Rural Hall is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States.

Downtown Winston-Salem is 12 miles (19 km) to the south via North Carolina Highway 66 and U.S. Route 52.

The earliest settler was Anthony Bitting (1738-1804), who was born in Pennsylvania to a German American family.

He supplied material to the Continental Army and may have participated in the battle of Guilford Court House.

His grandson, Benjamin Lewis Bitting (1832-1922), built the house that gave Rural Hall its name.

Another early settler was Johann Adam Geiger (Kiger) who donated 102 acres (0.41 km2) to the Nazareth Evangelical Lutheran Church, which still serves the community today.

The town developed after the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad erected a station in 1887.