| Whetstone Creek | rises in N Rockingham County and flows NE into Dan River. Tradition attributes the name to the fact that early white settlers found the Indians used stones from the stream to whet their knives. |
| Whetstone Ridge | S Transylvania County, extends NE from Blue Ridge to West Fork French Broad River. |
| Whichard | community in NE Pitt County served by post office, 1891-1926. |
| Whigg Branch | rises in W Graham County and flows NE into Santeetlah Creek. |
| Whim Knob | on the Haywood-Swain county line between Sugar Tree Lick and Strawberry Knob. Alt. approx. 5,400. Named for the fact that a whim, a horsepowered winch used to draw logs out of the valley, was operated on the peak for several years. |
| Whipping Creek | rises in SW Dare County and flows SW into Long Shoal River. Appears as Aquascog River on the Comberford map, 1657, and under its present name on the Collet map, 1770. Aquascogoc was an Algonquian Indian village near the head of the Pungo River estuary; the name is believed to have meant "where a place for disembarking exists." |
| Whispering Pines | residential community on Thagards Pond, E Moore County. Developed about 1962. See also Thagards Pond. |
| Whistling Gap | NW Yancey County between Chestnut Ridge and the head of Whistling Gap Branch. |
| Whistling Gap Branch | rises in NW Yancey County and flows SE into Little Creek. |
| Whitaker | See Grover. |