| Shell Castle | NE Carteret County, an island in Pamlico Sound between Casey Island and North Rock near the tip of Portsmouth Island at Ocracoke Inlet. Built by John Gray Blount and John Wallace in 1790 on an earlier island known as Old Rock. At one time a dwelling house, a tavern, warehouses, a lumberyard, a wharf, and a notary public's office were there. Appears on the Price map, 1808. |
| Shell Island | NE Carteret County in Core Sound between Wainwright Island and Core Banks. Named as early as the Moseley map, 1733. See also Hunting Quarter Sound. |
| Shell Knob | on the Buncombe-Henderson county line NE of Glady Fork Gap. Alt. approx. 4,020. |
| Shell Point | the SE point of Harkers Island in SE Carteret County. Mound of shells, apparently left by Indians, gave the point its name. Indian remains have been found there. |
| Shell Point | community in SW Brunswick County on E side of Shallotte River. |
| Shell Ridge | NE Mitchell County between Blevins Branch and Broad Branch. |
| Shell Rock Channel | SE Onslow County, flows S out of Bear Inlet. |
| Shell Stand Creek | rises in E Graham County and flows NE into Panther Creek. |
| Shellback Island | a tidal-marsh island in the Cape Fear River opposite Southport, SE Brunswick County. |
| Shellbank Point | peninsula extending from the W shore of N Bodie Island into Kitty Hawk Bay and Currituck Sound, NW Dare County. Named for mound of shells found at the site by early settlers. |