| Avery Creek | rises in N Transylvania County and flows SE into Davidson River. |
| Avery Creek Township | SW Buncombe County. |
| Averys Bald | See Big Yellow Mountain. |
| Avilla | community in W Alexander County on Middle Little River. Served by post office from 1888 to 1906. |
| Avoca | community in E Bertie County on the site of Avoca Plantation, part of the eighteenth-century Nathanael Duckenfield estate. Name comes from the phrase "sweet vale of Avoca" in Thomas Moore's poem "The Meeting of the Waters." See also Black Walnut Point. |
| Avon | community on Hatteras Island, SE Dare County. Post office est. in 1873 as Kinnakeet. Post office renamed Avon in 1883. Alt. 3. |
| Avondale | community in SE Rutherford County on Second Broad River between the communities of Caroleen on the N and Henrietta on the s. |
| Axe Ridge | in S Graham County, extends N from Panther Cove to Little Snowbird Creek. |
| Axtell | community in W Warren County between Long Branch and Phoebes Creek. Alt. 400. Settled during the Revolutionary War and first named Old Shatter, a corruption of Chateau. Shatter Muster Ground, used during the Civil War, was located there. The post office that was located there from 1885 until 1889 was named Shatter. Name changed to Axtell in 1890 for noted race horse. |
| Aycock | community in N Wayne County and S Wilson County between Great Swamp and Aycock Swamp. |