| Point of Grass Creek | a tidal creek on the Core Sound side of Core Banks near Drum Inlet, NE Carteret County. |
| Point of Marsh | a point of land extending into the mouth of Neuse River in the most N part of Carteret County. |
| Point of Woods | See Archie's Point. |
| Point Peter | point of land extending into Cape Fear River at its junction with Northeast Cape Fear River opposite Wilmington, W New Hanover County. Before the Civil War, it was a terminal for river traffic to and from Fayetteville and Averasboro. Named for Peter Mallett (b. 1744), Revolutionary leader. See also Peters Point. |
| Point Prospect | S Orange County in the town of Chapel Hill about ½ mi. E of the University of North Carolina campus, a very high ridge below which, as William R. Davie wrote in 1793, "the flat country spreads off… like the ocean, giving an immense hemisphere, in which the eye seems to be lost in the extent of space." The peak was owned by the university until 1894, when the U.S. Circuit Court ordered it to be sold to pay university debts. Sometimes known as Piney Prospect for the pines in the vicinity and because Point was often pronounced "pint," which evolved into Piney. Site of Gimghoul Castle. |
| Poison Branch | rises in NE Ashe County and flows NE into North Fork New River. |
| Poison Branch | rises in N Graham County and flows NW into Fontana Lake. |
| Poison Cove | E Haywood County on the head of Poison Cove Branch. |
| Poison Cove Branch | rises in NE Buncombe County and flows NW into North Fork Ivy Creek. |
| Poison Cove Branch | rises in E Haywood County and flows NW into Pigeon River. |