| Trull Cove | E Cherokee County, through which a short tributary of Slow Creek flows. |
| Trumpet Branch | rises in N central Iredell County and flows S into Rocky Creek just N of Olin. Before the Civil War, Joseph Weisner had an iron foundry there known as Trumpet Branch. It is believed that machinery for antebellum cotton factories in the SE was made there. |
| Trumpeters Swamp | rises in S Pender County and flows NW into Merricks Creek. |
| Trust | community in SW Madison County on Spring Creek. Alt. 2,411. |
| Truth | community in SE Chatham County. |
| Truvine | community in E Wayne County served by post office, 1891-92. |
| Tryon | town in SW Polk County. Inc. 1885 as Tryon City. Named for nearby Tryon Mountain, which see. Post office, est. 1855, known as Tryon City. Alt 1,075. |
| Tryon City | See Tryon. |
| Tryon County | was formed from Mecklenburg County in 1769 and named in honor of William Tryon (1729-88), governor of North Carolina, 1765-71. The county was abolished in 1779 and divided into Lincoln and Rutherford Counties, which see. |
| Tryon Mountain | W Polk County above the town of Tryon between Skyuka Creek and Little Cove Creek. Named for William Tryon (1729-88), governor of North Carolina, 1765-71. Named by the Cherokee for the governor in 1767 when a boundary was being est. between white and Cherokee lands. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. Alt. 3,231. |