Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Wiggins Pond |
See Contentnea Lake. |
| Wiggins Top |
SW Clay County at the NE end of Chasteen Mountain. |
| Wikles Store |
community in SE Macon County served by post office, 1869-1905. |
| Wilbanks |
community in E Wilson County. A post office operated there, 1895-1906. |
| Wilbar |
community in W Wilkes County on South Fork Reddies River. Alt. 2,000. Named for Henry T. Wilbar, nineteenth-century resident. |
| Wilbon |
community in S Wake County. Also called Walthall. |
| Wilcox Iron Works |
remains of a large stone blast furnace located at the foot of Ore Hill near Mount Vernon Springs, W central Chatham County. One of at least 3 ironworks built in the area by John Willcox (1728-93), ironmaster and landowner, during the Revolutionary era. |
| Wild Boar Creek |
formerly rose near the E shore of the mainland of Dare County S of Stumpy Point Bay and flowed E into Pamlico Sound. Erosion that opened Stumpy Point Lake into the Sound also removed all evidence of the creek. Appears on the Moseley map, 1733, and on the Collet map, 1770. |
| Wild Branch |
rises in central Madison County and flows ¾ mi. SE into Hunter Creek. |
| Wild Cat Cove |
on the Cherokee County, N.C.-Polk County, Tenn., line between Angelica Mountain and Hays Knob. |