List of place names of Native American origin in the United States facts for kids

Many places throughout the United States of America take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these languages.

State names

• Alabama – Named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers" or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear"). The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu.
• Alaska – from Aleut alaxsxaq, "the mainland" (literally "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").
• Arizona – may be from O'odham ali ṣona-g, "having a little spring", though it may come from Basque: aritz zonak ("Good oaks").
• Arkansas – from the Illinois rendering of the tribal autonym kką:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw.
• Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River). The name reflects Proto-Eastern-Algonquian *kwən-, "long"; *-əhtəkw, "tidal river"; and *-ənk, the locative suffix
• Idaho – may be from Plains Apache ídaahę́, "enemy", used to refer to the Comanches, or it may have been an invented word.
• Illinois – from the French rendering of an Algonquian (perhaps Miami) word apparently meaning "s/he speaks normally" (c.f. Miami ilenweewa), from Proto-Algonquian *elen-, "ordinary" + -wē, "to speak", referring to the Illiniwek.
• Iowa – from Dakota ayúxba or ayuxwe, via French Aiouez.
• Kansas – from the autonym kką:ze.
• Kentucky – from an Iroquoian word meaning "at the meadow" or "on the prairie" (c.f. Seneca gëdá’geh IPA: [kẽtaʔkeh], "at the field").
• Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).
• Michigan – from Ottawa mishigami, "large water" or "large lake".".
• Minnesota – from Dakota mni-sota, "turbid water".
• Mississippi – from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe, meaning "big river" (Ojibwe misiziibi).
• Missouri – named for the Missouri tribe, whose name comes from Illinois mihsoori, "dugout canoe".
• Nebraska – from Chiwere ñįbraske, "flattened water".
• New Mexico – the name "Mexico" comes from Nahuatl Mēxihco, of unknown derivation.
• North and South Dakota – dakhóta comes from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally".
• Ohio – from Seneca ohi:yo’, "beautiful river".
• Oklahoma – invented by Chief Allen Wright as a rough translation of "Indian Territory"; in Choctaw, okla means "people", "tribe", or "nation", and homa- means "red", thus: "Red people".
• Tennessee – Derived from the name of a Cherokee village, Tanasi, whose etymology is unknown.
• Texas – ultimately from Caddo táyshaʔ, "friend".
• Utah – from a language of one of the Ute tribe's neighbors, such as Western Apache yúdah, "high up".
• Wisconsin – originally "Mescousing", from an Algonquian language, though the source and meaning is not entirely clear; most likely from the Miami word Meskonsing meaning "it lies red" (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin).
• Wyoming – from Munsee Delaware xwé:wamənk, "at the big river flat".

Alabama

• Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa County – derived from Muskogean words tashka (warrior) and lusa (black). Chief Tuskaloosa is remembered for leading a battle against Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in southern Alabama in 1540. The Black Warrior River, originally named Tuskaloosa River, is also named in his honor.
• Tuskegee – from the Koasati word tasquiqui (warriors).
• Wetumpka- an Alabamu tribal name, referring to both a traditional Alabamu Indian village and the band of people who lived there. Although the villagers were Alabamu Indians, "Wetumpka" was not their own word for themselves – it was the name given to the village by the neighboring Creek tribe. Wetumhka (also spelled Wetumka, Wetumhkv, We-wau-tum-cau, and a variety of other ways) means "tumbling water" in Creek, and refers to a waterfall near the village site.

Alaska

• Denali, Denali National Park – from Koyukon deenaalee, "the tall one" (with -naał-, "be long/tall").

Arizona

• Tucson – from Pima O'odham cuk ṣon, "black base".

Arkansas

• Solgohachia (pronounced saw-guh-HATCH-ee [1]) is an unincorporated community in Conway County, Arkansas, United States, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Morrilton on state highway 9 and Highway 287. The name is from the Choctaw word Sok-ko-huch-cha, meaning "muscadine river" (Cushman, p. 603).

California

• Azusa – from Tongva village "Azucsagna"
• Malibu – from Ventureño "Umalibu, perhaps reflecting IPA: [(hu)maliwu], "it (the surf) makes a loud noise all the time over there".
• Pismo Beach – from Chumash "Pismu" for "tar"
• Poway – from Kumeyaay language
• Temecula – from Luiseño "Temeekunga"
• Simi Valley – from Ventureño "Simiyi".
• Mojave Desert – from Mohave people

Colorado

• Arapahoe County
• Town of Kiowa, county seat of Elbert County
• Kiowa County
• Chief Hosa Lodge in Denver Mountain Parks, named after Little Raven, also called Hosa
• Left Hand Creek and Left Hand Canyon, named after Chief Niwot, from Arapaho "left handed"
• Little Raven Street near downtown Denver
• Niwot Census-designated place in Boulder County
• Mount Ouray, on the border of Chaffee and Saguache counties
• Town of Ouray, county seat of Ouray County
• Saguache County and its county seat, possibly from Ute terms meaning "sand dune", "blue earth", "blue water", or "green place"

Connecticut

• Housatonic River From the Mohican phrase "usi-a-di-en-uk", translated as "beyond the mountain place"
• Niantic River and Niantic village – For the Niantic tribe, called the Nehântick or Nehantucket in their own language
• Quinnipiac River – From an Algonquian phrase for "long water land".
• Hammonasset Beach – for the Hammonassett tribe of Eastern Woodland Indians, one of five tribes that inhabited the shoreline area of Connecticut. The Indian word “Hammonassett” means “where we dig holes in the ground,” a reference to the tribe's agricultural way of life.

Delaware

• Naamans Creek is named after a Minqua chief who befriended the settlers of New Sweden.

District of Columbia

• Anacostia – from the Piscataway name Anakwashtank, meaning 'a place of traders'. Originally the name of a village of the Piscataway tribe on the Anacostia River. Also rendered as Nacochtank or Nacostine.
• Potomac River – from the Piscataway language or from a northern dialect of Virginia Algonquian, original form patawomek, meaning 'they bring it' (for trading).
• Takoma – originally the name of Mount Rainier, from Lushootseed IPA: [təqʷúbəʔ] (earlier *təqʷúməʔ), 'snow-covered mountain'. The location on the boundary of DC and Maryland was named Takoma in 1883 by DC resident Ida Summy, who believed it to mean 'high up' or 'near heaven'.

Florida

• Abacoa – Originally the name of a village of the Jaega tribe.
• Alachua County and Alachua – from the Timucuan chua, meaning sinkhole .
• Alafaya – After the Alafay people, a sub-group of the Pohoy
• Apalachicola – from Choctaw Apalachee + oklah, "people". Name of the Apalachicola tribe.
• Apopka – from probably Seminole Aha, meaning "Potato," and papka, meaning "eating place".
• Caloosahatchee River – from Calusa + hatchee, Choctaw for river.
• Hialeah – From Muscogee meaning "pretty prairie".
• Immokalee – from Choctaw(?) im-okli, "his/her home".
• Kissimmee – Disputed meaning, perhaps derived from Ais word "Cacema" meaning "long water".
• Loxahatchee River – from Seminole for river of turtles.
• Manatee County – from Taíno manatí meaning "breast".
• Miami – Native American name for Lake Okeechobee and the Miami River, precise origin debated; see also Mayaimi.
• Micanopy – named after Seminole chief Micanopy.
• Myakka City – from unidentified Native American language.
• Ocala – from Timucua meaning "Big Hammock".
• Okaloosa County – from the Choctaw words oka (water) and lusa (black).
• Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida.
• Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War.
• Paynes Prairie – named after leading chief of the Seminoles King Payne.
• Pensacola – from the Choctaw name of a Muskogean group, "hair people", from pashi, "hair" + oklah, "people".
• Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.lp
• Steinhatchee – from the Muscogee "hatchee" meaning creek
• Suwannee River – from Timucua "suwani" meaning echo river.
• Tallahassee – from the name of a Creek town, talahá:ssi, perhaps from (i)tálwa, "tribal town" + ahá:ssi, "old, rancid".
• Tampa – probably from the name of a Calusa village, with no further known etymology.
• Tequesta – named for the Tequesta tribe.
• Thonotosassa – from the Seminole-Creek words thlonto and sasse, meaning the place was a source of valuable flint.
• Wekiva Springs – from Creek word for "spring".
• Withlacoochee River – from Creek we (water), thlako (big), and chee (little), or little big water.

Georgia

• Cataula – a small community on US 27 in Harris County where 20th century guitar virtuoso Chet Adkins was born
• Chattahoochee River – a major tributary of the Apalachicola River that makes up the southern half of the Alabama-Georgia border
• Cherokee County
• Coweta County
• Dahlonega
• Muscogee County
• Nankipooh – once a whistle stop on the Central of Georgia railroads "R" branch, it is now a suburb of Columbus
• Ochillie – a creek that flows northwest through Chattahoochee county, within the boundaries of the Fort Benning military reservation, and into Upatoi creek
• Schatulga – a small community in western Columbus/Muscogee County
• Seminole County
• Toccoa
• Upatoi – a creek that runs between Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in west-central Georgia
• Weracoba – a creek and city park in Columbus

