| Wines Top | peak at SW end of Glade Mountain in E Haywood County. Alt. approx. 4,375. |
| Winfall | town in central Perquimans County. Inc. 1887. Alt. 16. |
| Winfrey Gap | on the Cherokee-Clay county line. Alt. 3,493. |
| Wing | community in W central Mitchell County on Snow Creek. Named for Charles Hallet Wing (1836-1915), professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who settled nearby and in 1887 opened a lending library of about 15,000 volumes. It was the first free public library in the state and the third county library in the United States. See also Ledger. |
| Wingate | town in E central Union County; post office, 1896. Formerly known as Ames. Inc. 1901 as Wingate. Home of Wingate University. Produces wood products. Alt. 575. |
| Winkler Creek | rises in S Watauga County and flows NE into Flannery Fork [South Fork New River]. |
| Winklertown | community in NE Caldwell County on Donahues Creek. |
| Winnabow | community in E central Brunswick County. Named for the plantation of Governor Daniel Russell, which, in turn, had an Indian name of unknown meaning. Called Evans Store Crossroads during the Civil War. Alt. 40. |
| Winnie | See White Oak. |
| Winona | community in N Richmond County served by post office, 1892-94. |