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West or Northwest Fork of Nanticoke; see 
Marshy hope. 
West Gallatin; river, Gallatin* county, 
Mont. (Not Gallatin.) 
West Glacier; creek, flowing into Cook 
inlet, Alaska. 
West Hanover; see Shellville. 
West Jefferson; see Jefferson. 
West Mill Stream; see Nesochaque. 
*West Millgrove ; village,Wood county, 
Ohio. (Not West Mill Grove.) 
West Minneapolis; village in Minne¬ 
tonka township, Hennepin county, 
Minn. (Not Bushnell.) 
West Parish; village, Hampden county, 
Mass. (Not Mundale.) 
West Plains; see Plains. 
West Point; city and militia district, 
Troup county, Ga. (Not Westpoint.) 
West Point; district and town, King 
William county, Va. (Not Westpoint.) 
West Point; United States Military 
Academy, N. Y. (Not Westpoint.) 
West Point; see Lone Cone. 
West River; village, Anne Arundel 
county, Md. (Not Owensville.) 
West River; see Galesville. 
West Rome; village, Floyd county, Ga. 
(Not He Soto.) 
West Salisbury; see Elklick. 
West Seattle; town near Seattle, Wash. 
(Not Freeport.) 
West Seneca; village, Erie county, N. Y. 
(Not Limestone Hill.) 
West Side; see Tyler. 
West Sweden; see Sweden. 
Westbank; township, Swift county, 
Minn. (Not West Bank.) 
Westburg; township, Buchanan county, 
Iowa. (Not Westbury.) 
Westchester; village, Butler county, 
Ohio. (Not West Chester.) 
Westcliffe;. village, Custer county, Colo. 
(Not West Cliff.) 
Westcolt’s; see Wescott. 
Western; see Azores. 
Westons Mills; R. R. station, Cattarau¬ 
gus county, N. Y. (Not Weston Mills, 
Westons, nor Westonville.) 
Westport; harbor and river, Bristol 
county, Mass. (Not Acoakset.) 
Westside; township and village, Craw¬ 
ford county, Iowa. (Not West Side.) 
Wet; mountains in Colorado. 
This short range was originally known while 
the country was under Spanish dominion as 
Cuerno Verde. Subsequent to the treaty of 
Guadaloupe Hidalgo the translation of the 
name came into use. The origin of the name 
Wet Mountains is not known, but in local usage 
it has nearly supplanted the name Green¬ 
horn, and appear upon the Land Office maps 
and the Hayden: > .as. 
Wetipquin; creek and town, Wicomico 
county, Md. (Not Watepquin.) 
Wetter; lake, S. Sweden. (Not Vettern 
nor Wettern.) 
*Wetumpka; town, Creek Nation, Ind. 
T. (Not Wetumka.) 
*Wetumpka; city and precinct, Elmore 
county, Ala. *(Not Wetumka.) 
Weweeder; ponds, Nantucket, Mass. 
(Not Weedweeder nor Weeweder.) 
Wewoka; capital, Seminole Nation, and 
creek, Creek Nation, Ind. T. (Not 
We-wo-ka.) 
Wewoka; Wewokee; see Weoka. 
Whale; island between Afognak and 
Kodiak islands, Alaska. (Not Ketoy, 
Kitoi, nor Kittiwake.) 
Whaleback; light-house at entrance to 
Portsmouth harbor, N. H. (Not 
Whale’s Back.) 
Whaleback; shoal in northerly part of 
Green bay, Mich. (Not Whale’s Back.) 
j Whaleback; shoal, Saint Lawrence river, 
about half a mile SW. from Oakpoint, 
Saint Lawrence county, N. Y. (Not 
Whale’s Back.) 
Whalebone; cape between Usof and 
Three Island bays, on south coast of 
Unalaska, Alaska. 
Whalebone; see Usof. 
Whallonsburg; bay and village, Essex 
county, N. Y. (Not Whalonsburg.) 
Wharton; creek, Madison county, Ark. 
(Not Warton’s nor Whorton.) 
Wharton Creek; township, Madison 
county, Ark. (Not Whorton Creek.) 
Wheatland; R. R. station and village, 
Ocean county, N. J. (Not Pasadena.) 
Wheatland; see Archer. 
Wheaton; reef in Long Island sound, 
south of the Thimbles, New Haven 
county, Conn. (Not Wheaton’s.) 
Wheaton ; run, Cumberland county, N. J. 
(Not Molly Wheaton’s nor Wheatens.) 
Wheelbarrow; peak, the highest sum¬ 
mit of Belted range, Nye county, Nev. 
