| Estatoe | community in S Mitchell County on Brushy Creek. Named for the daughter of an Indian chief. |
| Estatoe | See Rosman. |
| Estatoe Path | S Transylvania County, trading route between settlements of Cherokee Indians and their town of Estatoe, now in South Carolina. |
| Estatoe River | See Toe River. |
| Estelle | community in NE Caswell County. A post office operated there during the approx. period 1880-1905. |
| Estes Branch | rises in N Swain County and flows SW into Indian Creek. |
| Etacrewac | appears on the White maps, 1585 and 1590, as an island that today would be bounded on the N by the community of Duck on the North Banks and on the S by a point on Bodie Island opposite Broad Creek Point on Roanoke Island, E Dare County. The name appears to have been Algonquian for "evergreen-ground." See also Bodie Island; North Banks. The Smith map, 1624, appears to apply the name Essex Island there. |
| Ether | community in NE Montgomery County. Known as Freeman's Cross Roads prior to the establishment of a post office there in 1888, when it was named by Dr. F. E. Asbury, local physician. |
| Etheridge Creek | rises in SE Halifax County and flows SE on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line into Etheridge Swamp. |
| Etheridge Swamp | receives the waters of Etheridge Creek on the Halifax-Edgecombe county line and flows SE into Conoho Creek in Martin County. |