| Davis’ Store | See Dardens. |
| Davistown | former community in S Edgecombe County. Now only a railroad crossing. |
| Dawson | community in N Lenoir County. Named for a local family. Formerly a depot on the Hines Lumber Company railroad from Kinston to Snow Hill. Once a center for shipping logs and cotton. A school was operated in the vicinity as early as 1793. The Industrial Christian College was operated there from 1906 until about 1921. |
| Dawson | community in S Halifax County. A post office as early as 1830. |
| Dawson Creek | rises in S Pamlico County and flows SE into Neuse River. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. Named for Richard Dawson, who purchased land there in 1706. Prior to 1706 the creek was known as Cuccoowink Creek. See also Janeiro. |
| Dawson's Landing | community in NW Bladen County served by post office, 1873-1903. Formerly Harrison Creek. |
| Day Book | community in NE Yancey County on Jacks Creek. Alt. 2,350. Post office est. about 1815 and named for a book in which names were recorded of settlers moving west. Another version of the traditional origin of the name is that it came from a time book kept for employees of a local lumber company. |
| Day's Gap | See Hugh Day's Gap. |
| Daylo | community in NW Wilkes County on Middle Fork Reddies River. Est. 1924 by E. N. Vannoy, a merchant, and named for a brand of flashlights that he sold. |
| Days Creek | rises in S Watauga County and flows NW into East Fork [South Fork New River]. |