Idaho

• Benewah County
• Kootenai County
• Latah County
• Potlatch
• Shoshone County

Illinois

Communities

• Algonquin
• Aptakisic – named for Chief Optagushick of the Potawatomi tribe; means "Half Day," or "sun at the center of the sky"
• Ashkum – name originated from Chief Ashkum of the Potawatomi Indians
• Cahokia – refers to one of the clans of the historic Illini confederacy, who met early French explorers to the region
• Chautauqua
• Chebanse – "Chebanse" derives from zhishibéns, meaning "the little duck" in the Potawatomi language
• Chenoa
• Chicago, Chicago Heights and Chicago Ridge – for the Miami-Illinois word Shikaakwa, wild leek
• Chillicothe – comes from the name of the Chalagawtha sept of the Shawnee nation
• Colusa
• Dakota
• East Peoria
• Erie
• Fox Lake Hills
• Fox River Grove
• Geneseo – "Geneseo" is a variation of the Iroquois word Genesee, meaning "shining valley" or "beautiful valley"
• Illiopolis – The name was formed from Illinois and -polis, a Greek suffix meaning "city".
• Iroquois
• Iuka – named after the Chickasaw Indian Chief Iuka
• Kankakee
• Kansas – named by the French after the Kansas, Omaha, Kaw, Osage and Dakota Sioux Indian word "KaNze" meaning, in the Kansas language, "south wind."
• Kaskaskia – "Cascasquia" is an alternative, supposedly more French, spelling of "Kaskaskia" that is sometimes encountered. It was named after a clan of the Illiniwek encountered by the early French Jesuits and other settlers.
• Kewanee – "Kewanee" is the Winnebago word for greater prairie chicken
• Kickapoo – named after the Kickapoo people
• Mount Erie
• Mackinaw – Mackinaw (sometimes spelled Mackinac) is derived from the Ojibwe word mikinaak meaning "turtle".
• Mahomet – after Mahomet Weyonomon, a tribal chieftain from Connecticut
• Maquon – from the Algonquian language A-ma-quon-sip-pi, Amaquon meaning mussel, or mussel shell
• Maroa – named after the Maroa Indians
• Mascoutah – a derivative of the Mascouten tribe.
• Mendota – The name "Mendota" is derived from a Native American word meaning "junction of two trails".
• Menominee – Named after the Menominee Indian tribe.
• Merrimac – name taken from the nearby Meramec River whose name was translated as 'Ugly Water' from Algonquian by French Jesuits in the area. However, scholars of the language translate it as 'place of strong current.'
• Mettawa – named for a nearby Potawatomi settlement
• Minonk – from the Ojibwe word meaning “a good place” or from the Mohican word meaning “high point”.
• Minooka
• Mokena – a name derived from a Native American language meaning "mud turtle"
• Moweaqua
• Nachusa
• Nekoma
• Neoga – Neoga means "deer" in the Kickapoo language
• Neponset
• Nokomis
• Oconee – named after the daughter of a local Indian chieftain
• Ohio
• Old Shawneetown
• Okawville
• Omaha
• Oneco
• Oneida
• Onarga
• Oquawka
• Oregon
• Oskaloosa
• Ottawa – named after the Odawa people
• Owaneco
• Panama
• Panola – a Native American word for cotton
• Patoka – named after a local Indian chieftain
• Pawnee
• Pecatonica – The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words; Bekaa (or Pekaa in some dialects), which means slow and niba, which means water; forming the conjunction Bekaaniba or Slow Water.
• Peoria and Peoria Heights – named after the Peoria Tribe which previously lived in the area
• Peotone – Derived from the Potawatomi language meaning "come here".
• Pesotum
• Pistakee Highlands – "pistakee" comes from the Algonquin word for buffalo
• Pocahontas
• Ponemah
• Pontiac – named after Pontiac, an Odawa war chief
• Pontoosuc
• Potomac – originally named Marysville after the wives of the two founders, John Smith and Isaac Meneley, who started businesses here circa 1840. On May 13, 1871, a post office was established at the town and was named Potomac, most likely after the Potomac River. The town's name was later changed to conform to this.
• Roanoke
• Sangamon – from a Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-mon meaning "where there is plenty to eat."
• Sauk Village – named after the Sauk people
• Saunemin – named after a Kickapoo chief
• Scioto and Scioto Mills – The name Scioto is derived from the Wyandot word skɛnǫ·tǫ’ meaning “deer”
• Seneca
• Shabbona and Shabbona Grove – named after the Potawatomi chief and peacemaker Shabbona
• Shawneetown
• Shokokon
• Skokie
• Somonauk
• Tamaroa – named after the Tamaroa, an Illiniwek people
• Tampico
• Tennessee – named after the state of Tennessee
• Tioga – The name "Tioga" means "at the forks". The various Iroquois tribes all had similar words for the concept: the Oneida called it Te-ah-o-ge, the Mohawk called it Te-yo-ge-ga, the Cayuga called it Da-o-ga and the Seneca called it Da-yo-o-geh.
• Tiskilwa
• Toluca
• Tonica – named after the Tunica people
• Topeka
• Towanda – named after Towanda, Pennsylvania; the name means "burial ground" in the Algonquian language.
• Tuscola
• Tuscarora
• Wabash Point – The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, "Ouabache." French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, "Wabashike," (pronounced "Wah-bah-she-keh"), the word for "pure white."
• Walla Walla – name means "many waters"
• Wapella
• Wataga
• Watseka – Incorporated in 1865, the name "Watseka" derives from the Potawatomi name "Watch-e-kee", "Daughter of the Evening Star", the wife of early eastern Illinois settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard.
• Wauconda – Originally spelled "Wakanda"
• Waukegan – meaning "little fort"; cf. Potawatomi wakaigin "fort" or "fortress"
• Wauponsee – named for a Potawatomi Chief whose name means “Bright Place in the Sky”
• Wenona
• Wenonah
• West Peoria
• Winnebago
• Winnetka – name is believed to originate from the Potawatomi language, meaning "beautiful place"
• Wyoming – named after the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania which derives from the Lenape Munsee name xwé:wamənk, meaning "at the smaller river hills."

Counties and Townships

• Cahokia Township – The name refers to one of the clans of the historic Illini confederacy, who met early French explorers to the region
• Chebanse Township – "Chebanse" derives from zhishibéns, meaning "the little duck" in the Potawatomi language
• Chillicothe Township – comes from the name of the Chalagawtha sept of the Shawnee nation
• Dakota Township
• Erie Township – named after Erie County, New York which in turn was named after Lake Erie. The lake was named by the Erie people, a Native American people who lived along its southern shore. The tribal name "erie" is a shortened form of the Iroquoian word erielhonan, meaning "long tail"
• Fox Township in Kendall County and in Jasper County – from the Fox tribe
• Genesee Township – from the Iroquois word Genesee, meaning "shining valley" or "beautiful valley"
• Geneseo Township – "Geneseo" is a variation of the Iroquois word Genesee, meaning "shining valley" or "beautiful valley"
• Illini Township
• Illiopolis Township – The name was formed from Illinois and -polis, a Greek suffix meaning "city".
• Iroquois County and Iroquois Township – Named after the Iroquois Indian tribe.
• Kankakee County and Kankakee Township
• Kansas Township in Edgar County and in Woodford County – named by the French after the Kansas, Omaha, Kaw, Osage and Dakota Sioux Indian word "KaNze" meaning, in the Kansas language, "south wind."
• Kaskaskia Township – "Cascasquia" is an alternative, supposedly more French, spelling of "Kaskaskia" that is sometimes encountered. It was named after a clan of the Illiniwek encountered by the early French Jesuits and other settlers.
• Kewanee Township – "Kewanee" is the Winnebago word for greater prairie chicken
• Kickapoo Township – named after the Kickapoo people
• Macoupin County – Miami-Illinois term for the American lotus, Nelumbo lutea
• Nachusa Township
• Peoria County – named after the Peoria Tribe which previously lived in the area
• Sangamon County – from a Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-mon meaning "where there is plenty to eat."
• Sciota Township – The name Scioto is derived from the Wyandot word skɛnǫ·tǫ’ meaning “deer”
• Wabash County – The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, "Ouabache." French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, "Wabashike," (pronounced "Wah-bah-she-keh"), the word for "pure white."
• Winnebago County

Lakes and rivers

• Chicago River – for the Miami-Illinois word Shikaakwa, wild leek
• Fox River (Illinois River tributary) = from the Fox tribe
• Illinois River
• Iroquois River – Named after the Iroquois Indian tribe.
• Kankakee River
• Kaskaskia River – "Cascasquia" is an alternative, supposedly more French, spelling of "Kaskaskia" that is sometimes encountered. It was named after a clan of the Illiniwek encountered by the early French Jesuits and other settlers.
• Kishwaukee River and South Branch Kishwaukee River – derived from the Potowatomi word meaning the "river of the sycamore."
• Lake Michigan
• Mackinaw River and Little Mackinaw River – Mackinaw (sometimes spelled Mackinac) is derived from the Ojibwe word mikinaak meaning "turtle".
• Macoupin Creek – Miami-Illinois term for the American lotus, Nelumbo lutea
• Mississippi River
• Menominee River and Little Menominee River – Menominee means "good seed" or "wild rice".
• Pecatonica River – The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words; Bekaa (or Pekaa in some dialects), which means slow and niba, which means water; forming the conjunction Bekaaniba or Slow Water.
• Piscasaw Creek
• Pistakee Lake – "pistakee" comes from the Algonquin word for buffalo
• Sangamon River – from a Pottawatomie word Sain-guee-mon meaning "where there is plenty to eat."
• Sinsinawa River – One version holds that "Sinsinawa" derives from an Algonquian word (possibly Potawatomi, Fox or Menominee language) for "rattlesnake" to describe the Sioux. Another version says "home of the young eagle".
• Somonauk Creek
• Wabash River and Little Wabash River – The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the French name for the river, "Ouabache." French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, "Wabashike," (pronounced "Wah-bah-she-keh"), the word for "pure white."
• Waukegan River – meaning "little fort"; cf. Potawatomi wakaigin "fort" or "fortress"

Protected areas

• Channahon State Park
• Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge
• Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge
• Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge – The name Hackmatack is an Algonquin term for the American tamarack or Larix laricina, a conifer formerly abundant in regional wetlands.
• Illini State Park
• Illinois Caverns State Natural Area
• Iroquois County State Wildlife Area
• Johnson-Sauk Trail State Recreation Area
• Kankakee River State Park
• Kaskaskia River State Fish and Wildlife Area
• Kickapoo State Recreation Area
• Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area
• Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area
• Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie – The name Midewin (/mɪˈdeɪwɪn/, mi-DAY-win) is a Potawatomi word referring to the tribe's healers.
• Mississippi River State Fish and Wildlife Area
• Sangchris Lake State Recreation Area
• Shabbona Lake State Park
• Saganashkee Slough – It was formerly a huge swamp that extended from west of 104th Avenue to the limits of Blue Island, and its original name, Ausaganashkee, is a Potawatomi Indian word that means "slush of the earth," wrote former Forest Preserve District general superintendent Cap Sauer in a historical account written in the late 1940s.
• Shawnee National Forest

Names from fiction

• Metamora – based on the character in the popular play Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags
• Niota – based on the name of a fictional character in a dime novel, a Native American chief named "Nee-o-tah"

