Gazetteer
| Place | Description | 
|---|---|
| Lake Wood | 
 lake approx. 1 mi. long on Cross Creek, NW Cumberland County. Covers approx. 20 acres; max. depth 20 ft. Fishing and swimming.  | 
              
| Lake Worth | 
 small community on the mainland of Dare County on the W shore of Stumpy Point Bay.  | 
              
| Lake Wylie | 
 on the Catawba River in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties, is formed by a dam constructed in South Carolina, 1924-26. Most of the lake, which covers 12,455 acres with a shoreline of 325 mi., is in South Carolina. Known as Catawba Lake until 1960, when it was renamed Lake Wylie for Dr. Walker Gill Wylie (1848-1923), friend and associate of James B. Duke. Site of Duke Power hydroelectric plant.  | 
              
| Lakefield | 
 community in E Hoke County.  | 
              
| Lakers Creek | 
 See Raccoon Creek.  | 
              
| Lakes Pocosin | 
 a mucky slough in the SW corner of Craven County and extending into NW Carteret and E Jones Counties. Ellis Lake, Great Lake, Little Lake, and Long Lake in Craven County, and Catfish Lake in Jones and Craven Counties, are located in the pocosin.  | 
              
| Lakeview | 
 community in E Moore County on Crystal Lake. Alt. 300.  | 
              
| Lakewood | 
 See Tuxedo.  | 
              
| Lakey Creek | 
 rises in N Macon County and flows SW into Little Tennessee River.  | 
              
| Lakey Gap | 
 SE Buncombe County in Blue Ridge Mountains. Alt. 3,028.  |