| Grants | community in central Wayne County. |
| Grants | See Grantsboro. |
| Grants Creek | rises in NE Onslow County and flows NE into White Oak River. Named for Alexander Grant, an early settler. A 1730 reference to the stream in local records calls it Alex's Creek. Known by present name since 1744. |
| Grants Creek | rises in S Rowan County and flows NE into Yadkin River. Named because the earliest known grants of land in the area were along the stream. Frohock Mill on Grants Creek appears on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Grantsboro | community in W Pamlico County. Named for an early settler. Alt. 20. Railroad name is Grants. |
| Grantville | community in E Madison County. |
| Granville County | was formed in 1746 from Edgecombe County. Located in the NE section of the state, it is bounded by Vance, Franklin, Wake, Durham, and Person Counties and by the state of Virginia. It was named for John Carteret, Earl Granville (1690-1763), owner of the Granville District, which see, in which the new county was located. Area: 543 sq. mi. County seat: Oxford, with an elevation of 476 ft. Townships are Brassfield, Dutchville, Fishing Creek, Oak Hill, Oxford, Salem, Sassafras Fork, Tally Ho, and Walnut Grove. Produces tobacco, corn, oats, wheat, hay, sweet potatoes, poultry, livestock, hogs, dairy products, cosmetics, wood products, machinery, lumber, and apparel. |
| Granville District | was the portion of North Carolina allotted to John Carteret, Earl Granville (1690-1763), one of the Lords Proprietors, who refused to sell his interest in North Carolina to the Crown in 1729. The upper half of present-day North Carolina was included in the district, which extended from the Virginia boundary to 35°34', a strip 60 mi. wide. The southern line was run from the coast to Bath in 1744, to Haw River in 1746, and to Rocky River in 1766. The district was lost to the Granville estate at the time of the American Revolution. |
| Granville Parish | Church of England, Granville County, est. in 1758 in the W part of the county, when St. John's Parish (est. 1746 with the formation of the county and coextensive with it) was divided. After St. John's Parish in the E became Bute County in 1764, Granville Parish was coextensive with Granville County. In 1767 there were 1,022 white taxables in the parish. See also St. John's Parish. |
| Grape Branch | rises in NE Duplin County and flows SW into Northeast Cape Fear River. |