Elk in the Atlas
European-American settlers provided quiet evidence of the former wide range of elk when they named towns and counties after these magnificent animals. A quick check of your atlas will show names such as:
- Elk City, Oklahoma
- Elk Grove, California
- Elkhart, Indiana
- Elkton, Virginia
- Elk Rapids, Michigan
- Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Elk have also been immortalized in the names of geographic features such as rivers, lakes, buttes, points and mountains. Examples include:
- Elk Neck State Park, Maryland
- Elk Pasture Gap, North Carolina
- West Elk Mountains, Colorado
- Elk River in Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, West Virginia, Wisconsin