86 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
water." Other derivations are Jmbassak-hige, "sturgeon-catching place," and 
"small, muddy stream." 
Cocalico; creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Corrupted from achgookwalico, 
"where snakes gather in holes." 
Coch.ecalech.ee; tributary of the Chattahoochee, in Georgia. An Indian word 
meaning "broken arrow." 
Cocheco; river in New Hampshire. An Indian word meaning "rapid" or "violent." 
Cochecton; town in Sullivan County, New York. An Indian word meaning, 
according to Haines, "low ground;" others say "finished small harbor." 
Cochise; county in Arizona, named for the chief of the Chiricahua Apache Indians, 
an enemy of all civilization. 
Cochituate; village in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. An Indian word mean- 
ing "land on rapid streams." 
Cochran; county in Texas, named for a man who fell at the Alamo. 
Cocke; county in Tennessee, named for Gen. William Cocke, United States Senator 
from that State in 1796-97 and 1799-1805. 
Cock Robin; island in California, settled by a man named Robin, who, because of 
his bragging of his fighting qualities, was nicknamed "Cock Robin." 
Coconino; county in Arizona, named from a tribe of Indians. 
Cocoosing-; creeks in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. An Indian word meaning 
"owl place." 
Cod; cape in Massachusetts, which received its name from Bartholomew Gosnold, 
who caught many codfish there. 
Codington; county in South Dakota, named for Rev. R. B. Codington, legislator 
in 1875. 
Codornices; creek in California. Derived from the Spanish codorniz, "quail." 
Codorus; creek in York County, Pennsylvania. An Indian word said to meaii 
' ' rapid water. ' ' 
Coeur; village in Trinity County, California, named from its location in the heart 
of the mountains. A French word meaning "heart." 
Coeur d'Alene; lake and town in Kootenai County, Idaho; named from a tribe of 
Indians. A French phrase, meaning "needle hearts" or "awl hearts." Some 
authorities say that this name was given to these Indians because the expres- 
sion was used by a chief of the tribe to denote his opinion of the Canadian trap- 
pers' meanness. Rev. M. Eells says that the name was given to the tribe by 
members of the Hudson Bay Company, because of their sharpness in trade. 
Coeyman; town in Albany County, New York, named for the patentee, Barent 
Peterse Coeymans. 
r Coffee; counties in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee; 
•j Coffeeville; town in Yalobusha County, Mississippi. Named for Gen. John Coffee, 
1 noted Indian fighter. 
Coffee; creek in Humboldt County, California, named from the circumstance of a 
sack of coffee having been spilled into it. 
Coffeen; village in Montgomery County, Illinois, named for Gustavus Coffeen, one 
of the founders. 
rCoffey; county in Kansas; 
< Coffey ville ; city in Montgomery County, Kansas. Namedfor A. M. Coffey, mem- 
l ber of the first Kansas Territorial legislature. 
Cohasset; town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. An Indian word, said by some 
to mean "fishing promontory," "place of pines," or "young pine trees." 
Cohocton; town in Steuben County, New York. From an Indian word cohocta, 
"steam rising in a black-alder swamp with overhanging trees," or "trees in 
water." 
