List of Mississippi placenames of Native American origin
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Mississippi whose names are derived from Native American languages.
Listings[edit]
State[edit]
- Mississippi – from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe, meaning "big river" (Ojibwe misiziibi).[1][2][3]
Counties[edit]
- Amite County – either from French amitié ("friendship"), or Choctaw himmita ("young")[4]
- Attala County
- Chickasaw County
- Choctaw County[5]
- Coahoma County
- Coahoma[6]
- Copiah County
- Issaquena County[7]
- Itawamba County
- Neshoba County[8][9]
- Noxubee County
- Oktibbeha County
- Panola County
- Pontotoc County[10]
- Tallahatchie County
- Tippah County
- Tishomingo County
- Tunica County
- Yalobusha County
- Yazoo County[11]
Settlements[edit]
- Acona – uncertain etymology[12]
- Alamucha[12]
- Arcola[13]
- Arkabutla[13]
- Bigbee and Bigbee Valley – shortened from Tombigbee[14]
- Biloxi[14]
- Bogue Chitto[8]
- Bogue Chitto, Lincoln County[8]
- Bogue Chitto River and several creeks named Bogue Chitto with headwaters in Hinds,[15] Kemper,[16] Noxubee,[17] and Clarke[18] Counties – from Choctaw bok (creek) and chito (big)[8]
- Bolatusha[19]
- Buckatunna[20]
- Byhalia – uncertain etymology[21][22]
- Bywy[22]
- Cayuga – named for the Cayuga, an Iroquois nation from New York[23]
- Chatawa[23]
- Cheraw – named for the Cheraw people of North Carolina[24]
- Chiwapa[25]
- Chulahoma[26]
- Chunky[26]
- Cohay[6]
- Coila[27]
- Conehatta[27]
- Coosa[28]
- Eastabuchie[29]
- Escatawpa[30]
- Eucutta[31]
- Hiwannee[32]
- Homochitto[33]
- Hopoca – uncertain etymology[34]
- Hushpuckena[35]
- Itta Bena[36]
- Ituma[36]
- Iuka – uncertain etymology[37]
- Kewanee – uncertain Choctaw etymology; uncertain relationship to Kewanee, Illinois as an anatopism[38]
- Kokomo – named after Kokomo, Indiana, itself of uncertain etymology[39]
- Kolola Springs[39]
- Looxahoma[40]
- Mantachie[41]
- Mashulaville[42]
- Michigan City – named after Michigan
- Mingo – named after the Chickasaw word for chief, not the Mingo tribe[43]
- Mississippi City[42]
- Muskegon – named after Muskegon, Michigan[44]
- Nanachehaw (Allen)[45]
- Napanee – uncertain etymology[9]
- Natchez[9]
- New Houlka[46]
- Nitta Yuma[47]
- Noxapater[48]
- Ocobla[49]
- Ofahoma[50]
- Okahola[49]
- Oklahoma[51]
- Okolona[51]
- Oktoc[52]
- Oswego – named for Oswego, New York[53]
- Osyka[53]
- Pachuta[54]
- Pascagoula[54]
- Pelahatchie[55]
- Pocahontas – named after a Powhatan individual from Virginia[10]
- Poticaw Landing – uncertain etymology[56]
- Quofaloma[57]
- Sabougla[57]
- Sapa – very uncertain etymology[58]
- Saratoga – named for Saratoga, New York[58]
- Satartia[59]
- Scooba[59]
- Senatobia[59]
- Shoccoe – named for Shocco Creek, North Carolina, itself of Catawba etymology[60]
- Shongelo[60]
- Shubuta[61]
- Shuqualak[61]
- Sipsey Fork[62]
- Skuna[63]
- Sucarnoochee[64]
- Suqualena[65]
- Tallahala[66]
- Tallula[67]
- Talowah[67]
- Tamola[67]
- Tawanta – very uncertain etymology[68]
- Tchula[68]
- Teoc[69]
- Texas – named for Texas, which has Caddoan etymology[70]
- Tibbee[70]
- Tillatoba[71]
- Tippo[72]
