Interesting Names for rivers, streams, pools, lakes and other water bodies

[SwampDonkey]

Maybe folks can give a little description, translation or story for their submissions. ;)

Places to fish Atlantic Salmon
Restigouche River

Five Fingers Pool English translation for the Indian name of the river
Devil's Half Acre Pool Water color
Million Dollar Pool
The Three Sisters Stretch
The Flying Eddy

Saint John River

The Grand Pass Section of river between Sugar and Savage Islands near Fredericton, in front of Currie Mountain. This section of water does not freeze.

[old3dogg]

I will get beat for this but?...............

Big Bone Lick in the fine state of Kentucky!

I have no idea why it is called this and maybe I dont want to know.

[Jeff]

Another definition of a Lick is "matter deposited by some natural process". Thats why you will see many towns with lick after the first part of the name, as it is describing the local somehow, either by describing the type of the deposit, or simply proclaiming there "is" a deposit.

[old3dogg]

I really didnt want to know but now I do and now I have learned something.

[Tom]

This seems like it will be fun.  I'll play.  Florida and Georgia has a lot of wierd names, mostly derived from the Creeks.

Swimming Pen Creek.

Cattle were driven into the creek where they swam to barges (pens built on them) to be shipped down the St. Johns River to market.

We have a Turtle Creek down the road and I guess everybody has a Nine Mile or Ten Mile creek.

[crtreedude]

According to the locals, the best river to fish here is called Rio Muerte.

For those who don't speak Spanish, that means Dead River. 

[old3dogg]

We have Potatoe Creek in Northen PA?

I dont even have a clue?

[Paschale]

I love the ever present Mud Lakes that seem to be everywhere.  And then, here in Michigan, there's a town called Lake Odessa.  The name of the lake in the center of town, you ask?  Well, of course, it's Jordan Lake.   :

[Radar67]

A creek running thru my property is called Military Branch. I haven't researched it yet, but there is nothing military even close to it.

[Pete J]

I live between the Hockanum and Skunkamug rivers. Everyone around here knows exactly where you are refering to if you call them The "Hock" and the "Skunk". Both names are old indian names although I don't know the history.

[Bro. Noble]

We used to live on 'lick crick'  It was close to 'Pomme-de-terra'  lake-----which I believe means apple of the earth  which means potato :D

Nearby we have  two 'greazy creeks',  'Cowskin Creek',  and 'Stinkin Creek'

Two of the most interesting names of bodies of water I've seen are at Cuba,  or maybe it's Bourbon, Mo.  There are two identical water towers.  One is named 'Hot'  and one "Cold' :

[SwampDonkey]

Nepisiquit River Tributaries These names have to do with logging and fishing

Fly Tent Brook

Moody Brook

Three Corner Lake

Devil's Elbow Brook

Popple Depot

Knoll Spruce Lake

Corker's Gulch

[pigman]

I will get beat for this but?...............

Big Bone Lick in the fine state of Kentucky!

I have no idea why it is called this and maybe I dont want to know.

At the Big Bone Lick State Park in the fine state of Kentucky there are deposits of bones of prehistoric animals such as Mamoths. There were salt deposits there that attracted the animals and some of them got stuck in the mud and their bones were preserved.

[edsaws]

I live between the Hockanum and Skunkamug rivers. Everyone around here knows exactly where you are refering to if you call them The "Hock" and the "Skunk"

So true Logrite I like to go tubing down Satan's Kingdom 

[breederman]

We have the Ouleout Creek.Sounds just like it is spelled.

[DanG]

Just north of Tallahassee, there is a little water bod known as "Monkey Business Pond."  The yuppies have built houses all around it, now, and assume it was a favorite spot for "parking."  Actually, it was a place where the KKK used to go to do their "monkey business!"   Just being around the place will give ya the willies!

Just up in the edge of Georgia, is a stream called "Manbone Creek."  Your imagination is as good as mine on this one.

[isawlogs]

 Kazabazua,
small town north of me ... Algonguin for river that flows under ground , wich it does , there is no river for 1/2 a mile  it goes under a little hill .

[Tom]

When I was a younger fellow, in the Boy Scouts, some of my cohorts and I were turned lose for a week to survive with a match, a tin can, a knife and whatever we could find in a place west of Okeechobee called "Fish Eating Creek".

[DanG]

We got one of those, Marcel.  Not a Kazabazua, but a river that goes underground for a ways.  The St. Marks River goes under an area known as "Natural Bridge,"  just a few miles south of Tallahassee.  There was an important battle fought there in the Civil War, that kept Florida's capitol from falling to the Union.

The St. Marks joins with the Wakulla River a little ways south of there.  "Wakulla" mean's "Mysterious Water" in the Miccosukee language.  The river originates in a huge spring, which is supposedly the world's deepest natural spring.  I can't remember just how deep the mouth of the spring is, but I'm thinkin' it is over 400'.  I'll bet a Google search on "Wakulla Springs" would get you more info than you could ever want.

[Tom]

Just South of Holopaw (I don't know where that came from)  is Yee Haw Junction.  That's pretty explanatory.  If your heading North on US 441, you either turn right or left. That's not too far from Deadheader. And if you're heading West you can turn right or left.    It's a cross road.

Just a little North West of Dang, out in the panhandld and on the Florida side just south of Dothan Ala. is a little place in the road named "Two Egg".  The town sign has been stolen so many times that the City had bolt it all the way around to make it more difficult to take.  The stories of how the town was named generally revolve around children trading eggs at the general store every day for candy and other items.  Most showed up with two eggs.

[CHARLIE]

In Minnesota there is the Root River, Zumbro River, Whitewater River, Rum River, Kettle River, Cannon River, Crow River, St. Louis River, Cloquet River,  Red River, Temperance River (only river without a sand bar ;D ).

Deer Creek, Bear Creek, Mill Run, Trout creek with a dam call Bucksnort dam.

In Wisconsin, Black River, Chippewa River, Eau Claire River, Flambeau River,  St. Croix River, KinnicKinnic River, Embarrass River, Peshtigo River, Wolf River, Red River, Willow River, Potato River, Brule River,

In Florida there is the Kissimmee River,  and Mosquito Creek.

[Paschale]

Temperance River (only river without a sand bar ;D ).

;D

In the U.P., we have Kitch-iti-kipi Spring, which is a huge natural spring which means "Mirror of Heaven." 

"One of the Upper Peninsula's major attractions, Kitch-iti-kipi or "The Big Spring" is two hundred feet across and forty feet deep. Over 10,000 gallons a minute gush from many fissures in underlying limestone, the flow continuing throughout the year at a constant 45 degree temperature so the spring never freezes and can be enjoyed any season of the year."

There's a Bad River, a Dead River, the Paint River, the Paw Paw River, the Tobacco River, and the Tittabawassee River. 

[crtreedude]

We have a place here called Ojo de Agua - Eye of Water. Since it is blue, I suspect it should have been called Ojo Gringo de Agua  (Gringo Eye of Water).

[crtreedude]

By the way, I see I just hit 1,000 postings - do I get a prize ?

[Patty]

Up in Wisconsin where my Gramma & Grampa lived is the Kickapoo River, which flows through the Kickapoo Valley.