| Druid Hills | community in central Henderson County on N side of Hendersonville. Alt. 1,788. |
| Drum Creek | rises in the S part of Goose Creek Island, NE Pamlico County, and flows S into Jones Bay. |
| Drum Hill | community in N Gates County. Alt. 79. Settled about 1890. |
| Drum Inlet | between Portsmouth Island on the NE and Core Banks on the SW in E Carteret County. Water from Pamlico and Core Sounds drains into the Atlantic Ocean through the inlet. Also known as Whalebone Inlet. Named for a species of fish. An inlet in the area appears on the De Graffenried map (French text), 1711, as Drum Passage. Another Drum Inlet appears on the Moseley map, 1733, now commonly referred to as Old Drum Inlet. The inlet shown on the Moseley map closed in the late eighteenth century. |
| Drum Passage | See Drum Inlet. |
| Drum Point | point on mainland of NE Carteret County extending into mouth of Nelson Bay. |
| Drummersville | community in N Duplin County. |
| Drummond's Point | SE tip of Chowan County extending into the mouth of Yeopim River. Named before 1700 for William Drummond (d. 1677), first governor of Albemarle under the Lords Proprietors. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733. Site of one of the largest early seine fisheries on Albemarle Sound. |
| Drums Crossroads | See Drumsville. |
| Drumsville | community in SE Catawba County, formerly Drums Crossroads. Alt. 946. |