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This is a list of places in the United States which are named after people. If not cited here, the etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the place.
A
Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Levy (founder)
Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of
Bowdoin College )
Abbott, Texas –
Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
[2]
Abbottstown, Pennsylvania – John Abbott (founder)
Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of
Abington, Cambridgeshire
[3]
Ableman, Wisconsin – S.V.R. Ableman (settler)
Ackley, Iowa – J.W. Ackley (founder)
Acworth, New Hampshire – Jacob Acworth (British naval officer)
[5]
Ada Township, Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster)
Adairville, Kentucky –
John Adair (governor of Kentucky)
Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
Adams, Massachusetts –
Samuel Adams
[6]
Adams, Nebraska – J.O. Adams (settler)
Adams, New York –
John Adams
[8]
Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
Adams, Tennessee – Reuben Adams (landowner)
Adamsboro, Indiana – George E. Adams (founder)
Adamsburg, Pennsylvania –
John Adams
Adams Station, California – Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
Adamstown, Pennsylvania –
John Adams
Adamsville, Arizona – Charles S. Adams (original settler)
Addison, 4 places in
Maine ,
New York ,
Pennsylvania , and
Vermont –
Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
Addison, West Virginia – Addison McLaughlin (local lawyer)
Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
Adrian, Michigan – Roman
Emperor Hadrian
[9]
Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company)
Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer)
Aiken, South Carolina –
William Aiken Jr. (governor of South Carolina)
Ainsworth, Iowa – D.H. Ainsworth (civil engineer)
Ainsworth, Washington – J.C. Ainsworth (railroader)
Albany, New Hampshire –
James of York and Albany (indirectly, via
Albany, New York )
Albany, New York –
James of York and Albany
[11]
Albemarle, North Carolina –
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners)
[12] : 1387
Albert Lea, Minnesota –
Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States
Dragoons )
Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad )
Albuquerque, New Mexico –
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
[13]
Alburgh, Vermont –
Ira Allen (landowner)
Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler)
Alderson, West Virginia – John Alderson (settler and local minister)
Alexander, New York – Alexander Rea (settler and state senator)
Alexander, Maine –
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Alexandria, Nebraska – S.J. Alexander (secretary of state)
Alexandria, New York and
Alexandria Bay, New York – Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler)
Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via
Alexandria, Virginia )
Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president)
Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler)
Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford
Alfordsville, Indiana – James Alford (settler)
Alfred, Maine – King
Alfred the Great
Alger, Ohio –
Russell A. Alger
Alice, Texas –
Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of
Richard King , who established the
King Ranch )
Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
Allendale, South Carolina – Allen family (settlers)
Allenstown, New Hampshire –
Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire)
Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
Allentown, Pennsylvania –
William Allen
Alloway Township, New Jersey – Chief Alloway
Alma, Colorado – Alma James (wife of local merchant)
Almont, Michigan –
Juan Almonte
Alstead, New Hampshire –
Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early
encyclopedia that was popular at
Harvard College ) (note spelling)
Altheimer, Arkansas – Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders)
[18]
Alton, California – Alton Easton (indirectly, via
Alton, Illinois )
Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder
Rufus Easton )
Alva, Florida –
Thomas Alva Edison (inventor)
Alvarado, California –
Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
Ambler, Pennsylvania – Joseph Ambler (settler)
Amelia Court House, Virginia –
Princess Amelia of Great Britain
Ames, New York –
Fisher Ames
Amherst, New Hampshire --
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also
Massachusetts and
Maine )
Anaheim, California –
Saint Anne (indirectly, via the
Santa Ana River )
Anastasia Island, Florida –
Saint Anastasia
Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson
Anderson, Kansas –
Joseph C. Anderson (state legislator)
Anderson, South Carolina – Gen.
Robert Anderson
Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
Angelica, New York –
Angelica Schuyler Church
Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife)
Annapolis, Maryland –
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
[21]
Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives)
Annsville, New York – Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife)
Anson, Maine –
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
Anson, Wisconsin -
Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
[22]
Ansonia, Connecticut –
Anson Greene Phelps
Ansted, West Virginia –
David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner)
Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the
Revolutionary War ) (note spelling)
Anthony, Kansas –
George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas)
[25]
Applebachsville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Paul Applebach
Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)
[12] : 444
Appleton, Maine and
Appleton, Wisconsin –
Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of
Amos Lawrence , founder of
Lawrence University )
Appling, Georgia – Col. Dan Appling
Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
Archdale, North Carolina –
John Archdale
Arco, Idaho –
Georg von Arco
Arenzville, Illinois – Francis A. Arenz (founder)
Arietta, New York – Arietta Rensselaer (wife of Rensselaer van Rensselaer)
Arlington, Texas –
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial )
[29]
Armourdale, Kansas – Armour brothers (founders of
Armour and Company )
Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
Arnold Heights, California – General
Henry H. Arnold
[12] : 1390
Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
Asbury Park, New Jersey –
Francis Asbury
Ashburnham, Massachusetts –
John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham
Ashbyburg, Kentucky – Gen. Stephen Ashby
Asheboro, North Carolina –
Samuel Ashe (governor of North Carolina)
Asherville, Indiana – John Asher (founder)
Ashford, Alabama – Thomas Ashford
Ashley, Michigan – H.W. Ashley (manager of the
Ann Arbor Railroad )
Ashley River (South Carolina) –
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Astor, Florida and
Astor Park, Florida –
William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
Astoria, Oregon –
John Jacob Astor
[31]
Atchison, Kansas –
David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator)
[32]
Aten, Nebraska – John Aten (state senator)
Athol, Massachusetts –
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)
Atkinson, New Hampshire – Theodore Atkinson (landowner)
Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
Atwater, Minnesota –
Isaac Atwater (settler of
St. Paul )
Atwater Township, Ohio – Amzi Atwater (surveyor)
Atwood, Kansas – Attwood Matheny (founder's son)
Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
Audubon, Minnesota –
John James Audubon
Augusta, Georgia –
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
[35]
Augusta, Kansas – Augusta James (trader's wife)
Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of
Henry Dearborn )
Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
Aurelius, New York –
Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)
Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)
Austin, Texas –
Stephen F. Austin
[39]
Ave Maria, Florida –
Mary, mother of Jesus
Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (
Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
Axtell, Kansas – Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the
St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway )
Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr.
James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)
B
Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper)
Bainbridge, New York –
Commodore
William Bainbridge
Baird, Texas –
Matthew Baird (president of
Baldwin Locomotive Works )
Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad )
Baker City, Oregon – Senator
Edward D. Baker (indirectly via
Baker County, Oregon )
[40]
[41]
Baker County, Florida –
James McNair Baker , judge and
Confederate Senator
[42]
Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker
[43]
Bakersfield, Vermont – Joseph Baker (landowner)
Baldwin, Georgia –
Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator)
Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the
Baldwin apple )
Baldwin, Michigan – Governor
Henry P. Baldwin
Baldwin, Chemung County, New York – Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers)
Baldwin, Wisconsin – D.A. Baldwin (settler)
Baldwin City, Kansas – John Baldwin
Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
Ballston, New York and
Ballston Spa, New York – Rev.
Eliphalet Ball (settler)
Baltimore, Maryland –
Lord Baltimore
Banning, California –
Phineas Banning , stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles .
Baraboo, Wisconsin – Jean Baribault (settler)
Baraga, Michigan – Bishop Friedrich Baraga
Barber, California –
O. C. Barber (president of the
Diamond Match Company )
Barberton, Ohio –
O. C. Barber (president of the
Diamond Match Company )
Barboursville, West Virginia –
Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia)
Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site
Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger
Baring Plantation, Maine –
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler)
Barlow, Oregon – John L. Barlow (settler)
Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
Barnes, Kansas –
A.S. Barnes (publisher)
Barnum, Denver, Colorado –
P. T. Barnum (landowner)
Barnwell, South Carolina – Barnwell family
Barraque Township ,
Arkansas – Antoine Barraque (landowner)
[47]
[48]
Barre, Massachusetts ,
Barre, New York ,
Barre (city), Vermont and
Barre (town), Vermont –
Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)
Barrington, New Hampshire and
Barrington, Rhode Island –
John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of
Samuel Shute , governor of
Massachusetts )
Barron, Wisconsin –
Henry D. Barron (judge)
Barstow, California –
William Barstow Strong (
ATSF president)
Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr.
Josiah Bartlett
Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
Barton, Vermont – General
William Barton
Bartow, Florida and
Bartow, Georgia –
Francis S. Bartow (Confederate general)
Bastrop, Louisiana and
Bastrop, Texas –
Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
Batesville, Arkansas –
James Woodson Bates
Batesville, Ohio – Rev. Timothy Bates
Bath, New Hampshire –
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
Bath, New York – Henrietta Pulteney, Countess of Bath
Battleboro, North Carolina – James S. and Joseph Battle (railroaders)
Bayard, West Virginia –
Thomas F. Bayard (U.S. Senator from Delaware)
Bayfield, Wisconsin – Rear Admiral
Henry Wolsey Bayfield
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi –
Louis IX of France
Beacon, Iowa –
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield
Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
Bealville, California –
Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
Beattie, Kansas – A. Beattie (mayor of
St. Joseph, Missouri )
Beattyville, Kentucky – Samuel Beatty (settler)
Beaufort, North Carolina and
Beaufort, South Carolina –
Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
Beauregard, Mississippi –
P. G. T. Beauregard (Confederate general)
Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
Becker, Minnesota –
George Loomis Becker (mayor of
Saint Paul )
Beckley, West Virginia – Gen.
Alfred Beckley (settler)
Beckwourth, California –
James Beckwourth , adventurer and early settler
[54]
Bedford, Massachusetts –
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
Bedford, New Hampshire and
Bedford, Virginia
[55] –
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Bedford, Tennessee – Thomas Bedford
Beebe, Arkansas – Roswell Beebe (settler)
Beecher City, Illinois – Charles A. Beecher (railroader)
Beekman, New York –
Henry Beekman (landowner)
Beekmantown, New York – William Beekman (landowner)
Beeville, Texas –
Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the
Republic of Texas ) (indirectly, via
Bee County, Texas )
[57]
Belchertown, Massachusetts –
Jonathan Belcher (governor of
Massachusetts and
New Jersey )
[58]
Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster)
[12] : 355
Belleville, Kansas – Arabelle Tutton (landowner's wife)
Bellingham, Massachusetts – Governor
Richard Bellingham
Bellingham, Washington –
Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet
Bellmont, New York – William Bell (landowner)
Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
Bellwood, Nebraska – D.J. Bell (landowner)
Belmont, Missouri and
Belmont, New Hampshire
[61] –
August Belmont (financier)
Belton, Texas – Governor
Peter Hansborough Bell
Beltrami, Minnesota –
Giacomo Beltrami
Belva, West Virginia –
Belva Ann Lockwood
Belzoni, Mississippi –
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Bemis Heights, New York – Jonathan Bemis (innkeeper)
Benedicta, Maine – Bishop
Benedict Fenwick (landowner)
Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo (wife of
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo )
Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (
ironmaster )
Bennett, Iowa – Chet Bennett (railroader)
Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor
Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via
Bennington, Vermont )
[62]
Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor
Benning Wentworth
Benton , 7 places in
Arkansas ,
California ,
Kentucky ,
Louisiana ,
Maine ,
Minnesota , and
New Hampshire – Senator
Thomas Hart Benton
[63]
[64]
[65]
Benton, New York – Levi Benton (settler)
Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator
Thomas Hart Benton
Bentonia, Mississippi – Bentonia Green (resident)
Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator
Thomas Hart Benton
Benwood, West Virginia –
Benjamin Latrobe II
Beresford, South Dakota –
Lord Charles Beresford
Berkeley, California – Bishop
George Berkeley
[67]
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia – colonial governor
William Berkeley
Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop
George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the
State House )
Berkley, Virginia –
Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
Bermuda, 5 places in
Alabama ,
Georgia , Louisiana,
South Carolina , and
Tennessee –
Juan de Bermúdez (indirectly, after
Bermuda )
Bernards Township, New Jersey – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
Bernardston, Massachusetts –
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
Berrien Township, Michigan –
John M. Berrien
Berryville, Arkansas – Governor
James H. Berry
Berthoud, Colorado –
Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
Bessemer, Alabama ,
Bessemer, Michigan , and
Bessemer City, North Carolina –
Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process)
Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
Beverly, West Virginia – William Beverly (landowner)
Bevier, Kentucky and
Bevier, Missouri – Col.
Robert Bevier
Bexar, 4 places in
Alabama ,
Arkansas ,
Tennessee , and
Texas (county) –
Ferdinand VI of Spain (originally the Duke of Bexar)
Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
Bienville, Louisiana –
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Billings, Montana –
Frederick H. Billings
Billingsport, New Jersey –
Edward Byllynge (merchant and colonial governor) (note the spelling)
Biltmore Forest, North Carolina –
George Washington Vanderbilt II
Bingham, Maine –
William Bingham (landowner)
Binghamton, New York –
William Bingham
Birchville, California – L. Birch Adsit
[12] : 451
Birdsall, New York – John Birdsall (judge)
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania – William Bird (landowner)
Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via
Bishop Creek )
Bismarck, Missouri and
Bismarck, North Dakota –
Otto von Bismarck
Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev.
William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
Bladenboro, North Carolina –
Martin Bladen
Blaine, Maine –
James G. Blaine
Blair, Nebraska –
John Insley Blair (official of the
Sioux City and Pacific Railroad )
Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the
Western Pacific Railroad )
[12] : 358
Blairstown, Iowa and
Blairstown, New Jersey –
John Insley Blair (railroad magnate and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men)
Blairsville, Pennsylvania – John Blair (resident)
Blakely, Georgia – Captain
Johnston Blakeley , U.S. Navy
Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
Blanchard, Maine – Charles Blanchard (landowner)
Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
Blandford, Massachusetts –
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (also held the title Marquess of Blandford)
Blandville, Kentucky – Capt. Bland Ballard
Bleecker, New York –
Rutger Jansen Bleecker (landowner)
Blissfield, Michigan – Henry Bliss (landowner)
Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant and founder)
Bloomfield, New Jersey – Governor
Joseph Bloomfield
Blossburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Bloss (settler)
Blountsville, Indiana – Andrew Blount (founder)
Blythe, California –
Thomas Henry Blythe ; San Francisco capitalist
Boardman, Ohio – Frederick Boardman (landowner)
Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
Bodie, California –
W.S. Bodey (prospector)
Boerne, Texas – Louis Boerne (German writer)
Bolivar, 4 places in
Missouri ,
Mississippi ,
New York , and
Tennessee –
Simón Bolivar
Bolton, Massachusetts –
Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
Bonaparte, Iowa –
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
Bondurant, Iowa – A.C. Bondurant
Bonham, Texas – Col.
J.B. Bonham
Bonner Springs, Kansas –
Robert E. Bonner (editor of the
New York Ledger )
Bonneville, Oregon –
Benjamin Bonneville (explorer)
Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge
Boone, North Carolina ,
Boone Station, Kentucky , and
Boonville, North Carolina –
Daniel Boone
Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
Boonton, New Jersey –
Thomas Boone (colonial governor)
Boonville, New York –
Gerrit Boon (land agent)
Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
Borden, Texas –
Gail Borden (customs official)
Bordentown, New Jersey – Joseph Borden (founder)
Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord
Edward Boscawen
[77]
Bossier City, Louisiana –
Pierre Bossier (general)
Bostic, North Carolina – George T. Bostic
Bottineau, North Dakota –
Pierre Bottineau (settler)
Bouckville, New York – Governor
William C. Bouck
Bourbon, Indiana –
House of Bourbon
Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
Bowdoin, Maine –
James Bowdoin (governor of
Massachusetts )
Bowdoinham, Maine – William Bowdoin (landowner)
Bowerstown, New Jersey – Michael B. Bowers (iron foundry owner)
Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
Bowie, Texas –
James Bowie
Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower)
[12] : 453
Boyd, Kentucky – Lt. Governor
Linn Boyd
Boylston, New York –
Thomas Boylston (doctor)
Bozeman, Montana –
John Bozeman
Braddock, Pennsylvania – Gen.
Edward Braddock
Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
Bradford, Pennsylvania – Attorney General
William Bradford
Bradfordsville, Kentucky – Peter Bradford (settler)
Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
Bradley Beach, New Jersey – James A. Bradley (landowner)
Bradshaw City, Arizona –
William D. Bradshaw
Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania – Capt.
Samuel Brady
Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
Brainerd, Kansas – E.B. Brainerd (landowner)
Brainerd, Minnesota –
David Brainerd (missionary)
Brandon, Mississippi – Governor
Gerard Brandon
Brant, New York –
Joseph Brant
Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
Brasher, New York – Philip Brasher (landowner)
Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
Breckenridge -
John C. Breckinridge , 4 places in
Breedsville, Michigan – Silas Breed (settler)
Breese, Illinois – Lt. Governor
Sidney Breese
Brevard County, Florida and
Brevard, North Carolina – Ephraim J. Brevard (possible author of the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence )
Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
Brewster, Massachusetts –
Elder William Brewster
Brewster, Minnesota –
Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via
Brewster, Massachusetts )
Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
Bridger, Montana –
Jim Bridger (frontiersman)
Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges (settler)
Briensburg, Kentucky – James Brien (state legislator)
Brigham City, Utah –
Brigham Young
Briscoe, Texas –
Andrew Briscoe (Texian patriot)
Bristol (village), Wisconsin – Rev. Ira Bristol (settler)
Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
Brockport, New York –
Hiel Brockway (settler)
Brockton, Massachusetts –
Isaac Brock (
British Army officer and
administrator ) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of
Brockville, Ontario , on a trip to
Niagara Falls )
Brockway, California – Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)
[12] : 454
Broderick, California –
U.S. Senator
David C. Broderick
Bronson, Kansas – Ira D. Bronson (prominent resident of
Fort Scott )
the Bronx, New York City –
Jonas Bronck (settler)
Brooks, Maine –
John Brooks (
Federalist candidate for
Governor of Massachusetts )
Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman
Preston Brooks
Brooksville, Florida –
Congressman Preston Brooks
Brookville, Indiana – Jesse Brook Thomas (proprietor)
Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the
French and Indian War )
Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
Brownstown, Indiana ,
Brownsville, Kentucky , and
Brownsville, Tennessee –
Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas and Basil Brown (landowners)
Brownsville, Texas –
Major Jacob Brown
[86]
Browntown, Wisconsin – William G. Brown (settler)
Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
Brownville, Nebraska – Richard Brown (settler)
Brownville, New York – John Brown (settler and father of General Jacob Jennings Brown)
Brownwood, Texas – Henry S. Brown (settler)
Bruceville, Indiana – William Bruce (landowner)
Brunswick, Maine –
House of Brunswick
Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Brushton, New York – Henry N. Brush (landowner)
Brutus, 4 places in
Kentucky ,
Michigan ,
New York , and
Virginia –
Marcus Junius Brutus
Bryan, Ohio –
John A. Bryan (state auditor)
Bryan, Texas –
William Joel Bryan
Bryson City, North Carolina – T.D. Bryson (state legislator and landowner)
Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
Buchanan, Michigan –
James Buchanan
Buchanan, Virginia – John Buchanan (settler)
Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)
Buckner, Missouri – Senator
Alexander Buckner or Real Estate operator Simon Buckner or namesake is Thomas W. Buckner, an original owner of the site.
Bucks Bridge, New York – Isaac Buck (settler)
Buckskin Joe, Park County, Colorado – Joseph Higginbotham (frontiersman nicknamed "Buckskin Joe")
Bucksport, California – David A. Buck (founder)
Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)
Bucoda, Washington – J.M. Bu ckley, Samuel Co ulter, and John B. Da vid (businessmen)
Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder)
Bullittsville, Kentucky –
Alexander Scott Bullitt
Bullochville, Georgia –
Archibald Bulloch
Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent
Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
Bunceton, Missouri – Harvey Bunce (resident)
Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
Burbank, California –
David Burbank (dentist)
Burden, Kansas – Robert F. Burden (landowner)
Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
Bureau County, Illinois and
Bureau Junction, Illinois – Pierre de Buero (trader) (note the spelling)
Burgaw, North Carolina – Burgaw family (residents)
Burke (town), New York and
Burke, Vermont –
Edmund Burke
Burleson, Texas –
Edward Burleson (Texian patriot)
Burlingame, California -
Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
[92]
Burlingame, Kansas –
Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
Burlington, 5 places in
Kansas ,
Iowa ,
Michigan ,
Vermont , and
Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one).
