92 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Corapechen; creek in Maryland. An Indian word said to mean "fierce-running 
stream." 
Corbett; post-office in Multnomah County, Oregon, named for H. W. Corbett, 
United States Senator from the State. 
Corbin; town in Jefferson County, Montana, named for Daniel Corbin, at one time 
a resident of Helena, afterwards of New York. 
Corcoran; mount in California, named for W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D. C. 
Cordero ; village in San Diego County, California. A Spanish word meaning ' ' lamb. ' ' 
Cordova; thirteen places in the country, named from the city in Spain. 
Corfu; village in Genesee County, New York, named for the ancient city of the 
Ionian Islands. 
Corinna; town in Penobscot County, Maine, named for the Greek poetess of Bceotia. 
Corinth; city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, named from the ancient city in Greece. 
Cork; villages in Butts County, Georgia, Fulton County, New York, Ashtabula 
County, Ohio, and Tyler County, West Virginia; named from the city in Ireland. 
Cornelius; town in Washington County, Oregon, named for Col. T. R. Cornelius, 
volunteer in Cayuse war. 
Cornell; village in Livingston County, Illinois, named for a family of first settlers. 
Cornell; mount in New York, named for Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University. 
Cornettsville ; village in Daviess County, Indiana, named for Myer and Samuel 
Cornett, who laid it out. 
Corning; town in Adams County, Iowa, and cities in Steuben County, New York, 
and Nemaha County, Nebraska, named for Erastus Corning. 
Cornplanter; township in Venango County and Indian reservation in Warren 
County, Pennsylvania, named for a Seneca Indian chief. 
Cornville; town in Somerset County, Maine, so named from an unusually good 
yield of corn. 
Coronaca; town in Greenwood County, South Carolina, which derived its name from 
the plantation of Joseph Salvador, a wealthy Jewish landowner of Charleston. 
Coronado; cities in San Diego County, California, and Wichita County, Kansas, 
named for the Spanish explorer, Francisco Vjtsquez de Coronado. 
Corpus Christi; city in Nueces County, and bay in Texas, named with reference 
to a festival of the Roman Catholic Church. 
Corral; village in Santa Barbara County, California. A Spanish word meaning 
"inclosure" or "cattle pen." 
Correctionville; town in Woodbury County, Iowa, situated on a correction line. 
Corry; city in Erie County, Pennsylvania, named for a former owner, Hiram Corry. 
Corsica; borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, named from the island in the 
Mediterranean Sea. 
Corsicana; city in Navarro County, Texas, named for the wife of Navarro, a Mexi- 
can, who owned a large tract of land in the county. 
Corson; inlet in New Jersey, named for a family who lived north of the inlet. 
Corte Madera; town in Marin County, California. A Spanish phrase, meaning 
"felled timber." 
Cortina; village in Colusa County, California. A Spanish word meaning "cur- 
tain " or "veil." 
Cortland; city in Republic County, Kansas, named from the city in New York. 
(Cortland; county, and city in same county, in New York; 
jCortlandt; town in Westchester County, New York. Named for Pierre Van Cort- 
l landt. 
Corunna; city in Shiawassee County, Michigan, named from the city in Spain. 
Corvallis; town in Ravalli County, Montana, named from and settled by people 
from Corvallis, Oregon. 
