| Locke Mills | See Forest Hill. |
| Locke Township | central Rowan County. Named for Gen. Matthew Locke (1730-1801), statesman and patriot, who lived there. |
| Locketts Island | a clay loam island approx. 1 mi. long in Roanoke River, W Northampton County. |
| Lockhart Mill | See Hoggard's Mill. |
| Lockport | community in SE Chatham County on Deep River W of Moncure. An earlier post office there was known as Lockville. Site of locks of Cape Fear and Deep River Navigation Co.; Progress Energy has a small power plant there that uses the lock canal as a mill race. At Ramsey's Mill there, following the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781, the British general, Lord Cornwallis, built a bridge over Deep River. |
| Locks Creek | rises in E central Cumberland County and flows SW and S into Cape Fear River. See also Lords Creek. |
| Lockville | See Lockport. |
| Lockwoods Folly Inlet | between Holden Beach and Long Beach, through which Lockwoods Folly River flows into Long Bay of the Atlantic Ocean, S central Brunswick County. Appears on the Ogilby map, 1671. The name is derived from a man named Lockwood, who built a fine boat up Lockwoods Folly River but discovered that it was too large to float into the Atlantic through the inlet. He was forced to abandon his boat, and it eventually fell to pieces. Frequently in the seventeenth century, however, the word "folly" was used in the sense of the French folie (delight; favorite abode), and it formed a part of the name of English estates. Lockwoods Folly River, which see, has been described as the second-most-beautiful river in North Carolina, and it may have been the "delight" or "favorite abode" of an early settler named Lockwood. See also Longs Delight. |
| Lockwoods Folly River | is formed in central Brunswick County by the junction of Pinch Gut Creek and Red Run and flows W and S through Lockwoods Folly Inlet, which see, into Long Bay of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Lockwoods Folly Township | S central Brunswick County. |