| Trantham Creek | rises in SE Buncombe County near Flat Top Mountain and flows SW into Cane Creek. |
| Trantus | community in SW Martin County served by post office, 1901-1904. |
| Trap | community in NE Bertie County. Named because a local tavern about 1860 "trapped" men of the community, according to their wives. |
| Trap Branch | rises in NE Swain County and flows W into Straight Fork. |
| Trap Hill Township | NE Wilkes County. |
| Traphill | community in N Wilkes County E of Little Sandy Creek. Area settled by 1775. In 1833 a town to be named Johnsonville (for an invalid Revolutionary War veteran wounded at Kings Mountain, Capt. Samuel Johnson, who died the next year) was authorized to be laid out at Trap Hill but never developed. A post office to serve the community was est. there in 1837 and named Trap Hill for hunter William Blackburn's rail-pen snare, which he frequently set on a nearby hill to catch wild turkeys. |
| Traps Bay | S Onslow County on the E side of New River nears its mouth. Named for Capt. Cornelius Trap, who was living in the county in 1746. |
| Traps Creek | rises in SE Onslow County and flows SW into Traps Bay. |
| Traverse Creek | rises in E Guilford County and flows NE into Alamance County, where it enters Haw River. |
| Travis | community in NW Tyrrell County N of Scuppernong River. |