[93]
[94]
Burnet, Texas – Governor
David G. Burnet
Burnsville, Indiana – Brice Bruns (founder)
Burnsville, North Carolina –
Otway Burns (boat captain)
Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
Burrillville, Rhode Island –
James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
Burrton, Kansas – I.T. Burr (Vice President of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway )
Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man)
Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
Busti, New York –
Paolo Busti (landowner)
Butler, Missouri – General
William O. Butler
Buxton, Oregon – Henry Buxton (settler)
Byers, Colorado – W.N. Byers (
Denver resident)
Bynumville, Missouri – Dr. Joseph Bynum (settler)
Byron, 3 places in
Georgia ,
Maine , and
New York –
Lord Byron (English poet)
[96]
C
Cable, Illinois – Ransom R. Cable (railroader)
Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
Cadillac, Michigan –
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Cadott, Wisconsin – Baptiste Cadotte (resident) (note the spelling)
Caldwell, Kansas –
Alexander Caldwell (U.S. Senator)
Caldwell, New Jersey – Rev.
James Caldwell
Caldwell, Ohio – Joseph and Samuel Caldwell (landowners)
Caldwell, Texas –
Mathew Caldwell (Texian patriot)
Calhoun, Kentucky – John Calhoun (judge)
Callaway, Missouri – Capt.
James Callaway
Callensburg, Pennsylvania – Hugh Callen (founder)
Calvert, Maryland –
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Camano Island, Washington –
Jacinto Caamaño (explorer) (note the spelling)
Camden, 4 places in
Maine ,
New Jersey ,
New York , and
North Carolina –
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
[100]
Cameron, 3 places in
Louisiana ,
Pennsylvania , and
West Virginia –
Simon Cameron
Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
Cameron, New York –
Dugald Cameron (land agent)
Cameron, South Carolina –
J. Donald Cameron (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania)
Cameron, Texas – Ewen Cameron (Texian patriot)
Camillus, New York –
Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)
[102]
Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster)
Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the
Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives)
Camp Pardee, California –
George Pardee (governor of California)
Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder)
Campbell, New York – Campbell family (settlers)
Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder)
[103]
Campion, Colorado –
John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the
sugar beet industry)
Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
Canal Lewisville, Ohio – T.B. Lewis (founder)
Canby, California [
citation needed ] and
Canby, Oregon – General
Edward Canby
Canfield, Ohio – Jonathan Canfield (proprietor)
Cannonsburg, Michigan – Le Grand Cannon (resident of
Troy, New York )
Cannonsville, New York – Benjamin Cannon (landowner)
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania – John Cannon (founder) (note the spelling)
Canova, South Dakota –
Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
Canterbury, New Hampshire –
William Wake ,
Archbishop of Canterbury
[107]
Capac, Michigan –
Manco Cápac (Incan emperor)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine –
Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King
Charles I of England )
[108]
Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
Cape May, New Jersey –
Cornelius Jacobsen May (explorer)
Cape Vincent, New York – Vincent, son of
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont
Captain Cook, Hawaii –
Captain James Cook (English explorer)
Cardwell, Missouri – Frank Cardwell (resident of
Paragould, Arkansas )
Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner)
[12] : 362
Carlinville, Illinois – Governor
Thomas Carlin
Carlisle, Massachusetts –
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
Carnegie, Pennsylvania –
Andrew Carnegie
Carnesville, Georgia – Col. T.P. Carnes
Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of
Rowland G. Hazard , mill owner)
Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri –
Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet
Carol Stream, Illinois – (named for founder's daughter)
Carr, Colorado – Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the
Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
Carroll, New Hampshire –
Charles Carroll (a signer of the
Declaration of Independence )
[110]
Carroll Plantation, Maine –
Daniel Carroll (a signer of the
U.S. Constitution )
Carrollton, New York – G. Carroll (landowner)
Carson City, Nevada –
Kit Carson
[111]
Carson Hill, California – Sergeant
James H. Carson
Carter, Kentucky – William G. Carter (state senator)
Carter, Tennessee – Gen.
Landon Carter
Carteret, New Jersey –
George Carteret (proprietor of New Jersey) and
Philip Carteret (first royal governor of New Jersey)
Cartersville, Georgia – Col. F. Carter
Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
Caruthersville, Missouri – Samuel Caruthers
Carver, Massachusetts –
John Carver (first Governor of
Plymouth Colony )
Carver, Minnesota – Capt.
Jonathan Carver (explorer)
Cary, North Carolina –
Samuel Fenton Cary (Prohibition advocate)
Caseyville, Kentucky – Col. William Casey
Cashion, Oklahoma – Roy Cashion (member of the
Rough Riders )
Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
Casselton, North Dakota – Gen. George W. Cass (director of the
Union Pacific Railroad )
Cassville, Wisconsin –
Lewis Cass
Castine, Maine –
Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin
[114]
Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
Castroville, Texas –
Henri Castro (settler)
Catharine, New York –
Catherine Montour (note the spelling)
Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
Cato (town), New York – either
Cato the Elder or
Cato the Younger
Cavalier, North Dakota – Charles Cavalier (settler)
Cavendish, Vermont –
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
[116]
Cawker City, Kansas – E.H. Cawker
Cazenovia, 4 places in
Illinois ,
Minnesota ,
New York , and
Wisconsin –
Theophilus Cazenove (land agent) (The New York town is the original, and the others were named for it).
Cecilton, Maryland -
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Center Harbor, New Hampshire – Col. Joseph Senter (settler) (note the spelling)
Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania – Francis Chadsey (proprietor)
Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Chambers (founder)
Chambers Lodge, California – David H. Chambers (lodge builder)
[12] : 464
Champion, New York – Gen.
Henry Champion (settler)
Champlain, New York –
Samuel de Champlain
Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
Chandlerville, Illinois – Dr. Charles Chandler (founder)
Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire – Jeremiah Chanler (landowner) (note the spelling)
Chanute, Kansas – O. Chanute (engineer with the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad)
Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
Chapman, Pennsylvania – William Chapman (slate mine owner)
Chardon, Ohio – Peter Chardon Brooks (proprietor)
Charles Town, West Virginia –
Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of
George Washington )
[120]
Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)
Charleston, Mississippi – King
Charles II of England (indirectly, via
Charleston, South Carolina )
Charleston, South Carolina – King
Charles II of England
Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)
Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral
Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy
[121]
Charlestown, Rhode Island – King
Charles II of England
Charlevoix, Michigan – Francis X. Charlevoix (missionary)
Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of
legislator William Vance)
Charlotte, New York and
Charlottesville, Virginia –
Princess Charlotte of Wales
Charlotte, North Carolina and
Charlotte, Vermont –
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of
King George III )
[122]
[123]
Charlotte Amalie –
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
Charlton, Massachusetts –
Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet
Chartiers Township, Pennsylvania –
Peter Chartier (trader)
Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
Chatham, 4 places in
Massachusetts ,
New Hampshire ,
New Jersey , and
New York –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (
Prime Minister of Great Britain )
[124]
Chaumont, New York –
Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (proprietor)
Cheney, Kansas – P.B. Cheney (stockholder of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway )
Cheney, Washington – Benjamin P. Cheney (founder of the
Northern Pacific Railway )
Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler)
Chester, Vermont –
George IV of the United Kingdom , the Earl of Chester (eldest son of
George III of the United Kingdom )
Chesterfield, Massachusetts and
Chesterfield, New Hampshire –
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
[127]
Chichester, New Hampshire –
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ,
Earl of Chichester
[128]
Childress, Texas –
George Childress (Texian patriot)
Chittenden, Vermont –
Thomas Chittenden (one of the
Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
Chivington, Colorado –
John Chivington (soldier and perpetrator of the
Sand Creek massacre )
Choteau, Montana –
Auguste and
Pierre Chouteau (founders of
St. Louis, Missouri ) (note the spelling)
Christiana, Delaware and
Christiana, Pennsylvania – Queen
Christina of Sweden
Christiansted –
Christian VI of Denmark
Churchville, New York – Samuel Church (settler)
Cicero, Illinois –
Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)
[131]
Cicero, New York –
Cicero
[132]
Cincinnati, Ohio –
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the
Society of the Cincinnati )
[133]
Cincinnatus, New York –
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)
[12] : 466
Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad[
which? ] )
[12] : 466
Clanton, Alabama –
James Holt Clanton (Confederate general)
Clapper, Missouri – Henry Clapper (railroader)
Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
Clarence, Missouri – Clarence Duff (son of John Duff, settler)
Clark Fork, Idaho – Governor
William Clark
Clarkia, Idaho – Governor
William Clark
Clarks, Nebraska –
S.H.H. Clark (superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad )
Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
Clarksburg, West Virginia – Gen.
George Rogers Clark
Clarkston, Washington – Governor
William Clark
[137]
Clarkesville, Georgia – Governor
John Clarke
Clarksville, Indiana – Gen.
George Rogers Clark
Clarksville, Missouri – Governor
William Clark
[138]
Clarksville, New Hampshire – Benjamin Clark
Clarkton, Missouri – Henry E. Clark (contractor)
Clay, 4 places in
Florida (county) ,
Illinois ,
Indiana , and
Kentucky –
Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century)
Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
Clayton, Delaware –
Thomas Clayton (U.S. senator)
Clayton, Georgia –
Augustin Smith Clayton (U.S. congressman)
Clayton, Missouri – Ralph Clayton
Clayton, New York and
Clayton, North Carolina –
John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware)
Cleburne, Texas –
Patrick Cleburne (Confederate general)
Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
Cleveland, North Carolina and
Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel
Benjamin Cleveland
[140]
Cleveland, Ohio –
Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)
[141]
Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin –
Grover Cleveland
Clifford, Michigan – Clifford Lyman (first child born there)
Clinton –
DeWitt Clinton ,
[142]
[143]
[144]
[145]
[146]
[147]
[148] 16 places in
Clinton, Kansas –
DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via
Clinton, Illinois )
Clinton, Montana – General Sir
Henry Clinton
Clinton, Nebraska –
DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via
Clinton, Iowa )
Clinton, Dutchess County, New York –
George Clinton (early governor of New York)
[149]
Clinton, Oneida County, New York –
George Clinton (early governor of New York)
[150]
Clinton, North Carolina –
American Revolution General Richard Clinton
Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (
Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
Clinton, Washington –
DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via
Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan )
Clockville, New York – John Klock (landowner) (note the spelling)
Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
Clymers, Indiana – George Clymer (founder)
Clymer, New York –
George Clymer (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Coatesville, Pennsylvania – Moses Coates (settler)
Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
Coeymans, New York – Barent Peterse Coeymans (landowner)
Coffeeville, Mississippi – Gen.
John Coffee
Coffeyville, Kansas – A.M. Coffey (state legislator)
Cokesbury, South Carolina – Bishops
Thomas Coke and
Francis Asbury
Colby, Kansas – J.R. Colby (settler)
Colby, Wisconsin – Charles Colby (president of the
Wisconsin Central Railroad )
Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
Colden, New York –
Cadwallader D. Colden (state legislator)
Colebrook, New Hampshire – Sir
George Colebrooke (landowner) (note the spelling)
Coleman, Texas – R.M. Coleman (Texas Ranger)
Coleville, California –
Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
Colesville, New York – Nathaniel Cole (settler)
Colfax, 5 places in
California ,
Indiana ,
Louisiana ,
Michigan , and
Washington –
Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
Collettsville, North Carolina – Colletts family (residents)
Collier County, Florida –
Barron Collier
Collinsville, Illinois – Collins brothers (founders)
Colrain, Massachusetts –
Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
Colquitt, Georgia and
Colquitt County, Georgia – U.S. Senator
Walter T. Colquitt
Colton, New York – Jesse Colton Higley (settler)
Columbia, South Carolina –
Christopher Columbus
[154]
Columbus, Georgia and
Columbus, Ohio –
Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
Communipaw, New Jersey –
Michael Reyniersz Pauw (director of the
Dutch West India Company ) (note the spelling)
Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
Conklin, New York – Judge John Conklin
Connellsville, Pennsylvania – Zachariah Connell (founder)
Connersville, Indiana – John Conner (founder)
Connersville, Kentucky – Lewis Conner
Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
Constable, New York and
Constableville, New York – William Constable (proprietor)
Conway, Arkansas –
Henry Wharton Conway (territorial delegate to Congress)
Conway, Massachusetts and
Conway, New Hampshire – General
Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the
British Army )
[157]
Conway, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Conway (resident)
Cooksburg, New York – Thomas B. Cook (landowner)
Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway )
Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President
Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
Cooper River (South Carolina) –
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Cooperstown, New York –
William Cooper
Cooperstown, Pennsylvania – William Cooper (founder)
Coopersville, Clinton County, New York – Ebenezer Cooper (mill owner)
Cope, Colorado – Jonathan Cope (founder)
Cope, South Carolina – J. Martin Cope (founder)
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Cora Watson (wife of landowner)
Corbett, Oregon – U.S. Senator
Henry W. Corbett
Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
Cornelius, Oregon – Col.
Thomas R. Cornelius
Cornettsville, Indiana – Myer and Samuel Cornett (founders)
Corning (city), New York and
Corning, Kansas –
Erastus Corning (politician)
Cornish, New Hampshire –
Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania –
Cornplanter (Native American chief)
Coronado, California and
Coronado, Kansas –
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (explorer)
Corpus Christi, Texas –
Jesus Christ (Body of Christ )
Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (
train conductor )
Corry, Pennsylvania – Hiram Corry (landowner)
Corsicana, Texas – Corcisana Navarro (wife of landowner)
Cortland, New York ,
Cortlandt, New York , and
Cortlandville, New York –
Pierre Van Cortlandt (first
Lieutenant Governor of
New York )
Corwin, Ohio –
Thomas Corwin (Governor and U.S. Senator)
Cottleville, Missouri – Lorenzo Cottle (settler)
Cottrell Key, Florida – Jeremiah Cottrell (lighthouse keeper)
Coulter, Pennsylvania – Eli Coulter (settler)
Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
Coupeville, Washington – Captain Thomas Coupe (founder)
Courtland, Kansas –
Pierre Van Cortlandt (indirectly, via
Cortland, New York ) (note the spelling)
Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
Covington, 3 places in
Georgia ,
Kentucky , and
New York – Gen.
Leonard Covington
Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
Cowles, Nebraska – W.D. Cowles (railroader)
Cozad, Nebraska – John J. Cozad (landowner)
Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
Crabtree, Oregon – John J. Crabtree (settler)
Craftsbury, Vermont –
Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
Craig, Colorado – Rev. Bayard Craig
Cranesville, Pennsylvania – Fowler Crane (founder)
Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
Cranston, Rhode Island – Gov.
Samuel Cranston
Crawford, Georgia and
Crawford, Maine –
William H. Crawford (
U.S. Senator ,
Secretary of War , and
Secretary of the Treasury )
Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire – Ethan A. Crawford (landowner)
Crawfordsville, Indiana –
William H. Crawford (
U.S. Senator ,
Secretary of War , and
Secretary of the Treasury )
Crawfordsville, Oregon – George F. Crawford (settler)
Crawfordville, Georgia –
William H. Crawford (
U.S. Senator ,
Secretary of War , and
Secretary of the Treasury )
Cresson, Pennsylvania and
Cressona, Pennsylvania –
Elliott Cresson (
Philadelphia merchant)
Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
Creswell, North Carolina – Postmaster General
John Creswell
Crittenden, Kentucky – U.S. Senator
John J. Crittenden
Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
Crockett, Texas –
Davy Crockett
Croghan (town), New York – Col. George Croghan
Crook, Colorado – General
George Crook (officer during the
Civil War and the
Indian Wars )
Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
Croswell, Michigan – Gov.
Charles Croswell
Crowley, Polk County, Oregon – Solomon K. Crowley (settler)
Crugers, New York – Col. John P. Cruger
Cudahy, California –
Michael Cudahy
Cudahy, Wisconsin –
Patrick Cudahy (meatpacker)
Cullman, Alabama – Gen.
John G. Cullmann (note the spelling)
Culloden, Georgia – William Culloden (settler)
Cullom, Illinois –
Shelby Moore Cullom (U.S. Senator)
Culpeper, Virginia –
Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (note the spelling)
Cumberland, Maryland and
Cumberland, Rhode Island –
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Cumming, Georgia – Col. William Cumming
Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel John Cummings (landholder)
Cumminsville, Nebraska – J.F. Cummings (county clerk) (note the spelling)
Cumminsville, Ohio – David Cummins (settler)
Cupertino, California –
Joseph of Cupertino
Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
Curryville, Missouri – Perry Curry (founder)
Curwensville, Pennsylvania – John Curwen
Cushing, Maine –
Thomas Cushing (statesman and
lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts )
Custer, 5 places in
Colorado ,
Idaho ,
Montana ,
Nebraska , and
South Dakota – Gen.
George Armstrong Custer
Cuthbert, Georgia – Col.
John Alfred Cuthbert (congressman)
Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
Cynthiana, Kentucky – Cynthia and Anna Harris (daughters of landowner)
D
Dacono, Colorado – Da isy Baum, Co ra Van Vorhies and No na (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
Dade City, Florida –
Major
Francis L. Dade
Dadeville, Alabama –
Major
Francis L. Dade
Daggett, Indiana – Charles Daggett (resident)
Dagsboro, Delaware – Sir
John Dagworthy
Daisetta, Texas – Dais y Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
Dallas, North Carolina and
Dallas, Texas –
George M. Dallas
Dallas Center, Iowa –
George M. Dallas
Dalton, Massachusetts and
Dalton, New Hampshire –
Tristram Dalton (
Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives )
Dalton, Missouri – William Dalton
Dandridge, Tennessee –
Martha Washington (née Dandridge)
Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
Danielsville, Georgia – Gen.
Allen Daniel Jr.
Dansville, Michigan – Daniel L. Crossman (resident)
Dansville, Livingston County, New York and
Dansville, Steuben County, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (founder)
Danvers, Massachusetts –
Danvers Osborn family
Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)
Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of
U.S. Representative
Dudley Mays Hughes )
Danville, Indiana – Daniel Bales (proprietor)
Danville, Kentucky – Walker Daniel (founder)
Danville, Missouri – Daniel M. Boone (landowner and son of
Daniel Boone )
Danville, Pennsylvania – Gen.
Daniel Montgomery Jr.
Danville, Vermont –
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Darkesville, West Virginia – Gen.
William Darke
Darlington, Pennsylvania – S.P. Darlington (Pittsburgh merchant)
Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)
Darwin, California – Dr.
Darwin French
Darwin, Illinois –
Charles Darwin
Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
Davenport, Iowa – Colonel
George Davenport
Davenport, Nebraska – Colonel
George Davenport (indirectly, via
Davenport, Iowa )
Davenport, New York – John Davenport (settler)
Davidson, North Carolina – Gen.
William Lee Davidson
Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
Davis, West Virginia –
Henry Gassaway Davis (U.S. Senator)
Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from
Sangamon County )
Dawson, Nebraska – Joshua Dawson (settler)
Dawsonville, Georgia –
William Crosby Dawson (U.S. Senator)
Dayton, Maine and
Dayton, Ohio –
Jonathan Dayton
Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town )
Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day
Dearborn, Michigan and
Dearborn, Missouri –
Henry Dearborn (
Revolutionary War general and
Secretary of War )
Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)
Decatur, 4 places in
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
Mississippi , and
New York –
Stephen Decatur (
War of 1812 naval hero)
[172]
Decatur, Nebraska –
Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
Decorah, Iowa – Decorie (Native American chief)
Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor
John Wentworth 's wife)
Delancey, New York –
James De Lancey (landowner)
DeLand, Florida –
Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded
Stetson University )
Delano, California –
Columbus Delano
Delavan, Wisconsin –
Edward C. Delavan (
temperance leader in
Albany, New York )
Delaware –
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (note the spelling)
De Leon, Texas and
DeLeon Springs, Florida –
Juan Ponce de León
Denison, Iowa – J.W. Denison (founder)
Denison, Texas – Rev. C.W. Denison (abolitionist)
Denmark, South Carolina – B.A. Denmark (railroader)
Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)
Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
Dennison, Ohio – Gov.
