Gazetteer
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| Woodby Gap |
N Yancey County between Hawk Branch and Byrds Branch. |
| Woodcock Knob |
W Caldwell County. Alt. approx. 2,500. |
| Woodenton |
See Woodington. |
| Woodfin |
community in central Buncombe County on the E bank of French Broad River NW of Asheville. |
| Woodford |
community in NW Ashe County. |
| Woodington |
community in S Lenoir County. Named by Richard Caswell, who acquired a plantation there about 1767 before becoming governor. Name sometimes appears as Woodenton in nineteenth-century records. |
| Woodington Township |
SE Lenoir County. |
| Woodland |
town in E Northampton County. Alt. 72. Inc. 1883. Settled about 1835. Named for the Wood family, early Quaker settlers. Produces lumber. See also George. |
| Woodlawn |
community in NW McDowell County in Turkey Cove and on Limekiln Creek. Site of Cathey's Fort, a rendezvous point for the state militia led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee Indians in 1776. |
| Woodleaf |
town in N Rowan County. Inc. 1909, but long inactive in municipal affairs. A post office was est. there in 1855 with Daniel Wood as first postmaster. Alt. 711. A large gravel pit is worked there. |