Pithlachascotee River

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The Pithlachascotee River, often called the Cotee or, tongue-in-cheek, "Cootie" River, is a blackwater river in Pasco County, Florida.

Originating near Crews Lake, the river flows for over twenty miles to the south and west, flowing through the Starkey Wilderness Park before turning north-west through downtown New Port Richey, entering the Gulf of Mexico at Miller's Bayou.

On a chart representing the west coast of Florida accompanying the annual report of the U.S. Coast Survey for 1851, the name is translated as "Boat Building River". The whole word signifies the place where canoes were chopped or dug out. The Seminole used canoes dug out of cypress trunks. It is derived from the Creek pithlo (canoe), and chaskita (to chop out).^[1]

[edit] List of crossings

Bridge	Route	Location	Coordinates
	FL 52	Fivay Junction	28°20′12″N, 82°36′24″W
	Suncoast Parkway		28°18′32″N, 82°33′01″W
	Starkey Blvd.	New Port Richey
	Pasco CR-1 Little Road	New Port Richey
	Pasco CR-77 Rowan Road	New Port Richey
	Madison Street	New Port Richey	28°14′32″N, 82°42′56″W
	Pasco CR-595 Grand Boulevard	New Port Richey
	Pasco CR-595A Main Street	New Port Richey	28°14′29″N, 82°43′09″W
	US 19	Port Richey	28°16′06″N, 82°43′42″W

[edit] References

1. ^ Simpson, J. Clarence (1956). in Mark F. Boyd: Florida Place-Names of Indian Derivation. Tallahassee, Florida: Florida Geological Survey. 

[edit] External links

• SWFWMD: Pithlachascotee River
• FDEP EcoSummary: Pithlachascotee River
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Pithlachascotee River improvements