Kewanee

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city Henry County (county) Illinois (state) USA (country).
• (unincorporated) community/and/town Pike County (county) Kentucky (state) USA (country).
• A place in Mississippi (state), USA (country).
• (unincorporated) community New Madrid County (county) Missouri (state) USA (country).

Origin

• The Illinois city's name is from the Winnebago word for the greater prairie chicken, which lived there. The Missouri unincorporated community was named after the Illinois city, the native home of a lumber official.