- Tishomingo[73]
- Toccopola[74]
- Tocowa[74][75]
- Toomsuba[76]
- Topeka – named for Topeka, Kansas[77]
- Topisaw[77]
- Tougaloo – likely derived from Choctaw for "two creeks" or "second creek" and unrelated to the Cherokee Tugaloo[78]
- Tula[79]
- Tunica and North Tunica[80]
- Tupelo[80][81]
- Tuscola[81]
- Wahalak[82]
- Wautubbee[83]
- Wenasoga – very uncertain etymology[11]
- Winona – named Winona, Minnesota, itself named after a Dakota individual[11]
- Yokena[84]
Bodies of water[edit]
- Abiaca Creek[12]
- Abotcaputa Creek[12]
- Alampa Creek[12]
- Alamuchee Creek[4]
- Amite River[4]
- Apookta Creek[4]
- Archusa Creek[13]
- Arkabutla Creek and Arkabutla Lake[13][85]
- Lake Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Bayou, Silver City, Mississippi)[85]
- Bagasha Creek[85]
- Bahala Creek[86]
- Bala Chitto Creek[86]
- Balucta Creek[86]
- Batupan Bogue[86]
- Bayou Costapia[29]
- Bayou Talla (Hancock County) and Bayou Talla (Jackson County)[65][87]
- Beasha Creek[86]
- Besa Chitto Creek[86]
- Bibalucta Creek[14]
- Biba Wila Creek[14]
- Biloxi River and Biloxi Bay[88]
- Bodka Creek[88]
- Big Bogue[88]
- Big Scooba Creek, Little Scooba Creek, and Flat Scooba Creek[59]
- Bogue Cheely[88]
- Bogue Culley[89]
- Bogue Ealiah Creek, Boguefala Creek, Boque Falia Creek,[90] Bogue Faliah, Bogue Fallah, Bogue Flower (Lauderdale County), Bogue Flower (Clarke County), and Bogue Phalia – from Choctaw bok (creek) and falaa (long)[89][91]
- Bogue Falema Creek[89]
- Bogue Hasty[92]
- Bogue Homo, Bogue Homo & Bogue Homo Lake, and Bogue Homa – from Choctaw bok (creek) and homma (red)[92][93]
- Bogue Statinea[93]
- Boguegaba Creek[91]
- Bokshenya Creek[19]
- Bolatusha Creek[19]
- Bolingchessa Creek[19]
- Bollybusha Creek[19]
- Bophumpa Creek[19]
- Bose Nukse Creek[20]
- Boughenia Creek[20]
- Buckatunna Creek and Buckatunna Lake[20]
- Busfaloba Creek[21]
- Butputter Creek – uncertain etymology[21]
- Buttahatchee River[21]
- Byhalia Creek[22]
- Calabrella Creek[94]
- Canna Creek[94]
- Castaffa Creek[94]
- Catahoula Creek[94]
- Catalpa Creek[23]
- Chautauqua Lake & Lake Chautauqua – named after Chautauqua Lake in New York, which has Iroquoian origin.[24]
- Chenokaby Creek, an older name for Scotchenflipper Creek[24]
- Chewalla Creek and Chewalla Lake – from Chickasaw chowaala (cedar); Chewawah Creek is possibly a corrupted form of that same etymology[24][95]
- Chicago Branch – named for Chicago, itself derived from a Great Lakes Algonquian language.[95]
- Chickasaw Bayou and Chickasaw Hill[95]
- Chickasawhay River and Chickasawhay Creek[96]
- Chicopa Creek[96]
- Chicwillasaw Creek[96]
- Chief Chisca Lake[25]
- Chilli Creek[96]
- Chinchahoma Creek[25]
- Chittobochiah Creek and its historic name, Ittobechi Creek.[36][97]
- Chiwapa Creek[25]
- Chubby Creek (Itawamba County) and Chubby Creek (Benton County)[98][26]
- Chunky Creek and Chunky River[26][99]
- Chuquatonchee Creek[99]
- Coffadeliah Creek[6]
- Coffee Bogue[6]
- Coila Creek[27]
- Comite Creek – very uncertain etymology[27]
- Concobona Creek[27]
- Conehatta Creek[27]
- Conehoma Creek[100]
- Coonewah Creek[100]
- Coonipper Creek[28]
