| Cotton's Crossing | See Tuscarora Beach. |
| Cottonville | community in S Stanly County. Named prior to the Civil War because of the quantity of cotton grown in the vicinity. |
| Cottonwood | community in S Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1890-1900. |
| Cottrell Hill | community in E Caldwell County on Zacks Fork. Named for William Cottrell, who settled there shortly before the Civil War. |
| Couch Mountain | E Orange County on the head of Little Creek. |
| Couch Mountain | N Henderson County between Clark Gap and Rich Mountain. |
| Couches Creek | rises in NE Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE into Oconaluftee River. |
| Coulson Ordinary | appears on the Collet map, 1770, on the Pee Dee River in what is now SE Stanly County E of the town of Norwood. At Colson's Mill nearby, Col. William Lee Davidson's Whig militia defeated Col. Samuel Bryan's Tories in July 1780. |
| Council | town in S Bladen County. Alt. 64. Inc. 1905. Named for industrialist K. Clyde Council (1886?-1951). Also called Council Station because of depot on railroad. |
| Council Gap | W central Watauga County near the head of Bairds Creek. |