| Elizabethtown | See Elizabeth City. |
| Elizabethtown | town and county seat, central Bladen County. Alt. 121. Est. 1773, chartered 1843, and inc. 1895. Named either for Queen Elizabeth I of England or for the sweetheart of Isaac Jones, on whose land the town was laid out. In the Battle of Elizabethtown, August 27, 1781, Whigs broke Tory power in Bladen County by driving them into Tory Hole, a deep ravine along the banks of Cape Fear River in the middle of the town. |
| Elizabethtown Township | in central Bladen County. |
| Elk Branch | rises in E Mitchell County and flows S into Cane Creek. |
| Elk Creek | community in W central Alleghany County. |
| Elk Creek | rises in E Watauga County and flows SE into W Wilkes County, where it enters Yadkin River. |
| Elk Creek | rises in NE Stokes County and flows S into Dan River. |
| Elk Creek | rises in E Watauga County and flows E and SE into Wilkes County, where it enters Yadkin River. |
| Elk Creek | rises in S central Ashe County and flows S into South Fork New River on the Ashe-Watauga county line. |
| Elk Creek | rises in W Alleghany County and flows N into New River. |