| Unity Township | N Rowan County. Named for local Presbyterian church. |
| University | community in E Orange County on Southern Railway approx. 9 mi. N of Chapel Hill; a former rail station serving the University of North Carolina. Railroad name for the station is Glenn. Alt. 471. |
| University Lake | on Morgan Creek in S Orange County. Formed 1932 as a municipal water supply for Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Covers 219 acres; max. depth 30 ft. |
| Uno | community in central Henderson County on Clear Creek. |
| Upchurch | community in W Wake County. Named for William B. Upchurch, around whose farm the community grew after a railway station was built there. Upchurch is said to have built first flue-cure tobacco barn in Wake County. |
| Upchurch Pond | on Rockfish Creek, E Hoke and W Cumberland Counties. Approx. 5 mi. long. |
| Upland | community in SW Chatham County. |
| Upper Bartons Creek | rises in NW Wake County NW of community of Leesville and flows NE into Neuse River W of mouth of Lower Bartons Creek. Formerly called Great Elliby and Little Elliby. |
| Upper Beaverdam Creek | rises in W Scotland County and flows SE into Richmond Millpond (Gum Swamp Creek). |
| Upper Broad Creek | rises in NE Craven County on the Craven-Pamlico county line and flows SW along the line into Neuse River. Appears as Broad Creek on the Moseley map, 1733; mentioned in local records as early as 1723. Sometimes referred to in eighteenth century local records as Ashes Creek. |