Indiana

• Delaware County – named for the Delaware, who were moved to the area in the 1840s.
• Miami County – named for the Miami, a Native American people, many of whom still live in this area.
• Mishawaka – named after Shawnee Princess Mishawaka
• Mississinewa River – partly derived from the Miami Indian word namahchissinwi which means "falling waters" or "much fall in the water".
• Salamonie River – derived from the Miami Indian word osahmonee which means "yellow paint". The Indians would make yellow paint from the bloodroot plant that grew along the river banks.
• Shipshewana – named after Potawatomi Chief Shipshewana
• Tippecanoe River – name comes from a Miami-Illinois word for buffalo fish, reconstructed as */kiteepihkwana/.
• Wabash River – French traders named the river after the Miami Indian word for the river, waapaahšiiki, meaning "it shines white", "pure white", or "water over white stones"
• Wanatah – named after the Potawatomi Chief Wanatah, meaning ‘Knee Deep in Mud’, "He who Charges His Enemies" or "The Charger"
• Wapahani High School – Wapahani is a Delaware Indian word for "White River"
• Lake Wawasee – named for Miami chief Wawasee (Wau-wuh-see), brother of Miami chief Papakeecha, which translated means "Flat Belly"
• Winamac – town name from the Potawatomi word for "catfish"

Iowa

• Anamosa – named after the legend of a local Native American girl
• Battle Creek – named for a skirmish between Native American tribes near the stream.
• Cherokee County – named after the Cherokee
• Cherokee – named after the Cherokee
• Chickasaw County – named after the Chickasaw Nation
• Camanche, named after the Camanche
• Keokuk – named after the Sauk chief Keokuk
• Keosauqua – named after the Meskwaki and Sauk name for the Des Moines River.
• Osceola – named after the Seminole leader Osceola
• Sioux City – named after the Yankton Sioux
• Sioux County – named after the Sioux nation
• Wapello County – named after Wapello, a Meskwaki chief

Kansas

• Osage City – The Osage Nation (English pronunciation: /ˈoʊseɪdʒ/ OH-sayj) (Ni-u-kon-ska, “People of the Middle Waters”) is a Midwestern Native American tribe
• Osawatomie – a compound of two primary Native American Indian tribes from the area, the Osage and Pottawatomie
• Ottawa – Ottawa Tribe is one of four federally recognized Native American tribes of Odawa people in the United States
• Shawnee – The Shawnee Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe.
• Tonganoxie – derives its name from a member of the Delaware tribe that once occupied land in what is now Leavenworth County and western Wyandotte County
• Topeka – from Kansa dóppikʔe, "a good place to dig wild potatoes"
• Wichita – Wichita (/ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː/ witch-I-taw) disputed; from Choctaw, "Big Arbor".Osage, "Scattered Lodges". Kiowa, "Tattooed Faces". Creek, "Barking Water".

Kentucky

• Cherokee Park – The Cherokee Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe.
• Iroquois Park – The Iroquois Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe.
• Shawnee Park – The Shawnee Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribe.

Louisiana

• Atchafalaya River – from Choctaw words meaning 'long river' (similar to Bogue Falaya's meaning, below); a distributary of the Red River and Mississippi River
• Atchafalaya Swamp – the largest wetland area in the United States
• Avoyelles Parish – for the Avoyel people
• Baton Rouge – meaning 'red stick,' in French; a red stick was used by area Native Americans to mark the boundaries of tribal territory; Louisiana's capital city since 1849.
• E. Baton Rouge Parish – see Baton Rouge
• W. Baton Rouge Parish – see Baton Rouge, above
• Bayou Nezpique – French for 'tattooed nose bayou,' a reference to the art of tattooing practiced by Native Americans in the area
• Bayou Plaquemine Brule – Acadian French, translating as 'burnt persimmon bayou,' from the Atakapa language
• Bogue Falaya – tributary of the Tchefuncte River, from the Choctaw words for 'long' and 'river'
• Caddo Parish – for the Caddo Native Americans
• Calcasieu Parish – means 'crying eagle,' the name of an Atakapa leader
• Catahoula Lake – from a Taensa word meaning 'big, clear lake'
• Catahoula Parish – for Catahoula Lake
• Houma – for the Houma people; seat of Terrebonne Parish
• Mississippi River – from the Ojibwe name for the waterway, 'Great River'
• Natchez, Louisiana – present-day village in Natchitoches Parish; after the Natchez people
• Natchitoches – after the Natchitoches people; Natchitoches was founded in 1714.
• Natchitoches Parish – for the town
• Opelousas – for the native Appalousa people who formerly occupied the area
• Ouachita Parish – for the Ouachita River
• Ouachita River – for the Ouachita tribe, one of several Native American tribal groups who lived along the river.
• Plaquemine – town in Iberville Parish, in the vicinity of Bayou Plaquemine Brulé (see above)
• Plaquemines Parish – based on the Atakapa word for persimmon, as the early French colonists found persimmon trees growing in the lands near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
• Ponchatoula is a name signifying "falling hair" or "hanging hair" or "flowing hair" from the Choctaw Pashi "hair" and itula or itola "to fall" or "to hang" or "flowing". The Choctaw name Ponchatoula means "flowing hair", arrived at by the Choctaw as a way of expressing the beauty of the location with much moss hanging from the trees. "Ponche" is a Choctaw word meaning location, an object, or a person [1]. See the eponymous Ponchatoula Creek.
• Saint Tammany Parish – for the legendary Native American chief Tamanend
• Tangipahoa, Louisiana – a present-day village in Tangipahoa Parish (see below)
• Tangipahoa Parish – for the Tangipahoa River
• Tangipahoa River – for the Tangipahoa tribe, closely related to the Acolapissa people; the name is said to refer to those who grind corn.
• Tchefuncte River – for the historic Tchefuncte culture
• Tensas Parish – for the Taensa people
• Tickfaw, Louisiana – a present-day village in Tangipahoa Parish (see Tickfaw River)
• Tickfaw River – appears to have the same linguistic roots as Tangipahoa River.
• Tunica – a community in West Feliciana Parish, for the Tunica people
• Tunica Hills – a forest region and wildlife management area, also for the Tunica people

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

• Housatonic River From the Mohican phrase "usi-a-di-en-uk", translated as "beyond the mountain place"

Michigan

Minnesota

Political units

The following are state, county, townships, cities, towns, villages and major city neighborhoods of Minnesota with placenames of indigenous origin in the Americas.

• Ah-gwah-ching – from the Ojibwe language: Agwajiing "Outdoors"
• County and City of Anoka
• Bejou – from the Ojibwe language: Bizhiw "bobcat, lynx"
• Bemidji – Shortened from the Ojibwe language: Bemijigamaag "Traversing lake"
• Bena – From the Ojibwe language: Bine "grouse, partridge"
• Chanhassen
• Chaska
• Chengwatana – from the Ojibwe language: Zhingwaadena "Pine-town"
• Chippewa County
• Chisago County – shortened from the Ojibwe language: Gichi-zaaga'igan "Big lake"
• Chokio
• Cohasset
• Cokato
• Dakota County
• Endion, Duluth – from the Ojibwe language: Endaayaan "my home"
• Eyota
• Hackensack
• Hanska
• Hokah
• County and City of Isanti
• Kabetogama – from the Ojibwe language: Gaa-biitoogamaag "Place of paralleling water-body"
• Kanabeck County – from the Ojibwe language: Ginebiko-ziibiing "At the Snake River"
• County and City of Kandiyohi
• Kasota
• Keewatin – from the Ojibwe language: Giiwedin "North"
• Keewaydin, Minneapolis – from the Ojibwe language: Giiwedin "North"
• Koochiching County – from the Ojibwe language: Gojijiing "At the inlet"
• County and City of Mahnomen – from the Ojibwe language: Manoomin "Wild rice"
• former Manomin County – from the Ojibwe language: Manoomin "Wild rice"
• Mahtomedi
• Mahtowa
• Mankato
• Menahga
• Mendota
• Mendota Heights
• Minnehaha, Minneapolis
• Minneiska
• Minnetonka
• Nashwauk
• Nokomis, Minneapolis – from the Ojibwe language: Nookomis "my grandmother".
• Nokomis East, Minneapolis – from the Ojibwe language: Nookomis "my grandmother".
• Nisswa
• Township and City of Ogema – from the Ojibwe language: Ogimaa "Chief, leader"
• Okabena
• Onamia
• Otsego
• Owatonna
• Pequot Lakes
• Pokegama – from the Ojibwe language: Bakegamaa "Side lake"
• Shakopee – from the Dakota language: Shák'pí "Six"
• Squaw Lake
• Wabasso
• Waconia
• Wadena
• Wahkon
• Waseca
• Waubun – from the Ojibwe language: Waaban "Dawn/East"
• Wayzata
• Wenonah, Minneapolis
• Winona

Water bodies

• Bde Maka Ska
• Lake Bemidji
• Kawishiwi River
• Minnehaha Creek and Falls
• Minnesota River
• Mississippi River
• Nemadji River
• Pokegama Lake
• Lake Saganaga
• Sauk River (Minnesota)
• Us-kab-wan-ka River
• Watab River
• Lake Winnibigoshish

Landforms

• Mesabi Range

Mississippi

Counties

• Amite County – either from French amitié ("friendship"), or Choctaw himmita ("young")
• Attala County
• Chickasaw County
• Choctaw County
• Coahoma County
• Copiah County
• Issaquena County
• Itawamba County
• Leflore County – named for an influential, mixed-race Choctaw chief, Greenwood LeFlore
• Neshoba County
• Noxubee County
• Oktibbeha County
• Panola County
• Pontotoc County
• Tallahatchie County
• Tippah County
• Tishomingo County
• Tunica County
• Yalobusha County
• Yazoo County

