National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina

This is a list of structures, sites, districts, and objects on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina:

As of May 1, 2015, there are more than 2,900 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 100 North Carolina counties, including 39 National Historic Landmarks, two National Historic Sites, one National Military Park, one National Memorial and one National Battlefield.

          This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 1, 2025.^[1]

Current listings by county

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008^[2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site.^[3] There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. The counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

Oak Island Lighthouse, Caswell Beach

Heck-Andrews House, Raleigh

Bennett Place State Historic Site, Durham

First Christian Church, Robersonville

Wilkes County Courthouse, Wilkesboro

Henderson Fire Station and Municipal Building, Henderson

Pisgah Community Covered Bridge, Pisgah

Pelletier House, Jacksonville

Madison County Courthouse, Marshall

Asheville City Hall, Asheville

Guilford College Historic District, Greensboro

Shell Service Station, Winston-Salem

Falcon Tabernacle, Falcon

Old Davidson County Courthouse, Lexington

Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill

Bodie Island Light Station, Nags Head

Mast General Store, Valle Crucis

Old Main, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke

Moratock Iron Furnace, Danbury

Fort Defiance, Lenoir

	County	# of Sites
1	Alamance	71
2	Alexander	3
3	Alleghany	12
4	Anson	7
5	Ashe	28
6	Avery	15
7	Beaufort	19
8	Bertie	25
9	Bladen	14
10	Brunswick	16
11	Buncombe	121
12	Burke	44
13	Cabarrus	30
14	Caldwell	20
15	Camden	9
16	Carteret	17
17	Caswell	25
18	Catawba	63
19	Chatham	57
20	Cherokee	10
21	Chowan	25
22	Clay	4
23	Cleveland	30
24	Columbus	7
25	Craven	55
26	Cumberland	70
27	Currituck	13
28	Dare	34
29	Davidson	58
30	Davie	20
31	Duplin	19
32	Durham	82
33	Edgecombe	38
34	Forsyth	113
35	Franklin	39
36	Gaston	36
37	Gates	10
38	Graham	8
39	Granville	46
40	Greene	11
41	Guilford	120
42	Halifax	43
43	Harnett	18
44	Haywood	31
45	Henderson	40
46	Hertford	35
47	Hoke	5
48	Hyde	11
49	Iredell	53
50	Jackson	21
51	Johnston	36
52	Jones	9
53	Lee	18
54	Lenoir	31
55	Lincoln	32
56	Macon	25
57	Madison	18
58	Martin	29
59	McDowell	15
60	Mecklenburg	106
61	Mitchell	10
62	Montgomery	8
63	Moore	30
64	Nash	33
65	New Hanover	27
66	Northampton	17
67	Onslow	15
68	Orange	54
69	Pamlico	2
70	Pasquotank	13
71	Pender	18
72	Perquimans	18
73	Person	12
74	Pitt	32
75	Polk	26
76	Randolph	22
77	Richmond	18
78	Robeson	23
79	Rockingham	46
80	Rowan	70
81	Rutherford	26
82	Sampson	49
83	Scotland	15
84	Stanly	17
85	Stokes	15
86	Surry	29
87	Swain	13
88	Transylvania	23
89	Tyrrell	3
90	Union	12
91	Vance	23
92	Wake	215
93	Warren	25
94	Washington	10
95	Watauga	24
96	Wayne	19
97	Wilkes	23
98	Wilson	28
99	Yadkin	8
100	Yancey	9
(duplicates)		(26)[4]
Total:		3,074

See also

• List of historical societies in North Carolina
• List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina