| Browns Swamp | rises in E Cumberland County and flows SE into Big Creek. |
| Browns Turnout | See Vaughan. |
| Brownsville | community in NE Granville County on Grassy Creek. A post office as early as 1822. |
| Browntown | community in S Greene County. Named for the fact that it was a community of residents of mixed race. Settled prior to 1890. |
| Browntown | former town in NE Davidson County. Inc. 1843 at the junction of the Fayetteville-to-Salem and the Greensboro-to-Salisbury roads. A center of trade and furniture making until one of the roads was changed in 1859. The coming of the railroad brought a decline to the town and, after the Civil War, it was abandoned. Many of the people moved to what became High Point. |
| Bruce | community in W Pitt County. Cottendale, the plantation of the Cotten family (Sallie Southall Cotten, Bruce Cotten, and others) is nearby. |
| Bruce Knob | central Macon County between the head of Wallace Creek and Carson Cove. |
| Bruce Knob | N Buncombe County between Wolfpen Gap and Middle Mountain. |
| Bruce Ridge | E Clay County between Glade Branch and Cold Spring Branch. |
| Bruce Township | NW Guilford County, named for Charles Bruce, early settler, Revolutionary War soldier, and founder of Bruce's Crossroad, now Summerfield. |