Municipalities & unincorporated communities

• Acona – uncertain etymology
• Alamucha
• Arcola
• Arkabutla
• Bigbee and Bigbee Valley – shortened from Tombigbee
• Biloxi
• Bogue Chitto, Kemper and Neshoba Counties
• Bogue Chitto, Lincoln County
• Bolatusha
• Buckatunna
• Byhalia – uncertain etymology
• Bywy
• Cayuga – named for the Cayuga, an Iroquois nation from New York
• Chatawa
• Cheraw – named for the Cheraw people of North Carolina
• Chiwapa
• Choctaw, Bolivar County, Mississippi
• Choctaw, Neshoba County, Mississippi
• Chulahoma
• Chunky
• Coahoma
• Cohay
• Coila
• Conehatta
• Coosa
• Eastabuchie
• Escatawpa
• Eucutta
• Hiwannee
• Homochitto
• Hopoca – uncertain etymology
• Hushpuckena
• Issaquena
• Itta Bena
• Ituma
• Iuka – uncertain etymology
• Kewanee – uncertain Choctaw etymology; uncertain relationship to Kewanee, Illinois as an anatopism
• Kokomo – named after Kokomo, Indiana, itself of uncertain etymology
• Kolola Springs
• Looxahoma
• Mashulaville
• Mantachie
• Michigan City – named after Michigan
• Mingo – named after the Chickasaw word for chief, not the Mingo tribe
• Muskegon – named after Muskegon, Michigan
• Mississippi City
• Nanachehaw (Allen)
• Napanee – uncertain etymology
• Natchez
• Neshoba
• New Houlka
• Nitta Yuma
• Noxapater
• Ocobla
• Ofahoma
• Okahola
• Oklahoma
• Okolona
• Oktoc
• Oswego – named for Oswego, New York
• Osyka
• Pachuta
• Pascagoula
• Pelahatchie
• Pocahontas – named after a Powhatan individual from Virginia
• Pontocola – extinct settlement in Pontotoc County (see Pontocola Road)
• Pontotoc
• Poticaw Landing – uncertain etymology
• Quofaloma
• Sabougla
• Sapa – very uncertain etymology
• Saratoga – named for Saratoga, New York
• Satartia
• Scooba
• Senatobia
• Shoccoe – named for Shocco Creek, North Carolina, itself of Catawba etymology
• Shongelo
• Shubuta
• Shuqualak
• Sipsey Fork
• Skuna
• Sucarnoochee
• Suqualena
• Tallahala
• Tallula
• Talowah
• Tamola
• Tascohoma/Tuscahoma – extinct settlement near Holcomb, Mississippi (see Tascohoma Cemetery)
• Tawanta – very uncertain etymology
• Tchula
• Teoc
• Texas – named for Texas, which has Caddoan etymology
• Tibbee
• Tillatoba
• Tippo
• Tishomingo
• Toccopola
• Tocowa
• Toomsuba
• Topeka – named for Topeka, Kansas
• Topisaw
• Tougaloo – likely derived from Choctaw for "two creeks" or "second creek" and unrelated to the Cherokee Tugaloo
• Toxish – extinct settlement in Pontotoc County (see Toxish Road)
• Tula
• Tunica and North Tunica
• Tupelo
• Tuscola
• Wahalak
• Wautubbee
• Wenasoga – very uncertain etymology
• Winona – named Winona, Minnesota, itself named after a Dakota individual
• Yazoo City and Little Yazoo
• Yokena

Geographic features

• Abiaca Creek
• Abotcaputa Creek
• Alampa Creek
• Alamuchee Creek
• Amite River
• Apookta Creek
• Archusa Creek
• Arkabutla Creek and Arkabutla Lake
• Lake Atchafalaya (Atchafalaya Bayou, Silver City, Mississippi)
• Bagasha Creek
• Bahala Creek
• Bala Chitto Creek
• Balucta Creek
• Batupan Bogue
• Bayou Costapia
• Bayou Talla (Hancock County) and Bayou Talla (Jackson County)
• Beasha Creek
• Besa Chitto Creek
• Bibalucta Creek
• Biba Wila Creek
• Biloxi River and Biloxi Bay
• Bodka Creek
• Big Bogue
• Big Scooba Creek, Little Scooba Creek, and Flat Scooba Creek
• Bogue Cheely
• Bogue Chitto River and several creeks named Bogue Chitto with headwaters in Hinds, Kemper, Noxubee, and Clarke Counties – from Choctaw bok (creek) and chito (big)
• Bogue Culley
• Bogue Ealiah Creek, Boguefala Creek, Boque Falia Creek, Bogue Faliah, Bogue Fallah, Bogue Flower (Lauderdale County), Bogue Flower (Clarke County), and Bogue Phalia – from Choctaw bok (creek) and falaa (long)
• Bogue Falema Creek
• Bogue Hasty
• Bogue Homo, Bogue Homo & Bogue Homo Lake, and Bogue Homa – from Choctaw bok (creek) and homma (red)
• Bogue Statinea
• Boguegaba Creek
• Bokshenya Creek
• Bolatusha Creek
• Bolingchessa Creek
• Bollybusha Creek
• Bophumpa Creek
• Bose Nukse Creek
• Boughenia Creek
• Buckatunna Creek and Buckatunna Lake
• Busfaloba Creek
• Butputter Creek – uncertain etymology
• Buttahatchee River
• Byhalia Creek
• By-Wy Creek and Bywy Creek
• Calabrella Creek
• Canna Creek
• Castaffa Creek
• Catahoula Creek
• Catalpa Creek
• Chautauqua Lake & Lake Chautauqua – named after Chautauqua Lake in New York, which has Iroquoian origin.
• Chenokaby Creek, an older name for Scotchenflipper Creek
• Chewalla Creek and Chewalla Lake – from Chickasaw chowaala (cedar); Chewawah Creek is possibly a corrupted form of that same etymology
• Chicago Branch – named for Chicago, itself derived from a Great Lakes Algonquian language.
• Chickasaw Bayou and Chickasaw Hill
• Chickasawhay River and Chickasawhay Creek
• Chicopa Creek
• Chicwillasaw Creek
• Chief Chisca Lake
• Chilli Creek
• Chinchahoma Creek
• Chittobochiah Creek and its historic name, Ittobechi Creek.
• Chiwapa Creek
• Chubby Creek (Itawamba County) and Chubby Creek (Benton County)
• Chunky Creek and Chunky River
• Chuquatonchee Creek
• Coffadeliah Creek
• Coffee Bogue
• Coila Creek
• Comite Creek – very uncertain etymology
• Concobona Creek
• Conehatta Creek
• Conehoma Creek
• Coonewah Creek
• Coonipper Creek
• Coonshuck Creek
• Copiah Creek and Copiah Lake
• Cuffawa Creek
• Cushtusia Creek
• Escatawpa River
• Etehomo Creek
• Euclautubba Creek
• Eucutta Creek and Eutacutachee Creek
• Fannegusha Creek, Fannegusha Creek, and Old Fannegusha Creek
• Funny Creek and Funny Yockana Creek
• Hashuqua Creek
• Hatchapaloo Creek
• 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.
• Hickahala Creek
• Hobolochitto Creek
• Hobuck Creek
• Hollicar Creek
• Homochitto River
• Hontokalo Creek
• Hornolucka Creek
• Hotopha Creek
• Houlka Creek
• Hushpuckena River and Hushpuckena Creek
• Ichusa Creek
• Ishitubba Creek
• Jofuska Creek
• Kentawka Canal
• Kentuctah Creek
• Kenty Creek
• Kickapoo Lake – named after the Kickapoo people originally of the Illinois Country
• Kinterbish Creek
• Kittahutty Creek
• Lafomby Creek
• Lake Itawamba
• Lake Mohawk – named for the Mohawk, an Iroquois nation from New York
• Lake Monocnoc
• Lake Piomingo
• Lake Pushmataha
• Lake Sequoyah
• Lake Tallaha
• Lake Tangipahoa
• Lake Tiak-O'Khata
• Lappatubby Creek
• Little Bogue
• Loakfoma Creek and Loakfoma Lake
• Lobutcha Creek
• Lonsilocher Canal
• Lucknuck Creek
• Lukfapa Creek
• Luneluah Creek
• Luxapallila Creek
• Magowah Creek
• Mantachie Creek
• Mattubby Creek
• Minga Branch (Monroe County), Mingo Branch (Tishomingo County), and Mingo Creek (Clarke County) – named after the Chickasaw minko’ (chief), not the Mingo people
• Minnehaha River (Magnolia, Mississippi) – named after the Minnehaha Falls in Minnesota
• Mississippi River and Mississippi Sound – from the Ojibwe 'Great River'
• Mubby Creek
• Nanabe Creek
• Nanih Waiya Creek
• Natchez Island and Natchez Lake
• Neshoba County Lake
• Nita Lake
• Nonconnah Creek, in Tennessee and slightly within Marshall County, Mississippi
• Noxapater Creek
• Noxubee River
• Nuakfuppa Creek
• Nusichiya Creek, an older name for Line Creek
• Oaklimeter Creek
• Oakohay Creek
• Oak Slush Creek, previously Okshash Creek
• Ocobla Creek
• Okachickima Creek
• Okahatta Creek
• Okannatie Creek
• Okatibbee Creek and Okatibbee Lake
• Okatoma Creek
• Okatuppa Creek
• Okeelala Creek
• Okhissa Lake
• Oktibbeha County Lake
• Oktibee Creek
• Oktoc Creek
• Okwakee Creek
• Otak Creek
• Otoucalofa Creek
• Pachuta Creek
• Palusha Creek Canal
• Pascagoula River and Pascagoula Bay
• Pawticfaw Creek
• Peachahala Creek
• Pechahalee Creek
• Pee Dee Creek – named after the Pee Dee River in South Carolina
• Pelahatchie Creek and Pelahatchie Bay
• Pellaphalia Creek
• Pelucia Creek and Pelucia Bayou
• Penantly Creek
• Pinishook Creek
• Ponta Creek
• Pontotoc Ridge
• Potacocowa Creek
• Poticaw Bayou
• Potlockney Creek
• Potterchitto Creek
• Pottock Creek
• Puchshinnubie Creek
• Pushacoona Creek
• Pushepatapa Creek
• Puskus Creek and Puskus Lake
• Quarterliah Creek
• Quilby Creek
• Sabougla Creek
• Sanoosee Creek, historical name of Snoody Creek; also Sanooda Creek
• Santee Branch – either from Choctaw santi (snake) or named after the Santee River in South Carolina, which was itself named after the Santee tribe
• Scoobachita Creek
• Scutchalo Creek and Scutchalo Falls
• Senatobia Creek
• Seneasha Creek
• Sewayiah Creek
• Shackaloa Creek
• Shaui Koli Creek
• Shiola Creek
• Shockaloo Creek
• Shongelo Creek and Shongelo Lake
• Shubuta Creek
• Shutispear Creek
• Sipsey Creek
• Skillikalia Bayou
• Skuna River
• Socki Creek
• Soctahoma Creek
• Souenlovie Creek
• Sowashee Creek
• Sucarnoochee River
• Sucatolba Creek
• Sugar Bogue
• Suqualena Creek
• Tallabinnela Creek
• Tallabogue Creek (Clarke County), Tallabogue (northern Scott County), and Tallabogue (southern Scott County)
• Tallachula Creek
• Tallahaga Creek
• Tallahala Creek and Tallahalla Creek
• Tallahatchie River
• Tallahatta Creek and Tallahattah Creek
• Tallahoma Creek
• Tallashua Creek
• Tampa Creek
• Tangipahoa River
• Tarlechia Creek
• Tarlow Creek
• Tchoutacabouffa River
• Tchula Lake
• Tennessee River
• Teoc Creek (Kemper County), Teoc Creek (Carroll County), and Teock Creek
• Teoctalia Creek
• Tesheva Creek
• Tibbee Creek, Tibbee Lake, Tibby Creek Attala County, and Tibby Creek
• Tibbehoy Creek
• Tickfaw River
• Tifallili Creek
• Tilda Bogue
• Tillatoba Creek and Tillatoba Lake
• Tippah River
• Tippo Bayou
• Tishkill Creek
• Tishomingo Creek
• Tishtony Creek
• Toby Tubby Creek
• Toccopola Creek
• Tokeba Bayou
• Tombigbee River
• Tonacana Creek
• Toomsuba Creek
• Topashaw Creek
• Topisaw Creek
• Tubbalubba Creek
• Tubby Creek
• Tuckabum Creek
• Tumbaloo Creek
• Tunica Hills and Tunica Lake
• Tuscolameta Creek
• Tuscahoma Formation
• Tuscumbia River
• Tuxachanie Creek
• Upper Bogue
• Wahalak Creek
• Walkiah Bluff
• Waukomis Lake
• Wautubbee Formation
• Wingo Branch
• Yalobusha River
• Yamacrow Creek
• Yanubbee Creek
• Yazoo River
• Yockanookany River
• Yocona River
• Yoda Creek
• Yonaba Creek
• Yonkapin Lake

