| Diamond City | former community near the E end of Shackleford Banks, S Carteret County. Named for the diamond-shaped design painted on the Cape Lookout Lighthouse. Site of whaling operations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several storms in the early twentieth century caused the residents to begin moving to Harkers Island, Morehead City, Beaufort, and elsewhere. |
| Diamond Creek | rises in W Transylvania County and flows SE into North Fork French Broad River. |
| Diamond Grove | community in N Northampton County. A post office operated there, 1827-36. |
| Diamond Hill | community and former post office, 1837-1905, NW Anson County. So called simply as a "fancy name." |
| Diamond Shoals | a series of three shoals extending SE from Cape Hatteras, which see, into the Atlantic Ocean off SE Dare County. Hatteras Shoals is nearest to the cape, Inner Diamond Shoal is in the middle, and Outer Diamond Shoal extends farthest into the Atlantic. The channel between Hatteras Shoals and Inner Diamond Shoal is Hatteras Slough; Diamond Slough is the channel between the two Diamond Shoals. There, warm Gulf Stream waters collide with cold arctic waters from the n, causing a constant turbulence in the Atlantic. Area known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Appears as Sholes of Hatteras on the Moll map, 1729. |
| Diamond Slough | See Diamond Shoals. |
| Diamond Valley | in W Macon County between Chestnut Gap and Dicks Creek. |
| Dick Branch | rises in central Cherokee County in Dick Cove and flows SE into Morgan Creek. |
| Dick Branch | rises in N Buncombe County and flows SW into Flat Creek. |
| Dick Cove | central Cherokee County at the headwaters of Dick Branch. |