| Bland Crossroads | community in W Lenoir County. |
| Blankenship Creek | rises in S Yancey County and flows NW into Price Creek. |
| Blanket Bottom Creek | See Blanket Creek. |
| Blanket Creek | rises in SW Forsyth County and flows SW into Yadkin River. Appears as Linviles Creek on the Collet map, 1770; called Blanket Bottom Creek in Moravian records, 1778; and appears as Clements Creek on the MacRae map, 1833. |
| Blanton Branch | rises in N Jackson County and flows N into Ochre Creek. |
| Blantyre | community in E Transylvania County near the mouth of Gash Creek. Named by C. H. Boswell, railway construction engineer, for his birthplace near Glasgow, Scotland. |
| Blazed Creek | rises in NE Macon County and flows SW into Beasley Creek. |
| Blazed Gap | on the Macon-Swain county line. |
| Bledsoe Creek | rises near Fender Mountain in W Alleghany County and flows SE into Little River. |
| Blennerhassett Island | S Madison County in the French Broad River opposite Marshall. The sandy island, approx. ¼ mi. long, probably was named for the island in the Ohio River below Parkersburg, W.Va., where Harman Blennerhassett and Aaron Burr plotted in 1805-1806 to seize an empire in the West. |