Place: CA-Chagoopa

Chagoopa Creek (Chagoopa Falls)      
Chagoopa Plateau (Chagoopa Falls)
Chagoopa Falls (Chagoopa Falls)
Chagoopa Fire (Chagoopa Falls)
(long, lat)

Description:
The falls were named by W. B. Wallace, J. W. A. Wright, and F. H. Wales, in 1881, for an old Piute chief. (Mount Whitney Club Journal, 1902, no. 1, p. 11.)
The name is spelled “Sha-goo-pah” by Wallace; also in Elliott’s Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada (1883), where it is said to be the Indian name of Mount Williamson (pp. 38-39).
Kroeber says the meaning is unknown, but the name is almost certainly a Mono word. (Kroeber: California Place Names of Indian Origin, 1916, p. 38.)
“We have mapped it as the Chagoopah Plateau, as it is traversed by the creek forming the Chagoopah Falls.” (William R. Dudley, in S.C.B., 1898, II:3, p. 187.)  From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

Trips:

• June 25, 2014 - Ten day trip along the High Sierra Trail and Colby Pass
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References:

•  History of fire on the Chagoopa Plateau
• Water sensors on the Chagoopa Plateau
• World Waterfall Database
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Pictures:

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