| Winterville | town in S Pitt County. Inc. 1897. Alt. 72. |
| Winterville Township | S central Pitt County; formerly Contentnea Township. |
| Winthrop | community in NE Carteret County served by post office, 1888-1908. |
| Winton | town and county seat, E Hertford County on Chowan River. Authorized to be laid out and est. 1768 on the land of Benjamin Wynns, for whom it was named. Appears as Wynnton in eighteenth-century records and as recently as on the Tanner map, 1827. Produces aluminum castings. Alt. 45. |
| Winton Township | E Hertford County. |
| Wiquemans | See Perquimans River. |
| Wis's Creek | See Long Creek. |
| Wisaoky | See Waxhaws, The. |
| Wise | community in N Warren County between Malones Creek and Sauls Creek. Alt. 392. Settled in 1890s and named for Henry Wise, local resident. A post office was est. there in 1891 but was discontinued in 1951. |
| Wise Branch | rises in SW Buncombe County and flows NE into Bill Moore Creek. |