| Stillwater Creek | See Island Creek. |
| Stillwell Creek | rises in NE Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SW into Straight Fork of Raven Fork Creek. |
| Stinking Creek | rises in S Chatham County and flows SE into Haw River. |
| Stinking Quarter Creek | rises in S Guilford County and flows NE into Alamance County, where it enters Great Alamance Creek. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. Name said to have been derived from the fact that Indians cleaned animals there and left quarters of meat to spoil. Eli Caruthers, writing in 1856, said it was formerly known as Stauken's Quarter Creek, presumably named for a grant of land to a pioneer settler. |
| Stirewalt Creek | rises in central Alexander County a short distance S of Taylorsville and flows S into Lower Little River. |
| Stirrup Iron Creek | rises in SE Durham County and flows SE into W Wake County, where it enters Crabtree Creek. |
| Stockade Mountain | SW Cherokee County along the Nottely River SE of Die Bend. |
| Stocking Head Creek | rises in central Duplin County and flows SE into Northeast Cape Fear River. |
| Stocksville | community in N Buncombe County. A post office est. there 1836; closed 1958. |
| Stockton Cove | N Buncombe County between Morgan Ridge and Morgan Branch. |