Patoqua

Patoqua is the Patoka River, a winding tributary of the lower Wabash that flows west through wooded lowlands. Its name is thought to derive from a Miami-Illinois word also recorded as a personal name. A trail between the Ohio River and Vincennes crossed the Patoka near a settlement that took the river's name. The town was laid out in 1813, as American settlement expanded into the river country of the Piankashaw and their neighbors.