East Bend is a town in northeastern Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), all land.

One of the most significant Native American excavation sites in North Carolina is located near the Yadkin River west of the town of Donnaha.

Donnaha was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 6, 1978.

[7] Experts from Wake Forest University believe this was the site of a village of at least 100 Sioux Indians dating to the late Woodland Period.

Earl Norman, an East Bend artifact collector, donated 5,000 pieces of his collection of more than 10,000 relics to the North Carolina Department of Archives and History in 1960.

Roger Moore, now a film critic for The Orlando Sentinel, compared East Bend to Lake Wobegon, "It's a homey town with a lot of history and a few 'might-have-beens,' " Moore wrote in The Winston-Salem Journal.

The fair was first held at the old schoolhouse and in later years was moved to a tract east of town on North Carolina Highway 67.

The school traces its history back to the East Bend Academy, which operated from 1856-1889.

Two other elementary schools are located in the East Bend ZIP code area, Forbush and Fall Creek.