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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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Wild Cat Mountain |
E Davidson County between Flat Swamp Creek and Lick Creek. |
