| Glassmine Mountain | W Transylvania County between Lamance and Beasley Creeks. Named for the fact that isinglass (mica) was mined in the vicinity. |
| Glassmine Ridge | NE Buncombe County between Sugarhouse Cove and Corner Rock Creek. |
| Glassy Rock | mountain in SE Henderson County overlooking Flat Rock community. According to legend, renegades hid there during the Civil War, and money and other valuables that they concealed in the caves there were later found. Trail from Connemara, the Carl Sandburg house, leads to the overlook. |
| Glassy Rock Creek | rises in S Jackson County and flows S into Webb Lake. |
| Glassy Rock Mountain | on the SE end of Glassy Rock Ridge, S Jackson County. Alt. approx. 4,500. |
| Glassy Rock Ridge | S Jackson County between Rattlesnake Knob and Glassy Rock Mountain. |
| Glen Alpine | town in SW Burke County. Inc. 1883. Alt. 1,206. First known as Turkey Tail because of an old tree root that resembled a turkey's tail. Later called Sigmonsburg for a local storekeeper, and finally given its present name when the railroad was built. |
| Glen Ayre | community in E Mitchell County on Little Green Creek. A late nineteenth-century post office there was known as Little Rock Creek. |
| Glen Brook | community in NE Montgomery County served by post office, 1880-1906. |
| Glen Burnie Falls | on New Years Creek, W edge of town of Blowing Rock in S Watauga County. Height 75 ft. Part of Blowing Rock recreation area since 1906. |