William Dennison Jr.
Denton, Maryland –
Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (colonial governor) (According to
Gannett (1902 , p. 92), Denton is a short version of the town's original name, Eden Town).
Denton, Texas – Capt.
John B. Denton
Denver, Colorado –
James W. Denver
Depauville, New York – Francis Depau (proprietor)
Depew, New York –
Chauncey Depew
De Peyster, New York –
Frederic de Peyster
DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
De Smet, Idaho and
De Smet, South Dakota –
Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary)
DeSoto, 4 places in
Florida (county) ,
Georgia ,
Louisiana (parish) , and
Mississippi (county) –
Hernando de Soto
Devens, Massachusetts –
Charles Devens (
Civil War general and jurist)
Devine, Texas – Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of
San Antonio )
Dewees, Texas – Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen
Deweyville, Texas – Admiral
George Dewey (victorious in the
Battle of Manila Bay )
DeWitt, Illinois and
De Witt, Missouri –
DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York)
DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
Dexter, Maine –
Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
Dexter, Michigan – Samuel W. Dexter (settler)
Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
Dexter, New York – S. Newton Dexter (businessman from
Whitesboro, New York )
D'Hanis, Texas – William D'Hanis (land agent for
Henri Castro )
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Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
Diamondville, California – James Diamond
Dickey, North Dakota –
George H. Dickey (state legislator)
Dickinson, North Dakota – W.S. Dickinson (founder)
Dickson, Tennessee – William Dickson
Dighton, Kansas – Francis Deighton (surveyor) (note the spelling)
Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder)
Diller, Nebraska – H.H. Diller (settler)
Dillon, Montana –
Sidney Dillon (railroader)
Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
Dillsboro, Indiana – Gen. James Dill (settler)
Dillsboro, North Carolina – George W. Dill (settler)
Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
Dinwiddie, Virginia –
Robert Dinwiddie (colonial governor)
District of Columbia –
Christopher Columbus
Dixfield, Maine and
Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville ] stuck)
Dixon, Illinois – John Dixon (founder)
Dixon, Kentucky –
Archibald Dixon
Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
Dobson, North Carolina – W.P. Dobson (state legislator)
Dodge Center, Minnesota and
Dodgeville, Wisconsin – Gov.
Henry Dodge
Dolph, Oregon –
Joseph N. Dolph (U.S. Senator)
Donaldsonville, Louisiana – William Donaldson
Doniphan, 3 places in
Kansas ,
Missouri , and
Nebraska – Col.
Alexander William Doniphan
Donner, California –
Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)
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Doral, Florida –
Al fred Kaskel and his wife Dor is Bernstein (1906–1988)
Dormansville, New York – Daniel Dorman (innkeeper)
Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
Douglas, Wyoming –
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
Douglass, Kansas – Joseph Douglass (founder)
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
Downey, California –
John G. Downey
Downingtown, Pennsylvania – Thomas Downing
Downs, Kansas – William F. Downs (
Atchison resident)
Downsville, New York – Abel Downs (tanner)
Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
Doylestown, Ohio – William Doyle
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania – William Doyle (settler)
Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)
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Drakesville, Iowa – John A. Drake (founder)
Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia – Maj. Augustus Drewry
Dryden, New York –
John Dryden
Duane, New York and
Duanesburg, New York –
James Duane (grantee)
DuBois, Pennsylvania – John Dubois (founder)
Dubuque, Iowa –
Julien Dubuque (early resident)
Dudley, Georgia –
Dudley Mays Hughes (
U.S. Representative )
Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
Duluth, Georgia –
Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (indirectly, via
Duluth, Minnesota )
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Duluth, Minnesota –
Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
Dummer, New Hampshire and
Dummerston, Vermont –
William Dummer (
Massachusetts Governor)
Dumont, Colorado – John M. Dumont (mine operator)
Dunbar, Nebraska – John Dunbar (landowner)
Duncombe, Iowa – J.F. Duncombe
Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
Dunlap, Kansas – Joseph Dunlap (trader and founder)
Dunlapsville, Indiana – John Dunlap (settler)
Dunmore, West Virginia –
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (colonial governor)
Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
Dunnsville, New York – Christopher Dunn (landowner)
Duplin County, North Carolina –
Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
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Duquesne, Pennsylvania –
Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville (indirectly, via
Fort Duquesne )
Durand, Michigan –
George H. Durand (U.S. Representative)
Durand, Wisconsin – Miles Durand Prindle (settler)
Durant, Iowa – Thomas Durant
Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
Durham, North Carolina –
Bartlett S. Durham (landowner)
Duval County, Florida –
William Pope DuVal , Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834
Dycusburg, Kentucky – William E. Dycus (founder)
Dyersburg, Tennessee – Col. Henry Dyer
Dyersville, Iowa – James Dyer (landowner)
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Earling, Iowa – Albert J. Earling,
Milwaukee Road officer
Earl Park, Indiana – Adams Earl (founder)
Earlville, Iowa – G.M. Earl (settler)
Earlville, New York –
Jonas Earll Jr. (canal commissioner) (note the spelling)
East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner)
Eastland, Texas – M.W. Eastland
Eastman, Georgia – W.P. Eastman
Easton, Massachusetts –
John Easton (colonial governor of Rhode Island)
East St. Louis, Illinois –
Saint Louis
Eaton, Colorado –
Benjamin H. and Aaron J. Eaton (millers)
Eaton, New Hampshire –
Connecticut Governor
Theophilus Eaton
Eaton, New York and
Eaton, Ohio – Gen.
William Eaton
Eatonton, Georgia – Gen.
William Eaton
Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)
Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley
Eckley, Colorado – Amos Eckles (cattlehand)
Eddington, Maine – Colonel
Jonathan Eddy (officer in the
American Revolution )
Eddyville, Iowa – J.P. Eddy (postmaster)
Eden, Texas – Fred Ede (landowner)
Edgartown, Massachusetts –
Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
Edgecomb, Maine –
George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (a supporter of the colonists) (note the spelling)
Edgerton, Ohio –
Alfred Peck Edgerton
Edgerton, Wisconsin – E.W. Edgerton (settler)
Edison, 3 places in
Georgia ,
New Jersey , and
Ohio –
Thomas Edison
Edmeston, New York – Robert Edmeston (founder)
Edna, Kansas – Edna Gragery (child who lived there)
Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders)
Edwards, Mississippi – Dick Edwards (
Jackson hotelier)
Edwards, New York – Edward McCormack (founder's brother)
Edwardsport, Indiana – Edwards Wilkins
Edwardsville, Illinois –
Ninian Edwards (territorial governor)
Effingham, Illinois and
Effingham County, Illinois – Gen. Edward Effingham
Effingham, Kansas – Effingham Nichols (railroader)
Effingham, New Hampshire –
Howard family, who were
Earls of Effingham
Egremont, Massachusetts –
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont
Ehrenberg, Arizona – Herman Ehrenberg (founder)
El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner)
Elberton, Georgia and
Elbert County, Georgia – Gov.
Samuel Elbert
Elbridge, New York –
Elbridge Gerry
Elizabeth, New Jersey and
Elizabethtown, North Carolina – Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman
George Carteret )
Elizabeth, Pennsylvania – Elizabeth Bayard (
founder 's wife)
Elizabeth, West Virginia – Elizabeth Beauchamp
Elizabeth City, North Carolina –
Elizabeth I
Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
Elizabethtown, Indiana – Elizabeth Branham (founder's wife)
Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler
Andrew Hynes )
Elkader, Iowa –
Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot)
Elkins, West Virginia –
Stephen Benton Elkins (U.S. Senator)
Ellenburg, New York – Ellen Murray (landowner's daughter)
Ellendale, Delaware – Ellen Prettyman (founder's wife)
Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler)
Ellery, New York –
William Ellery
Ellicott, New York and
Ellicottville, New York –
Joseph Ellicott (agent of the
Holland Land Company )
Ellicott City, Maryland –
John ,
Andrew , and
Joseph Ellicott (founders)
Ellinwood, Kansas – Col. John R. Ellinwood (engineer for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway )
Ellisburg, New York – Lyman Ellis (founder)
Ellisville, Mississippi –
Powhatan Ellis (U.S. Senator)
Ellsworth, Kansas – Lt. Allen Ellsworth
Ellsworth, Maine and
Ellsworth, New Hampshire –
Chief Justice
Oliver Ellsworth
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Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of
San Antonio )
Elmira, New York – Elmira Teall (tavernkeeper's daughter)
Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)
Elsie, Michigan – Elsie Tillotson (pioneer's daughter)
Elsie, Nebraska – Elsie Perkins
Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817)
Emerick, Nebraska – John Emerick (settler)
Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner)
Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
Emlenton, Pennsylvania – Emlen Fox (landowner's wife)
Emmett, Michigan and
Emmetsburg, Iowa –
Robert Emmet (Irish nationalist)
Emmitsburg, Maryland – William Emmitt (founder) (note the spelling)
Enfield, Massachusetts – Robert Field
Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler)
Enosburgh, Vermont –
Roger Enos (landowner)
Errol, New Hampshire –
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner)
Erwin, New York – Col. Arthur Erwin
Eskridge, Kansas – C.V. Eskridge (landowner)
Essexville, Michigan – Ransom Essex (settler)
Estes Park, Colorado –
Joel Estes (founder)
Estherville, Iowa – Esther Ridley (landowner's wife)
Estill, Kentucky – Capt. James Estill
Estill, Missouri – Col. John R. Estill
Ethel, Mississippi – Ethel McConnico
Euclid, Ohio –
Euclid (
Greek mathematician )
Eudora, Kansas – Eudora Fish
Eugene, Oregon –
Eugene Franklin Skinner (settler)
Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of
Curley Duson , the founder of the city)
Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)
Evans, Colorado ,
Evanston, Illinois , and
Evanston, Wyoming – Gov.
John Evans
Evans, New York –
David Ellicott Evans (agent of the
Holland Land Company )
Evans Mills, New York – Ethni Evans (mill owner)
Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans (founder)
Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
Evart, Michigan – Frank Evart (pioneer)
Everett, Massachusetts and
Everett, Pennsylvania –
Edward Everett (politician and educator)
Everett, Washington – Everett Colby (son of Charles Colby, local booster)
Ewing Township, New Jersey –
Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the
New Jersey Supreme Court )
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Fairbanks, Alaska –
Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairfax, California –
Charles S. Fairfax
Fairfax, Virginia and
Fairfax County, Virginia –
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Fallon, California – Luke and James Fallon (early settlers)
Fallowfield, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner)
Fannin, Texas – Col.
James Fannin (Texian patriot)
Fannett, Texas – B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s)
Fargo, North Dakota –
William Fargo
Faribault, Minnesota –
Jean-Baptiste Faribault (settler)
Farley, Mendocino County, California – Jackson Farley (early settler)
Farnham, New York – Le Roy Farnham (merchant)
Farragut, Iowa and
Farragut, Tennessee –
David Farragut
Farrandsville, Pennsylvania – William P. Farrand (founder)
Farwell, Michigan – Samuel B. Farwell (railroader)
Fayette , 12 places in
Alabama ,
Indiana ,
Iowa ,
Maine ,
Michigan ,
Mississippi ,
Missouri ,
New York ,
Ohio ,
Utah ,
West Virginia , and
Wisconsin –
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Fayetteville , 11 places in
Arkansas ,
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
Indiana ,
New York ,
North Carolina ,
Ohio ,
Pennsylvania ,
Tennessee ,
Texas , and
West Virginia –
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Fayette City, Pennsylvania –
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois and
Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa –
Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)
Fellows, California – Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor)
Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland – William Fell (landowner)
Felts Mills, New York – John Felt (proprietor)
Fenner, New York – Rhode Island Governor
Arthur Fenner
Fennville, Michigan – Ethan Fenn (founder)
Fenton, New York – Governor
Reuben Fenton
Ferdinand, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Fernandina Beach, Florida – King
Ferdinand VII of Spain
Ferrisburgh, Vermont – Benjamin Ferris (founder)
Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler)
Fieldville, New Jersey – John Field (early settler)
Fincastle, Virginia –
George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (son of colonial governor
Lord Dunmore and also known by the title Lord Fincastle)
Findlay, Ohio – Col.
James Findlay (indirectly, via
Fort Findlay )
Findlay Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – Gov.
William Findley (note the spelling)
Fine, New York – John Fine (landowner)
Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh
Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner)
Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler)
Fithian, Illinois – Dr.
William Fithian
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire –
William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor
John Wentworth )
Flagler County, Florida –
Henry Flagler , built the
Florida East Coast Railway
Flandreau, South Dakota –
Charles Eugene Flandrau
Fleming, New York – Gen. George Fleming (resident)
Flemingsburg, Kentucky – Col. John Fleming
Flora, Mississippi – Flora Jones (resident)
Florence, Kansas – Florence Crawford
Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
Florence, Omaha, Nebraska – Florence Kilbourn
Florence, South Carolina – Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area)
Floresville, Texas – Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler)
Floyd, Iowa –
Charles Floyd (explorer with Lewis and Clark)
Floyd, New York –
William Floyd (Founding Father)
Floyd, Virginia –
John Floyd (Virginia politician)
Floydada, Texas –
Dolphin Floyd (died while defending the
Alamo ) and Ada Price (wife of a local landholder) (indirectly, via
Floyd County, Texas )
Fluhr, California – C.G. Fluhr (railroad official)
Fonda, New York – Douw Fonda
Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
Ford, Kansas – Col.
James Hobart Ford
Forsyth, Georgia – Gov.
John Forsyth
Forsyth, Montana – General
James W. Forsyth
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin – Gen.
Henry Atkinson
Fort Benton, Montana –
Thomas Hart Benton
Fort Bragg, California - American Army officer and Confederate general
Braxton Bragg
Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins
Fort Covington, New York – Gen.
Leonard Covington
Fort Dodge, Iowa –
Henry Dodge (
U.S. senator from
Wisconsin ) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)
Fort Edward (town), New York –
Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany
Fort Fairfield, Maine – Gov.
John Fairfield
Fort Fetterman, Wyoming – Lt. Col.
William J. Fetterman
Fort Frederica, Georgia –
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Fort Gaines, Alabama and
Fort Gaines, Georgia – Gen.
Edmund P. Gaines
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Fort Hamilton, New York –
Alexander Hamilton
Fort John, California – John Stuart
Fort Johnston, North Carolina –
Gabriel Johnston ,
6th Governor of North Carolina
Fort Kent, Maine –
Edward Kent (governor of Maine)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida –
Major William Lauderdale
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen.
Henry Leavenworth
Fort Lee, New Jersey –
Charles Lee
Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant
Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)
Fort Madison, Iowa –
James Madison
Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan
Fort Myers, Florida and
Fort Myers Beach, Florida – Col.
Abraham C. Myers
Fort Pierre, South Dakota –
Pierre Chouteau Jr.
Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner)
Fort Scott, Kansas – Gen.
Winfield Scott
Fort Seward, California –
William H. Seward
Fort Sheridan, Illinois – Gen.
Philip Sheridan
Fort Wayne, Indiana –
Anthony Wayne
Fort Worth, Texas –
William Jenkins Worth
Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator
Theodore Foster
Fostoria, Ohio – Gov.
Charles Foster
Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
Fowler, Michigan – John N. Fowler
Fowler, New York – Theodocius Fowler (landowner)
Fowlerville, Michigan – Ralph Fowler (settler)
Fowlerville, Livingston County, New York – Wells Fowler (settler)
Foxburg, Pennsylvania – H.M. Fox (landowner)
Foxborough, Massachusetts –
Charles James Fox
Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor
John Wentworth 's wife)
Franceville, Colorado – Matt France
Frankfort, Kansas – Frank Schmidt (landowner)
Frankfort, Kentucky –
Benjamin Franklin
Frankfort (town), New York – Lawrence Frank (settler)
Franklin –
Benjamin Franklin , 36 places in
Alabama –
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Cambria County, Pennsylvania –
Venango County, Pennsylvania –
Tennessee –
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Vermont –
Virginia –
West Virginia –
Jackson County, Wisconsin –
Kewaunee County, Wisconsin –
Manitowoc County, Wisconsin –
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin –
Sauk County, Wisconsin –
Vernon County, Wisconsin
Franklin, Delaware County, New York –
William Temple Franklin
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey –
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Park, New Jersey –
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Township –
Benjamin Franklin , 77 places in
DeKalb County, Illinois –
DeKalb County, Indiana –
Floyd County, Indiana –
Grant County, Indiana –
Harrison County, Indiana –
Hendricks County, Indiana –
Henry County, Indiana –
Johnson County, Indiana –
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Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania –
York County, Pennsylvania
Franklinton, Louisiana and
Franklinton, North Carolina –
Benjamin Franklin
Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania – Stephen Franks (trader)
Franktown, Colorado – J. Frank Gardner (resident)
Fraser, Delaware County, New York – Hugh Frazer (landowner) (note the spelling)
Frederic Township, Michigan – Frederick Barker (pioneer)
Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
Frederick, Maryland –
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Fredericksburg, Virginia –
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Fredericktown, Missouri –
George Frederick Bollinger (state legislator)
Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands –
Frederick V of Denmark
Freeborn, Minnesota –
William Freeborn (town councillor)
Freelandville, Indiana – Dr. John F. Freeland
Freemansburg, Pennsylvania – Jacob Freeman
Fremont, California , and numerous other
Fremonts –
John C. Frémont
Frenchburg, Kentucky –
Richard French (judge)
French Mills, New York – Abel French (factory owner)
Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
Frye Island, Maine – Captain
Joseph Frye
Fryeburg, Maine – Captain
Joseph Frye
Fulford, Colorado – A.H. Fulford (pioneer)
Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
Fullerton, Nebraska – Randall Fuller (stockman)
Fulton, South Dakota –
Robert Fulton (
inventor of the first commercially successful
steamboat )
Funk, Nebraska – P.C. Funk
Funkstown, Maryland – Jacob Funk (landowner)
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Gadsden, Alabama –
James Gadsden
Gagetown, Michigan – James Gage (settler)
Gaines, New York – Gen.
Edmund P. Gaines
Gainesboro, Tennessee – Gen.
Edmund P. Gaines
Gainesville, 4 places in
Florida ,
Georgia ,
New York , and
Texas – Gen.
Edmund P. Gaines
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Galen, New York –
Galen
Galesburg, Illinois –
George Washington Gale (founder)
Galesville, Wisconsin –
George Gale (founder)
Gallatin River –
Albert Gallatin
Gallatin, New York and
Gallatin, Tennessee –
Albert Gallatin
Gallaway, Tennessee – J.M. Gallaway (mill owner)
Gallitzin, Pennsylvania – Pierre Gallitzin (founder)
Galveston, Texas –
Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez ,
José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora ,
Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo
[a]
Gambier, Ohio –
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (benefactor of
Kenyon College )
Gansevoort, New York – Col.
Peter Gansevoort (resident)
Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
Gardiner, Maine – Dr.
Sylvester Gardiner (
Boston physician)
Gardiner, New York –
Lieutenant Governor
Addison Gardiner
Gardiners Island, New York –
Lion Gardiner (settler)
Gardner, Kansas –
Henry Gardner , Governor of Massachusetts
Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel
Thomas Gardner (killed during the
Battle of Bunker Hill )
Garfield, 6 places in
Illinois ,
Kansas ,
Maine ,
New Jersey ,
Mahoning County, Ohio , and
Oregon –
James A. Garfield
Garibaldi, Oregon –
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
Garland, Texas – Attorney General
Augustus Hill Garland
Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
Garnett, Kansas – W.A. Garnett (resident of
Louisville, Kentucky )
Garrett, Indiana and
Garrett, Pennsylvania –
John W. Garrett (president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad )
Garretson, South Dakota –
A. S. Garretson (banker)
Garrison, Texas – Z.B. Garrison (settler)
Gary, Indiana –
Elbert Henry Gary
Garysburg, North Carolina – Roderick B. Gary
Gastonia, North Carolina –
William Gaston (judge)
Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
Gates, New York and
Gatesville, North Carolina – Gen.
