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Place Description
Winter Star Ridge

S Yancey County between South Fork Cattail Creek and North Fork Cattail Creek.

Winterville

town in S Pitt County. Inc. 1897. Alt. 72.

Winterville Township

S central Pitt County; formerly Contentnea Township.

Winthrop

community in NE Carteret County served by post office, 1888-1908.

Winton

town and county seat, E Hertford County on Chowan River. Authorized to be laid out and est. 1768 on the land of Benjamin Wynns, for whom it was named. Appears as Wynnton in eighteenth-century records and as recently as on the Tanner map, 1827. Produces aluminum castings. Alt. 45.

Winton Township

E Hertford County.

Wiquemans

See Perquimans River.

Wis's Creek

See Long Creek.

Wisaoky

See Waxhaws, The.

Wise

community in N Warren County between Malones Creek and Sauls Creek. Alt. 392. Settled in 1890s and named for Henry Wise, local resident. A post office was est. there in 1891 but was discontinued in 1951.