page_title: Hocking River
section_title: Variant names
hierarchical_section_title: Hocking River / Variant names
caption_attribution_description: Falls Mill Bridge over Hocking River, Logan Ohio.
context_page_description: The Hocking River is a 102-mile-long right tributary of the Ohio River in southeastern Ohio in the United States.
  The Hocking flows mostly on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, but its headwaters are in a glaciated region. It rises in Bloom Township in Fairfield County and flows generally southeastwardly through Fairfield, Hocking, and Athens counties, through the Hocking Hills region and past the cities of Lancaster, Logan, Nelsonville, Athens and Coolville. It joins the Ohio River at Hockingport. The Hocking's tributaries also drain parts of Perry, Morgan, and Washington Counties.
  Its name originally derives from a Native American name, roughly "Hokhokken" or "Hokhochen", which meant "bottle-shaped" or "gourd-shaped" and referred to the river's headwaters 7 miles north-west of present-day Lancaster, Ohio. The river begins as a small stream, then immediately goes over a water fall into a wide gorge. When viewed from above this feature looks like a bottle, which led to its name. The river was known as the Hockhocking River until the late 19th century.
  The Hocking Canal once linked Athens to Lancaster and the Ohio and Erie Canal, but was destroyed by flooding and never rebuilt.
context_section_description: The Shawnee language name is Wi'thakakkwathiipi.
  According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Hocking River has also been known as:
  Big Hock-hocking River
  Great Hock-hocking River
  Hock-Hocking River
  Hockhocken River
  Hockhocking River
  Hocking Hocking River
  Hokhoking River
  Big Hockhocking River
  Big Hocking River
  Great Hockhocking River
  Hakhakkien River
  Hockhoking River
  The form "Hockhocking" was generally used for the first century of Ohio's statehood, as reflected on old maps, while the shorter "Hocking" River form has been used for about the past century.
caption: Falls Mill Bridge over Hocking River in Logan
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