50 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Blue Grass; villages in Fulton County, Indiana, Scott County, Iowa, Knox County, 
Tennessee, and Russell County, Virginia, named from a variety of grass which 
grows in Kentucky. 
Blue Hill; village in Webster County, Nebraska, so named because of the bluish 
atmosphere surrounding 'the hill on which the village is located. 
Blue Hills; range of hills in Massachusetts, which are said to have given name to 
the State, the Indian name Massashusetts meaning ''great hills." 
Blue Island; village in Cook County, Illinois, so named because when viewed from 
a distance by the early settlers it appeared like an island covered with blue 
flowers. 
Blue Mound; township in Macon County, Illinois, named from its proximity to a 
hill covered with blue flowers. 
Blue Mounds; village in Dane County, Wisconsin, named from mounds which 
appear bluish from a distance. 
Blue Mountain; town in Tippah County, Mississippi, named from a large bluish 
hill near the site. 
Blue Ridge; the most eastern of the principal ridges of the Appalachian chain of 
mountains, so called from the hue which frequently envelops its distant summits. 
Blue Springs; town in Union County, Mississippi, named from springs with water 
of bluish hue. 
Bluffs; village in Scott County, Illinois, so named from its location on the side of 
high bluffs. 
Bluffton; city in Wells County, Indiana, so named on account of the high bluffs 
which once surrounded the town. 
Blunt; village in Hughes County, South Dakota, named for the chief engineer of 
the Chicago and North Western Railroad, Arthur E. Blunt. 
Blunts; reef on the coast of California, named for Captain Blunt, of the Hudson Bay 
Company. 
Blyville; village in Knox County, Nebraska, named for George W. Bly, early settler. 
Boardman; mountain in Franklin County, Maine, named for Herbert Boardman, 
who settled at its base in 1795. 
Boardman; town in Columbus County, North Carolina, named for a pioneer Baptist 
preacher. 
Boardman; township and village in Mahoning County, Ohio, named for the original 
proprietor, Frederick Boardman. 
Boca; post-office in Nevada County, California, at the mouth of the Truckee River. 
A Spanish word, meaning "mouth." 
Bodega; township in Sonoma County, California. A Spanish word meaning " wine- 
vault." 
Bodie; island in North Carolina, named for Hon. N. W. Boddie, of Nashville, North 
Carolina. 
Bodock; creek in Arkansas, corrupted from the French, bois <V<tr<-, a species of wood. 
Boerne; village in Kendall County, Texas, named for the German writer, Louis 
Boerne. 
Bogota; borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, named for the South American 
city. 
Bogue Chitto; town and creek in Lincoln County, Mississippi. An Indian name 
meaning "big creek." 
Bohemia; villages in Escambia County, Florida, Suffolk County, New York, and! 
Douglas County, Oregon, named from the province in Austria-Hungary. 
Bois Brule; township in Perry County and creek in Cole County, Missouri. A 
French name meaning "burnt forest." 
Bois d'Arc; village in Greene County, Missouri, "bowwood," the French name of 
the Osage orange from which the Indians procured wood for their bows. 