Horatio Gates
Gaylesville, Alabama –
George W. Gayle
Gaylord, Kansas – C.E. Gaylord (resident of
Marshall County )
Gayoso, Missouri –
Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (colonial governor)
Geary, Kansas – Gov.
John W. Geary
Geddes, New York –
James Geddes (early settler)
Gentry, Missouri – Col.
Richard Gentry
George, Washington –
George Washington
George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
Georgetown, Colorado – George Griffith (clerk of court)
Georgetown, Delaware – George Mitchell (resident)
Georgetown, Kentucky and
Georgetown, Massachusetts –
George Washington
Georgetown, Maine and
Georgetown, South Carolina –
George I of Great Britain
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. –
George II of Great Britain
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Georgia (U.S. state) – King
George II of Great Britain
German, New York – Gen.
Obadiah German (landowner)
Gerry, New York –
Elbridge Gerry
Gervais, Oregon – Joseph Gervais (pioneer)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania –
Samuel Gettys (settler)
Gibbon River – Gen.
John Gibbon
Gibbon, Oregon – Gen.
John Gibbon
Gibbonsville, Idaho – Gen.
John Gibbon
Gibson, Tennessee – Col. Thomas Gibson
Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
Gilberton, Pennsylvania – John Gilbert (mine owner)
Gilchrist County, Florida –
Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913
Gilford, New Hampshire – S.S. Gillman (settler)
Gill, Massachusetts –
Moses Gill (
lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts )
Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
Gilman, Colorado – H.H. Gilman (resident)
Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gil bert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sum ner (proprietors)
Girard, Pennsylvania –
Stephen Girard
Girardville, Pennsylvania –
Stephen Girard
Gladstone, Michigan and
Gladstone, North Dakota –
William Ewart Gladstone
Gladwin, Michigan – Maj.
Henry Gladwin
Glen, New York – Jacob Glen (resident)
Glen Burnie, Maryland –
Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
Glens Falls, New York – John Glenn (discoverer)
Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
Glocester, Rhode Island –
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
Glover, Vermont –
Brigadier General
John Glover (proprietor)
Goddard, Kansas – J.F. Goddard (manager of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway )
Godfrey, Illinois – Capt.
Benjamin Godfrey
Goff, Kansas – Edward H. Goff
Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel
John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
Goldsboro, North Carolina – M.T. Goldsboro
Goodhue, Minnesota –
James M. Goodhue (journalist)
Gorham, Maine and
Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham (The town in New Hampshire was named for the one in Maine).
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Gorham, New York –
Nathaniel Gorham
Gorman Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota – Gov.
Willis A. Gorman
Gosnold, Massachusetts –
Bartholomew Gosnold (settler)
Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (
landholder )
Gouverneur, New York –
Gouverneur Morris
Gove City, Kansas – Capt. Grenville L. Gove
Governors Island (Massachusetts) – Gov.
John Winthrop (landowner)
Governors Island (New York) – Gov.
Wouter van Twiller (landowner)
Grafton, Massachusetts –
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Grafton, New Hampshire –
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor
Benning Wentworth )
Graham, North Carolina –
William Alexander Graham (U.S. Senator)
Granby, Massachusetts –
John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the
Seven Years' War )
Granby, Vermont –
Marquis of Granby
Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
Grant, 4 places in
Humboldt County, California ,
Iowa ,
Kansas , and
Nebraska –
Ulysses S. Grant
Grantsville, West Virginia –
Ulysses S. Grant
Grantham, New Hampshire –
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
Gratiot, Wisconsin – Col.
Henry Gratiot
Grattan Township, Michigan –
Henry Grattan
Gravette, Arkansas – E.T. Gravette
Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
Grays Harbor, Washington – Capt.
Robert Gray (explorer)
Grayson, Kentucky – Col. Robert Grayson
Graysville, Indiana – Joe Gray (founder)
Great Barrington, Massachusetts –
William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Greeley, Colorado and
Greeley, Kansas –
Horace Greeley (editor of the
New York Tribune )
Greeley Center, Nebraska – Peter Greeley
Greene, Iowa – George Green (judge) (note the spelling)
Greene, Maine and
Greene, New York –
Nathanael Greene
Greeneville, Tennessee –
Nathanael Greene
Greenleaf, Kansas – A.W. Greenleaf (treasurer of the
Union Pacific Railroad )
Greensboro, North Carolina –
Nathanael Greene
Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
Greensburg, Kansas – Col. D.R. Green
Greenup, Kentucky – Gov.
Christopher Greenup
Greenville, Kentucky and
Greenville, North Carolina –
Nathanael Greene
Greenville, Michigan – John Green (settler)
Greenwood, Arkansas – Moses Greenwood (merchant)
Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
Greenwood, Mississippi –
Greenwood LeFlore (Choctaw chief)
Greenwood, Nebraska – J.S. Green (settler)
Greig, New York –
John Greig (U.S. representative)
Grestley, California – James Grestley
Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
Gridley, Illinois –
Asahel Gridley
Griffin, Georgia – Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin (president of the
Macon and Western Railroad )
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Grimes, Iowa –
James W. Grimes (U.S. Senator)
Grimesland, North Carolina – Gen.
Bryan Grimes
Grinnell, Iowa – W.H. Grinnell (resident)
Griswold, Connecticut – Governor
Roger Griswold
Grover, North Carolina and
Grover, South Carolina –
Grover Cleveland
Grundy Center, Iowa –
Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)
Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
Guilford, Vermont –
Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
Gunnison, Colorado – Capt.
John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
Gunnison Island, Utah – Capt.
John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
Gunnison River – Capt.
John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
Guntown, Mississippi – James G. Gunn (early settler)
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Gurnee, Illinois –
Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of
Henry Miller (rancher)
Guthrie Center, Iowa – Capt. Edwin B. Guthrie
Guttenberg, Iowa and
Guttenberg, New Jersey –
Johannes Gutenberg (note the spelling)
H
Hackettstown, New Jersey – Samuel Hackett (early settler)
Haddonfield, New Jersey –
Elizabeth Haddon ) (landowner)
Haddon Township, New Jersey –
Elizabeth Haddon (landowner)
Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager
Hahns Peak and
Hahns Peak Village, Colorado – Joe Hahn (settler)
Halcott, New York – George W. Halcott (sheriff)
Hale, Missouri – John P. Hale (
Carrollton resident)
Halifax, Massachusetts and
Halifax, Vermont –
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)
Hallstead, Pennsylvania – William F. Hallstead (general manager of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad )
Hallsville, New York – Capt. Robert Hall
Hallsville, Texas – Robert Burton Hall (railroader)
[226]
Halstead, Kansas –
Murat Halstead (journalist)
Hamden, Connecticut –
John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
Hamersville, Ohio – Gen.
Thomas L. Hamer
Hamilton, Georgia –
James Hamilton Jr. (Governor of South Carolina)
Hamilton, Massachusetts and
Hamilton, Ohio –
Alexander Hamilton
[227]
Hamilton, Montana – J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad)
Hamilton City, California – J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president)
Hamilton County, 7 places in
Florida ,
Illinois ,
Indiana ,
Kansas ,
New York ,
Ohio , and
Tennessee –
Alexander Hamilton
Hamlin, Kansas – Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin
Hammond, Illinois – Charles Goodrich Hamilton (railroader)
Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (
Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)
Hammond, New York –
Abijah Hammond (landowner)
Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
Hampden, Maine and
Hampden, Massachusetts –
John Hampden (English patriot)
Hampton, South Carolina – Gen.
Wade Hampton I
Hancock , 6 places in
Maine ,
Massachusetts ,
Michigan ,
New Hampshire ,
New York , and
Vermont –
John Hancock
Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
Hannibal, Missouri and
Hannibal, New York –
Hannibal
Hanson, Massachusetts –
Alexander C. Hanson (
Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
Haralson, Georgia and
Haralson County, Georgia – Gen.
Hugh A. Haralson (U.S. representative)
Harbeson, Delaware – Harbeson Hickman (landowner)
Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
Harbine, Nebraska – Col. John Harbine
Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)
Hardin, Missouri – Gov.
Charles Henry Hardin
Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer
Charles Henry Morrill )
Hardinsburg, Kentucky – Capt.
William Hardin (pioneer)
Hardwick, Massachusetts –
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (note the spelling)
Harlan, Iowa –
James Harlan (United States Senator)
Harlan, Kansas – John C. Harlan (settler)
Harlan, Kentucky – Maj.
Silas Harlan
Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the
Montana Railroad )
Harney, Oregon – Gen.
William S. Harney
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia – Robert Harper (ferry owner)
Harpersfield, New York – Joseph Harper (landowner)
Harperville, Mississippi – G.W. Harper (resident)
Harrietstown, New York – Harriet Duane (wife of
James Duane )
Harriman, New York –
E. H. Harriman (president of the
Union Pacific Railroad )
Harrington, Delaware – Samuel M. Harrington (judge)
Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
Harrisburg, New York – Richard Harrison
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania –
John Harris, Sr. (founder)
Harrison, Maine –
Harrison Gray Otis (landowner)
Harrison, New Jersey –
William Henry Harrison
Harrison, New York – John Harrison (
Quaker leader)
Harrison Township, New Jersey –
William Henry Harrison
Harrisonburg, Virginia – Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community)
Harrisville, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
Harrisville, New York – Fosket Harris (settler)
Harrisville, Ohio – Meigs Harris (pioneer)
Harrisville, West Virginia – Thomas Harris
Harrodsburg, Kentucky – Col.
James Harrod (settler)
Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel
John Hart
Hartsville, Indiana – Gideon B. Hart (pioneer)
Hartwick, New York – Christopher Hartwick (landowner)
Harvard, Illinois –
John Harvard (indirectly, via
Harvard University )
Harvard, Massachusetts –
John Harvard
Hastings, Michigan – Eurotas Hastings (state auditor)
Hathaway Pines, California – Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster)
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy)
Haugan, Montana –
H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad )
Havensville, Kansas – Paul E. Havens (
Leavenworth resident)
Hawesville, Kentucky –
Richard Hawes (U.S. representative)
Hawkeye, Iowa – Chief Hawkeye
Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the
American Revolution )
Hawthorne, New Jersey –
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hayden, Colorado –
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist)
Hayden Hill, California –
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist)
Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
Hayesville, North Carolina – George W. Hayes (state senator)
Hays, Kansas – Gen.
William Hays
Hayward, California –
William Dutton Hayward (early settler)
Hayward, Minnesota – David Hayward (settler)
Hazard, Kentucky –
Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the
War of 1812 )
Hazardville, Connecticut – Colonel Augustus George Hazard (gunpowder manufacturer)
Hazelton, California – Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman)
Hazelton, Kansas – Rev. J.H. Hazelton (founder)
Hazelrigg, Indiana – H.G. Hazlerigg (founder) (note the spelling)
Healdsburg, California – Col. Harmon Heald (settler)
Hearst, California –
George Hearst
Heath, Massachusetts – General
William Heath
Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president)
Heber City, Utah –
Heber C. Kimball (Mormon leader)
Heceta Beach, Oregon –
Bruno de Heceta (explorer)
Helena, New York – Helena Pitcairn
Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher)
Henderson, Nevada –
U.S. Senator
Charles B. Henderson
Henderson, Kentucky and
Henderson, Tennessee – Col.
Richard Henderson
Henderson, Nebraska – David Henderson (settler)
Henderson, New York – William Henderson (landowner)
Hendersonville, North Carolina – North Carolina Chief Justice
Leonard Henderson
Hendry County, Florida –
Major Francis A. Hendry
Hennepin, Illinois –
Louis Hennepin (explorer)
Hennessey, Oklahoma – Pat Hennessey (freighter)
Henniker, New Hampshire –
John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
Henrietta, New York –
Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath
Henrietta, North Carolina – Henrietta Tanner
Hensley, Arkansas – William B. Hensley (founder and landowner)
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Hepburn, Iowa –
William Peters Hepburn (U.S. representative)
Hepler, Kansas – B.F. Hepler (resident of
Fort Scott )
Herington, Kansas – M.D. Herington (founder)
Herkimer, New York –
Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the
American Revolutionary War )
Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (World War II casualty)
Herman, Nebraska – Samuel Herman (railroad conductor)
Hermann, Missouri –
Arminius (Germanic chief)
Hernando, Mississippi –
Hernando de Soto
Hernando County, Florida –
Hernando de Soto
Hershey, Pennsylvania –
Milton S. Hershey (
Chocolatier )
Hertford County, North Carolina –
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
[b]
Heuvelton, New York – Jacob van Heuvel
Hewes Point, Maine – Paola Hewes (settler)
Heyburn, Idaho – Senator
Weldon Brinton Heyburn
Hickman, Kentucky – Capt.
Paschal Hickman
Hickory, Mississippi and
Hickory, North Carolina –
Andrew Jackson (nicknamed "Old Hickory")
Hicksville, New York – Charles Hicks (Quaker cleric)
Hicksville, Ohio – Henry W. Hicks (founder)
Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
Higginsport, Ohio – Col. Robert Higgins (founder)
Hildebran, North Carolina –
Pope Gregory VII (né Hildebrand)
Hill, New Hampshire –
Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
Hillsboro, Kansas – John G. Hill (mayor)
Hillsborough, New Hampshire and
Hillsborough, North Carolina – Sir
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and
1st Earl of Hillsborough
Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and
1st Earl of Hillsborough
Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk)
Hinesville, Georgia – Charlton Hines
Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)
Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via
Hinsdale, New Hampshire )
Hiram, Maine –
Hiram I (biblical king of
Tyre )
Hobart, New York – Bishop
John Henry Hobart
Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
Hodgdon, Maine – John Hodgdon (landowner)
Hodgenville, Kentucky – Robert Hodgen
Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
Hoisington, Kansas – A.J. Hoisington (resident of
Great Bend )
Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
Holden, Massachusetts –
Samuel Holden (banker)
Holderness, New Hampshire –
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
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Holland, Massachusetts –
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
Holland Patent, New York –
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (landowner)
Holley, New York –
Myron Holley (canal commissioner)
Holliday, Missouri – Samuel Holliday (resident of
St. Louis )
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)
Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles,
Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor
Benning Wentworth ) (note the spelling)
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Holliston, Massachusetts –
Thomas Hollis , Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of
Harvard College )
Holmesville, Nebraska – L.M. Holmes (founder)
Holmesville, Ohio – Maj.
Andrew Holmes
Holt, Missouri – Jerry Holt (landowner)
Holton, Kansas – Edward Holton
Holts Summit, Missouri – Timothy Holt
Holyoke, Massachusetts —
Elizur Holyoke , (colonist, scribe and surveyor)
[243]
Homer, New York –
Homer (
Greek poet)
Honesdale, Pennsylvania – Philip Dale (canal builder)
Hood River, Oregon –
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Hookstown, Pennsylvania – Matthias Hook (resident)
Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
Hoover, Alabama – William H. Hoover (1890–1979), a local insurance of Alabama
Hoover, Indiana – Riley Hoover (founder)
Hoover Town, West Virginia –
Herbert Hoover
Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General
Samuel Hopkins
Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of
Harvard University )
Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of
Harvard University ) (indirectly, via
Hopkinton, Massachusetts )
Hopkinton, New York – Roswell Hopkins (settler)
Hopkinton, Rhode Island – Gov.
Stephen Hopkins
Horace, Kansas –
Horace Greeley
Hornbeak, Tennessee – Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster)
[245]
Hornby, New York – John Hornby (landowner)
Hornellsville, New York – George Hornell (settler)
Hornersville, Missouri – William H. Horner (founder)
Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
Horton, Kansas – A.H. Horton (judge)
Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler)
Hounsfield, New York – Ezra Hounsfield (landowner)
Houston, Delaware –
John W. Houston
Houston, Minnesota ,
Houston, Mississippi , and
Houston, Texas –
Sam Houston
[247]
Houstonia, Missouri –
Sam Houston
Howard, Kansas – General
Oliver Otis Howard
Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin and
Howard, Chippewa County, Wisconsin –
Brigadier General
Benjamin Howard (officer in the
War of 1812 )
Howard Springs, California – C.W. Howard (resort owner)
Howards Grove, Wisconsin – H.B. Howard (hotelier and postmaster)
Howell, Evansville, Indiana – Capt. Lee Howell (railroader)
Howell Township, New Jersey – Gov.
Richard Howell
Howland, Maine –
John Howland (
Mayflower passenger)
Hoxie, Kansas – H.M. Hoxie (general manager of the
Missouri Pacific Railroad )
Hubbard, Nebraska –
Asahel W. Hubbard (judge)
Hubbardston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner)
Hubbardton, Vermont – Thomas Hubbard (landholder)
Hudson, Maine –
Charles Hudson (indirectly, via
Hudson, Massachusetts )
Hudson, Massachusetts –
Charles Hudson (
United States Representative )
Hudson, New York –
Henry Hudson
Hudson, Ohio –
David Hudson (settler)
Hudson River –
Henry Hudson
Hugoton, Kansas –
Victor Hugo
Hull, Iowa – John Hull
Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
Humboldt, Kansas and
Humboldt, South Dakota –
Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)
[249]
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania – Frederick Hummel (founder)
Humphrey, New York –
Charles Humphrey (state legislator)
Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
Humphreysville, Connecticut – David Humphreys
Hunnewell, Kansas and
Hunnewell, Missouri –
H.H. Hunnewell (banker)
Hunter, New York – John Hunter (landowner)
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania –
Selena Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Huntingdon, Tennessee – Memucan Hunt (landowner)
Huntington, Massachusetts – Charles P. Huntington
Huntington, Oregon – J.B. Huntington (landowner)
Huntington, Vermont – Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders)
Huntington, West Virginia –
Collis P. Huntington
Huntington Beach, California –
Henry E. Huntington
Huntley, Montana – S.O. Huntley (partner in the
stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley)
Huntsville, Alabama – John Hunt (settler)
Huntsville, Missouri – David Hunt (settler)
Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland
Hustisford, Wisconsin – John Hustis (settler)
Hutchinson, Kansas – C.C. Hutchinson (founder)
Hyannis, Massachusetts –
Iyannough (
sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)
Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner)
Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)
I
Iliff, Colorado – John Wesley Iliff (cattleman)
Ingalls, Oklahoma –
John James Ingalls (U.S. Senator from Kansas)
Inman, Kansas – Maj.
Henry Inman
Inman, Nebraska – W.H. Inman (settler)
Iola, Kansas – Iola Colborn
Ira, Vermont – Ira Allen (one of the
Green Mountain Boys and brother of
Ethan Allen )
Irasburg, Vermont – Ira Allen (landholder, one of the
Green Mountain Boys and brother of
Ethan Allen )
Ireland, Texas -
John Ireland
Irvine, California –
James Irvine I (landowner)
[252]
Irvine, Kentucky – Col. William Irvine
Irving, Kansas –
Washington Irving
Irving Park, Chicago -
Washington Irving
Irvington, New Jersey and
Irvington, New York –
Washington Irving
Irwin, California – W.A. Irwin (founder)
Irwinton, Georgia – Gov.
