| Roanoke Sea | See Albemarle Sound. |
| Roanoke Sound | between Roanoke Island and the Outer Banks in E Dare County. Known in the eighteenth century as Sanderson's Channel for Richard Sanderson, local landowner. The name Walter Rawleigh appears there on the Collet map, 1770, though it is uncertain whether it was intended to represent the name of the sound. See also Albemarle Sound. |
| Roanoke Township | E central Northampton County. |
| Roanoke Township | NE Warren County. |
| Roaring Branch | rises in S Mitchell County and flows NW into Crabtree Creek. |
| Roaring Creek | rises in W Avery County and flows S into North Toe River. |
| Roaring Creek | rises in NW Swain County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and flows SE to join Defeat Branch in forming Bone Valley Creek. |
| Roaring Creek | See Valley. |
| Roaring Creek Township | SW Avery County. |
| Roaring Fork | rises in NW Ashe County and flows SW into Big Laurel Creek. |