| Runaway Knob | on the SE end of Runaway Ridge in SW Macon County. |
| Runaway Ridge | SW Macon County between the head of Allison Creek and the head of Ash Flat Branch. |
| Runion | community in W Madison County on French Broad River approx. 3 mi. E of Hot Springs. |
| Running Creek | rises in W Stanly County and flows NE into Big Bear Creek. |
| Runnymede | former town in central Edgecombe County. Inc. 1907 as the site of the county fair; charter repealed 1909. The site is now within the limits of Tarboro, and the name survives only as the name of a mill. |
| Runyon Creek | is formed by the junction of several small unnamed streams NE of Washington, W Beaufort County, and flows S into Pamlico River. |
| Runyon Creek | rises in N Haywood County and flows SW into Pigeon River. |
| Runyon Gap | N Haywood County on Snowbird Creek. |
| Runyon Ridge | N Haywood County parallel to Snowbird Creek. |
| Rural Hall | community in N Forsyth County. Earliest settler apparently was Ludwig Bitting, former German soldier in Gen. Nathanael Greene's army who liked the area when passing through and returned after the Revolutionary War to settle. Several of his descendants still live in the county. Rural Hall, however, developed after the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad erected a station there in 1887. Produces furniture and lumber. Alt. 1,002. |