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Place Description
Whipping Creek

rises in SW Dare County and flows SW into Long Shoal River. Appears as Aquascog River on the Comberford map, 1657, and under its present name on the Collet map, 1770. Aquascogoc was an Algonquian Indian village near the head of the Pungo River estuary; the name is believed to have meant "where a place for disembarking exists."

Whispering Pines

residential community on Thagards Pond, E Moore County. Developed about 1962. See also Thagards Pond.

Whistling Gap

NW Yancey County between Chestnut Ridge and the head of Whistling Gap Branch.

Whistling Gap Branch

rises in NW Yancey County and flows SE into Little Creek.

Whitaker

See Grover.

Whitaker Branch

rises in W Avery County and flows SE into North Toe River.

Whitaker Creek

rises in E Cleveland County and flows S into Buffalo Creek.

Whitaker Crossroads

community in S Surry County near the head of Hagan Creek.

Whitaker Mountain

S Cleveland County.

Whitaker's Mills

See Gold Rock.