Gazetteer
| Place | Description | 
|---|---|
| Paynes Store | 
 community in SE Alexander County.  | 
              
| Paynes Tavern | 
 community in S Person County near North Flat River. Cornwallis spent a night there in 1781 during the Revolutionary War. The tavern has long since ceased to exist.  | 
              
| Pea Branch | 
 rises in E Pitt County and flows E into Tranters Creek.  | 
              
| Pea Hill Creek | 
 rises in S Virginia and flows S into Northampton County, where it enters Roanoke River. Appears on the map of the North Carolina-Virginia line run by William Byrd and others, 1728.  | 
              
| Pea Island | 
 part of the Outer Banks in E Dare County. Once a separate island, but now part of Hatteras Island, bounded on the N by Oregon Inlet and on the S by Hatteras Island. Also known as Chicamacomico Banks, which see.  | 
              
| Pea Island National Waterfowl Refuge | 
 a national wildlife refuge covering all of Pea Island and the N end of Hatteras Island to Rodanthe, E Dare County. Federally funded in 1938 as a winter preserve for migratory birds. Formerly known as Pea Island Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.  | 
              
| Pea Landing | 
 See Calabash.  | 
              
| Pea Ridge | 
 elevated sandy area in N Washington County on Albemarle Sound extending NE from Leonards Point.  | 
              
| Peace | 
 community in SW Wake County.  | 
              
| Peach | 
 community in N Perquimans County.  |