| Battle Ground | former community in central Guilford County, now within the limits of the city of Greensboro. Served by post office, 1858-1923. Site of Battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 15, 1781. |
| Battle Royal | community 10 mi. W of Wilmington in Brunswick County. Site of tar manufactory, 1884. |
| Battle Run Brook | rises in E Catawba County and flows SE into North Fork Mountain Creek. |
| Battleboro | town in NE Nash and SW Edgecombe Counties. Inc. 1872. Had its origin about 1840 as a railroad depot in a rich agricultural area. The station was named for James and Joseph Battle, stockholders in the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad. Produces lumber. Annexed by Rocky Mount, 2002. Alt. 131. |
| Battles Falls | in Cape Fear River in N Harnett County along a rock outcrop between the confluence of Camels Creek and Fish Creek with the river. The N end of the rapids, near Camels Creek, is called Battles Upper Falls; the S end, near Fish Creek, is called Battles Lower Falls. Mentioned as early as 1819 in a survey of the major rivers of North Carolina. |
| Batts Crossroads | community in NE Wilson County. Named for John Batts before the middle of the nineteenth century. |
| Batts Grave | See Batts Island. |
| Batts House | the home of Nathaniell Batts, first-known permanent white settler in North Carolina, was built as early as 1655 and stood between Roanoke River and Salmon Creek, E Bertie County, facing Albemarle Sound. |
| Batts Island | former island in Albemarle Sound near the mouth of the Yeopim River, SW Perquimans County. Named for Nathaniell Batts, who acquired property in the area, September 24, 1660. It is mentioned in local records as early as 1694. In 1749 it was 40 acres in area and had houses and orchards on it; by 1756 it had been reduced to 27 acres. Early in the twentieth century it was a campsite for fishermen, but later it was reduced to a mud flat with a few dead trees. A hurricane in the 1950s completely destroyed the island. Appears as Heriots Island, probably for Thomas Hariot (1560-1621), on the Smith map, 1624; as Hariots Island on the Comberford map, 1657: and as Bats Grave on the Moseley map, 1733, and the Collet map, 1770. |
| Baucoms | community in N central Union County on the head of Watson Creek. |