| Reidsville Township | SE Rockingham County. |
| Reinhardt | community in E Lincoln County served by post office, 1888-1904. |
| Reinhardt Gap | on the Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 5,440. |
| Reinhart Knob | on the Haywood-Jackson county line. Alt. 6,100. |
| Relief | community in W Mitchell County on Toe River. Alt. 2,092. Named for the patent medicine Hart's Relief, a popular product with a high alcoholic content sold at John Peterson's store there after about 1870. |
| Rella | community in N Stokes County served by post office, 1894-1904. |
| Rena | community in W Yadkin County on South Deep Creek. |
| Rendezvous Mountain | W central Wilkes County between the heads of Purlear and Cole Creeks. Alt. 2,450. Named for the fact that militiamen from the area are believed to have gathered there to drill and that it is the traditional rendezvous site for troops that assembled before marching to the Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780. In 1926 Judge Thomas B. Finley and his wife gave the state 142 acres there for a state park. Now an Educational State Forest operated by the North Carolina Forest Service. |
| Renfro Knob | W Yancey County between Hardscrabble Branch and Nubbinscuffle Creek. |
| Rennert | community in N Robeson County. Inc. 1895; charter repealed 1947. Known as McAlpin's Grove until the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was constructed; the name was then changed, probably to honor someone connected with the railroad. James McAlpin, for whom the community was first named, is said to have been a Scottish officer in the British army during the American Revolution. After the war, he remained in North Carolina, taking an oath of allegiance to the United States and becoming a schoolteacher in the community that came to bear his name. |