| Chadbourn | town in N Columbus County. Inc. 1883. Named for a family of lumber merchants. Produces lumber and textiles. Alt. 105. |
| Chadbourn Township | W central Columbus County. |
| Chadwick | former mill community in W Mecklenburg County. |
| Chadwick Acres | in S Onslow County on Chadwick Bay. Inc. 1961, but now inactive in municipal affairs. Planned as a resort development. Covers 308 acres. |
| Chadwick Bay | in S Onslow County in New River. |
| Chadwick Bay | SE Carteret County, the mouth of Chadwick Creek. Named for Samuel Chadwick, eighteenth-century whaler who lived in the vicinity. |
| Chadwick Creek | rises in NE Pamlico County and flows SE into Bay River. |
| Chadwick Creek | rises in S Carteret County and flows S into Chadwick Bay. Appears as Larler Creek on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Chafin | community in W Harnett County served by post office, 1890-1908. |
| Chainshot Island | NE Carteret County in Core Sound, midway between Hog Island and Harbor Island. Named for a kind of shot consisting of two balls or half balls united by a short chain, formerly used in naval warfare to cut a ship's rigging or to sweep its decks. Named as early as the Moseley map, 1733. See also Hunting Quarter Sound. |