286 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Smithville; village in Jefferson County, New York, named for Jesse Smith, a 
lumber dealer. 
Smithville; village in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for the former owner 
of the land. 
Smithville; town in Clay County, Missouri, named for Humphrey Smith, the first 
settler. 
Smokes; creek in Erie County, New York, named for an Indian who resided near 
its mouth. 
Smyrna; town in Cobb County, Georgia, and village in Chenango County, New 
York, and sixteen other places, the name being transferred from the ancient 
seaport of Asia Minor on the Gulf of Smyrna. 
Smyth; county in Virginia, named for Gen. Alexander Smyth, Member of Congress 
from that State. 
Snake; river in Idaho and Washington and Yellowstone Park, so named from the 
Snake or Shoshoni Indians. 
Snapeene; stream in Montana. An Indian word meaning "crooked mouth." 
Snelling; military post in Hennepin County, Minnesota, named for Colonel Josiah 
Snelling, under whose direction it was built. 
Sniabar; township and village in Lafayette County, Missouri. Corrupted from 
schuyte ober, from the circumstance of an early German hunter having lost his 
life there. 
Snohomish; river, county, and town in same county, in Washington, named for an 
Indian tribe. 
Snoqualmie; river in Washington, named for an Indian tribe. 
Snowden; township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, named for Judge Snowden, 
of Pittsburg. 
Snowmass; mountain in Colorado, so named because of the snow field near its 
summit. 
i Snyder; county in Pennsylvania; 
Snydertown; borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Named for 
I Governor Simon Snyder of the State. 
Socatean; stream in Maine, named for Standing Atean, a warrior of an Indian 
tribe, or from an Indian word, meaning "half burned land, and half standing 
lumber." 
Socorro; county, and city in same county, in New Mexico, and village in El Paso 
County, Texas. A Spanish word meaning "succor" or "relief." 
Solano; county in California, named for a chief of the Suisun Indians. 
Soledad; town in Monterey County, California. A Spanish word meaning "soli- 
tude" or "desert." 
Solomon; city in Dickinson County and river in Kansas, originally known as the 
Wiskapella, from two Indian words, meaning "salt water." Name changed to 
Soloman as being more euphonic. 
Solon; towns in Somerset County, Maine, and Cortland County, New York, named 
for one of the seven wise men of Greece. 
Solon; township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, named for Lorenzo Solon Bull. 
Solution; creek in Yellowstone Park, so named because it is the outlet to Riddle 
Lake. 
Solvay; village in Onondaga County, New York, so named because the Solvay 
Process works are situated there. 
Somers; town in Tolland County, Connecticut, named for Lord Somers. 
Somers; town in Westchester County, New York, named for Capt. Richard Somers, 
naval officer in the Tripolitan war. 
Somerset; counties in Maine, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, named from the county 
in England. 
