| Moulton | community in N Franklin County. |
| Mount Airy | town in NE Surry County. Alt. 1,104. Settled about 1850; inc. 1869. In the early nineteenth century, the vicinity was called the Hollow or Hallow. See also Perkinsville. |
| Mount Airy Township | N Surry County. |
| Mount Ararat | See Pilot Mountain. |
| Mount Bolus | hill in SE Orange County near Bolin Creek ½ mi. N of Chapel Hill. An extinct volcano. Said to have been named by university students after "Old Diabolus" (devil), their nickname for Joseph Caldwell, president of the university, 1796-1835. Appears as Gander Mountain in local records as late as 1792. |
| Mount Buckley | the southernmost of three knobs, the central one of which is Clingmans Dome and the northernmost Mount Love, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the border of Swain County, N.C., and Sevier County, Tenn., lat. 35°33'15" N., long. 83°30' W. Named by Arnold H. Guyot prior to 1860 in honor of naturalist S. B. Buckley (1809-84), Guyot's friend and sometime coworker. Alt. 6,500. |
| Mount Calvert | See Grimesland. |
| Mount Cammerer | on the Haywood County, N.C.-Cocke County, Tenn., line in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Cammerer Ridge about lat. 35°45'50" N., long. 83°09'40" W. Named in honor of A. B. Cammerer, formerly of the U.S. Department of the Interior, who was active in promoting the park. Alt. approx. 4,928. |
| Mount Carmel | community in central Moore County served by post office, 1885-1905. |
| Mount Carmel | community in S Vance County on Sandy Creek. Named for a local church, which was in turn named for the biblical mountain in NW Palestine from which Elijah called down fire from Heaven. |