Jared Irwin
Isabella, California ,
Isabella County, Michigan &
Isabella Township, Michigan -
Isabella I of Castile
Isle La Motte, Vermont – Captain La Motte (established
Fort Sainte Anne on this island)
Ives Grove, Wisconsin -
Joseph Ives
J
Jackson, California – Colonel Alden Jackson
Jackson, Maine – General
Henry Jackson
Jackson, Burnett County, Wisconsin –
Stonewall Jackson
Jackson, Wyoming – Davey Jackson
Jackson –
Andrew Jackson , 14 places in
Jacksonville, Arkansas – Nicholas and Elizabeth Jackson (landowners)
Jacksonville, Texas – Jackson Smith (soldier)
Jacksonville –
Andrew Jackson , 7 places in
Jacobs Corner, California – Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster)
Jaffrey, New Hampshire – George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy
Portsmouth family)
Jamesburg, California – John James (founder)
Jamestown, Indiana – James Mattock (founder)
Jamestown, Kansas – James P. Pomeroy (railroader)
Jamestown, New York – James Prendergast (settler)
Jamestown, Rhode Island –
James II of England
Jamestown, Virginia –
James I of England
Jamesville, New York – James De Witt
Janesville, California – Jane Bankhead (early settler)
Janesville, Wisconsin – Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster)
Jasonville, Indiana – Jason Rogers (founder)
Jasper, 3 places in
Georgia ,
New York , and
Texas –
William Jasper (
American Revolution hero)
[256]
Jay, Maine ,
Jay, New York , and
Jay, Vermont –
John Jay (the first
chief justice of the
Supreme Court )
Jean, Nevada – Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle)
Jefferson, Maine ,
Jefferson, New Jersey , and
Jefferson, New Hampshire –
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson City, Missouri –
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson County,
Thomas Jefferson , 19 places in
Jeffersonville, Georgia –
Thomas Jefferson
Jekyll Island, Georgia – Sir
Joseph Jekyll
Jenny Lind, California –
Jenny Lind
Jeromesville, Ohio – John Baptiste Jerome (trader)
Jesup, Iowa –
Morris Ketchum Jesup
Jesus Maria, California – Jesus Maria (local farmer)
Jetmore, Kansas – Col. A.B. Jetmore
Jewell, California – Omar Jewell (local rancher)
Jewell, Kansas – Lt. Col. Lewis R. Jewell
Jewett, New York –
Freeborn G. Jewett (judge)
Jewett, Ohio – T.M. Jewett (railroader)
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania –
Jim Thorpe
Joaquin, Texas – Joaquin Morris (grandson of Benjamin Franklin Morris, who donated the land for the site)
Joe, Montana –
Joe Montana
Joe Walker Town, California – Joe Walker
Johnsburg, New York – John Thurman (settler)
Johnson, Nebraska – Julius A. Johnson (landowner)
Johnson, Vermont –
William Samuel Johnson (landowner)
Johnson City, Kansas – Col.
Alexander S. Johnson
Johnston, Rhode Island –
Augustus Johnston (colonial attorney general)
Johnston County, North Carolina –
Gabriel Johnston ,
6th Governor of North Carolina
Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer)
Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
Johnstown (city), New York –
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (founder)
Johnstown, Pennsylvania – Joseph Jahns (settler) (note the spelling)
Joliet, Illinois –
Louis Jolliet (note the spelling)
Jonesboro, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
Jonesborough, Tennessee – William Jones (statesman)
Jonesport, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
Jonesville, Indiana – Benjamin Jones (founder)
Jonesville, Virginia – Frederick Jones (landowner)
Joplin, Missouri – Rev. H.G. Joplin (resident) (indirectly, via
Joplin Creek )
Joplin Creek, Missouri – Rev. H.G. Joplin (resident)
Jordan, Montana – Arthur Jordan (founder)
Judith River – Judith Hancock
Judsonia, Arkansas – Rev.
Adoniram Judson (missionary)
Judsonville, California – Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine)
Julesburg, Colorado – Jules Beni (established a trading post here)
Jump-off Joe – Joe McLaughlin (trapper)
Juneau, Alaska –
Joe Juneau (prospector)
Juneau, Wisconsin –
Solomon Juneau (founder of
Milwaukee )
K
Kamrar, Iowa – J.L. Kamrar (judge)
Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
Kaneville, Illinois – Gen.
Thomas L. Kane
[d]
Karnes City, Texas –
Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
Kaufman, Texas –
David S. Kaufman (U.S. representative)
Kearney, Missouri –
Charles E. Kearney , the president of the
Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad
Kearney, Nebraska – Gen.
Philip Kearny (note the spelling)
Kearny, New Jersey – Gen.
Philip Kearny
Keene, California – James R. Keene (financier)
Keene, New Hampshire –
Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and
West Indies trader)
Keenesburg, Colorado – Les Keene (settler)
Keeseville, New York – Richard Keese (founder)
Keizer, Oregon –
Thomas Dove Keizur
Kelleys Island, Ohio – Datus and Irad Kelly (landowners) (note the spelling)
Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector)
Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
Kenansville, North Carolina –
James Kenan (U.S. representative)
Kendall, New York – Postmaster General
Amos Kendall
Kennard, Nebraska – Thomas P. Kennard (secretary of state of Nebraska)
Kenedy, Texas –
Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
Kenner, Louisiana –
Duncan F. Kenner (lawyer)
Kensington, New Hampshire –
Edward Rich, 8th Earl of Warwick and
Baron Kensington (owner of
Kensington Palace in London)
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Kent, Ohio –
Marvin Kent
Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
Kenton, Ohio – Gen.
Simon Kenton
Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
Keokuk, Iowa –
Keokuk (Sauk leader)
Kerman, California – W.G. Ker ckhoff and Jacob Man sar (promoters)
Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian)
Kilbourn City, Wisconsin –
Byron Kilbourn (pioneer)
Kilbuck Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – chieftain of the
Lenape
Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
Kincaid, Kansas – Robert Kincaid (resident of
Mound City )
King City, California – Charles King (founder)
King County, Washington - Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King (originally for Vice President
William R. King )
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – after a local tavern named after
Frederick II of Prussia
Kingfield, Maine –
William King (future governor of Maine)
Kingman, Kansas –
Samuel Austin Kingman (judge)
Kingman, Maine – R.S. Kingman
Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
Kingsley, Michigan – Judson Kingsley (landowner)
Kingston, Georgia – J.P. King (resident of
Augusta )
Kingston, Massachusetts –
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
Kingston, Missouri – Gov.
Austin Augustus King
Kingsville, Missouri – Gen. William M. King (resident)
Kingsville, Texas – Captain
Richard King (owner of the
King Ranch )
Kinman Pond, California – Seth Kinman (settler)
Kinsley, Kansas – W.E.W. Kinsley (resident of
Boston, Massachusetts )
Kinston, North Carolina –
George III
Kirbyville, Texas –
John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
Kirkland, New York – Rev.
Samuel Kirkland
Kirklin, Indiana – Nathan Kirk (founder)
Kirksville, Missouri – Jesse Kirk
Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
Kirkwood, Delaware and
Kirkwood, Ohio – Maj.
Robert Kirkwood (officer in the
American Revolutionary War )
Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the
Connecticut Land Company )
Kirwin, Kansas – Col. John Kirwin
Kiryas Joel, New York –
Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of
Satmar )
Kit Carson, California and
Kit Carson, Colorado –
Kit Carson
Klej Grange, Maryland – K atherine (1866-1918), L ucy (1867-1943), E lizabeth (1868-1944), and J osephine Drexel (1878-1966) (daughters of
Joseph William Drexel )
Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler)
Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen
Knightsville, Indiana – A.W. Knight (founder)
Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
Knox, Maine – General
Henry Knox
Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster
[12] : 649
Knoxville, 4 places in
Georgia ,
Mississippi ,
Albany County, New York , and
Tennessee –
Henry Knox
Knoxville, Pennsylvania –
John C. Knox (judge)
Kokomo, Indiana –
Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo (Miami tribal chief)
Kortright, New York –
Lawrence Kortright (patentee)
Kosciusko, Mississippi –
Tadeusz Kościuszko
Kossuth, Mississippi and
Kossuth, Ohio –
Lajos Kossuth
Kotzebue, Alaska –
Otto von Kotzebue
Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)
L
Laceyville, Ohio – Maj. John S. Lacey
Laclede, Missouri –
Pierre Laclède (founder of
St. Louis )
La Conner, Washington – J.J. Connor (settler) (note the spelling)
Laddonia, Missouri – Amos Ladd (settler)
Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
Lairdsville, New York – Samuel Laird (settler)
Lake Ann, Michigan – Ann Wheelock (settler's wife)
Lake Charles, Louisiana –
Charles Sallier
Lake Helen, Florida – Helen DeLand (founder's daughter)
Lake Lanier (Georgia) –
Sidney Lanier (poet)
[270]
Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
Lakin, Kansas – David L. Lakin (resident of
Topeka )
Missouri -
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Lamar, 3 places in
Colorado and
Mississippi –
L.Q.C. Lamar
Lamar River (Wyoming) –
L.Q.C. Lamar
Lamartine, Wisconsin –
Alphonse de Lamartine (French historian)
Lambertville, New Jersey – John Lambert (settler)
Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
Lamy, New Mexico – Archbishop
Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
Landaff, New Hampshire –
Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
Landisburg, Pennsylvania – James Landis (founder)
Lanesborough, Massachusetts – James Lane, 2nd
Viscount Lanesborough
Lanesboro, Pennsylvania – Martin Lane (settler)
Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor
John Langdon
Langhorne, Pennsylvania –
Jeremiah Langhorne (jurist)
Lanier, Georgia –
Clement Lanier
Lansingburgh, New York – Abraham Lansing (founder)
Laramie River (Ohio) –
Pierre-Louis de Lorimier (French fur trader)
Laramie, Wyoming –
Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
Larned, Kansas – Gen. B.F. Larned
Larrabee, Iowa – Gov.
William Larrabee
LaSalle, Illinois –
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (explorer)
Lassen Peak (California) –
Peter Lassen (explorer)
Latrobe, California and
Latrobe, Pennsylvania –
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
Latty, Ohio – A.S. Latty (settler)
Lauderdale, Mississippi – Col.
James Lauderdale
Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder)
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Laurens, South Carolina –
Henry Laurens
Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
Lawrence, Kansas –
Amos Lawrence
Lawrence, Massachusetts –
Abbott Lawrence (founder)
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee – Capt.
James Lawrence
Lawrenceville, Georgia – Capt.
James Lawrence
Lawson, Colorado – Alexander Lawson (innkeeper)
Lawton, Michigan – Nathaniel Lawton (landowner)
Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
Le Claire, Iowa –
Antoine Le Claire (founder of
Davenport )
Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson
Le Mars, Iowa – L ucy Underhill, E lizabeth Parson, M ary Weare, A nna Blair, R ebecca Smith and S arah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
Le Ray, New York – Le Ray Chaumont
Le Raysville, Pennsylvania – Vincent le Ray (landowner's son)
Leakesville, Mississippi – Gov.
Walter Leake
Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen.
Henry Leavenworth (indirectly, via
Fort Leavenworth )
Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
Lebec, California –
Peter Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
Lecompton, Kansas – Judge D.S. Lecompte
Ledyard, Connecticut – Col.
William Ledyard (state militiaman)
Ledyard, New York – Benjamin Ledyard (land agent)
Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
Lee, Massachusetts ,
Lee, New Hampshire , and
Lee, New York – General
Charles Lee
[277]
Leechburg, Pennsylvania – David Leech
Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
Leicester, Massachusetts –
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Leitchfield, Kentucky – Maj.
David Leitch
Leland, Illinois – Edwin S. Leland
Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official)
Lenoir, North Carolina – Gen.
William Lenoir
Lenora, Kansas – Lenora Hauser
Lenox, Massachusetts –
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (note the spelling)
Leon, Iowa –
David Camden de Leon
[278]
Leon, Kansas –
Juan Ponce de León [
dubious –
discuss ] or after the Iowan town
[279]
Leonard, Michigan – Leonard Rowland
Leonardville, Kansas – Leonard T. Smith (railroader)
Leopold, Indiana –
Leopold I of Belgium
Le Roy, New York – Herman Le Roy (landowner)
Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
Leverett, Massachusetts –
John Leverett (twentieth governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony )
Levittown , 2 places in
New York and
Pennsylvania –
William Levitt
Lewis and Clark River (Oregon) – Capt.
Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark (explorers)
Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
Lewisboro, New York – John Lewis (resident)
Lewisburg, West Virginia – Samuel Lewis
Lewiston, Idaho –
Meriwether Lewis
Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
Lewiston (town), New York – Gov.
Morgan Lewis
Lewistown, Ohio – Capt. John Lewis (Shawnee chief)
Lewistown, Pennsylvania –
William Lewis
Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
Ligonier, Pennsylvania –
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
Lillington, North Carolina – Col.
Alexander Lillington
Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
Lincklaen, New York – John Lincklaen (landowner)
Lincoln, Alabama and
Lincoln, Vermont – Major General
Benjamin Lincoln
Lincoln, California – Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the
California Central Railroad )
[12] : 512
Lincoln, Illinois ,
Lincoln, Nebraska , and
Lincoln, Rhode Island –
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Maine –
Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
Lincoln, New Hampshire –
Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle , 9th
Earl of Lincoln
[282]
Lincoln Center, Kansas –
Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via
Lincoln County, Kansas )
Lincolnton, Georgia and
Lincolnton, North Carolina – Major General
Benjamin Lincoln
Lincolnville, Maine – Major General
Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
Lincolnville, South Carolina –
Abraham Lincoln
Lindley, New York – Col. Eleazar Lindley
Linn, Missouri –
Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator)
Linneus, Missouri –
Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator)
Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee,
Earl of Litchfield
Littleton, Colorado – Richard S. Little
Littleton, Massachusetts –
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (note the spelling)
Littleton, New Hampshire – Col.
Moses Little
Livermore, California –
Robert Livermore
Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (
Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
Livingston, New Jersey –
William Livingston
Locke, New York –
John Locke
Lockwood , 3 places in
California ,
New York , and
West Virginia –
Belva Ann Lockwood
Logan Creek Dredge (Nebraska) –
Logan Fontenelle (Omaha chief)
Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the
Battle of the Big Hole )
Logansport, Indiana –
Captain Logan (Native American chief)
Longmont, Colorado –
Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via
Longs Peak )
Longs Peak (Colorado) –
Stephen Harriman Long (explorer)
Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner)
[12] : 396
Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)
[12] : 516
Lorenzo, Texas –
Lorenzo Dow
Los Angeles –
Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
Loudon, New Hampshire –
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
Louisa, Virginia –
Princess Louisa of Great Britain
Louisiana –
Louis XIV (King of France)
[286]
Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
Louisville, Kansas – Louis Wilson (landowner's son)
Louisville, Kentucky –
Louis XVI of France
Louisville, Mississippi – Col. Louis Wiston (settler)
Loveland, Colorado –
William A.H. Loveland (president of the
Colorado Central Railroad )
Lovell, Maine – Captain
John Lovewell (note spelling)
Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
Lowell, Maine – Lowell Hayden (first person born in the town)
Lowell, Massachusetts ,
Lowell, Michigan , and
Lowell, North Carolina –
Francis Cabot Lowell
Lowville, New York –
Nicholas Low
Lubbock, Texas –
Thomas Saltus Lubbock
Lucas, Iowa –
Robert Lucas (territorial governor)
Ludington, Michigan –
James Ludington (businessman)
Ludlow, Kentucky –
Israel Ludlow (pioneer)
Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (
cotton merchant and
Galveston city councilman)
Lumpkin, Georgia – Gov.
Wilson Lumpkin
Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of
King George II of Great Britain , Duke of
Brunswick-Lüneburg
Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and
Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
Lutesville, Missouri – Eli Lutes (founder)
Luther, Michigan – B.T. Luther (sawmill owner)
Luthersburg, Pennsylvania – W.H. Luther (resident)
Lutherville, Maryland –
Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
Lykens, Pennsylvania – Andrew Lycan (note the spelling)
Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
Lyman, New Hampshire – General
Phineas Lyman (commander in the
French and Indian War )
[289]
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire –
Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
Lyndon, Vermont –
Josias Lyndon (governor of
Rhode Island )
Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder)
Lyons, Kansas – Truman J. Lyon (landowner)
Lyons, Nebraska – Waldo Lyon (resident)
Lyonsdale, New York – Calen Lyon (settler)
Lysander, New York –
Lysander (
Spartan military leader)
M
Mabbettsville, New York – James Mabbett (landowner)
Macclenny, Florida – H.C. Macclenny (founder)
Macksville, Kansas – George Mack (postmaster)
Macomb, New York – Gen.
Alexander Macomb
Macon , 5 places in
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
Mississippi ,
Missouri , and
North Carolina –
Nathaniel Macon
Madelia, Minnesota – Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn)
Madison, 5 places in
Georgia ,
Kansas ,
Maine ,
New Hampshire and
Wisconsin –
James Madison
[293]
Madison, South Dakota –
James Madison (indirectly, via
Madison, Wisconsin )
Madison County –
James Madison , 18 places in
Alabama ,
Arkansas ,
Florida ,
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
Indiana ,
Iowa ,
Kentucky ,
Mississippi ,
Missouri ,
Montana ,
Nebraska ,
New York ,
North Carolina ,
Ohio ,
Tennessee ,
Texas , and
Virginia
Mahomet, Illinois –
Muhammad (antiquated spelling)
Mahon, Mississippi – John Mahon
Mamajuda Island, Michigan – Mamajuda (Native American woman)
Mamakating, New York – Mamakating (Native American chief)
Mamaroneck, New York – Mamaroneck (Native American chief)
Mancelona, Michigan – Mancelona Andrews (settler's daughter)
Manchester, Vermont –
Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
Mandeville, Louisiana –
Antoine James de Marigny de Mandeville
Manlius, New York – Manlius (Roman general)
Manly, North Carolina – Gov.
Charles Manly
Mannsville, New York – Col. H.B. Mann
Mansfield, Connecticut – Moses Mansfield (mayor of
New Haven )
Mansfield, Massachusetts –
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Mansfield, Ohio –
Jared Mansfield (U.S.
Surveyor General )
Mansfield, Pennsylvania – Asa Mann (landowner) (note the spelling)
Mansfield, Texas – R.S. Man and Julian Feild (settlers) (note spelling)
Manteo, North Carolina –
Manteo (Native American chief)
Manton, Michigan – George Manton (settler)
Manuelito, New Mexico –
Manuelito (Navajo chief)
Marcellus, Michigan and
Marcellus, New York –
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania – Maarte (Native American chief)
Marcy, New York – Gov.
William L. Marcy
Margarettsville, North Carolina – Margaret Ridley
Margaretville, New York – Margaret Lewis (landowner)
Marias River (Montana) – Maria Wood
Mariaville, Maine – Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham)
Mariaville Lake, New York – Maria Duane (daughter of
James Duane )
Marietta, Ohio –
Marie Antoinette
Marilla, New York – Marilla Rogers
Marinette, Wisconsin – Marie Antoinette Chevalier (common-law wife of an early fur trader)
Marion –
Francis Marion (
Revolutionary War hero), 14 places in
Marion, North Dakota – Marion Mellen (daughter of
Charles Sanger Mellen )
Marion, Oregon –
Francis Marion (
Revolutionary War hero) (indirectly, via
Marion County, Oregon )
Marion, South Dakota – Marion Merrill (daughter of S.S. Merrill, railroad official)
Marion, Texas – Marion Dove (granddaughter of Joshua W. Young, owner of a
plantation that the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway passed through)
Marion County – General
Francis Marion of South Carolina, guerilla fighter and hero of the American Revolutionary War, 17 places in
Alabama ,
Arkansas ,
Florida ,
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
Indiana ,
Iowa ,
Kansas ,
Kentucky ,
Mississippi ,
Ohio ,
Oregon ,
South Carolina ,
Tennessee ,
Texas , and
West Virginia
Marionville, Missouri – Gen.
Francis Marion
Marklee Village, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
Markleeville, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
Marlboro, Vermont –
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Marlborough, Massachusetts and
Marlborough, New York –
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Marlborough, New Hampshire –
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via
Marlborough, Massachusetts )
Marquam, Oregon –
Philip Augustus Marquam (resident of
Portland )
Marquette –
Jacques Marquette (French missionary and explorer), 8 places in 7 states:
Marquette Heights, Illinois -
Marquette, Iowa -
Marquette, Kansas -
Marquette, Michigan -
Marquette County, Michigan -
Marquette Island , an island in Michigan -
Pere Marquette River , a river in Michigan -
Lake Marquette , a lake in Minnesota -
Marquette, Nebraska -
Marquette (town), Wisconsin -
Marquette County, Wisconsin
Marsh Creek Springs, California –
John Marsh
Marshall, Colorado – Joseph M. Marshall (coal miner)
Marshall, Minnesota – Gov.
