| Aquone | community in W Macon County on Nantahala River. Alt. 2,950. Settled on the site of Fort Scott, one of the stockades where Cherokee Indians were housed before being removed to Oklahoma, 1838. Name believed to be a corruption of egwanul'ti (by the river). |
| Arabi | community in N Robeson County served by post office, July-November 1900. |
| Arabia | community in SE Hoke County. |
| Arabia | nickname applied about 1860 to the desolate Outer Banks of North Carolina. |
| Aramancy River | See Great Alamance Creek. |
| Aramuskeet | described in 1758 as a part of Hyde County: "That Part of the County is a Peninsula, or rather an Island for three Parts of the Year, and can be entered by foot Passengers only in the Height of Summer, and that with great Difficulty for several Miles together. It was formerly an Indian Settlement, and there are at present about 12 Families of Indians, who live dispersed among the Whites, and dress and live like them, but they have still one whom they call the King among them." See also Aromuskek Marshes; Lake Mattamuskeet. |
| Arapahoe | town in S Pamlico County, inc. 1920. Post office est. 1886. Said to have been named for a local racehorse. |
| Ararat | community in E Surry County on Ararat River. Named for the river. Alt. 898. |
| Ararat River | rises in Virginia and flows S across Surry County into Yadkin River. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. Named for the biblical Mount Ararat. |
| Arba | community in S Greene County. Named for the biblical name Kirjatharba (Joshua 14:15). |