 Whenever these clothes wore out they were replaced by the local white miners out of gratitude for Tecopa's help in maintaining peaceful relations with the Paiute.Tecopa is buried with his son and grandson at the Chief Tecopa Cemetery in the Pahrump Valley, Nevada.The Census-designated place of Tecopa, California was named after Tecopa by J.B. Osbourne who was the operator of a mining camp at the location.