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Place Description
Lake Wood

lake approx. 1 mi. long on Cross Creek, NW Cumberland County. Covers approx. 20 acres; max. depth 20 ft. Fishing and swimming.

Lake Worth

small community on the mainland of Dare County on the W shore of Stumpy Point Bay.

Lake Wylie

on the Catawba River in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties, is formed by a dam constructed in South Carolina, 1924-26. Most of the lake, which covers 12,455 acres with a shoreline of 325 mi., is in South Carolina. Known as Catawba Lake until 1960, when it was renamed Lake Wylie for Dr. Walker Gill Wylie (1848-1923), friend and associate of James B. Duke. Site of Duke Power hydroelectric plant.

Lakefield

community in E Hoke County.

Lakers Creek

See Raccoon Creek.

Lakes Pocosin

a mucky slough in the SW corner of Craven County and extending into NW Carteret and E Jones Counties. Ellis Lake, Great Lake, Little Lake, and Long Lake in Craven County, and Catfish Lake in Jones and Craven Counties, are located in the pocosin.

Lakeview

community in E Moore County on Crystal Lake. Alt. 300.

Lakewood

See Tuxedo.

Lakey Creek

rises in N Macon County and flows SW into Little Tennessee River.

Lakey Gap

SE Buncombe County in Blue Ridge Mountains. Alt. 3,028.