| Mount Hermon | unincorporated community in S central Alamance County. Name derived either from biblical Mount Hermon or for a local road known as Hermon Road for Regulator leader Hermon Husband. Mount Hermon Methodist Church, est. around 1829, is there. |
| Mount Hermon | community in S Caldwell County. Named for Mount Hermon Church. |
| Mount Hermon Township | W central Pasquotank County. |
| Mount Holly | town in E Gaston County. Post office est. as Huntersville in 1800, named for Rev. Humphrey Hunter, postmaster. Name changed to Woodlawn in 1846. Inc. 1879 as Mount Holly, named for the town in New Jersey where fine yarns were manufactured. Produces textiles and hosiery. Alt. 621. See also Nims. |
| Mount Holly Ferry | crossed the Catawba River in NW Mecklenburg into Gaston County. |
| Mount Ida | central McDowell County at the S limits of the town of Marion. Alt. approx. 2,000. Named for Ida Neal. |
| Mount Jefferson | SE of and named for town of Jefferson in central Ashe County. State park of 474 acres is maintained there for sightseeing and picnicking; created 1956. Appears in local records as Nigger Mountain as early as 1810; name changed at the creation of the park. Original name given because of the black appearance of the weathered granite of which much of the mountain is composed. A cave near the top is said to have been used by slaves fleeing to Ohio before the Civil War. Alt. 4,683. |
| Mount Junaluska | See Jones Knob. |
| Mount Kephart | in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Swain County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line, lat. 35°38' N., long 83°24' W. Named in 1928 for Horace Kephart (1862-1931), explorer, naturalist, and authority on campcraft who lived in the area for many years. Alt. 6,400. Mount Collins, nearby, bore the name Mount Kephart for a short while. The Jump Off, on the Tennessee side of Mount Kephart, was formerly believed to be in North Carolina. A cliff there drops vertically for almost 500 ft. and then nearly vertically for an additional 1,000 ft. |
| Mount Leer | See Morrow's Turnout. |