William Rainey Marshall
Marshall, Texas –
John Marshall
Marshallton, Delaware – John Marshall (mill owner)
Marshfield, Vermont – Capt. Isaac Marsh (landowner)
Martensdale, California – Harry J. Marten (founder)
Martin County, Florida –
John W. Martin 24th Governor of Florida
Martinez, California –
Don Ygnacio Martínez
Martinsburg, Nebraska – Jonathan Martin (settler)
Martinsburg, West Virginia – Col.
Thomas Bryan Martin (landowner)
Martins Ferry, California – John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator)
Martin's Location, New Hampshire – Thomas Martin (grantee)
Martinsville, Indiana – John Martin (commissioner)
Maryland – Queen
Henrietta Maria of France
Maryland, New York – Queen
Henrietta Maria of France (indirectly, via the state of
Maryland )
Marysville, California – Mary Murphy Covillaud (
Donner Party survivor)
Marysville, Kansas – Mary Marshall (wife of Francis J. Marshall, namesake of
Marshall County )
Maryville, Missouri – Mary Graham (wife of
Amos Graham , county clerk)
Masaryktown, Florida –
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czechoslovak President)
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Mason, Illinois –
Roswell B. Mason (railroader)
Mason, New Hampshire – Captain
John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
Massena, New York –
André Masséna (French military officer)
Massillon, Ohio –
Jean Baptiste Massillon (French cleric)
Matoaca, Virginia –
Pocahontas (Matoaca was her name in her native language).
Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
Matteson, Illinois – George Joel Aldrich Mattison (note the spelling)
Mattoon, Illinois – William Mattoon
Maupin, Oregon –
Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here)
Mauriceville, Texas – Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway)
Mauston, Wisconsin – Milton M. Maughs (founder) (note the spelling)
Mayer, Arizona –
Joe Mayer (founder)
Mayersville, Mississippi – David Meyers (landowner) (note the spelling)
Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner)
Mays Landing, New Jersey –
Cornelius Jacobsen May
Maysville, Kentucky – John May (landowner)
McAdenville, North Carolina – R.Y. McAden (state legislator)
McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler)
McArthur, Ohio – Gen.
Duncan McArthur
McClellandville, Delaware – William McClelland (settler)
McColl, South Carolina – D.D. McColl (businessman)
McConnelsville, Ohio – Robert McConnel
McCool, Mississippi – James F. McCool
McCracken, Kansas –
William McCracken (railroader)
McCune, Kansas – Isaac McCune (founder)
McDonough, 3 places in
Delaware ,
Georgia , and
New York –
Thomas Macdonough (naval officer) (note the spelling)
McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder)
McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw
McGregor, Iowa – Alexander McGregor (landowner)
McHenry, Illinois –
William McHenry
McKee, Kentucky – George R. McKee (judge)
McKeesport, Pennsylvania – David McKee (ferry owner)
McKinleyville, California – President
William McKinley
McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
McMechen, West Virginia - the McMechen family (pioneers)
McMinnville, Tennessee –Gov.
Joseph McMinn
McPherson, Kansas – Major Gen.
James B. McPherson
Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
Meade, Kansas – Gen.
George Meade
Meadville, Mississippi –
Cowles Mead (territorial official)
Meadville, Pennsylvania – Gen.
David Mead (founder)
Mebane, North Carolina – Gen.
Alexander Mebane
Medary, South Dakota –
Samuel Medary (territorial governor of Kansas)
Meeker, Colorado –
Nathan Meeker (journalist)
Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
Mendoza, Texas –
Antonio de Mendoza (colonial governor)
Menifee, California – Luther Menifee Wilson (gold miner)
Mercer, Maine –
Brigadier General
Hugh Mercer (
Revolutionary War hero)
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania –
Brigadier General
Hugh Mercer (
Revolutionary War hero)
Mercey Hot Springs, California – J.N. Mercy (early settler)
Meredith, New Hampshire –
Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of
British Parliament )
Meredith, New York –
Samuel Meredith (merchant)
Merrill, Wisconsin – S.S. Merrill (railroader)
Merritt, California – Hiram P. Merritt (early settler)
Methuen, Massachusetts – Sir
Paul Methuen (British diplomat)
Mettler, California – W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist)
Metz, California – W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster)
Meyers, California – George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner)
Mianus, Connecticut – Mayanno (Native American chief)
Micanopy, Florida –
Micanopy , leading chief of
Seminoles , led the tribe during the Second Seminole War
Middleton, New Hampshire – Sir
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
Milan, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
Milbank, South Dakota –
Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director)
Milburn, Kentucky – William Milburn
Milesburg, Pennsylvania – Col.
Samuel Miles (founder)
Miles City, Montana – General
Nelson A. Miles
Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
Millard, Omaha, Nebraska – Ezra Millard (founder)
Millbrae, California –
Darius Ogden Mills
Milledgeville, Georgia – Gov.
John Milledge
Miller, Nebraska – Capt. J.M. Miller (settler)
Miller Place, New York – Andrew Miller (pioneer)
Millersburg, Missouri – Thomas Miller (settler)
Millersburg, Ohio – Charles Miller (founder)
Millersburg, Pennsylvania – Daniel Miller (founder)
Millerton, New York – Samuel G. Miller (railroad contractor)
Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official)
Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
Millsfield, New Hampshire – Sir Thomas Mills
Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
Milo, Maine –
Milo of Croton (famous athlete from
Ancient Greece )
Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
Milton, 4 places in
Ulster County, New York ,
North Carolina ,
Vermont , and
West Virginia –
John Milton
Miltonvale, Kansas – Milton Tootle (landowner)
Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
Minor Creek (California) – Isaac Minor
Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
Mitchell, Colorado – George R. Mitchell
Mitchell, Iowa –
John Mitchel (Irish patriot) (note the spelling)
Mitchell, Oregon – U.S. Senator
John H. Mitchell
Mitchell, South Dakota –
Alexander Mitchell (president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad )
Mitchellville, Iowa – Thomas Mitchell
Moberly, Missouri – Col. William E. Moberly
Modesto, California –
William Chapman Ralston , reputed for being a modest man
Moffat, Colorado –
David Moffat (president of the
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad )
Moira, New York –
Earl of Moira
Monroe –
James Monroe , 12 places in
Monroe City, Indiana – Monroe Alton (founder)
Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder)
Monroeville, New Jersey – Rev. S.T. Monroe
Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
Monson, Maine – Sir
John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (indirectly, via
Monson, Massachusetts )
Monson, Massachusetts – Sir
John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson
Montague, Massachusetts – Capt. William Montague
Monterey, California –
Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (colonial governor)
Monterey, Massachusetts –
Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (indirectly, via
Monterrey, Mexico ) (The town was named during the Mexican War to commemorate the
battle fought there ).
Montezuma, Colorado –
Moctezuma I (note the spelling)
Montgomery , 4 places in
Alabama ,
Massachusetts ,
Minnesota , and
New York – General
Richard Montgomery
Montgomery, Indiana – Valentine B. Montgomery (founder)
Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
Montrose, Pennsylvania – Dr. Robert H. Rose
Mooers, New York – Gen.
Benjamin Mooers
Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher)
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Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
Moorefield, West Virginia – Conrad Moore
Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler)
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Mooresville, Indiana – Samuel Moore (founder)
Mooresville, Missouri – W.B. Moore (founder)
Moorhead, Minnesota – Gen.
James K. Moorhead
Moorhead, Montana – W.G. Moorehead (railroader) (note the spelling)
Moosup, Connecticut and
Moosup River (Connecticut) – Moosup (Native American chief)
Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
Moran, Kansas – Daniel Moran (businessman)
Moreau, New York –
Jean Victor Marie Moreau (French general)
Morehead, Kentucky – Gov.
James Turner Morehead
Morehead City, North Carolina – Gov.
John Motley Morehead
Moreno Valley, California – Frank E Brown (Moreno is Spanish for brown ); Land developer
Morgan, Utah –
Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints )
Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
Morganfield, Kentucky – Gen.
Daniel Morgan
Morganton, North Carolina – Gen.
Daniel Morgan
Morgan's Point, Texas –
Emily West Morgan (known as
The Yellow Rose of Texas )
Morgantown, West Virginia –
Zackquill Morgan (landowner)
Morganville, Kansas – Ebenezer Morgan (founder)
Morrill, Kansas – Gov.
Edmund Needham Morrill
Morrill, Maine –
Anson P. Morrill (governor of
Maine )
Morrilton, Arkansas – E.J. and George H. Morrill (settlers) (note the spelling)
Morris, Connecticut –
James Morris III (
Revolutionary War soldier)
Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of
Lewis Morris , a signer of the
Declaration of Independence )
Morrisania, New York, New York –
Lewis Morris (statesman)
Morris Plains, New Jersey –
Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
Morris Township, New Jersey –
Lewis Morris
Morristown, New Jersey –
Lewis Morris
Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania –
Robert Morris (financier)
Morrow, Ohio – Gov.
Jeremiah Morrow
Morton Grove, Illinois –
Levi P. Morton
Moses Lake, Washington –
Chief Moses (Native American chief of the
Sinkiuse-Columbia )
Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel
Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
Moultrie, Georgia – Gen.
William Moultrie
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Moultrieville, South Carolina – Gen.
William Moultrie
Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California –
Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
Mount Madison (New Hampshire) –
James Madison
Mount Marcy (New York) – Gov.
William L. Marcy
Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) –
Elisha Mitchell (surveyor)
Mount Monroe (New Hampshire) –
James Monroe
Mount Moran (Wyoming) –
Thomas Moran (artist)
Mount Morris, New York – Thomas Morris (resident of
Philadelphia )
Mount Pulaski, Illinois –
Casimir Pulaski (
Revolutionary War hero)
Mount Vernon, Missouri – Admiral
Edward Vernon (indirectly, via
Mount Vernon )
Mount Washington, Kentucky and
Mount Washington, Massachusetts –
George Washington
Muir, Michigan – W.K. Muir (railroader)
Muldrow, Oklahoma –
Henry L. Muldrow (politician)
Mullan, Idaho –
John Mullan (builder of
Mullan Road , a wagon route)
Mulvane, Kansas – John R. Mulvane (resident of
Topeka )
Mundy Township, Michigan – Lt. Gov.
Edward Mundy
Munfordville, Kentucky – Richard I. Munford (landowner)
Munnsville, New York – Asa Munn (storekeeper)
Murdo, South Dakota –
Murdo MacKenzie (
Texas cattleman)
Murfreesboro, North Carolina and
Murfreesboro, Tennessee – Col.
Hardy Murfree
Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) – Muroc is Corum spelled backwards
Murphy, North Carolina – A.D. Murphy (judge)
Murphys, California – Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers)
Murray, California – David Murray (olive industry figure)
Murray, Kentucky –
John L. Murray (former
Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844)
Murray, Utah –
Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah)
Murrieta, California – Juan Murrieta (Rancher)
Myerstown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Myers (founder)
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Naperville, Illinois –
Joseph Naper
Napoleon, Michigan –
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon, Missouri –
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster)
Nashville, North Carolina and
Nashville, Tennessee – Gen.
Francis Nash
Nashville, Ohio – Simon Nash (judge)
Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder)
Neligh, Nebraska – John Neligh
Nelson, California – A.D. Nelson (early settler)
Nelson, Nebraska – C. Nelson Wheeler (landowner)
Nelson, New Hampshire – Viscount
Horatio Nelson (
British admiral and naval hero)
Nelsonville, New York – Elisha Nelson (settler)
New Brunswick, New Jersey –
George II of Great Britain (also Duke of Brunswick)
New Florence, Missouri – Florence Lewis (settler's daughter)
New Franklin, Missouri and
New Franklin, Ohio –
Benjamin Franklin
New Marlborough, Massachusetts –
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via
Marlborough, Massachusetts )
New Orleans, Louisiana –
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
New Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
New York City and
New York (state) –
James of York and Albany
Newberry, Michigan – John A. Newberry (railroader)
Newcastle, Maine –
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
New Coeln, Milwaukee -
Christopher Columbus
Newell, California –
Frederick Haynes Newell
Newellton, Louisiana –
Edward D. Newell
Newfane, Vermont –
John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
Newnan, Georgia – Gen.
Daniel Newnan
Newnansville, Florida – Gen.
Daniel Newnan
Newport, New Hampshire – Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman)
Newport News, Virginia –
Christopher Newport and William Newce (sea captains) (note the spelling for the latter)
Newton, Georgia and
Newton, Texas –
John Newton (soldier of the
American Revolutionary War )
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Nicholasville, Kentucky – Col. George Nicholas
Nichols, California – William H. Nichols (landowner)
Nick's Cove, California – Nick Kojich (restaurateur)
Nickerson, Kansas –
Thomas Nickerson (
ATSF president)
Nicollet, Minnesota –
Joseph Nicollet (explorer)
Nielsburg, California – Arthur C. Neill (first postmaster)
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Niles, Fremont, California –
Addison Niles
Nobleboro, Maine – James Noble (settler)
Noblesville, Indiana – Gov.
Noah Noble
Norden, California – Charles Van Norden (water company official)
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Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
Normans Kill (New York) – Albert de Norman (settler)
Norristown, Pennsylvania –
Isaac Norris (Mayor of
Philadelphia in 1724)
North, South Carolina – John F. North (founder)
North Adams, Massachusetts –
Samuel Adams (indirectly, via
Adams, Massachusetts )
North Anna River (Virginia) –
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
North Carolina –
Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
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North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via
Cleveland, Texas )
North Dansville, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (settler)
North Fort Myers, Florida –
Col. Abraham C. Myers
North Webster, Indiana –
Daniel Webster
Norton, Kansas – Capt. Orloff Norton
Norton Sound (Alaska) –
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
Nortonville, California –
Noah Norton (founder)
Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (dry goods merchant)
Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder)
Nottingham, New Hampshire –
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Novato, California – a local
Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Saint
Novatus at his baptism
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O'Fallon, Missouri – Col.
John O'Fallon
O'Neals, California – Charles O'Neal (merchant and first postmaster)
O'Neill, Nebraska – Gen. John O'Neil (settler)
Oakley, Kansas – Eliza Oakley Gardner
Oatman Flat (Arizona) – Royce Oatman (Oatman and his family were killed by a group of Apaches here).
Oberlin, Ohio –
J. F. Oberlin (philanthropist)
Ockenden, California – Thomas J. Ockenden (first postmaster)
Odem, Texas – David Odem (
San Patricio County sheriff)
Odenton, Maryland –
Oden Bowie (
Governor of Maryland )
Ogden, Kansas – Maj. E.A. Ogden
Ogden, New York – William Ogden (landowner's son-in-law)
Ogden, Utah –
Peter Skene Ogden
Ogilby, California – E.R. Ogilby (mine promoter)
Oglesby, Illinois – Gov.
Richard J. Oglesby
Oglethorpe, Georgia –
James Oglethorpe (colonial leader)
Ogletown, Delaware – Thomas Ogle (landowner)
Ogontz, 3 places in
Michigan ,
Ohio , and
Pennsylvania – Ogontz (Native American chief)
Oketo, Kansas – Arktatetah (Native American chief)
Old Ornbaun Hot Springs, California – John S. Ornbaun (early settler and rancher)
Olean, New York – Olean Shephard (the first white child born here)
Oleander, California – William Oleander Johnson (first postmaster)
Oleona, Pennsylvania –
Ole Bull (settler)
Orange , 5 places in
Connecticut ,
Massachusetts ,
New Jersey ,
Vermont , and
Virginia –
William, Prince of Orange
Orange, Ohio –
William, Prince of Orange (indirectly, via
Orange, Connecticut )
Orangeburg, South Carolina –
William, Prince of Orange
Orbisonia, Pennsylvania – William Orbison (settler)
Ord, Nebraska – Gen.
Edward Ord
Ordbend, California –
Edward Ord
Ordway, Colorado – George N. Ordway (
Denver politician)
Orem, Utah – Walter C. Orem (President of the Salt Lake and Utah Electric Urban Railroad)
Orford, New Hampshire –
Robert Walpole ,
Earl of Orford
Orinda, California –
Katherine Philips (a poet whose nickname was "Matchless Orinda")
Orlando, Florida –
Orlando Reeves
Orleans, Massachusetts –
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Orono, Maine – Chief
Joseph Orono of the
Penobscot Nation
Orrick, Missouri – John C. Orrick (resident of
St. Louis )
Orrs Springs, California – Samuel Orr (early settler)
Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania – Peter Orwig (founder)
Osborne, Kansas – Vincent Osborne (member of the Second Kansas Cavalry)
Osburn, Idaho – Bill Osborne (trading post establisher) (note spelling)
Osceola, 5 places in
Arkansas ,
Missouri ,
Nebraska ,
New York , and
Wisconsin – Indian leader
Osceola , whose name means "Black Drink Cry"
Osceola County, 3 places in
Florida ,
Iowa , and
Michigan – Indian leader
Osceola , whose name means "Black Drink Cry"
Oskaloosa, Iowa and
Oskaloosa, Kansas – Oskaloosa (wife of the Native American chief
Mahaska )
Oshkosh, Wisconsin –
Chief Oshkosh
Otis, Maine –
James Otis Jr. (proprietor)
Otis, Massachusetts –
Harrison Gray Otis
Otisfield, Maine –
James Otis, Jr. (grantee)
Otisville, Michigan – Byron Otis (settler)
Otisville, New York – Isaac Otis (settler)
Otto, New York – Jacob S. Otto (land agent)
Ouray, Colorado –
Ouray (Ute chief)
Ovid, Colorado – Newton Ovid (local resident)
Ovid, Michigan and
Ovid (town), New York –
Ovid (poet)
Owensboro, Kentucky –
Abraham Owen
Owingsville, Kentucky – Col. T.D. Owings
Oxnard, California – Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard
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Pacheco, California –
Salvio Pacheco
Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska –
Algernon Paddock (U.S. Senator)
Paducah, Kentucky and
Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke
Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler)
Palmer, Massachusetts – Thomas Palmer (judge)
Palmer, Michigan – Waterman Palmer (founder)
Palmer Lake, Colorado – Gen.
William Jackson Palmer
Pamelia, New York – Pamelia Brown (wife of Gen.
Jacob Brown )
Papinville, Missouri – Pierre Papin
Paragould, Arkansas – W.J. Para more and
Jay Gould (railroaders)
Pardeeville, Wisconsin – John S. Pardee (founder)
Paris, New York – Isaac Paris (merchant)
Parish, New York –
David Parish (landowner)
Parishville, New York –
David Parish (landowner)
Parker, Kansas – J.W. Parker (landowner)
Parkersburg, West Virginia – Alexander Parker
Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
Parkman, Wyoming –
Francis Parkman (historian)
Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
Parkville, Missouri – George S. Park (founder)
Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
Parry Peak (Colorado) –
Charles Christopher Parry (botanist)
Parsons, Kansas – Levi Parsons (judge and railroader)
Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor)
Pasco County, Florida –
Samuel Pasco , United States Senator from Florida
Paterson, New Jersey –
William Paterson
Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler)
Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling)
Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner)
Paulding, Mississippi and
Paulding, Ohio –
John Paulding (Revolutionary War soldier)
Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler)
Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck)
Paxton, Massachusetts – Charles Paxton
Paxton, Nebraska – W.A. Paxton
Payne, Ohio –
Henry B. Payne (U.S. Senator)
Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (
Illinois congressman)
Peabody, Kansas – F.H. Peabody
Peabody, Massachusetts –
George Peabody (philanthropist)
Peekskill, New York – Jan Peek (mariner)
Pelham, Massachusetts –
Henry Pelham (
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom )
Pelham, New Hampshire –
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
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Pelham, New York – Pelham Burton (tutor of
Thomas Pell )
Pembroke, Georgia – Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident)
Pembroke, New Hampshire – Henry Herbert, ninth
Earl of Pembroke
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Pendleton, Indiana – Thomas M. Pendleton (landowner)
Pendleton, New York –
Sylvester Pendleton Clark
Pendleton, Oregon –
George H. Pendleton (
Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the
1864 presidential campaign )
Pendleton, South Carolina – Henry Pendleton (judge)
Penfield, Georgia – Josiah Penfield
Penfield, New York – Daniel Penfield (settler)
Pennsylvania –
William Penn (Penn's Woods )
Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir
William Pepperrell (hero of the
Battle of Louisburg )
Perham, Maine – Gov.
