| Cranberry Gap | central Avery County between Minneapolis and Cranberry. Alt. 3,500. |
| Cranberry Iron Mine | surface iron mines in N central Avery County. Believed to have been worked by Cherokee Indians. Discovered by white settlers in 1781; worked from 1826, most actively from 1865 to 1930. Supplied iron to the Confederacy. See also Cranberry. |
| Cranberry Island | high ground in N Tyrrell County surrounded by peat lands N of community of Levels. |
| Cranberry Knob | NW Burke County. Alt. 4,223. |
| Cranberry Ridge | N Jackson County between Cranberry Creek and Hornbuckle Creek. |
| Cranberry Township | SW Alleghany County. |
| Cranberry Township | W Avery County. |
| Crane Branch | rises in central Madison County and flows N into Revere Creek. |
| Crane Creek | rises in S Cherokee County and flows SW into Nottely River. |
| Crane Creek | rises in S Rowan County and flows NE into High Rock Lake (Yadkin River). Mentioned in local records as early as 1728. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Cane Creek, but as Crane Creek on the Price map, 1808. Crane Creek has three tributaries, all called Crane Creek; one of them, near Salisbury, is sometimes called Town Creek. |