| Cape | community in SE Randolph County served by post office, 1886-1904. |
| Cape Amidas | See Cape Hatteras. |
| Cape Carteret | town in SW Carteret County on Bogue Sound. Inc. 1959. |
| Cape Creek | a tidal creek on Smith Island in SE Brunswick County rising about 1 mi. N of Cape Fear just inside the outer beach and extending NW to the main outlet on the W shore of Smith Island. |
| Cape Fair | See Cape Fear. |
| Cape Fear | community in central Harnett County near the N bank of Cape Fear River. |
| Cape Fear | the southernmost tip of Smith (Bald Head) Island, S Brunswick County, at the mouth of Cape Fear River in the Atlantic Ocean. Discovered by Verrazzano in 1524. Appears as Promontorium tremendum on the De Bry map, 1590, and as Cape of Feare on the Molyneuxmap, 1592. The name apparently originated in 1585 when the Tiger, en route to Roanoke Island, was nearly wrecked "on a breache called the Cape of Feare." John White had a similar experience and mentioned the name again in 1587. Spanish maps of the same period mark the point as Cabo de Trafalgar. At a later time, when it was desirable to attract colonists to the Carolina region, the name Cape Fair was substituted but not permanently accepted. |
| Cape Fear River | is formed by the junction of Deep and Haw Rivers on the Chatham-Lee county line. It flows SE along the Chatham-Lee county line and through Harnett County, S through Cumberland County, SE through Bladen County, and along the Columbus-Pender, Brunswick-Pender, and Brunswick-New Hanover county lines into the Atlantic Ocean. It had a succession of names after it was first discovered by Europeans. Spanish explorers in 1526 named it Rio Jordan; a Barbadian colony in 1664 named it Charles River; and between 1664 and 1667, when Clarendon County existed in the area, it was known as Clarendon River. It appears as Clarendon River on the Ogilby map, 1671; as "C. Fear R. or Clarendon R." on the Gascoyne map, 1682; as Cape Fear River on the Barnwell map, 1722; as Clarendon River on the Moll map, 1729; and as Cape Fear River on the Moseley map, 1733, and thereafter on others. |
| Cape Fear Section | a term applied to SE North Carolina along the Cape Fear River. Appears as Pine Plains on the Ogilby map, 1671. |
| Cape Fear Township | N New Hanover County. |