| Peletier | community in W Carteret County. Named for family of same name. |
| Peletier Creek | rises in S Carteret County and flows S into Bogue Sound. Probably named for Jerome Peletier, first of the family to settle in the vicinity. |
| Pelham | community in NW Caswell County. Est. during the Civil War as a station on the Piedmont Railroad; named for Maj. John Pelham, Alabamian killed in action during the war. Alt. 740. |
| Pelham Precinct | appears on the Wimble map, 1738, between the Cape Fear and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers at approx. what is now Pender County. Wimble's map was dedicated to Thomas Hollis Pelham, Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768), secretary of state for the Southern Department. Pelham County appears at the same location on the Mouzon map, 1775. Since there appears to be no reference to such a precinct or county in the records of North Carolina, it is possible that Wimble was simply flattering his patron and that Mouzon followed Wimble's map in making his own. |
| Pelham Township | NW Caswell County. |
| Pell Mell Pocosin | N central Bertie County. |
| Pembroke | town in W central Robeson County. Alt. 172. Inc. 1895. Originally called Campbell's Mill on Waterhole Swamp; later, Scuffletown, after Scoville Town in England or because it was a good place to get into a fight. Today, it is center of Lumbee Indian business and social life. Named for Pembroke Jones (1825-1910), an official of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, which intersected the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railroad there. Home of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, founded in 1887. |
| Pembroke Creek | rises in Pollock Swamp, E Chowan County, and flows S and SE into the W side of the head of Edenton Bay. Formerly known as the W branch of Mattacomack Creek and later Queen Anne's Creek. Took its present name from Thomas Barker's plantation, Pembroke, which was named for his birthplace, Pembroke, Mass. Barker bought his property from Edmund Gale about 1751. See also Ramushawn River. |
| Pembroke Township | central Robeson County. |
| Pender | community immediately S of the town of Halifax, E Halifax County. |