# List of Colorado placenames of Native American origin

The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Colorado whose names are derived from Native American languages.

## Listings
### Counties

* Arapahoe County – named for the Arapahoe people.
** Village of Arapahoe
** Arapahoe City
* Cheyenne County – named for the Cheyenne people.
** Village of Cheyenne Wells
** Cheyenne Mountain State Park
* Kiowa County – named for the Kiowa people.
* Montezuma County – named for the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II of Mexico.
** Montezuma
** Montezuma Creek
* Ouray County - named Ute chief Ouray
** City of Ouray
** Mount Ouray
* Saguache County – name comes from the Ute language noun "sawup" /səˈwʌp/ meaning "sand dunes".
** City of Saguache
** Saguache Creek
* Yuma County – named for the Quechan people of Arizona and California.
** City of Yuma

### Settlements

* Cheraw
* Chipita Park
** Cascade-Chipita Park
* Comanche Creek – named after the Comanche people.
* Cotopaxi – named after the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador.
* Dakota Ridge – named after the Dakota people.
* Erie – named after Erie, Pennsylvania
* Fort Massachusetts named after the state of Massachusetts.
* Fort Namaqua
* Fort Uncompahgre – from the Ute word for "red lake"
** Uncompahgre River
** Uncompahgre Wilderness
** Uncompahgre Peak
** Uncompahgre Plateau
** Uncompahgre National Forest
** Uncompahgre Gorge
* Genesee
* Kinikinik – named for the kinnickinnick plant.
* Kiowa – named after the Kiowa people.
** Kiowa Creek
* Kokomo – named after Kokomo, Indiana.
* Manitou Springs
* Niwot – named after Chief Niwot.
* Olathe – named after Olathe, Kansas.
* Pagosa Springs
* Peoria – named after the Peoria people.
* Shawnee – named after the Shawnee people.
* Southern Ute – named after the Southern Ute people.
* Towaoc
* Yampa – named after the Snake Indian word for perideridia.
** Yampa River
** Yampa River State Park

### Bodies of water

* Apishapa River – Ute word for "smelly".
** North Fork Apishapa River
* Arikaree River – named after the Arikara people.
** North Fork Arikaree River
* Arkansas River – named after the state of Arkansas.
** South Arkansas River
** East Fork Arkansas River
** North Fork South Arkansas River
** Middle Fork South Arkansas River
** Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area
* Canadian River – named after the country of Canada.
** North Fork Canadian River
** South Fork Canadian River
** Canadian River (North Platte River tributary)
* Chamita River
* Cochetopa Creek
* Illinois River named after the state of Illinois.
* Michigan River – named after the state of Michigan.
** North Fork Michigan River
** South Fork Michigan River
** Dry Fork Michigan River
* Navajo River – named after the Navajo people.
** Little Navajo River
** East Fork Navajo River
** Navajo State Park
* Pawnee Creek – named after the Pawnee people.
** Pawnee National Grassland
* Piceance Creek – from the Shoshone word piasonittsi, meaning "tall grass".
* Rio Chama
** West Fork Rio Chama
** East Fork Rio Chama
* Tennessee Creek – named after the state of Tennessee.
* Tomichi Creek

### Other

* Amache National Historic Site – named after Amache Prowers.
* Mount Antero – named after Antero, a Ute chief.
* Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge
* Comanche National Grassland named after the Comanche people.
** Comanche Peak Wilderness
* Neota Wilderness
* Rawah Wilderness
* Weminuche Wilderness named after the Weminuche people.