- Coonshuck Creek[28]
- Copiah Creek and Copiah Lake[28][29]
- Cuffawa Creek[29]
- Cushtusia Creek[29]
- Escatawpa River[30]
- Etehomo Creek[30]
- Euclautubba Creek[31]
- Eucutta Creek and Eutacutachee Creek[31][101]
- Fannegusha Creek, Fannegusha Creek, and Old Fannegusha Creek[101][102]
- Funny Creek and Funny Yockana Creek[102]
- Hashuqua Creek[102]
- Hatchapaloo Creek[102]
- Hatchie River – related to the common root word for "river" in Muscogean languages, such as Choctaw hvcha or hacha and Creek hvtce; however, the river is located within traditional Chickasaw homeland of North Mississippi, and the modern Chickasaw word for river is abookoshi’, suggesting that either the name is a more recent appellation or that the Chickasaw language has diverged from Choctaw.[32]
- Hickahala Creek[32]
- Hobolochitto Creek[103]
- Hobuck Creek[103]
- Hollicar Creek[103]
- Homochitto River[33]
- Hontokalo Creek[33]
- Hornolucka Creek[34]
- Hotopha Creek[34]
- Houlka Creek[34]
- Hushpuckena River and Hushpuckena Creek[34]
- Ichusa Creek[34]
- Ishitubba Creek[34]
- Jofuska Creek[104]
- Kentawka Canal[104]
- Kentuctah Creek[104]
- Kenty Creek[38]
- Kickapoo Lake – named after the Kickapoo people originally of the Illinois Country[38]
- Kinterbish Creek[38]
- Kittahutty Creek[38]
- Lafomby Creek[105]
- Lake Itawamba[34]
- Lake Mohawk – named for the Mohawk, an Iroquois nation from New York[106]
- Lake Monocnoc[106]
- Lake Piomingo[107]
- Lake Pushmataha[108]
- Lake Sequoyah[109]
- Lake Tallaha[66]
- Lake Tangipahoa[110]
- Lake Tiak-O'Khata[70]
- Lappatubby Creek[105]
- Little Bogue[93]
- Loakfoma Creek and Loakfoma Lake[105]
- Lobutcha Creek[40]
- Lonsilocher Canal[40]
- Lucknuck Creek[40]
- Lukfapa Creek[40]
- Luneluah Creek[41]
- Luxapallila Creek[41]
- Magowah Creek[111]
- Mantachie Creek[42]
- Mattubby Creek[42]
- Minga Branch (Monroe County), Mingo Branch (Tishomingo County), and Mingo Creek (Clarke County) – named after the Chickasaw minko’ (chief), not the Mingo people[43]
- Minnehaha River (Magnolia, Mississippi) – named after the Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota[43]
- Mississippi River and Mississippi Sound – from the Ojibwe 'Great River'[106]
- Mubby Creek[44]
- Nanabe Creek[44]
- Nanih Waiya Creek[112]
- Natchez Island and Natchez Lake[9]
- Neshoba County Lake[47]
- Nita Lake[47]
- Nonconnah Creek, in Tennessee and slightly within Marshall County, Mississippi[47][48]
- Noxapater Creek[48]
- Noxubee River[113]
- Nuakfuppa Creek[114]
- Nusichiya Creek, an older name for Line Creek[114]
- Oaklimeter Creek[115]
- Oakohay Creek[115]
- Oak Slush Creek, previously Okshash Creek[49]
- Ocobla Creek[49]
- Okachickima Creek[50]
- Okahatta Creek[50]
- Okannatie Creek[50]
- Okatibbee Creek and Okatibbee Lake[116]
- Okatoma Creek[116]
- Okatuppa Creek[117]
- Okeelala Creek[117]
- Okhissa Lake[117]
- Oktibbeha County Lake[118]
- Oktibee Creek[118]
- Oktoc Creek[52]
- Okwakee Creek[52]
- Otak Creek[53]
- Otoucalofa Creek[53]
- Pachuta Creek[54]
- Palusha Creek Canal[54]
- Pascagoula River and Pascagoula Bay[54]
- Pawticfaw Creek[119]
- Peachahala Creek[119]
- Pechahalee Creek[119]