Missouri

• Chilhowee
• Chillicothe
• Koshkonong
• Lake Tapawingo
• Lake Winnebago
• Meramec River
• Miami
• Neosho
• Niangua
• Osage Beach
• Osage County
• Osceola
• Saginaw
• Sarcoxie
• Seneca
• Shawnee Mac Lakes
• Tallapoosa
• Tecumseh
• Wasola

Montana

• Absaroka– named after the Absaroka Indians, derived from Hidatsa name for the Crow people; it means "children of the large-beaked bird."
  • Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness
  • Absaroka Range
• Bear Paw Mountains – Indigenous names include Assiniboine: Waną́ be, lit. 'bear paws', Crow: Daxpitcheeischikáate, lit. 'bear's little hand', and Gros Ventre: lit. 'there are many buttes'.
• Belly River – The name of the river may come from the Blackfoot word mokowan of mokoan, meaning 'stomach'. The river was previously referred to as Mokowan River.[1] Its Gros Ventre name also means 'belly river'.
• Blackfoot – The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi or Siksikaitsitapi meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people"[a]) is a historic collective name for linguistically related groups that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: The Siksika ("Blackfoot"), the Kainai or Kainah ("Blood"), and two sections of the Piikani (Piegan Blackfeet), the Northern Piikani (Aapátohsipikáni) and the Southern Piikani (Amskapi Piikani or Pikuni). Broader definitions include groups, like the Tsúùtínà (Sarcee) and A'aninin (Gros Ventre), spoke quite different languages but allied or joined with the Blackfoot Confederacy as well.
  • Blackfoot River
• Comanche, named for the Comanche people of the southern plains
• Crazy Mountains – "Crazy Woman Mountains" given them, in complement to their original Crow name, after a woman who went insane and lived in them after her family was killed in the westward settlement movement.
• Kalispell, Salish word meaning "flat land above the lake"
• Kootenay, Kootenai are an indigenous people of Montana, Idaho, Alberta and British Columbia. They are part of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in the United States.
  • Kootenai National Forest
  • Kootenay River
• Yaak River (A’ak, Yaac, Yahk, Yahkh, and Yak) – is a Kootenay word meaning ‘arrow’.
• Yellowstone – This is a translation of the Hidatsa name Mi tsi ada-zi ("Yellow Rock River"). French trappers named the river Roche Jaune, and later American trappers translated it into English as "Yellow Stone".
  • Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
  • Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Yellowstone Plateau
  • Yellowstone River

Nebraska

Nevada

• Lake Tahoe
• Panaca – derived from the Southern Paiute word Pan-nuk-ker, which means metal, money, and wealth.
• Tonopah
• Washoe County
• Winnemucca

New Jersey

New Hampshire

New Mexico

• Jemez Springs – named for the nearby Pueblo of Jemez
• Nambe – Tewa: Nambe Owingeh [nɑ̃̀ŋbèʔ ʔówîŋgè]; Nambé is the Spanish version of a similar-sounding Tewa word, which can be interpreted loosely as meaning "rounded earth."
• Pojoaque – Tewa: P'osuwaege Owingeh [p’òhsũ̀wæ̃̀gè ʔówîŋgè]
• Taos – The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "place of red willows"
• Tesuque – Tewa: Tetsuge Owingeh [tèʔts’úgé ʔówîŋgè])
• Tucumcari – from Tucumcari Mountain, which is situated nearby. Where the mountain got its name is uncertain. It may have come from the Comanche word tʉkamʉkarʉ, which means 'ambush'. A 1777 burial record mentions a Comanche woman and her child captured in a battle at Cuchuncari, which is believed to be an early version of the name Tucumcari.

New York

• Canandaigua
• Coxsackie – <cook-sakē>, means "Hoot of the Owl"
• Geneseo – Gen-nis-he-yo means "beautiful valley"
• Manhattan – probably from <man-ǎ-hǎ-tonh>, which seems to reflect Munsee Delaware IPA: [ˈeːnta mənaˈhahteːŋk], "where one gathers bows" (with -/aht/-, "bow").
• Niagara Falls
• Oneida
• Oneonta
• Onondaga
• Oswego
• Otsego
• Poughkeepsie
• Saratoga
• Schenectady
• Schoharie
• Seneca Lake
• Skaneateles

North Carolina

• Ahoskie
• Catawba
• Cherokee
• Chowan County
• Cullowhee
• Currituck County
• Eno River
• Hatteras
• Lumber River
• Manteo
• Lake Mattamuskeet
• Neuse River
• Ocracoke
• Pamlico County
• Pasquotank County
• Perquimans County
• Roanoke Island
• Saponi Creek
• Sauratown Mountains
• Saxapahaw
• Swannanoa
• Wanchese
• Watauga County
• Waxhaw
• Yadkin River

North Dakota

Pembina – an Ojibwa word for viburnum edule, a plant with red berries which grows in the area. Nineteenth-century journal-writers and observers have translated the word as "summer berry" or "high cranberry".

Ohio

• Ashtabula – from Lenape ashtepihəle, 'always enough (fish) to go around, to be given away'; contraction from apchi 'always' + tepi 'enough' + həle (verb of motion).
• Chillicothe – from Shawnee Chala·ka·tha, referring to members of one of the five divisions of the Shawnee people: Chalaka (name of the Shawnee group, of unknown meaning) + -tha 'person'; the present Chillicothe is the most recent of seven places in Ohio that have held that name, because it was applied to the main town wherever the Chalakatha settled as they moved to different places.
• Conneaut – probably derived from Seneca ga-nen-yot, 'standing stone'. See the article conneaut. Compare Juniata, originating from the name Onayutta or Onojutta in another Iroquoian language (probably Susquehannock), and the Oneida nation, whose name Onę˙yóteˀ also means 'standing stone'.
• Coshocton – derived from Unami Lenape Koshaxkink 'where there is a river crossing', probably adapted as Koshaxktun 'ferry' ('river-crossing device').
• Cuyahoga – originally Mohawk Cayagaga 'crooked river', possibly related to kayuha 'creek' or kahyonhowanen 'river'. The Mohawk form of the name "Cayagaga" means 'crooked river', though it became assimilated to the Seneca name "Cuyohaga," meaning 'place of the jawbone' in Seneca. The river is in an area mainly settled by the Seneca people in the 18th century, and the Seneca name stuck.
• Geauga – Onondaga jyo’ä·gak, Seneca jo’ä·ka’, 'raccoon' (originally the name of the Grand River).
• Mingo and Mingo Junction – named after the Mingo people, Iroquoians who moved west to Ohio in the 18th century, largely of the Seneca nation; alternate form Minqua, both derived from Lenape Menkwe, referring to all Iroquoian peoples in general, possibly from Onondaga yenkwe, 'men'.
• Muskingum – Shawnee Mshkikwam 'swampy ground' (mshkikwi- 'swamp' + -am 'earth'); The Muskingum River was the channel by which eastern Ohio was penetrated, mainly by the Delawares during the first half of the eighteenth century, and to a much lesser extent by bands of Shawnees preceding the Delawares by a few decades. In its present form Muskingum, this river name has been in use among both Indians and whites for more than two centuries as another one of those terms of Indian-white travel-and-trade lingo, such as Ohio, Scioto, and others.

Whatever its aboriginal form may have been, Muskingum as a river name was fragmentary, requiring in any Indian language the addition of a term signifying 'river.' Zeisberger and other Moravian missioners spelled it Muskingum, as we do today, as well as Mushkingum (transliterated from German-based Muschkingum). Most likely, both of these spellings represented two different pronunciations current among the Delawares. Zeisberger's definition of the name, based on a combination of moos, 'an elk,' and wuschking, 'eye' (in his own spelling), meaning 'elk's eye,' looks like a folk etymology resting on the similarity in sound between Muschkingum and wuschgingunk (Zeisberger's spelling), defined as 'on or in the eye.'

