| Billy Cove Gap | S Buncombe County between Billy Cove Knob and Hickory Top. |
| Billy Cove Knob | S Buncombe County, SW of Billy Cove Gap. |
| Billy Top | N Haywood County on the head of Laurel Branch. |
| Billy's Branch | rises in central Carteret County and flows W into Black Creek. |
| Billy's Creek | flows between tidal-marsh islands in the mouth of White Oak River in E Onslow County. Named for Billy (William) Russell. |
| Billys Creek | rises in N Franklin County and flows NE into Tar River. |
| Biltmore | former town in central Buncombe County. Inc. 1893 but since 1929 within the corporate limits of Asheville. Named for the Biltmore Estate, which see. Alt. 1,994. Known as Best as early as 1880, when a post office existed there; named for William J. Best, one of the owners of the Western North Carolina Railroad. Post office operated briefly as Bilton, 1890. See also South Biltmore. |
| Biltmore Estate | central Buncombe County on the S outskirts of Asheville. Built for George W. Vanderbilt (1863-1914); the name combines the last part of his family name with more, an old English word for rolling, upland country. The house, in the style of a French chateau, was formally opened in 1895 after 5 years of construction. Handsomely furnished, surrounded by formal gardens, and including adjoining forests, farms, winery, and dairy lands, the estate has been open to the public since 1930. |
| Biltmore Forest | town in central Buncombe County, SW of Asheville. Inc. 1923 and named for the experimental forest est. on the Vanderbilt estate. Alt. 2,050. |
| Biltmore Forest | a part of the Biltmore Estate in S Buncombe County, approx. 11,000 acres along the Swannanoa and French Broad Rivers. Alt. approx. 2,000-2,300. Est. 1890 on land largely cut over; planting continued until about 1911. Gifford Pinchot, the first trained American forester, planned and directed the work. In 1898 Carl A. Schenck founded the Biltmore School of Forestry there, the first such school in the United States. See also Carl Alwin Schenck Forest. |