How did Chinquapin, Pennsylvania get it’s name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Chinquapin, Pennsylvania, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
A small cross-roads village on the Upper and Lower Southampton Township line and near the Northampton Township line, at the intersection of the old Holland and Bristol Roads. Chinquapin (Castanea pumila) is the name of a small nut-bearing tree and shrub, resembling the American Chestnut and indigenous in dry soil from New Jersey and Pennsylvania southward, but in this State is native only in York, Lancaster, Adams, Franklin, Cumberland and Chester Counties. As it is reported hardy in the Arnold Arboretum, the name of the Southampton village may come from a grove of planted trees in the neighborhood.
Source: MacReynolds, George. Place Names in Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd Edition. Doylestown, PA: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1955.