| Foster Ridge | S Macon County parallel to Ash Flat Branch. |
| Foster's Mill Creek | See Sweeten Creek. |
| Foundry Branch | rises in central Granville County and flows SE into Fishing Creek. Named for Hobgood's Foundry, which operated in Oxford during the Civil War. |
| Fountain | community in SE Duplin County. |
| Fountain | town in W Pitt County. Settled about 1900 and first known as Reba for the sister of Henry Clark Bridgers, founder of the East Carolina Railway. When a post office was est., the name had to be changed, as another Reba already existed in the state. Inc. 1903; named for Robert Almon Fountain (1878-1962), local merchant. |
| Fountain Fork | community in E Edgecombe County. |
| Fountain Hill | community in W Anson and E Union Counties. |
| Fountain Hill | community in N Lenoir County on Contentnea Creek. Named for a local family, the first member of which, Francis Fountain, settled in the vicinity prior to 1769. |
| Fountain Park | community on Hickory Nut Creek in NE Henderson County. |
| Fountain Township | W Pitt County. |