| Black Ankle | derisive name for an area in S central Randolph County and NE Montgomery County. Named because bootleggers operating there during Prohibition would start fires over a large area when they were operating a still so that officers of the law could not find the still. They were said to have "black ankles" from walking through the ashes of old fires to start new ones. Name also said to derive from fact that gold miners in the area stood in muck. |
| Black Bald | S Macon County at the head of Dry Branch. Alt. approx. 5,100. |
| Black Balsam Knob | S Haywood County between the headwaters of Yellowstone Prong and Flat Laurel Creek. |
| Black Branch | rises in SW Duplin County and flows NE into Rockfish Creek. |
| Black Branch | rises in E Hoke County and flows S into Beaver Creek. |
| Black Branch | rises in E Clay County and flows SW into Buck Creek. |
| Black Brothers | former name of two peaks approx. 1 mi. N of Mount Mitchell, S Yancey County. Renamed Mount Craig and Big Tom, which see, in 1947. |
| Black Camp Gap | on the Haywood-Swain county line near the head of Bunches Creek in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Balsam Mountain. A log-house camp was built there for the use of cattle rangers and hunters. A forest fire partially burned the camp, burning off the bark and charring the logs of the cabins. Later campers lodging there got themselves black from contact with the burnt logs, hence the name Black Camp. Alt. 4,492. |
| Black Creek | See Back Creek. |
| Black Creek | town in S Wilson County named for nearby stream. Alt. 120. Est. 1840 as a station and post office on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Inc. 1870. |