According to Allen Eckert in "The Frontiersmen", reference notes: There has always been some degree of confusion in regard to the location of the Shawnee village Chillicothe, mainly because five different Shawnee towns went by this name in Ohio. The principal town of each Shawnee sept (or clan) was named after the sept. When such a sept moved to a new location, the town it built was known by the same name. The particular Shawnee town in questioner here was the fourth of five Shawnee villages to be so designed after the Chalahgawtha sept. It was near the junction of Massie' s Creek and the Little Miami River, three miles north of the present county seat, Xenia. The other four Chillicothes were: (1) on the side of the present city of Piqua; (2) near the village of Westfall, four miles down the west bank of the Scioto River from present Circleville; (3) on the side of present Hopetown, three miles north of present Chillicothe in Ross County; and (4) on the north fork of Paint Creek ten miles northwest of present Chillicothe on the site of present Frankfort. Hope this clears up the confusion, Janice