Pine Level, chartered 1872, is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States.

Pine Level is located 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Raleigh, the state capital.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Pine Level has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.2 km2), all land.

In 1963, Floyd G. Hinnant, Postmaster of Pine Level, wrote down his history of Pine Level:[6] In the days of slow transportation this little town, the third oldest in Johnston County, was a trading center for the pioneer turpentine prospectors and merchants who were obligated to feed the workers who followed those who were setting up turpentine distilleries.

Some records say Gaston Britt and Bryant Hinnant were merchants at the time the Oliver boys landed.

The D. T. Oliver Store is no longer doing business but the original building is still standing and is used as a workshop by a great grandson.

During the early nineteen hundreds many more settlers moved into our little town and at this time we have one of the most progressive rural sections in the state.

It has a bank, oil mill, modern cotton gin, mercantile businesses which service the farmers of a large area, five churches, two civic clubs, a veteran's organization and a fine volunteer fire department.