Sidney Perham
Perham, Minnesota – Josiah Perham (officer of the
Northern Pacific Railway )
Perinton, New York – Glover Perrin (settler) (note the spelling)
Perkins Township, Maine –
Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Perris, California –
Frederick Thomas Perris (chief engineer of the
California Southern Railroad )
Perry, Kansas – John D. Perry (railroader)
Perry, Maine ,
Perry, New York and
Perry, Ohio –
Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the
War of 1812 )
Perry, Florida –
Madison Stark Perry , fourth Governor of the State of Florida, Confederate States Army colonel
Perrysburg (town), New York and
Perrysburg, Ohio –
Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry
Perryville, Missouri and
Perryville, New Jersey – Commodore
Oliver Hazard Perry
Perth Amboy, New Jersey –
James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article
The Amboys contains the etymology)
Peterboro, New York – Peter Smith
Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (
Norwegian immigrant)
Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant)
Petersburg, Delaware – Peter Fowler
Petersburg, Indiana – Peter Brenton (settler)
Petersburg, Pennsylvania – Peter Fleck (settler)
Petersburg, Virginia – Peter Jones (co-founder)
Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler)
Petersham, Massachusetts –
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington , Viscount Petersham
Petersville, Indiana – Peter T. Blessing (founder)
Peytona, West Virginia –
William M. Peyton
Pheba, Mississippi – Pheba Robinson
Phelps, Missouri – Gov.
John S. Phelps
Phelps, New York – Oliver Phelps (proprietor)
Pharr, Texas - Henry Newton Pharr (1872-1966)
Phil Campbell, Alabama – Phil Campbell (Railroad engineer)
Philippi, West Virginia –
Philip P. Barbour (judge)
Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
Phillips, Wisconsin – Elijah B. Phillips (railroader)
Philipsburg, Montana –
Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers)
Phillipston, Massachusetts –
William Phillips, Jr. (
lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts )
Philipstown, New York –
Adolphus Philipse (patentee)
Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler)
Phippsburg, Maine – Sir
William Phips (colonial governor of
Massachusetts ) (note spelling)
Phoenix, New York – Alexander Phoenix
Pickens, Mississippi – James Pickens (landowner)
Pickens, South Carolina – Gen.
Andrew Pickens
Pickensville, Alabama – Gen.
Andrew Pickens
Pierce, Texas – Thomas W. Pierce (railroader)
Pierceton, Indiana –
Franklin Pierce
Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler)
Pierre's Hole (Idaho) – Pierre (Iroquois chief)
Pierre, South Dakota –
Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
Pierrepont, New York –
Hezekiah Pierrepont (proprietor)
Pierrepont Manor, New York – William C. Pierrepont (resident)
Pierson, Michigan – O.A. Pierson (settler)
Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief)
Piffard, New York – David Piffard (settler)
Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of
sharpening stones and
tool and cutter grinders )
Pike, New York –
Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
Pikes Peak (Colorado) –
Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
Pikesville, Maryland –
Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
Pillsbury, Minnesota – Gov.
John S. Pillsbury (businessman)
Pinckney, New York –
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
Pinkham's Grant, New Hampshire – Daniel Pinkham (grantee)
Pishelville, Nebraska – Anton Pishel (postmaster)
Pitcairn, New York – Joseph Pitcairn (proprietor)
Pitcher, New York – Lt. Gov.
Nathaniel Pitcher
Pitkin, Colorado – Gov.
Frederick Walker Pitkin
Pittsboro, North Carolina –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsburg, New Hampshire –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsfield, Maine – William Pitts (proprietor)
Pittsfield , 3 places in
Massachusetts ,
New Hampshire , and
Vermont –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsfield, Illinois and
Pittsfield, New York –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via
Pittsfield, Massachusetts )
Pittsford, New York –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel
Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of
Pittsford, Vermont )
Pittsford, Vermont –
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (judge)
Plant City, Florida –
Henry B. Plant
Plattsburgh (city), New York and
Plattsburgh (town), New York –
Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
Pleasanton, California and
Pleasanton, Kansas –
Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
Pocahontas, Illinois and
Pocahontas, Missouri –
Pocahontas
Pocatello, Idaho –
Chief Pocatello
Pokagon Township, Michigan – Chief Pokagon (Pottawattomie leader)
Poland, Maine – Chief Poland
Poland, Ohio – George Poland (proprietor)
Polk County –
James K. Polk , 11 places:
Polkton, North Carolina – Bishop
Leonidas Polk
Polo, Illinois –
Marco Polo
Pomeroy, Ohio – Samuel Wyllis Pomeroy (proprietor)
Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
Pompey, New York –
Pompey (Roman general)
Pontiac, Illinois and
Pontiac, Michigan –
Chief Pontiac
Pontotoc, Mississippi – Pontotoc (Chickasaw chief)
Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
Pope Valley, California – William Pope (land grantee)
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Poplarville, Mississippi – "Poplar" Jim Smith (storekeeper)
Port Alsworth, Alaska - Leon "Babe" Alsworth (1909-2004), and Mary Alsworth (1923-1996)
Port Arthur, Texas –
Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
Port Clinton, Ohio –
DeWitt Clinton (father of the
Erie Canal )
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania –
DeWitt Clinton (father of the
Erie Canal )
Port Colden, New Jersey –
Cadwallader D. Colden (president of the
Morris Canal and Banking Company )
Port Dickinson, New York –
Daniel S. Dickinson (U.S. Senator)
Port Gibson, Mississippi – David Gibson (landowner)
Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the
Delaware and Hudson Canal )
Port Morris, Bronx, New York –
Gouverneur Morris
Port Murray, New Jersey –
James Boyles Murray (third president of the
Morris Canal and Banking Company )
Port Orford, Oregon –
George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
Port Penn, Delaware –
William Penn
Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
Port Townsend, Washington –
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
Porter, Indiana – Commodore
David Porter
Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
Portola, California –
Gaspar de Portolà
Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà
Poseyville, Indiana – Gen.
Thomas Posey (governor)
Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
Potter, New York – Arnold Potter (proprietor)
Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania – Gen.
James Potter
Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
Pottersville, Michigan – George N. Potter
Potts Camp, Mississippi – Col. E.F. Potts
Pottstown, Pennsylvania – John Potts (landowner)
Pottsville, Pennsylvania – John Potts (landowner) (This is the same John Potts as Pottstown).
Poultney, Vermont –
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
Powhattan, Kansas – Chief
Powhatan (note the spelling)
Pownal, Maine and
Pownal, Vermont –
Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony ) (note spelling)
Poynette, Wisconsin – Peter Paquette (The present name arose from a clerical error).
Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
Pratt, Kansas –
Caleb S. Pratt (Civil War soldier)
Prattsburgh, New York – Capt. Joel Pratt (settler)
Prattsville (town), New York –
Zadock Pratt
Preble, New York – Commodore
Edward Preble
Prentice, Wisconsin – Alexander Prentice (postmaster)
Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
Prescott, Arizona –
William H. Prescott (historian)
Prescott, Kansas – C.H. Prescott (railroader)
Prescott, Massachusetts – Col.
William Prescott (Revolutionary War officer)
Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (
millwright )
Preston Township, Pennsylvania – Samuel Preston (judge and settler)
Prestonsburg, Kentucky –
James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia)
Prestonville, Kentucky –
James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia)
Preston-Potter Hollow, New York – Preston family and Samuel Potter
Pribilof Islands (Alaska) –
Gavriil Pribylov (navigator)
Prince Frederick, Maryland –
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Prince's Lakes, Indiana – Howard Prince (founder)
Princeton, Indiana – William Prince
Princeton, Maine – Rev.
Thomas Prince (indirectly, via
Princeton, Massachusetts )
Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev.
Thomas Prince
Princetown, New York – John Prince (politician)
Proctor, Kentucky – Rev. Joseph Proctor
Proctor, Minnesota –
J. Proctor Knott
Proctor, Vermont – Senator
Redfield Proctor
Prophetstown, Illinois –
Tenskwatawa Native American leader ("the Shawnee Prophet")
Prosser, Washington – Colonel
William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
Provo, Utah –
Étienne Provost
Puget Sound (Washington) –
Peter Puget (explorer)
Pulaski , 6 places in
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
New York ,
Tennessee ,
Virginia , and
Brown County, Wisconsin –
Casimir Pulaski (
Revolutionary War hero)
Pulaski Township, Ohio –
Casimir Pulaski (
Revolutionary War hero)
Pullman , 3 places in
Michigan ,
Washington , and
West Virginia –
George Pullman
Pullman, Chicago –
George Pull man and
Solon S. Beman
Pulteney, New York and
Pultneyville, New York (note spelling) –
Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet , British land speculator
Pushmataha County, Oklahoma – Chief
Pushmataha (Choctaw leader during the
War of 1812 )
Putnam, Connecticut –
Israel Putnam
Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society
Q
Quanah, Texas –
Quanah Parker (the last
Comanche chief)
Queens, New York City –
Catherine of Braganza
Quenemo, Kansas – Quenemo (Native American resident)
Quincy, Illinois and
Quincy, Michigan –
John Quincy Adams
Quincy, Massachusetts – Colonel
John Quincy
Quincy, Washington –
John Quincy Adams (indirectly, via
Quincy, Illinois )
Quinlan, Texas – G.A. Quinlan (vice president of the
Houston and Texas Central Railway )
Quintana, Texas –
Andrés Quintana Roo
[354]
Quitman, 4 places in
Georgia ,
Mississippi ,
Missouri , and
Texas – Gen.
John A. Quitman (also governor of Mississippi)
[356]
R
Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
Radford, Virginia – William Radford
Rahway, New Jersey – Rahway (Native American chief)
Rainier, Oregon –
Peter Rainier (British admiral)
Rainsville, Indiana – Isaac Rains (proprietor)
Raleigh, 3 places in
North Carolina ,
Mississippi , and
Memphis, Tennessee –
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ralston, California – William C. Ralston (mine owner)
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Ralston, Pennsylvania – Matthew C. Ralston
Ramseur, North Carolina – Gen.
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Randalls and Wards Islands (New York) – Jonathan Randall (owner)
Randolph, Maine –
Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via
Randolph, Massachusetts )
Randolph, Massachusetts –
Peyton Randolph (first president of the
Continental Congress )
Randolph, Nebraska – Jasper Randolph (postman)
Randolph, New Hampshire – John Randolph (
Virginia congressman and senator)
Randolph, New York –
Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via
Randolph, Vermont )
[359]
Randolph, Vermont –
Edmund Randolph
[360]
Rangeley, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Rangeley Plantation, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Ransom Township, Michigan – Gov.
Epaphroditus Ransom
Ransomville, New York – Clark Ransom (settler)
Rapidan River (Virginia) –
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (The name is a conjunction of the phrase "Rapid Anne").
Rathbone, New York – Gen. Ransom Rathbone (settler)
Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
Raymond, California – Raymond Whitcomb (travel official)
Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond
Raymond, New Hampshire – John Raymond (grantee)
Raymondville, New York – Benjamin Raymond (land agent)
Raysville, Indiana – Gov.
James B. Ray
Readington Township, New Jersey –
John Reading (governor of the
Province of New Jersey )
Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
Rector, Arkansas – Wharton or
Elias W. Rector (politicians)
Red Cloud, Nebraska –
Red Cloud (Lakota chief)
Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
Redfield, Arkansas – Jared E. Redfield (railroad executive)
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Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
Red Wing, Minnesota – Red Wing (Native American chief)
Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler)
Reeseville, Wisconsin – Samuel Reese (settler)
Reidsville, Georgia –
Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of
Florida )
Reidsville, North Carolina – Gov.
David Settle Reid
Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster)
Remsen, New York – Henry Remsen (patentee)
Reno, Nevada –
Jesse L. Reno
Rensselaer, New York –
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
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Revere, Massachusetts –
Paul Revere
Revillagigedo Islands (Alaska) –
Count of Revilla Gigedo (Viceroy of New Spain)
Reynoldsburg, Ohio –
Jeremiah N. Reynolds (author and newspaper editor)
Rhinebeck (village), New York – William Beek man (founder) (also named for
Rhineland, Germany (Beekman's home))
Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
Richburg, New York – Alvan Richardson (settler)
Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
Richmond, Maine –
Ludovic Stewart ,
1st Duke of Richmond
Richmond, Massachusetts and
Richmond, New Hampshire –
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Richmond, Rhode Island – Edward Richmond (colonial attorney general)
Richville, New York – Salmon Rich (settler)
Ridgway, Pennsylvania – John Jacob Ridgway (landowner)
Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
Rienzi, Mississippi –
Cola di Rienzo
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Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
Ripley, Maine and
Ripley, New York –
Brigadier General
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the
War of 1812 )
Rippey, Iowa – C.M. Rippey (settler)
Rising City, Nebraska – A.W. and S.W. Rising (landowners)
Rivanna River (Virginia) –
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler)
Robbinston, Maine – Edward H. and Nathaniel J. Robbins (landowners)
Robert Lee, Texas –
Robert E. Lee (US Civil War General)
Robidoux Pass (Nebraska) –
Antoine Robidoux (trader)
Robinson, Kansas – Gov.
Charles L. Robinson
Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner)
Rochester, New Hampshire and
Rochester, Ulster County, New York –
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to
James II of England )
Rochester, Minnesota – Colonel
Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via
Rochester, New York )
Rochester, New York – Colonel
Nathaniel Rochester
Rockingham, Vermont –
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Rockwood, California –
Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter)
Rodman, New York – Daniel Rodman
Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder)
Rolfe, Iowa –
John Rolfe (settler of Virginia)
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Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire)
Rollinsville, Colorado – John Q.A. Rollins
Romulus, Michigan and
Romulus, New York –
Romulus
Roodhouse, Illinois – John Roodhouse (founder)
Roosevelt, New Jersey –
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Root, New York –
Erastus Root (politician)
Rose, New York –
Robert L. Rose (congressman)
Roseboom, New York – Abraham Roseboom (settler)
Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
Rossie, New York – Rossie Parish (proprietor's sister)
Rossville, Kansas – W.W. Ross (Indian agent)
Rossville, Tennessee –
John Ross (Cherokee chief)
Roswell, Colorado –
Roswell P. Flower (governor of New York)
Roswell, Georgia –
Roswell King (founder)
Rothville, Missouri – John Roth (settler)
Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
Rowesville, South Carolina – Gen. William Rowe
Rowletts, Kentucky – John P. Rowlett
Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
Ruckersville, Virginia - John Rucker (founder)
Rulo, Nebraska –
Charles Rouleau (note the spelling)
Rumford, Maine –
Benjamin Thompson (also known as Count Rumford)
Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
Rumsey, Kentucky –
Edward Rumsey
Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
Rushville, Indiana and
Rushville, Illinois – Dr.
Benjamin Rush (Founding Father)
Rusk, Texas –
Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the
Texas Declaration of Independence )
Russell, Kansas – Capt. Avra Russell
Russell, New York – Russell Atwater (proprietor)
Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
Rutherford, New Jersey – John Rutherford (landowner)
Rutherfordton, North Carolina – Gen.
Griffith Rutherford
Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
S
Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
Sackets Harbor, New York – Augustus Sacketts (settler) (note the spelling)
Safford, Arizona –
Anson P. K. Safford (territorial governor)
Sageville, Iowa – Hezekiah Sage
St. Anthony, Minnesota –
Anthony of Padua (indirectly, via
Saint Anthony Falls )
Saint Anthony Falls (Minnesota) –
Anthony of Padua
St. Augustine, Florida –
Saint Augustine
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St. Augustine, Maryland –
Augustine Herman (explorer)
St. Clair, Michigan –
Clare of Assisi (note the spelling)
St. Clair, Pennsylvania – Gen.
Arthur St. Clair
St. Clairsville, Ohio – Gen.
Arthur St. Clair
St. Clement, Missouri – Clement Grote (settler)
St. Deroin, Nebraska – Joseph Deroin (Otoe chief)
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri –
Genevieve
St. George, Maine –
Saint George
St. George, Vermont –
George III of Great Britain
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St. George, West Virginia –
St. George Tucker (state legislator)
Saint James, Indiana –
Saint James
St. James, 5 places in
Maryland ,
Minnesota ,
Missouri ,
New York , and
North Carolina –
Saint James
St. John, Kansas – Gov.
John St. John
St. Johns, Michigan –
John Swegles Jr. (founder)
St. Johnsbury, Vermont –
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (diplomat)
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St. Johns River (Florida) –
John the Baptist
St. Joseph, Michigan –
Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the
St. Joseph River )
St. Joseph, Missouri –
Joseph Robidoux IV (founder)
St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) –
Saint Joseph
St. Lawrence River –
Saint Lawrence
St. Louis, Missouri –
Saint Louis
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St. Nazianz, Wisconsin –
Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Paul, Minnesota –
Saint Paul
St. Paul, Nebraska – J.N. and N.J. Paul (settlers)
St. Pete Beach, Florida –
Saint Peter (indirectly, via
St. Petersburg, Russia )
St. Petersburg, Florida –
Saint Peter (indirectly, via
St. Petersburg, Russia )
St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) –
Mary, mother of Jesus
St. Vrain Creek (Colorado) –
Ceran St. Vrain (fur trader)
Salamanca (city), New York and
Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
Salisbury, Missouri – Lucius Salisbury (resident)
Sallis, Mississippi – Dr. James Sallis (landowner)
Salyersville, Kentucky – Samuel Salyer (state legislator)
Samsonville, New York – Gen. Henry A. Sampson (note the spelling)
San Andreas, California –
Saint Andrew
San Angelo, Texas – Carolina Angela DeWitt (wife of the city's founder Bartholomew J. DeWitt)
San Antonio, Florida and
San Antonio, Texas –
Saint Anthony of Padua
San Bernardino, California –
Saint Bernardine of Siena
San Bruno, California –
Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the
San Bruno Creek )
San Diego, California –
Saint Didacus
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San Francisco, California –
Saint Francis
San Jose, California –
Saint Joseph
San Juan Capistrano, California –
Saint John Capistrano
San Leandro, California – Saint
Leander of Seville
San Lorenzo, California –
Saint Lawrence
San Lucas, California –
Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant)
San Luis Obispo, California –
Saint Louis of Toulouse
San Luis Rey, California –
Saint Louis
San Mateo, California –
Saint Matthew
San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California –
Saint Michael
San Pablo, California –
Saint Paul
Sanborn, Iowa – George W. Sanborn (railroader)
Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee)
Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
Sandisfield, Massachusetts –
Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (note the spelling)
Sanford, Florida –
Henry Shelton Sanford (diplomat and founder)
Sanford, Maine – Peleg Sanford (proprietor)
Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
Sangerfield, New York – Jedediah Sanger (judge)
Sangerville, Maine – Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner)
Santa Ana, California and
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico –
Saint Anne
Santa Barbara, California –
Saint Barbara
Santa Clara, California –
Saint Clare of Assisi
Santa Monica, California –
Saint Monica
Santa Ynez, California –
Saint Agnes
Sapinero, Colorado – Sapinero (Native American chief)
Saranap, California – Sara Nap thaly (mother of a railroad man)
Sarcoxie, Missouri – Sarcoxie (Native American chief)
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan –
Mary, mother of Jesus (indirectly, after the
St. Marys River )
Sauvie Island (Oregon) – Jean Baptiste Sauve (dairy owner)
Sayre, Pennsylvania – R.S. Sayre (railroader)
Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
Schoolcraft, Michigan –
Henry Schoolcraft (anthropologist)
Schroeppel, New York – Henry W. Schroeppel (resident)
Schuyler, Nebraska – Vice President
Schuyler Colfax
Schuylerville, New York – Gen.
Philip Schuyler
Schwaub, California –
Charles M. Schwab (note the spelling)
Scipio, New York –
Scipio Africanus (Roman general)
Scott, New York – General
Winfield Scott
Scottdale, Georgia –
George Washington Scott
Scottdale, Pennsylvania –
Thomas A. Scott (railroader)
Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)[
citation needed ]
Scottsboro, Georgia – Gen. John Scott
Scottsburg, New York – Matthew and William Scott (settlers)
Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
Scottsdale, Arizona – Chaplain
Winfield Scott
Scottsville, Kentucky – Gen.
