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Place Description
Weecaunse Creek

See Wiccacon River.

Weed Patch Mountain

on the Henderson-Ruther ford county line.

Weedy Mountain

SE Buncombe County near the Rutherford County line SE of Jarvis Mountain.

Weeks Point

See Swansboro.

Weeksville

community in S Pasquotank County on New Begun Creek. Named for families of James and Charles Weeks, local landowners. Known as New Begun Creek until about 1890. Older W section of the community sometimes is known as Old Weeksville.

Wehutty

community in W Cherokee County on Rocky Ford Creek.

Wehutty Mountain

W Cherokee County between Rocky Ford and Shoal Creeks.

Weightman Branch

rises in central Davidson County and flows S into Swearing Creek.

Weil

former community in central Wayne County near the junction of Little and Neuse Rivers. Site of a brickyard and a railroad station near the site of the old county seat of Waynesboro.

Weir Point

point of land on NW end of Roanoke Island, NE Dare County. The William B. Umstead Bridge, approx. 3 mi. long and opened on December 22, 1956, extends from the point to Redstone Point on the N Dare County mainland; named for N.C. governor William B. Umstead (1895-1954).