| Rice Branch | rises in central Buncombe County and flows NW into Beaverdam Creek. Named for a pioneer settler. |
| Rice Branch | rises in central Madison County and flows SW into Ammons Branch. |
| Rice Cove | E Haywood County on the head of Rice Cove Creek. |
| Rice Cove Creek | rises in E Haywood County in Rice Cove and flows SE into Beaverdam Creek. |
| Rice Cove Creek | rises in N central Madison County and flows N into Big Laurel Creek. |
| Rice Creek | rises in SW Beaufort County and flows N into Chocowinity Bay of Pamlico River. |
| Rice Gap | N central Transylvania County between Shutin Ridge and Lamb Creek. |
| Rice Island | in SE Bertie County between Roanoke River and Eastmost River. A large swampy island, it measures almost 2½ mi. from tip to tip and is approx. 1 mi. wide at its greatest width. See also Purchace Islands. |
| Rice Knob | central Buncombe County between Craven Gap and Roaring Gap. |
| Rice Path | site of early settlement on E end of Bogue Banks in S Carteret County. A vessel, laden with a cargo of rice, went aground there at one time. The people on the sound side made a path across the banks to the ocean side to get the rice, and so they called it Rice Path. Storms drove out early settlers until settlement of Salter Path, which see. |