List of U.S. counties named after animals

This is a list of U.S. counties named after animals, either directly or indirectly.

*Antelope County, Nebraska: Antelope is named for the pronghorn antelope in the area.
*Bear Lake County, Idaho: Bear Lake is named after Bear Lake.
*Beaver County, Oklahoma: Beaver is named for its county seat of Beaver, Oklahoma and the Beaver River, which flows through the county.
*Beaver County, Pennsylvania: Beaver is named for the Beaver River.
*Beaver County, Utah: Beaver is named for the area's many beavers.
*Beaverhead County, Montana: Beaverhead is named for a rock in the Jefferson River shaped like a beaver's head.
*Big Horn County, Wyoming: Big Horn is named for the bighorn sheep in the area.
*Buffalo County, Nebraska: Buffalo is named for the buffalo (properly American Bison) which once roamed the present county.
*Buffalo County, Wisconsin: Buffalo is named for the Buffalo River.
*Conecuh County, Alabama: Conecuh is a Muscogee word meaning either "land of cane" or "polecat's head".
*Conejos County, Colorado: "Conejos" is the Spanish language word for rabbits, as cottontail rabbits are abundant in the area.
*Crow Wing County, Minnesota: Crow Wing is named after an island shaped like a raven's wing at the junction of the Crow Wing River and Mississippi River.
*Eagle County, Colorado: Eagle is named for the Eagle River.
*Elk County, Kansas: Elk is named for the Elk River.
*Elko County, Nevada: Elko is named for the county seat of Elko, Nevada, named in turn for the herds of elk in the area.
*Manatee County, Florida: Manatee is named after the manatee, an endangered sea mammal indigenous to Florida.
*Musselshell County, Montana: Musselshell is named for the Musselshell River, named in turn by the Lewis and Clark Expedition presumably due to mussels found on its banks.
*Otter Tail County, Minnesota: Otter Tail is named after the Otter Tail Lake and Otter Tail River. The river was named by the Ojibwa for its long sandbar shaped like an otter's tail.
*Sequatchie County, Tennessee: Sequatchie's name is derived from Cherokee word believed to mean, "opossum, he grins or runs".
*Waukesha County, Wisconsin: Waukesha is named for a Potawatomi word meaning "little foxes".
*Yalobusha County, Mississippi: Yalobusha is a Native American word meaning "tadpole place".

Possibly

*Leon County, Texas: Leon is named for either Martin De Leon, the founder of Victoria, Texas, or a yellow wolf which lived in the area and was nicknamed "lion" ("leon" in Spanish).

ee also

* County (United States)
* Lists of U.S. county name etymologies


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