| Sandy Huss Creek | rises in N Carteret County and flows approx. 1 mi. SW into Adams Creek on the Craven County line. Perhaps named for the fish, amiatus calva, a dogfish sometimes also known as huss. |
| Sandy Inlet | former inlet between Topsail Sound and Atlantic Ocean, SE Pender County. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733; closed soon after 1775. |
| Sandy John Ridge | N Haywood County between Big Creek and Pigeon River. |
| Sandy Landing | SE Beaufort County on the W side of South Creek. |
| Sandy Mush | community in NW Buncombe County near the junction of Clark Branch and Sandy Mush Creek. Took its name from the creek. |
| Sandy Mush | community in S Rutherford County near the head of Holland Creek. |
| Sandy Mush Bald | on Newfound Mountain at the junction of Buncombe, Haywood, and Madison county lines. Alt. 5,152. Took its name from the nearby creek. |
| Sandy Mush Creek | rises near Wade Gap in NW Buncombe County and flows NE into French Broad River, forming a part of the Buncombe-Madison county line. Named by an early hunting party when sand from the creek water got into the mush they were cooking for supper. |
| Sandy Mush Township | W Buncombe County. |
| Sandy Mush Township | former township in SW Madison County, now township no. 6. |