246 PLACE NAMES IK THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Pike; counties in Alabama and Arkansas, peak in Colorado, counties in Georgia, 
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri, town in Wyoming County, 
New York, and counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania, named for Gen. Zebulon M. 
Pike, the explorer. 
Piketon; village in Pike County, Ohio, named from the county. 
Pikeville; town in Wayne County, North Carolina, named for a prominent resident. 
Pillsbury; village in Todd County, Minnesota, named for an early governor. 
Pilot Grove; city in Cooper County, Missouri, so named because of the presence of 
a grove in a nearby prairie, which served as a landmark. 
Pilot Knob; town in Iron County, Missouri, named from the hill which is a promi- 
nent feature of the landscape. 
Pima; county and town in Graham County, Arizona, named for an Indian tribe. 
Pinal; county in Arizona, named for a chief of the Apaches. 
Pinckney; town in Lewis County, New York, named for Charles C. Pinckney, a 
prominent statesman of South Carolina. 
{Pinckney; town in Union County, South Carolina; 
Pinckney ville ; towns in Clay County, Alabama, and Wilkinson County, Missis- 
sippi. Named for the Pinckney family of South Carolina. 
Pinckney ville ; city in Perry County, Illinois, named for Charles C. Pinckney, of 
South Carolina. 
Pinconning; village in Bay County, Michigan. An Indian word meaning "potato 
place." 
Pine; county in Minnesota, so named because of the extensive forests of red and 
white pines in the district. 
Pine Log-; town in Tuolumne County, California, so named because the crossing of 
the Stanislaus River at this point was originally by a large log. 
Pinkham; grant in Coos County, New Hampshire, named for Daniel Pinkham, the 
grantee. 
Pino Blanco; town in Mariposa County, California. A descriptive Spanish name, 
meaning "white pine." 
Pino Grande; town in Eldorado County, California, in a forest of large pine trees. 
A Spanish phrase, meaning "big pine." 
Pinole; town in Contra Costa County, California. A Spanish word meaning 
"parched corn." 
Pinon Blanco; peak and ridge in California. A Spanish phrase meaning "moun- 
tain of white rock." 
Pinos Altos; town in Grant County, New Mexico. A Spanish phrase meaning 
"high pines." 
Pintada; peak of the San Juan Mountains, California. A Spanish word meaning 
"mottled" or "spotted." 
Piper City; village in Ford County, Illinois, named for its founder, Dr. William 
Piper. 
Pipestone; county, and village in same county, in Minnesota, so named because of 
its celebrated quarry of red pipestone. 
Piqua; city in Miami County, Ohio. From an Indian word signifying "ashes," the 
name of one of the four divisions of the Shawnee Indians, formerly occupying 
that region. 
{Pissacassick; river in New Hampshire; 
Piscasset; stream in Maine. Derived from an Indian word meaning "white 
stone." 
Piscataqua; river in New Hampshire, said to have been derived from the Indian 
word pish gachtigok, meaning "the confluence of two streams," or "great deer 
river." 
Piscataquis; county, and branch of the Penobscot River in Maine. An Indian 
word meaning "divided tidal river." 
