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This content is from the North Carolina Gazetteer, edited by William S. Powell and Michael Hill. Copyright © 2010 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. For personal use and not for further distribution. Please submit permission requests for other use directly to the publisher.
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"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet. It is current, and it is historical as well. Many features and places that no longer exist are included; many towns and counties for which plans were made but which never materialized are also included. Some names appearing on old maps may have been imaginary, but many of them also appear in this gazetteer.
Each entry is located according to the county in which it is found. I have not felt obliged to keep entries uniform. The altitude of a place, the date of incorporation of a city or town, may appear in the beginning of one entry and at the end of another. Some entries may appear more complete than others. I have included whatever information I could find. If there is no comment on the origin or meaning of a name, it is because the information was not available. In some cases, however, resort to an unabridged dictionary may suggest the meaning of many names."
--From The North Carolina Gazetteer, 1st edition, preface by William S. Powell
| Place | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Whitakers |
town on the Edgecombe-Nash county line. Settled approx. 1840; post office est. 1866. Post office name changed to Mayonia for approx. 3 months in 1886. Inc. 1872. Named for Richard and Henry Whitaker, local landowners who supplied wood to the railroad when it was being built. First known as Whitaker's Turnout. Alt. 134. |
