Gazetteer
| Place | Description | 
|---|---|
| Ring Fire Knob | 
 SE Wilkes County between Little Hunting Creek and Osborne Creek. Alt. approx. 1,300.  | 
              
| Ringstaff Mountains | 
 range in the Cane Creek Mountains, S Alamance County.  | 
              
| Ringwood | 
 town in SW Halifax County. Inc. 1877, but long inactive in municipal affairs. A number of homes there date from the early nineteenth century.  | 
              
| Rio | 
 community in S central Transylvania County.  | 
              
| Rio Jordan | 
 See Cape Fear River.  | 
              
| Rip Shin Mountain | 
 N Caldwell County. Alt. 2,200.  | 
              
| Ripley | 
 former town on the W outskirts of Hendersonville in central Henderson County. Inc. 1909; charter repealed 1917.  | 
              
| Rippetoe Mountain | 
 S Caldwell County. Alt. 1,298. Named for William Rippetoe, who received the mountain in a land grant.  | 
              
| Rippys Township | 
 former township in S Cleveland County, now township no. 3.  | 
              
| Ripshin Mountain | 
 SW Buncombe County N of Mount Pisgah.  |