Coalinga, LIpantitlan

[Jim Rader]

> I have come across a guesstymology or urban myth that the name of the
> place Coalinga http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coalinga in
> California came from "Coaling [station] A" where steam railway engines
> got coal. Is this correct? Or does the name refer to a different sort
> of thing that hisses, namely Nahuatl [coatl]?
>

There is a more circumspect and clearly more informed discussion of
the name at
http://www.coalinga.com/centennial.htm

Jim Rader