| Jones Island | in White Oak River, W Carteret County, near the mouth of Pettivers Creek. Named for Robert Jones. |
| Jones Island | See Harwells Island. |
| Jones Island | See Pittmans Island. |
| Jones Knob | N Buncombe County at the N end of Iron Ore Ridge in the Elk Mountains. |
| Jones Knob | SW Cherokee County between Rocky Ford Creek and Shoal Creek. |
| Jones Knob | on the Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 6,240-6,260. Formerly known as Jones's Folly because, at a time when Elisha Mitchell and Thomas Clingman were contending over the highest peak in the southern Appalachians, a man named Jones came into the area and reported the knob to be the highest mountain. Upon questioning him, his friends discovered that he had not been near the top, so they called it Jones's Folly. In the 1850s, Arnold Guyot tried to name the peak Mount Junaluska, but the name did not stick. |
| Jones Knob | W Jackson County between Windy Gap and Poplar Cove Knob. Alt. approx. 4,140. |
| Jones Knob | S Macon County at the head of Whiterock Branch. Alt. 4,600. |
| Jones Lake | central Bladen County, one of the Carolina Bays, which see. Covers 224 acres; max. depth 8.7 ft. It is part of Jones Lake State Park. Fishing, swimming, and boating. Known earlier as Woodwards Lake for Samuel Woodward, a local justice of the peace in 1734. Probably named for Isaac Jones, who later owned adjacent property. |
| Jones Lake State Park | central Bladen County 4 mi. N of Elizabethtown. Est. 1939 as first state park in North Carolina for blacks; integrated in 1960s. Includes 2,208 acres. A scenic and recreational area with provisions for picnicking, swimming, fishing, camping, boating, hiking, and nature study. See also Jones Lake; Salters Lake. |