John Johnston states that 'Muskingum is a Delaware word, and means a town on the river side.' This is partly correct and partly wrong. Muskingum (or Mushkingum, for that matter) indeed is a Delaware word, but by no stretch of the imagination does it mean 'a town on the river side.' It is certain though that it named a town on the river side. Possibly this town was an old Shawnee settlement whose name the nearby Delawares adapted to their own tongue in the form of *M'shkiink'm (Mushkinkum), and by force of folk etymology understood it to mean 'elk's eye.' It appears quite probable that the original Shawnee place name as assimilated by the Delawares, may have been *m'shkeenkw/aam(-), a Shawnee term combining *m'shkeenkw-, 'swampy,' with -aam, a stem approximately denoting '(land, soil, etc.) being as indicated,' and invariably followed by -'chki or some other adverbial determinant, with the composite meaning, 'where the land is swampy, soggy.' Where this place was located, it is impossible to ascertain.

Evidently, in their assimilation of this Shawnee place name, the Delawares, disregarding as unessential the final locative affix, were solely concerned with *M'shkeenkwaam, from which it was but a small step, over intermediary *M'shkeenk'm, to folk-etymologically conditioned *Muushkiink'm ( Mushkinkum; Muskingum).</ref> taken to mean 'elk's eye' in Lenape by folk etymology, as if < mus 'elk' + wəshkinkw 'its eye'.

• Ohio River – from Seneca Ohiyo 'the best river' or 'the big river'. Ohiyo (pronounced "oh-ˈhee-yoh") is the Iroquois translation of the Algonquian name Allegheny, which also means 'the best river'. The Indians considered the Allegheny and Ohio to be all one river. Alleghany, or as some prefer to write it, Allegheny, – the Algonkin name of the Ohio River, but now restricted to one of its branches, – is probably (Delaware) welhik-hanné or [oo]lik-hanné, 'the best (or, the fairest) river.' Welhik (as Zeisberger wrote it) is the inanimate form of the adjectival, meaning 'best,' 'most beautiful.' In his Vocabulary, Zeisberger gave this synthesis, with slight change of orthography, as "Wulach'neü" [or [oo]lakhanne[oo], as Eliot would have written it,] with the free translation, "a fine River, without Falls." The name was indeed more likely to belong to rivers 'without falls' or other obstruction to the passage of canoes, but its literal meaning is, as its composition shows, "best rapid-stream," or "finest rapid-stream;" "La Belle Riviere" of the French, and the Oue-yo´ or O hee´ yo Gä-hun´-dä, "good river" or "the beautiful river," of the Senecas. For this translation of the name we have very respectable authority, – that of Christian Frederick Post, a Moravian of Pennsylvania, who lived seventeen years with the Muhhekan Indians and was twice married among them, and whose knowledge of the Indian languages enabled him to render important services to the colony, as a negotiator with the Delawares and Shawanese of the Ohio, in the French war. In his "Journal from Philadelphia to the Ohio" in 1758, after mention of the 'Alleghenny' river, he says: "The Ohio, as it is called by the Sennecas. Alleghenny is the name of the same river in the Delaware language. Both words signify the fine or fair river." La Metairie, the notary of La Salle's expedition, "calls the Ohio, the Olighinsipou, or Aleghin; evidently an Algonkin name," – as Dr. Shea remarks. Heckewelder says that the Delawares "still call the Allegany (Ohio) river, Alligéwi Sipu.</ref>
• Olentangy – an Algonquian name, probably from Lenape ulam tanchi or Shawnee holom tenshi, both meaning 'red face paint from there'. The Vermilion River likewise was named with a translation of the original Ottawa name Ulam Thipi, 'red face paint river'.
• Piqua – Shawnee Pekowi, name of one of the five divisions of the Shawnee.
• Sandusky – from Wyandot saandusti meaning 'water (within water-pools)' or from andusti 'cold water'.
• Scioto – derived from Wyandot skɛnǫ·tǫ’, 'deer' (compare Shenandoah, also derived from the word for deer in a related Iroquoian language).
• Tuscarawas – after the Iroquoian Tuscarora people, who at one time had a settlement along the river of that name.
• Wapakoneta – from Shawnee Wa·po’kanite 'Place of White Bones' (wa·pa 'white'+(h)o’kani 'bone'+-ite locative suffix).

Oklahoma

• Anadarko – Caddo language – Derived from Nadá-kuh, means "bumblebee place."
• Bokchito – Choctaw language – "Big creek"
• Bokoshe – Choctaw language – "little creek"
• Camargo – Cheyenne language – "little dog"
• Catoosa – Cherokee language – phonetically pronounced "Ga-du-si" or "Ga-tu-si". Various interpretations of this word exist, including: "between two hills", "on the hill", "into the hills", and possibly signifying a prominent hill or place thereon.
• Chickasha – Choctaw language – Chickasaw Indian tribe
• Eucha – Cherokee language – named for Principal Chief Oochalata
• Eufaula – Creek language – from the Eufaula tribe, part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy
• Gotebo – Kiowa language – named for Kiowa Gotebo (Qodebohon)
• Inola – Cherokee language – "black fox"
• Keota – Choctaw language – "the fire gone out"
• Kinta – Choctaw language – "beaver"
• Konawa, Oklahoma – Seminole language – "string of beads"
• Neodesha – Osage language – Derived from ni-o-sho-de "The water is smoky with mud"
• Nowata – Lenape – Derived from nuwita "Welcome"
• Nuyaka (Creek Nation) – Creek language – Derived from "New York"
• Oochelata – Cherokee language – named for Principal Chief Oochalata
• Eufaula – Creek language – from the Eufaula tribe, part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy
• Okemah – Kickapoo language – "Things up high"
• Okmulgee – Creek language – "Boiling waters"
• Olustee – Creek language – "black water"
• Oologah – Cherokee language – "Dark Cloud"
• Owasso – Osage language – "End of the trail" or "turnaround"
• Pawhuska – Osage language – "White hair"
• Pocola – Choctaw language – "ten"
• Sasakwa – Seminole language – "wild goose"
• Skullyville – Choctaw language – derivation from iskuli – "money"
• Tahlequah – Cherokee language – "Open place where the grass grows"
• Talihina – Choctaw language – "iron road" (railroad)
• Tamaha – Choctaw language – "town"
• Taloga – Creek language – "beautiful valley" or "rocking water"
• Tulsa – Creek language – Derived from tallasi "Old town"
• Tushka – Choctaw language – "warrior"
• Tuskahoma – Choctaw language – "red warrior"
• Wapanucka – Lenape language – "Eastern land people"
• Watonga – Arapaho language – "black coyote"
• Weleetka – Creek language – "Running water"
• Wetumka – Creek language – "Tumbling water"
• Wewoka – Seminole language – "Barking water"

Oregon

• Alsea/Alsea River, named for the Alsea people
• Clackamas, multiple places named for the Clackamas tribe
• Clatskanie, a place on the Nehalem River
• Clatsop County, named for the Clatsop tribe
• Coos Bay/Coos County, named for the Coos people
• Depoe Bay, named for a local Indian
• Klamath, multiple places named for the Klamath Tribes
• Multnomah Falls/Multnomah County named for the Multnomah people
• Nehalem, multiple places named for the Nehalem people
• Scappoose, means "gravelly plain" in an unknown native language
• Siletz, means crooked river in the language of the Siletz people
• Tillamook, multiple places named for the Tillamook people
• Tualatin, multiple places named for the Tualatin people
• Umatilla, multiple places named for the Umatilla people
• Umpqua, multiple places named for the Umpqua people
• Willamette, multiple places from the Clackamas name for the Columbia River
• Yachats/Yachats River, uncertain origin
• Yamhill, multiple places named for a band of the Kalapuya people

Pennsylvania

• Allegheny – probably from Lenape welhik hane or oolik hanna, which means 'best flowing river of the hills' or 'beautiful stream'. Originally the name of the Allegheny River, later used to name the Allegheny Mountains too. David Zeisberger published a divergent view in 1780, giving the original form of the name as "Alligewinenk, which means 'a land into which they came from distant parts'."
• Aliquippa – Lenape alukwepi 'hat'; after Queen Aliquippa, who was named that because she wore a large hat.
• Analomink – From "tumbling water."
• Catawissa – Lenape, 'growing fat;' a reference to a Delaware Chief in the area, Lapachpeton.
• Conemaugh – Lenape kwənəmuxkw 'otter'.
• Connoquenessing – Lenape, 'A long way straight'
• Conshohocken – Lenape kanshihakink 'in elegant land': kanshi 'elegant' + haki 'land' + -nk locative suffix.
• Juniata River – from onoyutta, 'standing stone' in an Iroquoian language, probably Susquehannock. The Juniata Tribe lived by the river's banks and set up a tall standing stone with inscriptions in the center of their sacred meeting ground at the confluence of the Juniata River and Standing Stone Creek (in present-day Huntingdon). Compare Conneaut, Oneida.
• Kingsessing – The name Kingsessing or Chinsessing comes from the Delaware word for "a place where there is a meadow".
• Kiskiminetas – derived from Lenape kishku manitu 'make daylight' (kishku 'day' + manitu 'make' ), a command to warriors to break camp and go on maneuvers while it is still night (as though it were daylight), according to John Heckewelder.
• Kittanning – Lenape kithanink 'on the main river': kit 'great, large, big' + hane 'swift river from the mountains' + -ink locative suffix, "the big river" or "the main river" being an epithet for the Allegheny-cum-Ohio, according to John Heckewelder.

