80 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Chico; township and city in Butte County, California. A Spanish word meaning 
"little." 
Chicomico; creek in Connecticut. An Indian derivatiom from she or che, "great." 
and komuk, or comaco, "house," or "inclosed place." 
Chicopee; river, falls, and city in Hampden County, in Massachusetts. An Indian 
word, meaning "cedar tree," or "birch-bark place." 
Chicora; town in Berkeley County, South Carolina. From an Indian word, yuchi- 
kere, meaning "yuchi are there,' or "yuchi over there." 
Chicot; county in Arkansas and creek in New York. A French word meaning 
"wood;" a term also applied to a stub or broken piece of wood. 
Childress; county; and town in same county, in Texas, named for George C. Chil- 
dress, author of the Texas declaration of independence. 
Chillicothe ; city in Peoria County, Illinois, towns in Wapello County, Iowa, and 
Livingston County, Missouri, and city in Ross County, Ohio, named from a 
Shawnee subtri be. The correct Shawnee form signifies "man made perfect." 
(Gatschet. ) 
Chillisquaque; creek and village in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. A 
Delaware Indian word meaning " place of snowbirds." 
Chilmark; town in Dukes County, Massachusetts, named from the town in England. 
Chilson; lake and village in Essex County, New York, named for a family of early 
settlers. 
Chilton; county, and village in Clarke County, in Alabama, named for William P. 
Chilton, of that State. 
Chilton; city in Calumet County, Wisconsin, named Chillington, from the home of 
an early settler, Chillington Hall, England, but the county clerk in recording 
the name, omitted the second syllable, hence Chilton. 
Chimney Rock; town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, named from nearby 
cliffs, which bear a likeness to colossal chimneys. 
Chinook; village in Pacific County, Washington, named from a tribe of Indians. 
Chinquapin; town in Duplin County, North Carolina. The name is the Indian 
name for "nut," or "small chestnut," 
{Chippewa; county and river in Michigan, and counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin; 
Chippewa Falls; city in Chippewa County, Wisconsin. Named from a noted Indian 
tribe. The proper Indian form is Ojibwa. 
Chisago; county and lake in Minnesota, named by W. H. C. Folsom, from two 
Ojibwa Indian words, kichi, "large," and saga, "fair" or "lovely." 
Chissesessick; rivers in Virginia and Georgia. An Indian word meaning "place of 
blue birds." 
Chittenango; creek and village in Madison County, New York. Morgan says it is- 
an Indian word, meaning " where the sun shines out; " other authorities trans- 
late it "waters divide and run into." 
Chittenden; county in Vermont, named for Thomas Chittenden, governor of the 
State in 1790-97. 
Chittenden; peak in Yellowstone Park, named for George B. Chittenden. 
Chiving'ton; village in Kiowa County, Colorado, near the battle ground w 7 here 
Colonel Chivington massacred the Cheyenne Indians in 1864. 
Chocorua; peak in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, said to be named for a 
prophet-chief of the Socoki Indians, who, being pursued to this lofty peak by aj 
white hunter, leaped over the precipice and met his death. 
Choctawhatch.ee; bay and river in Florida. An Indian word meaning "river on 
the Choctaws." 
Chohwajica; lake in Minnesota. An Indian word meaning "willow." 
Chokin; lake in Minnesota. An Indian word meaning "place of roasting," the lake 
