| Crowders | community in S Gaston County. Nineteenth-century post office there was known as Crowder's Creek. Alt. 775. |
| Crowders Creek | rises in SW Gaston County and flows NE and SE into South Carolina, where it enters Catawba River. |
| Crowders Mountain | SW Gaston County. Named for Ulrich Crowder, an early settler who soon moved away. Some action against Tories took place there during the Revolution. Alt. 1,624. See also All Healing Springs. |
| Crowells | community in central Halifax County between Tillery and Enfield. Named for two brothers, Edward and Joseph Crowell, who settled there about 1730. |
| Crowells Springs | community in E Stanly County on Mountain Creek. |
| Crown Stream | community in S Pender County. An abandoned railroad station nearby was named Richards. |
| Crozier Branch | rises in SE Mecklenburg County and flows E into Cabarrus County, where it enters Ready Creek. |
| Crumpler | community in NE Ashe County on North Fork New River. Named for Maj. Thomas Newton Crumpler, who died of wounds received in the Civil War. Thompson's Bromine-Arsenic Springs nearby discovered in 1885; hotel and cottages built in 1887. This and nearby All Healing Springs made the region a popular resort in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| Cruse | community in E Haywood County on East Fork Pigeon River. Est. 1885 and named by first postmaster, who had just read Robinson Crusoe Alt. 2,900. |
| Cruso | community in central Haywood County served by post office, 1892-1942. |