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Catawba may refer to: * Catawba people, a Native American tribe in the Carolinas * Catawba language, a language in the Catawban languages family * Catawban languages


Botany

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Catalpa ''Catalpa'', commonly called catalpa or catawba, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions of North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia. Description Most ''Catalpa'' are decidu ...
, a genus of trees, based on the name used by the Catawba and other Native American tribes * Catawba (grape), a variety of grape *Catawba rhododendron (''
Rhododendron catawbiense ''Rhododendron catawbiense'', with common names Catawba rosebay, Catawba rhododendron, mountain rosebay, purple ivy, purple laurel, purple rhododendron, red laurel, rosebay, rosebay laurel, is a species of '' Rhododendron'' native to the eastern ...
''), a flowering shrub plant


Places in the United States

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Catawba, Missouri Catawba is an unincorporated community in Caldwell County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. History Catawba was laid out in 1884, and named for a grove of catalpa ''Catalpa'', commonly called catalpa or catawba, is a genus of flowering plants i ...
* Catawba, North Carolina * Catawba, Ohio * Catawba Island Township, Ottawa County, Ohio *
Catawba Island State Park Catawba Island State Park is a public recreation area located on Lake Erie, six miles northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by ar ...
, part of Lake Erie Islands State Park, Ohio * Catawba, South Carolina * Catawba, Virginia *
Catawba, West Virginia Catawba is an unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The community's name commemorates the Catawba people The Catawba, also known as Issa, Essa or Iswä but most commonly ''Iswa'' (Catawba: '' Ye Iswąˀ' ...
* Catawba, Wisconsin * Catawba (town), Wisconsin * Catawba County, North Carolina * Catawba Mountain, see Catawba, Virginia * Catawba River * Catawba Valley, see Catawba, Virginia


Other

* USS ''Catawba'', the name of an ironclad and several United States Navy tugs * Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina * Catawba Nuclear Station, near Rock Hill, South Carolina * Camp Catawba, a former boys' camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina *Catawba worm, the larval stage of the ''
Ceratomia catalpae ''Ceratomia catalpae'', the catalpa sphinx, is a hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1875. Range ''Ceratomia catalpae'' is a native of southeastern North America and can be located o ...
'' moth *''Catawba Hospital'', a mental health facility in Catawba, Virginia *Catawba, a fictional state in Thomas Wolfe's '' Look Homeward, Angel'' {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages