| Watsonville | community in central Rowan County served by post office, 1874-1903. |
| Watts Creek | rises in SE Stokes County and flows SE into Town Fork Creek. |
| Watts Cross Roads | community in NE Cabarrus County. |
| Watts Cross Roads Township | former township in N Cabarrus County, now township no. 6. |
| Watts Landing | community in SE Pender County on Intracoastal Waterway. |
| Wattsville | See Nakina. |
| Wauchecha Bald | central Graham County in Cheoah Mountains at the head of Bee Creek. Alt. 4,400. |
| Wauchope | See Walkup. |
| Waughtown | former town in S Forsyth County; inc. 1891. First called Charlestown or Charleston for Charles Bagge, who first settled there and opened a store. When the store was sold to James Waugh, the scattered settlement surrounding it came to be called Waugh's Store or Waughtown. Post office was Waughtown by 1828. Now within the corporate limits of Winston-Salem. |
| Waumans Creek | rises in NE Columbus County and flows NE into Cape Fear River. |