| Laurelton | community in N Madison County on Foster Creek. |
| Laurenceville | See Lawrenceville. |
| Laurinburg | city and county seat, S Scotland County. Appears on maps as early as 1865. Inc. 1877 as Laurenburg; charter amended 1883 and name spelled Laurinburg. Named for McLaurin family, early Scottish settlers. Alt. 227. St. Andrews Presbyterian College, est. 1961, is there. |
| Lawhon | community in central Moore County served by post office, 1892-1905. |
| Lawndale | town in central Cleveland County on First Broad River. Alt. 843. Settled 1870; inc. 1903. Named for spreading green lawns of Maj. H. F. Schenck, owner of local mills, est. in 1888, and local power company. |
| Lawrence | town in NE Edgecombe County. Known as Killquick as early as 1837, the name by which it was chartered in 1883. Laid off in an area ½ mi. square from Richard H. Gatlin's "big new store." Name changed to Hickory Hill in 1885 and to Lawrence in 1889. Original Killquick charter repealed in 1893; chartered as Lawrence in 1901, but long in active in municipal affairs. |
| Lawrence Run | rises in W Pitt County and flows NW into Tyson Creek. |
| Lawrenceville | former town in W Montgomery County on Pee Dee River. Authorized to be laid out as the county seat, 1815; named Laurenceville, 1816. Post office operated as Lawrenceville from 1818 to 1850. After Stanly County was formed from Montgomery County in 1841, Lawrenceville was no longer in the center of the county and was soon replaced as the county seat by Troy. By 1860 it was no longer being shown on maps of the state. The site is now abandoned. |
| Laws | community in N Orange and S Person Counties. Formerly known as Laws Store. |
| Laws Store | See Laws. |