| Carter Cove | the valley through which Carter Cove Creek flows in central Buncombe County. |
| Carter Cove | the valley through which Beaverdam Creek flows in SW Buncombe County. |
| Carter Cove Creek | rises in the Elk Mountains, central Buncombe County, and flows SW into Beaverdam Creek. |
| Carter Creek | rises in the Great Craggy Mountains, NE Buncombe County, and flows generally NW to join Mineral Creek in forming Stony Creek. |
| Carter Gap | on the Clay-Macon county line. |
| Carter Mill Ridge | N Madison County between Big Creek and Mill Creek. |
| Carter Mountain | N Buncombe County near the Madison County line. |
| Carter Pond | S Wayne County in Yellow Swamp. |
| Carter Top | on the N end of Rich Mountain in NW Jackson County. |
| Carteret | town est. 1723 to be laid out on the NE side of Roanoke Island, then Bertie, later Tyrrell, and now E Dare County. An act of 1715, without naming the town, attempted to encourage its establishment. A few lots may have been sold by 1733, when it was referred to as "Roanoak Town," but it never developed as planned. |