| Hoot Owl Cove | NW Jackson County on Shoal Creek. |
| Hootentown | See Wootentown. |
| Hootowl Hollow | SW Mitchell County parallel to Roaring Branch. |
| Hoots Millpond | E Wilkes County on Little Elkin River. Grain and sawmill operated there by the Hoots family. |
| Hoover Hill | community in W Randolph County. A post office operated there, 1849-1907. In the early twentieth century, a prosperous gold mine was operated there. Ancestors of President Herbert Hoover are buried in the vicinity. |
| Hoover Meadow | SE Yancey County between the SW end of Dovers Ridge and Sevenmile Ridge. |
| Hop Creek | rises in NW Catawba County and flows SE into Jacob Fork. |
| Hop Mountain | SW Madison County, a peak on Spring Creek Mountain. Alt. 4,072. |
| Hope | See Trinity. |
| Hope Mills | town in SW Cumberland County. Active antebellum textile center. Known as Rockfish before the Civil War. Inc. as Hope Mills, 1891, when new mills were built. Alt. 117. |