Hog-Eye
# Hog-Eye

A Hog-Eye in Missouri is a small compact place sunk in a hollow. There were once several places in Missouri called Hog-Eye:

* Hog-Eye in Vernon County, Missouri, renamed Nevada in 1855
* Hog-Eye in Saint Francois County, Missouri, renamed Haggai in 1890, although it still retained its old pronunciation
* Hog-Eye in Wayne County, Missouri, renamed Lowndes
* Hog-Eye in Dallas County, Missouri, renamed Charity
* Hogeye, Texas in Hunt County, Texas
* Hogeye, Arkansas, near Fayetteville, Arkansas
* Hogeye, California, former name of Keyesville, California
* Hog Eye, West Virginia

Other uses for Hog-Eye or Hogeye include:

* The Hogeye Marathon and Relays, held in Fayetteville, Arkansas
* The Hogeye Festival, held in Elgin, Texas
* Hogeye (ISBN 0-395-74276-5), a children's novel by Susan Meddaugh
* A Hog-Eye was distinctive flat-bottom boat or barge used in the shallow waters surrounding San Francisco Bay during the California Gold Rush, named from the dismissive name 'ditch-hog' applied to rivermen by deep-water sailors
* The term "hog-eye" was used in early blues songs as a euphemism for the female genitalia