• Lackawanna – Lenape laxaohane 'fork of a river'
• Loyalhanna – after the name of a Lenape town, Layalhanning, meaning 'at the middle of the river': layel or lawel 'middle' + hane 'river' + -ink locative suffix.
• Loyalsock – Lenape, 'middle creek.' (It is located halfway between lycoming and muncy creeks.)
• Lycoming – from Lenape lekawink 'place of sand' or lekawi hane 'sandy stream', from lekaw 'sand'.
• Manayunk – Lenape məneyunk 'place of drinking': məne 'drink' + yu 'here' + -nk locative suffix.
• Mauch Chunk – Lenape maxkw-chunk 'bear mountain'.
• Mehoopany – Lenape, 'where there are wild potatoes."
• Meshoppen Lenape, 'corals,' or 'beads.'
• Monongahela – Lenape Mənaonkihəla 'the high riverbanks are washed down; the banks cave in or erode', inanimate plural of mənaonkihəle 'the dirt caves off (such as the bank of a river or creek; or in a landslide)' < mənaonke 'it has a loose bank (where one might fall in)' + -həle (verb of motion).
• Muckinipattis – Lenape for 'deep running water', from mexitkwek 'a deep place full of water' or mexakwixen 'high water, freshet'.
• Muncy–after the Munsee people < Munsee language mənsiw, 'person from Minisink' (minisink meaning 'at the island': mənəs 'island' + -ink locative suffix) + -iw attributive suffix.
• Nanticoke – From the Nanticoke language, 'Tide water people.' (In reference to themselves)
• Nemacolin – after the 18th-century Lenape chief Nemacolin.
• Nescopeck – Shawnee, 'deep and still water.'
• Nittany – 'single mountain', from Lenape nekwti 'single' + ahtəne 'mountain'.
• Ohiopyle – from the Lenape phrase ahi opihəle, 'it turns very white', referring to the frothy waterfalls.
• Passyunk – from Lenape pahsayunk 'in the valley', from pahsaek 'valley' (also the name of Passaic, New Jersey).
• Pennypack–Lenape pənəpekw 'where the water flows downward'.
• Perkiomen – Lenape, 'where there are cranberries.'
• Poconos – Lenape pokawaxne 'a creek between two hills'.
• Punxsutawney – Lenape Punkwsutenay 'town of sandflies or mosquitoes': punkwəs 'sandfly' (<punkw 'dust' + -əs diminutive suffix) + utenay 'town'.
• Pymatuning – Lenape Pimhatunink 'where there are facilities for sweating' < pim- 'to sweat in a sweat lodge' + hatu 'it is placed' + -n(e) inanimate object marker + -ink locative suffix.
• Queonemysing – Lenape kwənamesink 'place of long fish': kwəni 'long' + names 'fish' + -ink locative suffix.
• Quittapahilla Creek – Lenape kuwe ktəpehəle 'it flows out through the pines': kuwe 'pine tree' + ktəpehəle 'it flows out'.
• Shackamaxon – Lenape sakimaksink 'place of the chiefs': sakima 'chief' + -k plural suffix + -s- (for euphony) -ink locative suffix
• Shamokin – Lenape Shahəmokink 'place of eels', from shoxamekw 'eel' + -ink locative suffix.
• Shickshinny – Lenape, 'a fine stream.'
• Sinnemahoning – Lenape ahsəni mahonink 'stony lick', from ahsən 'stone' and mahonink 'at the salt lick'.
• Susquehanna – Lenape siskuwihane 'muddy river': sisku 'mud' + -wi- (for euphony) + hane 'swift river from the mountains'.
• Tamaqua – Lenape, 'running water;' named for a nearby river.
• Tiadaghton – Seneca, 'pine creek.'
• Tinicum – Lenape mahtanikunk 'Where they catch up with each other'.
• Tulpehocken – Lenape tulpehakink 'in the land of turtles': tulpe 'turtle' + haki 'land' + -nk locative suffix.
• Tioga – Onondaga, 'At the forks.'
• Tionesta – Munsee, 'There it has fine banks.'
• Towamensing – Lenape, 'pasture land,' (literally 'the place of feeding cattle.')
• Towanda – Nanticoke, 'where we bury the dead.'

• Tunkhannock – Lenape tank hane 'narrow stream', from tank 'small' + hane 'stream'.
• Venango – From Lenape 'Onange,' meaning 'a mink.'
• Wapwallopen – Lenape òphalahpink, 'where the white wild hemp grows,' from òp- 'white' + halahpis 'Indian hemp' + -nk locative.
• Wiconisco – Lenape wikin niskew 'A muddy place to live', from wikin 'to live in a place' + niskew 'to be dirty, muddy'.
• Wissahickon – contraction of Lenape wisamekwhikan 'catfish creek': wisamekw 'catfish' (literally 'fat fish': <wisam 'fat' + -èkw, bound form of namès 'fish' ) + hikan 'ebb tide, mouth of a creek'.
• Wyalusing – Lenape, 'the place where the aged man dwells,' a reference to the Moravian missionaries who set up a village in the area.
• Wyoming Valley – Munsee, xwēwamənk 'at the big river flat': xw- 'big' + ēwam 'river flat' + ənk locative suffix.
• Wysox – Lenape, 'the place of grapes.'
• Youghiogheny – Lenape yuxwiakhane 'stream running a contrary or crooked course', according to John Heckewelder.

Rhode Island

South Carolina

• Oconee County
• Seneca

Islands

• Edisto Island
• Kiawah Island
• Wadmalaw Island

Lakes

• Lake Jocassee
• Lake Keowee
• Lake Toxaway

Rivers

• Ashepoo River
• Coosawhatchie River
• Santee River
• Stono River
• Wando River

South Dakota

Counties

• Minnehaha County – from Dakota minnehaha, meaning "waterfall".
• Oglala Lakota County – Lakota for "to scatter one's own".
• Yankton County – corruption of Sioux Ihanktonwan, meaning "the end village".

Settlements

• Canistota – from the New York Native American word canistoe, meaning "board on the water".
• Capa – from the Sioux for "beaver".
• Kadoka – Lakota for "hole in the wall".
• Kampeska – Sioux for "bright and shining", "like a shell or glass".
• Oacoma
• Oglala – Lakota for "to scatter one's own".
• Ottumwa – Algonquian word possibly meaning "rippling waters", "place of perseverance or self-will", or "town".
• Owanka – Lakota for "good camping ground". It was originally named Wicota, a Lakota word meaning "a crowd".
• Pukwana – the name given to the smoke emitted from a Native American peace pipe.
• Ree Heights – named after the Arikara people, sometimes known as the Ree. Arikara may have been a neighboring tribe's word for "horns" or "male deer".
• Seneca – from Algonquian sinnekaas, which referred to the Seneca people.
• Teton – from Dakota tinton or tinta, meaning "prairie".
• Wanblee – from Lakota Waŋblí Hoȟpi, meaning "golden eagle nest".
• Wasta – from Dakota wastah, meaning "good".
• Wakonda – from Sioux wakor or waukon, meaning "wonder, marvel, mystery, sacred".
• Wakpala
• Wecota – from Lakota wicota, meaning "a crowd".
• Wetonka from Dakota wi-tȟáŋka, meaning "big sun".
• Yankton – corruption of Sioux Ihanktonwan, meaning "the end village".

Tennessee

• Chattanooga – based on cvto, a Muskogean term for 'rock'
• Etowah – Muskogean term for 'town'
• Euchee Old Fields (ceremonial planting ground) of the Yuchi
• Natchez – tribal name of people who lived to the south west in present-day Mississippi, which had significant trade with the indigenous Yuchi and Muscogee of the present-day Nashville area, responsible for creating the Natchez Trace.
• Ooltewah – variation of eh-DOH-wah, Muskogean term for 'town'
• Sewanee – located on top of the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau, assumed to be a variant of the Algonquian tribal name Shawnee, or a contraction of Haudenosaunee referring to the northern Iroquois or eastern Tuscarora.
• Tullahoma – Choctaw for 'red rock' (tali – rock, homma – red)
• Unicoi County, Unicoi town, and Unicoi Range – Cherokee word meaning "white," "hazy," "fog-like," or "fog draped."

Texas

• Nacogdoches – from Caddo language, Nacogdoche tribe of the Caddo
• Quanah – named for the Comanche Chief, Quanah Parker
• Waco – from Wichita IPA: [wiːko], the name of a tribal subgroup, the Waco people.

Utah

• Juab County – from Paiute word for "flat plain"
• Kanab – from Paiute word for willow tree
• Kamas – from indigenous word for an edible, wild bulb
• Moab – from Paiute "moapa," meaning "mosquitoes", though possibly named after the biblical Moab
• Oquirrh Mountains – from Goshute for "glowing, or wooded mountain"
• Mount Timpanogos – from Paiute for "rocks and runny water"
• Uintah County – from Ute for "pine land"
• Utah County, Utah Lake, etc. – "Utah" via "Yudah" or "Yutah" from a language of one of the Ute tribe's neighbors, such as Western Apache yúdah, "high up".
• Wasatch (Wasatch Range, Wasatch County, Wasatch Plateau, Wahsatch, etc.) – from "wasatch," a Ute word for "mountain pass" or "low pass over high range"
• Various municipal street names including Arapeen Drive ("Arapeen" was a notable 19th-century Paiute), Chipeta Way ("chipeta" is Ute for "rippling water") and Wasatch Boulevard ("wasatch" is Ute for "mountain pass").

Vermont

Virginia

• Accomack County
• Allegheny Mountains and Alleghany County
• Appomattox River and Appomattox County, after the Appomattoc
• Chesapeake Bay and city of Chesapeake
• Chickahominy River, after the Chickahominy people
• Mattaponi River, after the Mattaponi
• Meherrin River, after the Meherrin
• Nansemond River, after the Nansemond
• Nottoway County, after the Nottoway people
• Occoquan River
• Pamunkey River, after the Pamunkey
• Pohick Creek
• City of Poquoson
• Powhatan County
• Rappahannock River, Rappahannock County, and town of Tappahannock
• Roanoke River and city and county of Roanoke
• Shenandoah River and Shenandoah Valley
• Yeocomico River

