| Mayview Lake | in S Watauga County in the headwaters of Middle Fork [South Fork New River]. |
| Mayview Park | See Blowing Rock. |
| Maywood | community in N Alamance County served by post office, 1886-1905. |
| Mazeppa | community in SE Iredell County. Alt. 901. |
| McAdams Creek | rises in E Alamance County and flows W into Back Creek. |
| McAdenville | town in E Gaston County. First Known as Henderson Shoals for Lawson Henderson, early Lincoln County official; later as Spring Shoals for a local landowner, Adam A. Springs, graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1798. Inc. 1883 as McAdenville. Named for Rufus Yancey McAden (1833-89), speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives in 1866 and local owner of mills. Alt. 600. |
| McAllister Creek | rises in E Cabarrus County and flows S into Adams Creek. |
| McAlpin's Grove | See Rennert. |
| McAlpine Creek | rises in E Mecklenburg County and flows SW into South Carolina, where it enters Sugar Creek. |
| McAlpine Mountain | S Henderson County at the head of King Creek. |