Places: CA-Mono (Inyo)

Mono Creek-6,242' (Mt Givens)   (37.3552207, -119.0717865-Mouth)
Mono Crossing-6,240' (Mt Givens)   (37.3418874,  -119.0578970)
Mono Divide-12,300' (Mt Abott)   (37.3843815, -118.8456759)
Mono Hot Springs-6,562' (Mt Givens)   (37.3266098, -119.0176179)
Mono Meadow-6,866' (Mt Givens)   (37.3446650, -119.0115072)
Mono Rock-11,414' (Mt Abott)   (37.4388236, -118.7942898)
Mono Trail-7,411' (Huntington Lake)   (37.2071676, -119.2151218)
North Fork Mono Creek-7,985' (Graveyard Pk)   (37.4152166 -118.9145655-Mouth)
Mono Pass-12,703' (Mt Abbot)   (37.4249342 -118.7726228)
Mono Pass Trailhead-10,236' (Mt Morgan)   (37.4350970, -118.7472000)
Mono Gulch-2,700' (Feliciana Mountain)   (37.5193809, -119.9501736)


Description:
“Mono County and Lake are named after a wide-spread division of Shoshonean Indians on both slopes of the Southern Sierra Nevada. In speech and presumably in origin they are closely allied to the Northern Paiute of Nevada and Oregon and the Bannock of Idaho. By their Yokuts neighbors they are called Monachi. The ending -chi occurs otherwise in Yokuts and Miwok as a suffix on names of tribes or divisions. . . . The stem therefore appears to be Mona. To the Spaniards, who knew the Miwok and Yokuts earlier than they knew the Monachi, this stem might easily suggest mono, ‘monkey.’ . . . It appears that Monachi, like most of the names of the Yokuts for their own or other tribes, no longer possesses a determinable meaning.” (Kroeber: California Place Names of Indian Origin, 1916, p. 49.)
Mono County, established 1861, originally extended considerably to the southeast of its present boundary; adjusted on north, 1864, 1866, by creation of Alpine County; curtailed on south, 1866, 1870, by creation of Inyo County. (Coy: California County Boundaries, 1923, pp. 182-183.)    From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar


Mono- Vermillion Valley. We crossed the summit that day. As we approached it, it  seemed impassable—great banks of snow, above which rose great walls and precipices of granite—but a little side canyon, invisible from the front, let us through. The pass is very high, nearly or quite twelve thousand feet on the summit. The horses cross over the snow. So far as I know it is the highest pass crossed by horses in North America. There is no regular trail, but Indians had taken horses over it before the soldiers did. The region about the pass is desolate in the extreme—snow and rock, or granite sand, constitute the landscape. From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 5 Chapter 3

From GNIS:

• Mono Hot Springs: Also called Lower mineral Hot Springs-Durham, David L. California’s Geographic Names. 31-Dec-1998. Clovis, CA : Word Dancer Press.
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