18 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Ag-ua Caliente; village in Maricopa County, Arizona, and township in San Diego 
County, and village in Sonoma County, California, so named from the hot 
springs. A Spanish phrase meaning "hot water." 
Ag-ua de Vida; town and springs in Alameda County, California. A Spanish 
phrase meaning "water of life." 
Ag-ua Dulce; creek in Texas. A Spanish word meaning "sweet water." 
Ag-ua Fria; valley in Yavapai County, and river in Arizona, village in Mariposa 
County, California, and peak and village in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. A 
Spanish phrase meaning "cold water." 
Agua Hedionda; town in San Diego County, California, named from the sulphur 
springs. A Spanish phrase meaning "stinking water." 
Ag-ua Tibia; town in San Diego County, California. A Spanish phrase, translated 
as "flute water." 
Ahiki; eastern tributary of the Chattahoochee River, Georgia. An Indian word, 
ahi-iki, meaning "sweet potato mother." 
Aiken; county, and town in same county', in South Carolina, named for William 
Aiken, governor of the State in 1844-1846. 
Aikin; landing and swamp in Chesterfield County, Virginia, named for the late 
owner, Albert Aikin. 
Ainsworth; town in Washington County, Iowa, named for D. H. Ainsworth, a 
civil engineer. 
Ainsworth; station on the Union Pacific Railroad in Franklin County, Washing- 
ton, named for J. C. Ainsworth, a prominent western railroad man. 
Aitkin; county, and township and village in same county, in Minnesota, named 
for Samuel Aiken or Aitken, an old trapper and fnr dealer. 
Ajax; villages in Nevada and Santa Barbara counties, California, named for the 
Greek hero of Homer's Iliad. 
Akron; town in Washington County, Colorado, and village in Erie County, New 
York, named from the city in Ohio. 
Akron; city in Summit County, Ohio, which occupies the highest ground in the 
northern part of the State, and several other places so named on account of their 
elevation. A Greek word meaning "summit" or "peak." 
Alabama; settlement in Fresno County, gulch in Inyo County, mine in Placer 
County, and township in Sacramento County, California, named from the State. 
Alabama; State of the Union and a river in that State; 
Alabama City; town in Etowah County, Alabama, named for an Indian tribe. 
Gatschet gives the meaning as "burnt clearing." Haines, in his "American 
Indian," gives "thicket clearer." 
Alabaster; mount in Arkansas whose summit is composed of alabaster. 
Alabaster; town in Eldorado County, California, named from the gypsum deposits 
in the vicinity. 
Alabaster; post-office in Iosco County, Michigan, so named from its quarry of gyp- 
sum and manufactory of calcined plaster. 
Alachua; county, and town in same county, in Florida. An Indian word, the mean- 
ing of which is variously interpreted as alachua savanna, "grassy, marshy plain." 
The name is of the Creek or Maskoki language. 
Alamance ; county and creek in North Carolina. The word is said to have been 
given by Germans, from Allamanca, who settled in the valley of the creek, which 
received the name first. Some authorities say it is of Indian origin. 
Alameda; village in Clarke County, Alabama, county, and city in same county, in 
California, and town in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. A Spanish word, 
meaning "poplar grove," or, in the ordinary use of the word, a "promenade." 
Alamitos; town in Santa Clara County, and beach in Los Angeles County, Cali- 
fornia. A Spanish word meaning "little poplars." 
