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Ocopson; creek in Pennsylvania. An Indian name meaning "brawling stream." 
Ocou; river in Tennessee. An Indian word meaning "cow." 
October; mountain in the town of Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 
whose forests are especially brilliantly colored in the autumn. 
Odanah; town in Ashland County, Wisconsin. An Indian word meaning "town" 
or "village." 
Odebolt; town in Sac County, Iowa. Corrupted from Odebean, the name of a 
French trapper, who lived alone on the banks of the creek flowing through the 
town. 
Odell; township and village in Livingston County, Illinois, named for W. C. Odell, 
a prominent land owner. 
Odessa; town in Newcastle County, Delaware, named from Odessa in Russia. 
Odin; village in Marion County, Illinois, and township in Watonwan County, 
Minnesota. The name is one given to the Supreme Being by the ancient 
northern nations. 
O'Fallon; village in St. Clair County, Illinois, and town in St. Charles County, 
Missouri, named for Col. John O'Fallon, of St. Louis. 
OfFutt; village in Anderson County, Tennessee, named for the owner of the land 
upon which the post-office was built. 
Ogalalla; village in Keith County, Nebraska, named for a subtribe of the Sioux 
Indians. The word has some reference to "scattering." 
Ogden; township and village in Champaign County, Illinois, named for an influen- 
tial resident family. 
Ogden; city in Riley County, Kansas, named for Maj. E. A. Ogden, United States 
Army. 
Ogden; town in Monroe County, New York, named for William Ogden, the son-in- 
law of the proprietor. 
Ogden; city in Weber County, river, canyon, and valley in Utah, named for an old 
mountaineer of the Hudson Bay Company, Peter Skeen Ogden. 
Ogdensburg; city in St. Lawrence County, New York, named for its original pro- 
prietor. 
rOgema; town in Price County, Wisconsin; 
Ogemaw; county in Michigan. Derived from an Ojibwa Indian word meaning 
I "great chief." 
Ogle; county in Illinois, named for Capt. Joseph Ogle, an Indian fighter of the 
Ohio valley. 
Oglesby; town in Lasalle County, Illinois, named for Richard J. Oglesby, former 
governor of the State. 
Oglethorpe; county, and town in Macon County, in Georgia, named for (Jen. James 
E. Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia. 
Ogletown; village in Newcastle County, Delaware, named for Thomas Ogle, the 
the former owner of the land. 
Ogontz; river in Michigan. Possibly a derivation of the Indian word ogsiasibi, 
meaning "little pickerel river." 
Ogontz; towns in Delta County, Michigan, Erie County, Ohio, and Montgomery 
County, Pennsylvania, named for the Indian chief, Ogontz, who was a missionary 
among his own people. 
Ogreeta; village in Cherokee County, North Carolina. A manufactured word of no 
meaning. 
Ohio; State of the Union, river, and counties in Indiana, Kentucky, and West Vir- 
ginia. An Iroquois Indian word meaning "beautiful river." 
Ohio; township and village in Bureau County, Illinois; so named by settlers from 
the State of Ohio. 
