Chomchadila, California

Chomchadila (also written as Choam-cha-di-la-poma[1] or Tcómtcadila[2][3]) is a former Pomo settlement in Mendocino County, California, United States. While its precise location is unknown, it was said to be on a mesa south of Calpella[4][1][2], about two miles north of the confluence of the East Fork and Russian River[3]. The namesake of the latter comes from Kalpela, a chief of the settlement.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chomchadila, California
  2. 1 2 Barrett, Samuel A. (1908), Map of the territory of the Pomo linguistic stock and of the adjacent territories of other linguistic stocks, showing dialectic subdivisions and village sites, retrieved May 4, 2026
  3. 1 2 Barrett, Samuel A. (1908), The ethno-geography of the Pomo and neighboring Indians, retrieved May 4, 2026
  4. 1 2 Kroeber, Alfred L. (1916), "California place names of Indian origin" (PDF), University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 12 (2): 37, archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2011, retrieved August 22, 2010


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