| Riders Creek | rises in N central Tyrrell County near community of Levels and flows SW and NW into Scuppernong River. |
| Riders Creek Community | See Levels. |
| Ridge | See South Gastonia. |
| Ridge Creek | rises in NW Alamance County and flows SE into Haw River. |
| Ridge Spring | See Scuffletown. |
| Ridge's Mountain | W Randolph County between Uwharrie River and Caraway Creek; a long, rather low, ridge. |
| Ridgecrest | community in SE Buncombe County. Alt. 2,530. Southern Baptist summer assembly grounds are there. |
| Ridgepole Mountain | S Macon County between Little Ridgepole Mountain and Gulf Branch. Alt. 5,008. |
| Ridgeville | community in SE Caswell County. Known as Pea Ridge until 1875, when the present name was adopted for the ridge on which it is located. Alt. 750. |
| Ridgeway | community in W Warren County. Alt. 422. Inc. 1869; charter repealed 1879. Grew up around a series of inns, the first of which was Colers Ordinary, shown on the Collet map, 1770. By 1800 Charles Marshall had a tavern there; portions of the original building still exist in a local dwelling. In 1816 John Paschall operated a tavern there, and the community was known as Paschalls, the name under which it appears on the MacRae map, 1833. The present name was used when a post office was est. there in 1839; it is said to be derived from the ridge on the N edge of the community on which a railway was built. After the Civil War, a development company induced immigrants from Germany, Alsace, France, Switzerland, and England to settle there. |