| Crooked Swamp | rises in N Nash County and flows SE then NE into Fishing Creek. |
| Cross Branch | rises in S Columbus County and flows SW into Horry County, S.C., where it enters Buck Creek. |
| Cross Branch | See Alder Branch. |
| Cross Canal | drains water from NW Camden County (Dismal Swamp) to the E into Dismal Swamp Canal. |
| Cross Canal | See Hamburg Ditch. |
| Cross Creek | rises in N Cumberland County and flows SE through Lake Wood and Fayetteville into Cape Fear River. So named because early settlers found that Cross Creek and Little Cross Creek crossed each other. See also Fayetteville. |
| Cross Creek | colonial trading center in central Cumberland County on Cape Fear River begun about 1760. Appears as Crosscreek on both the Collet map, 1770, and the Mouzon map, 1775. Consolidated with Campbellton, approx. 1¼ mi. away, in 1778. In 1783 the name was changed to Fayetteville, which see. |
| Cross Creek Township | central Cumberland County. Coextensive with the city of Fayetteville. |
| Cross Hill | former community near Carthage, central Moore County. There, at Alexander Morrison's home, Tories gathered before going to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, February 27, 1776. |
| Cross Knob | N Buncombe County between Chestnut Ridge and Rattlesnake Ridge. |