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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 |
|---|---|
| Wilsons Bay |
central Onslow County in New River S of the city of Jacksonville. |
| Wilsons Creek Township |
E Avery County. |
| Wilsons Store |
community in NE Orange County. |
| Wilsonville |
community in E central Chatham County. Named for Cecil Wilson, owner of a store there. |
| Wilton |
community in SE Granville County at the head of Sand Creek. A post office operated there, 1826-1907. |
| Wimberly |
See Coniott Landing. |
| Wimble Shoals |
in the Atlantic Ocean off the community of Salvo on Hatteras Island, E Dare County. The shoals are at the approx. site of the former Cape Kenrick, which see. They were charted and given the present name by James Wimble in, or shortly prior to, 1738. |
| Winchester |
former community in W Union County between West Fork Twelvemile Creek and East Fork Twelvemile Creek. |
| Winchester Cove |
central Clay County near the headwaters of Greasy Creek. |
| Winchester Creek |
rises in Towns County, Ga., and flows NW into Clay County, where it enters Brasstown Creek. |
