| Sheepwallow Knob | NE Buncombe County between Cedar Cliff Knob and Pigpen Knob. |
| Sheffield | community in NW Davie County. Named by Thomas M. Smith, postmaster, in whose store the post office was est. in 1893; service discontinued 1907. |
| Sheffields Township | NW Moore County. |
| Shehan | community in N Henderson County. |
| Shehan Crossroads | community in NE Polk County at the Rutherford County line. |
| Shelby | city and county seat in central Cleveland County. Alt. 853. Inc. 1843; charter repealed 1847. Reincorporated 1849. Named for Col. Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), Revolutionary War commander. Produces textiles, bakery products, hosiery, apparel, fiberglass, chemicals, and glass products. |
| Shelby Township | former township in S central Cleveland County, now township no. 6. |
| Shell Branch | rises in W Jackson County and flows SW into Savannah Creek. |
| Shell Castle | NE Carteret County, an island in Pamlico Sound between Casey Island and North Rock near the tip of Portsmouth Island at Ocracoke Inlet. Built by John Gray Blount and John Wallace in 1790 on an earlier island known as Old Rock. At one time a dwelling house, a tavern, warehouses, a lumberyard, a wharf, and a notary public's office were there. Appears on the Price map, 1808. |
| Shell Island | NE Carteret County in Core Sound between Wainwright Island and Core Banks. Named as early as the Moseley map, 1733. See also Hunting Quarter Sound. |