Wiggins Crossroads | community in NE Gates County served by post office, 1878-1907. Alt. 30. Settled in the eighteenth century and named for a local family. |
Wiggins Lake | W Edgecombe County, was formed in 1953 by a dam on Deloach Branch. Covers 52 acres, with a max. depth of 15 ft. Fishing, swimming, boating, and irrigation. Open to the public. |
Wiggins Pond | See Contentnea Lake. |
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. |