Washington

• Alki Beach
• Chehalis, Chehalis River
• Chelan, Chelan County, Lake Chelan – a Salish language word, Tsi – Laan, meaning "Deep Water"
• Chiwawa River
• Chinook, Chinook Pass
• Cle Elum, Cle Elum River
• Copalis Beach, Copalis Crossing
• Cowlitz County, Cowlitz River
• Dosewallips River
• Duckabush River
• Duwamish River
• Entiat, Entiat River
• Hamma Hamma River
• Hoh River
• Hoquiam
• Humptulips, Humptulips River
• Hyak
• Issaquah
• Kachess Lake
• Kalaloch
• Kitsap Peninsula, Kitsap County – named after Chief Kitsap
• Kittitas County, Kittitas
• La Push – lapoos or labush is the Chinook Jargon adaptation of the fr. la bouche ("mouth")
• Neah Bay
• Nespelem
• Nisqually River
• Nooksack River
• Okanogan
• Omak
• Orondo
• Palouse
• Pasayten River, Pasayten Wilderness
• Puyallup
• Pysht River
• Sammamish
• Seattle – named after Chief Seattle, whose Lushootseed name was Siʔáł
• Sequim
• Skagit River
• Skookumchuck River
• Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass, Snoqualmie River
• Skykomish River
• Snohomish – Lushootseed IPA: [sduhúbʃ], the name of a Salishan group (earlier *snuhúmʃ)
• Sol Duc River
• Spokane – from the Spokane dialect of Interior Salish spoqín
• Squaxin Island
• Stehekin
• Stillaguamish River
• Suquamish
• Tacoma – from Lushootseed IPA: [təqʷúbəʔ] (earlier *təqʷúməʔ), "snow-covered mountain"
• Tillicum
• Tonasket
• Toppenish
• Tulalip Bay
• Tumwater – city in Thurston County – "Fast Water / Waterfall"
• Twisp, Twisp River
• Wapato
• Wenatchee, Wenatchee River
• Wishkah River
• Walla Walla
• Yakima

West Virginia

• Kanawha County
• Monongahela National Forest

Wisconsin

Counties

• Calumet County
• Chippewa County – the Ojibwe (or Chippewa) people
• Iowa County – the Iowa people
• Kenosha County – Kenosha (ginoozhe), an Ojibwe word meaning "pike" (fish)
• Kewaunee County – for either a Potawatomi word meaning "river of the lost" or an Ojibwe word meaning "prairie hen", "wild duck" or "to go around"
• Manitowoc County – Manitowoc (manidoowag) is an Ojibwe word meaning "spirits"
• Menominee County – the Menominee people
• Milwaukee and Milwaukee County – Algonquin word Millioke which means "The Good Land", or "Gathering place by the water". Another interpretation is "beautiful or pleasant lands".
• Oneida County – the Oneida people
• Oshkosh – Menominee Chief Oshkosh, whose name meant "claw" (cf. Ojibwe oshkanzh, "the claw").
• Outagamie County – the Outagamie (Meskwaki, Fox) people
• Ozaukee County – Ozaukee (Ozaagii) is the Ojibwe word for the Sauk people
• Sauk County
• Waukesha and Waukesha County – Potawatomi word meaning "little foxes"
• Waupaca County – Menominee word meaning "white sand bottom" or "brave young hero"
• Waushara County – a Native American word meaning "good earth"
• Winnebago County – the Winnebago people

Cities, towns and villages

• Algoma
• Altoona
• Amnicon Falls
• Aniwa
• Antigo
• Arkansaw
• Ashippun
• Ashwaubenon
• Astico
• Aztalan
• Baraboo
• Carcajou
• Catawba
• Chetek
• Chenequa
• Chicago Junction
• Chippecotton, modern-day Racine (so-named Chippecotton or Kipiwaki, meaning "root"; Racine is French for "root")
• Chippewa Falls
• Coloma
• Couderay
• Dakota
• Horicon
• Huron
• Iola
• Kaukauna (named for early French settler pronunciation "Kakalin," and later Grand Kakalin, bastardized either from Menomonee Ogag-kane or O-gau-gau-ning, meaning "the place where fish stop" due to the massive amounts of fish they found where the river fell 52 feet beneath the falls. Because of the forceful rushing rapids, travelers were forced to carry their canoes around it)
• Kegonsa
• Kenosha
• Kekoskee
• Keshena
• Kewaskum
• Kinnickinnic
• Koshkonong
• Koshkonong Mounds
• Lake Koshkonong
• Lake Nebagamon
• Lake Wisconsin
• Lake Wissota
• Manawa
• Manitowish Waters
• Manitowoc (named "Spirit's Home" for the Manitou spirit commonly seen at the mouth of the eponymous Manitowoc River, it is derived from Ojibwe Manitou+woc, where Manitou means "spirit" and -woc means a suffix for "home")
• Mazomanie
• Menasha (from a Menominee phrase meaning "thorn in the island")
• Menomonee Falls
• Menomonie
• Mequon
• Merrimac
• Milwaukee
• South Milwaukee
• Minnesota Junction
• Minocqua
• Misha Mokwa
• Mishicot
• Monona
• Moquah
• Mosinee
• Mukwonago (from Potowatomi, meaning "a ladle/bend in the stream")
• Muscoda
• Muskego
• Nashotah
• Niagara
• Necedah
• Neda
• Neenah (from Winnebago Neenah, meaning "running water")
• Nekoosa
• Neopit
• Neosho
• Neshkoro
• Oconomowoc (from Potowatomi, meaning "waterfall")
• Oconto
• Oconto Falls
• Odanah
• Ogema
• Okauchee Lake
• Onalaska
• Ono
• Ontario
• Oregon
• Oshkosh
• Osseo
• Otsego
• Penokee
• Peshtigo
• Pewaukee
• Pokegama
• Potosi
• Poy Sippi
• Poynette
• Requa
• Sauk City
• Saukville
• Shawano
• Sheboygan (of obscure but likely Algonquian origins, it may derive from Shawb-wa-way-kum, meaning either "thundering under the ground" or "path between the lakes"; bastardized through French Cheboigan)
• Sheboygan Falls
• Sioux
• Suamico
• Tamarack
• Taycheedah
• Tichigan
• Tomahawk
• Viroqua
• Wabeno
• Waubeka
• Waucousta
• Waukesha (originally known by local tribes as Tshee-gas-cou-tak, meaning "burnt, fire-land", possibly later derived from Ojibwe Wagosh meaning "fox", or alternatively from a Chief "Leatherstrap" or "Wau-tsha", met by the early white settler Morris Cutler, who honored him with the namesake)
• Waumandee
• Waunakee – Waunakee is called Wanąǧi [wa-na-GHEE] in the Hocąk language, meaning "spirit", as in a spirit which has departed from the body. I was told by a tribal colleague that it was given this name due to the spirits who can sometimes be heard there at night, singing. Wanąǧi is attested in other Wisconsin place names as well: Wanąǧi Homįk ("where the spirit lies" or "cemetery") is the Hocąk name for Reesburg, WI.
• Waupaca
• Waupun (meaning "east, daybreak, dawn")
• Wausau (from Chippewa, meaning "far away")
• Wausaukee
• Wautoma
• Wauwatosa
• Weyauwega
• Winneboujou
• Winneconne
• Wisconsin Rapids
• Wonewoc
• Wyocena
• Wyoming (community)
• Wyoming, Iowa County
• Wyoming, Waupaca County
• Yuba

Bodies of water, forests, parks or regions

• Ahnapee River
• Allequash Lake
• Amnicon Falls
• Amnicon River
• Aztalan State Park
• Baraboo River
• Big Muskellunge Lake
• Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
• Chequamegon Waters Flowage
• Cherokee Marsh
• Chequamegon Bay
• Chicago Bay, Lake Chippewa
• Lake Chippewa
• Chippewa Falls
• Chippewa River (Wisconsin)
• Couderay River
• Lake Gogebic
• Gogebic Range
• Lake Horicon
• Horicon Marsh
• Iola Lake
• Lower Kaubashine Lake
• Upper Kaubashine Lake
• Lake Kawaguesaga
• Lake Kegonsa
• Kentuck Lake
• Kewaskum Woods
• Kickapoo River
• Kickapoo Woods
• Kinnickinnic River (Milwaukee River)
• Kinnickinnic River (St. Croix River)
• Koshkonong Mounds
• Lake Koshkonong
• Kurikka Creek
• Lenawee Creek
• Lake Leota
• Linnunpuro Creek
• Little Muskie Lake
• Machickanee Flowage
• Manitou Island (Wisconsin)
• Manitowish Lake
• Manitowoc River
• Maunesha River
• Mawikwe Bay
• Mecan River
• Lake Mendota
• Menominee Creek
• Little Menominee River
• Menominee River
• Michigan Island
• Milwaukee Bay, Lake Chippewa
• Milwaukee Bay, Lake Michigan
• Milwaukee River
• Lake Minocqua
• Minong Flowage
• Misha-Mokwa (Mother Bear) Trail
• Moccasin Lake
• Lake Mohawksin
• Lake Monona
• Muskego Lake
• Little Muskego Lake
• Musky Bay, Lake Chippewa
• Nagamicka Lake
• Naga-waukee Park
• Lake Namakagon
• Namekagon River
• Lake Nebagamon
• Lower Nemahbin Lake
• Upper Nemahbin Lake
• Nemadji River
• Neopit Mill Pond
• Lake Nokomis
• Oconomowoc Lake
• Okauchee Lake
• Oneida Lake
• Oulu Pioneer Memorial Park
• Papkee Lake
• Papoose Creek
• Pecatonica River
• Pesabic Lake
• Peshtigo River
• Pewaukee Lake
• Pokegama Lake
• Puckaway Lake
• Sauk Prairie
• Scuppernong Prairie
• Shawano Lake
• Sheboygan Marsh
• Sheboygan River
• Sinissippi Lake
• Sinsinawa River
• Siskiwit Bay
• Siskiwit Lake (Wisconsin)
• Siskiwit River
• Skanawan Creek
• Squaw Creek (Wisconsin)
• Squaw Lake (Wisconsin)
• Tamarack Creek
• Taycheedah Creek
• Tichigan Forest (Wildlife Area)
• Tichigan Lake
• Token Creek (Tokaunee Creek)
• Totagatic Lake
• Totagatic River
• Tourtillotte Creek
• Lake Towanda
• Lake Wandawega
• Wayka Creek
• Lake Waubesa
• Waunakee Marsh
• Waupee Lake
• Waupee Swamp
• Wauzeka Bottoms
• Lake Wingra
• Lake Winnebago
• Lake Wisconsin
• Lake Wissota
• Wyalusing Forest
• Wyona Lake
• Yahara River
• Yawkey Lake

Wyoming

• Cheyenne – From Dakota Šahíyena, the diminutive of Šahíya, "Cree".
• The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for Wyoming Territory.
• Popo Agie River – From the Absalooke or Crow Language Poppootcháashe, which means "Plopping River" for the sound the water makes when it comes out of the sinkhole in Sinks Canyon, near present Lander, Wyoming.