- Pee Dee Creek – named after the Pee Dee River in South Carolina[55]
- Pelahatchie Creek and Pelahatchie Bay[55]
- Pellaphalia Creek[55][107]
- Pelucia Creek and Pelucia Bayou[107]
- Penantly Creek[107]
- Pinishook Creek[107]
- Ponta Creek[10]
- Pontotoc Ridge[120]
- Potacocowa Creek[120]
- Poticaw Bayou[120]
- Potlockney Creek[56]
- Potterchitto Creek[56]
- Pottock Creek[56]
- Puchshinnubie Creek[108]
- Pushacoona Creek[108]
- Pushepatapa Creek[108]
- Puskus Creek and Puskus Lake[121]
- Quarterliah Creek[121]
- Quilby Creek[57]
- Sabougla Creek[57]
- Sanoosee Creek, historical name of Snoody Creek;[58][63] also Sanooda Creek[122]
- Santee Branch – either from Choctaw santi (snake) or named after the Santee River in South Carolina, which was itself named after the Santee tribe[58]
- Scoobachita Creek[59]
- Scutchalo Creek and Scutchalo Falls[59]
- Senatobia Creek[109]
- Seneasha Creek[109]
- Sewayiah Creek[60]
- Shackaloa Creek[60]
- Shaui Koli Creek[60]
- Shiola Creek[60]
- Shockaloo Creek[60]
- Shongelo Creek and Shongelo Lake[61]
- Shubuta Creek[123]
- Shutispear Creek[62]
- Sipsey Creek[62]
- Skillikalia Bayou[62]
- Skuna River[63]
- Socki Creek[63]
- Soctahoma Creek[63]
- Souenlovie Creek[63]
- Sowashee Creek[64]
- Sucarnoochee River[64]
- Sucatolba Creek[64]
- Sugar Bogue[65]
- Suqualena Creek[65]
- Tallabinnela Creek[87]
- Tallabogue Creek (Clarke County), Tallabogue (northern Scott County), and Tallabogue (southern Scott County)[66]
- Tallachula Creek[66]
- Tallahaga Creek[66]
- Tallahala Creek and Tallahalla Creek[66][124]
- Tallahatchie River[124][125]
- Tallahatta Creek and Tallahattah Creek[125]
- Tallahoma Creek[125]
- Tallashua Creek[126]
- Tampa Creek[110]
- Tangipahoa River[110]
- Tarlechia Creek[127]
- Tarlow Creek[127]
- Tchoutacabouffa River[68]
- Tchula Lake[68]
- Tennessee River[68]
- Teoc Creek (Kemper County), Teoc Creek (Carroll County), and Teock Creek[69]
- Teoctalia Creek[69]
- Tesheva Creek[69]
- Tibbee Creek, Tibbee Lake, Tibby Creek Attala County, and Tibby Creek[70]
- Tibbehoy Creek[128]
- Tickfaw River[128]
- Tifallili Creek[128]
- Tilda Bogue[128]
- Tillatoba Creek and Tillatoba Lake[71]
- Tippah River[72]
- Tippo Bayou[73]
- Tishkill Creek[73]
- Tishomingo Creek[129]
- Tishtony Creek[129]
- Toby Tubby Creek[129]
- Toccopola Creek[74]
- Tokeba Bayou[75]
- Tombigbee River[75]
- Tonacana Creek[76]
- Toomsuba Creek[76]
- Topashaw Creek[77]
- Topisaw Creek[77]
- Tubbalubba Creek[78]
- Tubby Creek[79]
- Tuckabum Creek[79]
- Tumbaloo Creek[80]
- Tunica Hills and Tunica Lake[80]
- Tuscolameta Creek[81]
- Tuscahoma Formation[81]
- Tuscumbia River[130]
- Tuxachanie Creek[82]
- Upper Bogue[19]
- Wahalak Creek[82]
- Walkiah Bluff[82]
- Waukomis Lake[83]
- Wautubbee Formation[83]
- Wingo Branch[11]
- Yalobusha River[11]
- Yamacrow Creek[131]
- Yanubbee Creek[131]
- Yazoo River[131][132]
- Yockanookany River[133]
- Yocona River[134]
- Yoda Creek[84]
- Yonaba Creek[84]
- Yonkapin Lake[135]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
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Sources[edit]
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