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Willets, North Carolina

Field	Value
official_name	Willets, North Carolina
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
image_skyline	Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Willets, NC.jpg
image_caption	Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, located at Willets
pushpin_map	North Carolina#USA
pushpin_label	Willets
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	North Carolina
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Jackson
timezone	Eastern (EST)
utc_offset	-5
timezone_DST	EDT
utc_offset_DST	-4
elevation_ft	2690
coordinates
area_code	828
blank_name	GNIS feature ID
blank_info	996296

Willets is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. Willets is located along U.S. Route 74, west of Balsam and east of Sylva. It is home to the Balsam-Willets-Ochre Hill fire department, a church, and many homes. It was a thriving unincorporated town along the Murphy Branch of the Western North Carolina Railroad, but seriously declined during the Great Depression in the 1930s, consolidations of the schools in the Scott Creek Township in 1951, and the widening/straightening of US 23 in the early 1950s and early 1970s. Today it is a tiny bedroom community for the larger population centers of Waynesville and Sylva.

History

The Willets Depot in the 1890s, when it was known as Hall's Station/Hall's Siding.

A post office called Willets was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1934. The community was named for A. P. Willets, the owner of a local sawmill.

References

(2007-10-25). "US Board on Geographic Names". [[United States Geological Survey]].
"Jackson County". Jim Forte Postal History.
McRorie, J.D.. (Aug 17, 1978). "Knowing Jackson...Names Chosen Informally". The Sylva Herald and Ruralite.

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