Wakatomika is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in central Washington Township,

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. Wakatomika is located on the

Little Wakatomika Creek Little Wakatomika Creek is a stream which flows through Coshocton and Muskingum counties in Ohio, US. The stream originates north of Tunnel Hill in Coshocton County and flows south through the villages of Tunnel Hill and Wakatomika before ente ...

, and lies along State Route 60.

History

A post office was established at Wakatomika in 1823, and remained in operation until 1909. The community is named after the

Shawnee The Shawnee ( ) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohi ...

village of

Wakatomika Wakatomika was the name of two 18th century Shawnee villages in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio. The name was also spelled Wapatomica, Waketomika, Waketomica, and Waketameki, among other variations, but the similar name Wapakoneta was a diffe ...

, which was located along the

Muskingum River The Muskingum River ( ; ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. An important commercial route in the 19th century, it flows generally southward through the eastern hill country of Ohio ...

near the present day site of

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References

Unincorporated communities in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Coshocton County, Ohio {{CoshoctonCountyOH-geo-stub