24 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Amherst; towns in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and Hillsboro County, New 
Hampshire, and county in Virginia, named for Lord Amherst. 
Amicalola; town in Dawson County, Georgia. A Cherokee Indian word, meaning 
"tumbling water" or "rolling water." 
Amite; town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and county in Mississippi, named 
from the river. 
Amite; river in Mississippi and Louisiana. Corrupted from the French amitie, 
meaning "friendship," so called by the early settlers from the friendly reception 
given them by the Indians. 
Amity; town in Yamhill County, Oregon, so named as a result of the settlement of 
a neighborhood contention regarding the location of aschoolhouse in 1849. The 
schoolhouse was named first and later the town. 
Ammonoosuc; river in New Hampshire. An Indian word, interpreted by some to 
mean "stony fish place;" by others, "fish story river." 
Amo; towns in El Paso County, Colorado, Hendricks County, Indiana, and Cotton- 
wood County, Minnesota. An Indian word, meaning "bee." 
Amphitheater; creek in Yellowstone Park, named by the United States Geological 
Survey, from the form of a valley near its mouth. 
Amsterdam; city in Montgomery County, New York, named by Emanuel E. 
De Graff, an early settler, from Amsterdam, Holland. Several places in the 
United States are named from the city in New York. 
Anaconda; township and city in Deerlodge County, Montana, named for the Ana- 
conda Company. 
Anacostia; village in the District of Columbia, named from an Indian tribe, from 
Anacostan, Latinized form of Nacochtank, a former Indian settlement of the 
vicinity. 
Anada; town in Trinity County, California. From the Spanish, meaning "to 
nothing," signifying "down to bed-rock." 
Anaheim; township and town in Orange County California. Named for Anna 
Fischer, the first child born in the settlement, and heim, the German word 
for "home." 
Anamosa; city in Jones County, Iowa. A corruption of the name of a Sauk Indian 
woman distinguished in the Black Hawk war, and refers to a litter of puppies 
or young foxes with eyes not yet open. 
Anastasia; island off the coast of Florida, named by the early Spanish explorers 
St. Anastasia, for a saint of the Catholic Church. 
Ancona; town in Livingston County, Illinois, named from the city in Italy. 
Andalusia; town in Covington County, Alabama, and villages in Randolph County, 
Georgia, Rock Island County, Illinois, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, named 
from the ancient division of Spain. 
Anderson; village in Mendocino County, California, named by settlers from Ander- 
son County in Kentucky. 
Anderson; city in Madison County, Indiana. The name is the English translation 
of a Delaware Indian chief. 
Anderson; county in Kansas, named for Joseph C. Anderson, member of the first 
Territorial legislature of Kansas. 
Anderson; county in Kentucky, named for Richard C. Anderson, a former member 
of Congress. 
Anderson; county, and city in same county, in South Carolina, named for Col. Rob- 
ert Anderson, Revolutionary soldier. 
Anderson; county in Tennessee, named for Joseph Anderson, Comptroller of the 
United States Treasury under President James Madison. 
Anderson; county in Texas, named for Kenneth L. Anderson, vice-president of the 
Republic of Texas. 
