New Hill is an unincorporated community located in southwestern Wake County, North Carolina, at the crossroads of old US-1 highway and New Hill-Olive Chapel Road (running north) and New Hill-Holleman Road (running south). New Hill was located along the original alignment of the New Hope Valley Railway between Durham and Bonsal. The community is near the southern terminus of the planned American Tobacco Trail, as well as the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant.