| Etacrewac | appears on the White maps, 1585 and 1590, as an island that today would be bounded on the N by the community of Duck on the North Banks and on the S by a point on Bodie Island opposite Broad Creek Point on Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The name appears to have been Algonquian for "evergreen-ground." See also Bodie Island; North Banks. The Smith map, 1624, appears to apply the name Essex Island there. |
| Ether | community in NE Montgomery County. Known as Freeman's Cross Roads prior to the establishment of a post office there in 1888, when it was named by Dr. F. E. Asbury, local physician. |
| Etheridge Creek | rises in SE Halifax County and flows SE on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line into Etheridge Swamp. |
| Etheridge Swamp | receives the waters of Etheridge Creek on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line and flows SE into Conoho Creek in Martin County. |
| Etheridge's Branch | rises in NW Wilson County and flows S and SE into Contentnea Creek. |
| Ethram Boney Bay | a large sandy loam marsh in S Duplin County. |
| Etna | community in N Macon County on Lakey Creek. |
| Etowah | community in W Henderson County. Alt. 2,101. The name comes from the Cherokee word I'tawa or Et-toh-wah, an unidentified kind of tree. |
| Eubanks | community in S Orange County. |
| Euchulla Cove | W Swain County between Wiggins Creek and Nantahala River. |