned on a tenant system. |
| Qualla Township | N Jackson County. |
| Quallatown | See Qualla. |
| Qualls Creek | rises in S Clay County and flows NE into Hiwassee River approx. ¾ mi. N of town of Hayesville. Named for an Indian woman. |
| Quankey Creek | rises in N Halifax County and flows SE into Roanoke River. Appears as Quountka Creek on the Moseley map, 1733; does not appear on the Collet map, 1770, or the Price map, 1808. Appears next on the MacRae map, 1833, with its present name. A Tuscarora Indian name. Indian relics have been found along its lower course. |
| Quaqua Creek | rises in N Rockingham County and flows E into Wolf Island Creek. |