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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 |
|---|---|
| Wind Blow |
community in SE Montgomery County. Named about 1920 by S. R. Gaddy because it was believed that the wind would blow there if it blew anywhere in the area. |
| Wind Hill |
community in NW Montgomery County served by post office, 1832-66. |
| Wind Mill Creek |
See Jacks Creek. |
| Winder |
See Vass. |
| Winders Crossroads |
community in SW Yadkin County. |
| Windfall Creek |
rises in N Ashe County and flows SE into Horse Creek. |
| Winding Knob |
W Haywood County on the E end of Balsam Ridge. |
| Winding Stair Branch |
W Haywood County in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rises near lat. 35°38'13" N., long. 83°02'55" W., and flows NW into Cataloochee Creek. |
| Winding Stair Gap |
at the head of Poplar Cove Branch in SW Macon County. |
| Winding Stairs |
section of road in NW Macon County between Queens Creek and the Macon-Swain county line; winds about 5 mi. down a ½ mi. drop and gives the appearance of winding stairs. Present road laid out about 1923 along a pioneer or Indian trail that, before the Civil War, was sometimes referred to as the Cat's Stairs. |
