| East Lake | community on the mainland of NW Dare County on South Lake. Settled about 1790. Alt. 10. |
| East Lake Landing | NW Dare County on Alligator River. State-operated free ferry from the landing to Sandy Point in NE Tyrrell County was replaced by the Lindsay C. Warren Bridge, 2.83 mi. long and opened in May 1962; named for Lindsay C. Warren (1889-1976), former U.S. congressman and comptroller general. |
| East Lake Township | NW Dare County mainland. |
| East Laport | community in N Jackson County on Tuckasegee River. Developed at the site of an eighteenth-century French trading post that the French considered to be an east gate or door (la porte) to the Cherokee country. Alt. 2,186. |
| East Laurinburg | town in S Scotland County. Inc. 1903 as Scotland Village; name changed, 1909. |
| East Lumberton | former town in E central Robeson County. Inc. 1901. Charter repealed 1953. Now a part of Lumberton. Was a mill-owned village until 1950, when houses were sold to individuals. |
| East Mayo Mountain | See Baughn Mountain. |
| East Mingo Branch | rises in SW Johnston County and flows S to join Black River in forming South River on the Cumberland-Sampson county line. For a part of its course, it forms the boundary between Johnston and Harnett Counties and between Harnett and Sampson Counties. Sometimes known as Mingo Swamp. Appears as Black Mingo on the Collet map, 1770. Mingo was an Indian word for a treacherous person. It was also frequently used as a slave name, appearing as such as early as 1680 in Albemarle County. See also Black Creek Swamp. |
| East Monbo | now covered by waters of Lake Norman but formerly a community on the Catawba River in W Iredell County. A cotton mill was est. there in the late nineteenth century and named Mont Beau (beautiful mountain) by its owners. The natives soon corrupted the name to Monbo and, since it was on the E side of the river, it became East Monbo (there being another mill on the W side of the river in Catawba County). East Monbo was long a popular picnic and swimming site. |
| East Nelson Creek | rises in NE Cherokee County and flows SE into Valley River. |