220 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Naperville; township and city in Dupage County, Illinois, named for Joseph Naper, 
its founder. 
Naples; towns in Scott County, Illinois, and Ontario County, New York, named 
from Naples in Italy. 
Napoleon; township and village in Henry County, in Ohio, named for Napoleon 
Bonaparte, the Corsican general. 
Naranjo; town in Tulare County, California. A Spanish word meaning "orange 
tree." 
Narka; city in Republican County, Kansas, named for the daughter of a railroad 
official. The name is of Indian derivation. 
Narragansett; summer resort in Washington County, Rhode Island. An Anglici- 
zation of the Indian name of a tribe, which in their language means " people of 
the point." 
Nash; county in North Carolina, named for Gen. Francis Nash. 
Nashota; town in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. An Indian word which, in the 
Algonquin and Dakota languages, means, respectively, "the twins," or "kicks 
up smoke." 
Nashua; town in Chickasaw County, Iowa, named from the city in New Hampshire. 
Nashua; city in Hillsboro County, New Hampshire. An Indian word meaning 
"land between." 
Nashville; township and city in Washington County, Illinois, named from the city 
in Tennessee. 
Nashville; village in Barry County, Michigan, named for E. W. Nash, who laid out 
the Michigan Central Railroad through the town. 
Nashville; town in Nash County, North Carolina, and several other towns, named 
for Gen. Francis Nash. 
Nashville; town in Holmes County, Ohio, probably named for Judge Simon Nash. 
Nashville; city in Davidson County, Tennessee, named for Abner Nash, at one time 
governor of North Carolina. According to another authority it was named for 
Gen. Francis Nash. 
Nassau; counties in Florida and New York, and several towns in different States, 
named from the Duchy of Nassau in Germany. 
Natchaug; river in Connecticut. Derived from an Indian word meaning "land 
between," or " in the middle." 
Natick; town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. An Indian word meaning 
"place of hills." 
Natividad; town in Monterey County, California. The Spanish form of "nativity." 
Natrona; county in Wyoming. Derived from the Spanish, natron, meaning "native 
carbonate of soda," and given this county because of the springs of this character 
within its limits. 
Naubuc; town in Hartford County, Connecticut. It is said to be a corruption of the 
Indian, upauk, "flooded," or "overflowed." 
Naugatuck; river, and borough in New Haven County, in Connecticut. Authorities 
differ as to the meaning of its Indian origin, giving both "one tree" and "fork 
of the river." 
Nauvoo; city in Hancock County, Illinois, named in obedience to a "revelation" 
made to Joseph Smith, one of its Mormon founders. 
Navajo; county, and town in Apache County, in Arizona, named for the Indian tribe, 
who are said to have been so named by the Spaniards, the word meaning a kind 
of clasp knife, and as applied to the tribe signifying "knife-whetting people." 
Navarre; village in Stark County, Ohio, named from the province in Spain. 
Navarro; county in Texas, named for Jose Antonio Navarro, a Mexican by birth, 
but a prominent Texas citizen. 
