| Ewart | community in N Mitchell County on Big Rock Creek. |
| Ewing | community in W Wake County. |
| Exact | community in E Mecklenburg County served by post office, 1898-1903. |
| Excelsior | community in NW Brunswick County served by post office, 1881-1915. |
| Excelsior | See Rutherford College. |
| Exeter | former town in E Pender County on the E side of Northeast Cape Fear River on a high sandy bluff between Sand Hill Cove and Jumping Run. Flourished from about 1740 to 1790. Est. 1754 as New Exeter for Exeter, England, but it seems generally to have been known as Exeter. Appears on the Collet map, 1770, as Exeter. Began to decline as South Washington, which see, grew in importance after 1790 but appears on the Purcell map, 1792. Rutherfords Mill (later Ashe's Mill) was located nearby in the nineteenth century. In 1781, during the Revolution, British major Sir James Henry Craig constructed field fortifications there, which are still visible. Headquarters of the Holly Shelter State Game Management Area now occupy the site. |
| Exter | community in central Bertie County served by post office, 1886-1905. |
| Exum | community in NW Brunswick County. |
| Exum Mill Branch | rises in E Wayne County and flows E and NE into The Slough. Named for early settlers who had a mill on the stream in the late eighteenth century. |
| Exum Store | community in NE Wayne County between Turner Swamp and Ivy Swamp. |