| Bridges Creek | rises in E Montgomery County and flows NW into Little River. |
| Bridges Creek | See Bridgers Creek. |
| Bridgeton | town in central Craven County. Settled about 1900. Inc. 1907. Named for the bridge across the Neuse River that connected it with New Bern. Alt. 8. |
| Bridgewater | community in W Burke County on the Catawba River. Originally the name of the plantation of John Rutherford, who named it for Francis Egerton (1736-1803), Earl of Bridgewater, inland navigation expert and canal builder. |
| Bridgewater Reservoir | See Lake James. |
| Bridle Creek | former plantation house in W Warren County approx. 3 mi. SW of Warrenton. Two Confederate major generals, Matthew Whitaker Ransom and Robert Ransom, brothers, were born there. Only ruined foundations now mark the site. |
| Bridle Creek | rises in W Warren County and flows E into Fishing Creek. A bridge across the creek is mentioned in local records as early as 1765. |
| Bridle Ridge | extends SE from Yancey County into NW McDowell County between Bee Rock and Cow Creeks. |
| Brief | community in N Union County between Red Creek and Duck Creek. |
| Brier Creek | community in S Wilkes County. Brier Creek Baptist Church there est. in the eighteenth century. A post office by the name served the community from about 1822 until 1882. |