| Culbreth | community in central Granville County served by post office, 1892-1907. |
| Cullasaja | community in E Macon County on Cullasaja River. Once known as Sugar Town. The Cherokee word Kul-say-gee meant "sugar" or "sweet." |
| Cullasaja Branch | rises in S Swain County and flows NE into Yalaka Creek. |
| Cullasaja Falls | See Cullasaja River. |
| Cullasaja River | rises in SE Macon County and flows NW into Little Tennessee River. Bridal Veil, Dry, and Lower Cullasaja Falls, which see, are on the river. Moses Ashley Curtis, writing from Franklin on September 2, 1829, said that the "Falls of Sugar Town Creek" are "very imposing—nearly as high as Linville." |
| Culler | See Pinnacle. |
| Cullie Creek | rises in N central Carteret County and flows NW into Cedar Creek. It is a very short stream. |
| Cullowhee | community in W central Jackson County on Tuckasegee River. Originally named Kullaughee Valley, an Indian word meaning "place of the lilies." Name changed to Painter, for the first postmaster, when a post office was est. there in 1883 (closed 1908). Renamed Cullowhee about 1900. Home of Western Carolina University, founded in 1889. Alt. 2,066. |
| Cullowhee Creek | rises in W Jackson County and flows N into Tuckasegee River. |
| Cullowhee Gap | on the Jackson-Macon county line. |