Charles Scott (also served as governor of Kentucky)
Scottsville, New York – Isaac Scott (settler)
Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and
George W. Scranton (founders of the
Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
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Scriba, New York – George Scriba (proprietor)
Searsmont, Maine –
David Sears (proprietor)
Searsport, Maine –
David Sears (proprietor)
Seattle, Washington –
Chief Seattle
Sedgwick, Arkansas – Union Major General
John Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Colorado – Union Major General
John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick)
Sedgwick, Kansas – Union Major General
John Sedgwick (indirectly, via
Sedgwick County )
Sedgwick, Maine – Major
Robert Sedgwick
Sedona, Arizona –
Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster)
Seeley, California – Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County)
Seguin, Texas –
Juan Seguin (Texas political figure and
Texas Revolution patriot)
Seigler Springs, California – Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs)
Selby, California – Prentiss Selby (first postmaster)
Selma, California – Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee)
Sempronius, New York –
Tiberius and
Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Roman tribunes and agrarian reformers)
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Senath, Missouri – Senath Douglass (settler's wife)
Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant
Charles Floyd
Seward, Alaska ,
Seward, Nebraska , and
Seward, New York –
William H. Seward
Seymour, Connecticut – Governor
Thomas H. Seymour
Shafter, California – Gen.
William Rufus Shafter
Shaftsbury, Vermont –
Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
Shakopee, Minnesota – Shakopee (Native American chief)
Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier)
Sharpsburg, Kentucky – Moses Sharp
Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania – James Sharp (proprietor)
Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
Shaver Lake Heights, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
Sheffield, Iowa – James Sheffield (railroad contractor)
Shelburne , 3 places in
Massachusetts ,
New Hampshire , and
Vermont –
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
[393]
Shelby, New York – Gen.
Isaac Shelby
Shelbyville, 3 places in
Illinois ,
Indiana , and
Missouri – Gen.
Isaac Shelby
Shepherd, Michigan – I.N. Shepherd (founder)
Shepherdstown, West Virginia – Capt. Thomas Shepherd
Sheridan, Montana and
Sheridan, Wyoming – General
Philip Sheridan (
Union
cavalry leader in the
American Civil War )
Sherman, Michigan – Gen.
William T. Sherman
Sherman, New York –
Roger Sherman (Founding Father)
Sherman, Texas –
Sidney Sherman (Texian patriot)
Shirley, Maine –
William Shirley (indirectly, via
Shirley, Massachusetts )
Shirley, Massachusetts –
William Shirley (governor of
Massachusetts )
Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania –
William Shirley (governor of
Massachusetts )
Shoup, Idaho –
George L. Shoup (U.S. Senator)
Shreveport, Louisiana – Captain
Henry Shreve , who opened the
Red River , which runs through Shreveport, to marine navigation
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts –
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury, Vermont –
Earl of Shrewsbury
Shullsburg, Wisconsin – Jesse W. Shull (settler)
Shutesbury, Massachusetts –
Samuel Shute (governor of
Massachusetts )
Sicard Flat, California – Theodore Sicard (early settler)
Sidney, Iowa – Sir
Phillip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after
Sidney, Ohio )
Sidney, Maine and
Sidney, Ohio – Sir
Philip Sidney (English author)
Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir
Sidney Smith
Sigel, Illinois – Gen.
Franz Sigel
Sigourney, Iowa –
Lydia Sigourney (poet)
Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
Simpsonville, Kentucky –
John Simpson (U.S. representative)
Sinclairville, New York – Samuel Sinclair (settler)
Sinton, Texas –
David Sinton
Skilesville, Kentucky – James R. Skiles
Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
Slatersville, Rhode Island –
Samuel Slater (founder)
Slaughters, Kentucky – G.G. Slaughter (settler)
Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota – Ishanumbak (Native American chief whose eyes were said "to have the appearance of sleep.")
Sloan, Iowa –
Samuel Sloan (railroad official)
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Sloansville, New York – John R. Sloan (settler)
Sloat, California –
John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)
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Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
Smethport, Pennsylvania – Theodore Smeth (friend of proprietor)
Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
Smith Center, Kansas – J. Nelson Smith (soldier) (indirectly, via
Smith County )
Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
Smithfield, New York – Peter Smith
Smithfield, North Carolina – John Smith (state legislator)
Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
Smith River (Montana) –
Robert Smith (Secretary of State)
Smithtown, New York – Richard Smith (proprietor)
Smithville, Missouri – Humphrey Smith (settler)
Smithville, New York – Jesse Smith (lumber dealer)
Snydertown, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania – Gov.
Simon Snyder
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodd er (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
Solon, Maine and
Solon, New York –
Solon (statesman and poet of
Ancient Greece )
Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
Somers, New York – Capt.
Richard Somers
Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
Somerville, Massachusetts – Capt.
Richard Somers
Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
South Amboy, New Jersey –
James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article
The Amboys contains the etymology)
South Anna River (Virginia) –
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
South Burlington, Vermont –
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via
Burlington, Vermont )
South Carolina –
Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
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South Euclid, Ohio –
Euclid (
Greek mathematician )
South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler)
South Thomaston, Maine – General
John Thomas (indirectly, via
Thomaston, Maine )
Spafford, New York –
Horatio Spafford
Spalding, Missouri – Robert Marion Spalding owner of Spalding Springs
Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
Sparks, Nevada –
John Sparks
Spearville, Kansas – Alden Speare (resident of
Boston )
Spencer, Indiana – Capt.
Spier Spencer
Spencer, Massachusetts –
Spencer Phips (acting governor of
Massachusetts )
Spencerport, New York – William H. Spencer (settler)
Spivey, Kansas – R.M. Spivey (landowner)
Sprague, Washington – General
John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
Spreckels, California –
Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon
Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
Stafford, Kansas – Lewis Stafford (soldier)
Standish, California and
Standish, Maine –
Myles Standish
Stanfield, Oregon – Senator
Robert N. Stanfield
Stanley, North Carolina – Elwood Stanley (U.S. representative)
Stannard, Vermont –
George J. Stannard
Stanton, Michigan –
Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War)
Stark, Kansas – General
John Stark (indirectly, via
Stark County, Illinois )
Stark, New Hampshire and
Stark, New York – General
John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "
Live Free or Die ")
Starkey, New York – John Starkey (settler)
Starks, Maine – General
John Stark
Starksboro, Vermont – General
John Stark
Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
Starkville, Mississippi – General
John Stark
Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
Stephenson, Michigan – Robert Stephenson
Stephentown, New York –
Stephen Van Rensselaer (
Lieutenant Governor of New York )
Sterling, Kansas – Sterling Rosan (settlers' father)
Sterling, Massachusetts –
General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling)
Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
Steuben, Maine and
Steuben, New York –
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Steubenville, Ohio –
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Stevens Point, Wisconsin – J.D. Stevens (missionary)
Stevensville, Michigan – Thomas L. Stevens (founder)
Stevensville, Montana –
Isaac Stevens (1st governor of Washington Territory)
Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner)
Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
Stewartsville, Missouri – Gov.
Robert Marcellus Stewart
Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
Stilesville, Indiana – Jeremiah Stiles (proprietor)
Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
Stockton, 3 places in
California ,
Missouri , and
New York –
Robert F. Stockton
Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
Stonewall, North Carolina –
Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general)
Stoughton, Massachusetts –
William Stoughton (first
chief justice of Colonial Courts)
Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
Stoutsville, Missouri – Robert P. Stout
Stoystown, Pennsylvania – John Stoy (settler)
Strafford, New Hampshire and
Strafford, Vermont –
Thomas Wentworth ,
Earl of Strafford
Stratham, New Hampshire –
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford , Baron Howland of
Streatham (note spelling)
Stratton, Vermont – Samuel Stratton (settler)
Strong, Maine –
Caleb Strong (
governor of Massachusetts )
Strong City, Kansas –
William Barstow Strong (
ATSF president)
Strother, Missouri –
French Strother (professor)
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania – Col. Jacob Stroud (settler)
Struthers, Ohio – Captain John Struthers (founder)
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Stuart, Nebraska – Peter Stuart (settler)
Sturgeon, Missouri – Isaac Sturgeon (resident of
St. Louis )
Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
Stuyvesant, New York –
Peter Stuyvesant (colonial governor)
Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first
Rockland County judge)
Sullivan, Indiana –
Daniel Sullivan (soldier)
Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
Sullivan, Missouri – General
John Sullivan (indirectly, via
Sullivan County, Tennessee )
Sullivan, New Hampshire and
Sullivan, New York – General
John Sullivan
Sumner, Maine –
Increase Sumner (governor of
Massachusetts )
Sumter, South Carolina – Gen.
Thomas Sumter
Sunderland, Massachusetts –
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Sunol, California –
Antonio Suñol (
Californio ranchero)
Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
Sutro, Nevada –
Adolph Sutro
Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of
Isaac Roop )
Sutter, California –
John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter
Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter
Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator)
Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of
Fife , Scotland (land purchaser)
Sweetland, California – Sweetland brothers (early settlers)
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Swepsonville, North Carolina –
George William Swepson (capitalist)
Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio –
John Cleves Symmes (judge)
T
Taft, California –
William Howard Taft
Talbott, Tennessee – Col. John Talbott
Talbotton, Georgia – Gov.
Matthew Talbot
Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley,
Viscount Tamworth
Tancred, California –
Tancred, Prince of Galilee
Taopi, Minnesota – Taopi (Native American chief)
Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
Tatamy, Pennsylvania – Tatamy (Native American chief)
Taylor, New York –
Zachary Taylor
Taylor County, 4 places in
Florida ,
Georgia ,
Iowa , and
Kentucky –
Zachary Taylor , twelfth President of the United States of America
Taylor Ridge (Georgia) – Richard Taylor (Cherokee chief)
Taylorsville, Indiana –
Zachary Taylor
Taylorsville, Kentucky –
Richard Taylor (proprietor)
Taylorsville, North Carolina –
John Louis Taylor (judge)
Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
Tazewell, Georgia and
Tazewell, Virginia –
Henry Tazewell (U.S. Senator from Virginia)
Tecopa, California –
Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
Tecumseh, 3 places in
Michigan ,
Nebraska , and
Oklahoma –
Tecumseh (Native American leader)
Tekonsha, Michigan – Tekonsha (Native American chief)
Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (
lieutenant governor to colonial governor
John Wentworth )
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Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
Templeton, Massachusetts –
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
Terry, Mississippi – Bill Terry (resident)
Terry, Montana – General
Alfred Howe Terry
Thacher Island (Massachusetts) – Anthony Thacher (sailor shipwrecked there)
Thayer, Kansas –
Nathaniel Thayer
Thetford, Vermont –
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton , 4th
Earl of Arlington and 4th
Viscount Thetford
Thibodaux, Louisiana – Gov.
Henry S. Thibodaux
Thomaston, Connecticut –
Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
Thomaston, Georgia – Gen.
Jett Thomas
Thomaston, Maine – General
John Thomas of the Continental Army
Thomasville, Georgia – Gen.
Jett Thomas
Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
Thornton, Colorado – Governor
Dan Thornton
Thornton, Mississippi – Dr. C.C. Thornton (landowner)
Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr.
Matthew Thornton (grantee and signer of the
Declaration of Independence )
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Throggs Neck, Bronx, New York –
John Throckmorton (patentee)
Throop, New York – Gov.
Enos T. Throop
Thurman, New York – John Thurman
Thurston, New York – William R. Thurston (landowner)
Tiffin, Ohio – Gov.
Edward Tiffin
Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
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Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
Tipton, Indiana –
John Tipton (U.S. Senator)
Titusville, Pennsylvania – Jonathan Titus (landowner)
Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)
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Tomah, Wisconsin – Tomah (Menominee chief)
Tome, New Mexico –
Saint Thomas
Tompkins, New York –
Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York)
Tompkinsville, Kentucky and
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York –
Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York)
Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
Toms River, New Jersey – Capt. William Tom (settler)
Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
Torrance, California –
Jared Sidney Torrance
Torrey, New York – Henry Torrey
Tower City, North Dakota and
Tower City, Pennsylvania –
Charlemagne Tower
Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)
[12] : 569
Townsend, Delaware – Samuel Townsend (landowner)
Townsend, Massachusetts –
Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
Trenton, New Jersey –
William Trent (landholder)
Trexlertown, Pennsylvania – John Trexler
Troy, North Carolina – Matthew Troy (lawyer)
Truesdale, Missouri – William Truesdale (landowner)
Trumbull, Connecticut –
Jonathan Trumbull (governor of
Connecticut )
Truxton, New York – Commodore
Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the
American Revolution )
Tryon, North Carolina –
William Tryon (colonial governor)
Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
Tully, New York –
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tunbridge, Vermont –
William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
Tuscola, Illinois – Tusco (Native American chief)
Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
Tusten, New York – Col. Benjamin Tusten
Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
Twain Harte, California –
Mark Twain and
Bret Harte
Tygart Valley River (West Virginia) – David Tygart (settler)
Tyler, Texas –
John Tyler
Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
Tyringham, Massachusetts – Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard; the only town in Massachusetts named after a woman; Sir Francis Bernard inherited Nether Winchendon House, Bucks., England from her
U
Udall, Kansas – Cornelius Udall
Ulysses, Kansas and
Ulysses, Nebraska –
Ulysses S. Grant
Uncasville, Connecticut –
Uncas (Native American chief)
Underhill, Wisconsin – William Underhill (settler from Vermont)
Urban, California – Eva L. Urban (first postmaster)
Uvalde, Texas –
Juan de Ugalde (Spanish governor of
Coahuila ) (indirectly, via
Uvalde County, Texas )
Uxbridge, Massachusetts –
Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
V
Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca (founder)
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Vade, California – Sieera Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
Valdosta, Georgia –
Augustus (indirectly, via
Aosta, Italy )
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Vallejo, California –
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Van Buren, New York –
Martin van Buren
Van Lear, Kentucky –
Van Lear Black (businessman)
Van Nuys, California –
Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
Vanceboro, North Carolina –
Zebulon Baird Vance (governor and U.S. Senator)
Vancouver, Washington –
George Vancouver (explorer)
Van Etten, New York – James B. Van Etten (state legislator)
Vassalboro, Maine – Florentins Vassall (patentee)
Vaugine Township ,
Arkansas – Major Francis Vaugine (landowner)
Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
Vergennes, Vermont –
Charles Gravier ,
Comte de Vergennes
Verplanck, New York –
Philip Verplanck
Vicksburg, Mississippi – Neivitt Vick (founder)
Victoria, Texas – General
Guadalupe Victoria (first president of
Mexico )
Victorville, California –
Jacob Nash Victor
Vidalia, Louisiana –
Don José Vidal (colonial governor)
Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (
Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
Vining, Kansas – E.P. Vining (railroader)
Vinton, California – Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)
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Viola, Wisconsin – Viola Buck
Virgil, New York –
Virgil (
Roman poet)
Virgilia, California – Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive
Virgil Bogue )
[12] : 427
Virginia –
Elizabeth I of England , the "Virgin Queen"
Virginia City, Nevada –
Elizabeth I of England , the "Virgin Queen" (indirectly, via Virginia)
Volney, New York –
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (philosopher)
Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)
Voorheesville, New York – Theodore Voorhees (railroader)
W
Wabasha, Minnesota – Wabasha (Native American chief)
Wabaunsee, Kansas –
Waubonsie (Native American chief) (note the spelling)
Wacouta, Minnesota – Wacouta (Native American chief)
Waddington, California – Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
Waddington, New York – Joshua Waddington (proprietor)
Wadesboro, North Carolina – Col. Thomas Wade
Wadsworth, Ohio – General
Elijah Wadsworth
Wagener, South Carolina - George Wagener (
Charleston merchant and railroad company president)
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Waite, Maine – Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
Waitsfield, Vermont – General
Benjamin Wait (founder)
WaKeeney, Kansas – A.E. Wa rren and J.F. Keeney (founders)
Wakefield, Kansas – Rev. Richard Wake (founder)
Wakefield, Massachusetts –
Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
Wakefield, North Carolina – Margaret Wake Tryon (colonial governor's wife) (indirectly, via
Wake County )
Wake Forest, North Carolina – Margaret Wake Tryon (colonial governor's wife) (indirectly, via
Wake County )
Walden, New York – Jacob T. Walden
Waldo, Maine – General
Samuel Waldo (proprietor)
Waldo, Wisconsin – O.H. Waldo (railroad company president)
Waldo Junction, California – William Waldo (early settler)
Waldoboro, Maine – General
Samuel Waldo
Waldron Island (Washington) – W.T. Waldron (sailor)
Wales, Massachusetts – James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
Walesboro, Indiana – John P. Wales (founder)
Walker Pass (California) –
Joseph R. Walker (explorer)
Walker River (Nevada) –
Joseph R. Walker (explorer)
Wallace, California – John Wallace (surveyor)
Wallace, Idaho – Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
Wallington, New Jersey – Walling van Winkle (landowner)
Walpole, Massachusetts and
Walpole, New Hampshire –
Robert Walpole ,
Earl of Orford
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Walsenburg, Colorado – Fred Walsen (store owner)
Walthall, Mississippi – Gen.
Edward C. Walthall
Walton (town), New York – William Walton (landowner)
Walworth, New York –
Reuben H. Walworth (politician)
Ward, Indiana –
Thomas B. Ward (U.S. representative)
Wardner, Idaho – James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
Wardsboro, Vermont – William Ward (grantee)
Wards Island (New York) – Jasper and Bartholomew Ward (landowners)
Waresboro, Georgia –
Nicholas Ware (U.S. Senator)
Warner, New Hampshire – Jonathan Warner (leading
Portsmouth citizen)
Warnerville, New York – Capt. George Warner (settler)
Warren , 6 places in
Connecticut ,
Maine ,
Massachusetts ,
New York ,
Pennsylvania , and
Vermont – Major General
Joseph Warren
Warren, New Hampshire and
Warren, Rhode Island – Admiral Sir
Peter Warren (British naval hero)
Warren, Ohio – Moses Warren (surveyor)
Warrenton, North Carolina – Major General
Joseph Warren
Warrenville, Illinois – Julius Warren (settler)
Warwick, Rhode Island –
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Washburn, Maine – Governor
Israel Washburn Jr.
Washington (state) and
Washington, D.C. –
George Washington
Washington , 14 places in
Georgia ,
Illinois ,
Indiana ,
Iowa ,
Kansas ,
Maine ,
Massachusetts ,
Michigan ,
Missouri ,
New Jersey ,
New Hampshire ,
New York ,
North Carolina , and
Pennsylvania –
George Washington
Washington Court House, Ohio –
George Washington
Washington Crossing, New Jersey and
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania –
George Washington
Washington Terrace, Utah –
George Washington
Washingtonville, New York and
Washingtonville, Pennsylvania –
George Washington
Waterboro, Maine – Colonel Joshua Waters (proprietor)
Wathena, Kansas –
Wathena (Native American chief)
Watkins Glen, New York – Dr. Samuel Watkins (founder)
Watkinsville, Georgia – Col. Robert Watkins (state legislator)
Watrous, New Mexico – Samuel B. Watrous (settler)
Watson, New York – James Watson (proprietor)
Watson, West Virginia – Joseph Watson (landowner)
Wattsburg, Pennsylvania – David Watts (settler)
Wauponsee, Illinois –
Waubonsie (Native American chief) (note the spelling)
Wauseon, Ohio – Wauseon (Native American chief)
Wayland, Massachusetts and
Wayland, New York – Dr.
Francis Wayland (president of
Brown University )
Waymansville, Indiana – Charles L. Wayman (founder)
Wayne, Maine –
Revolutionary War General
Anthony Wayne
Waynesboro, 3 places in
Georgia ,
Mississippi , and
Pennsylvania –
Revolutionary War General
Anthony Wayne
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and
Waynesburg, Ohio –
Revolutionary War General
Anthony Wayne
Waynesfield, Ohio –
Revolutionary War General
Anthony Wayne
Waynesville, North Carolina and
Waynesville, Ohio –
Revolutionary War General
Anthony Wayne
Weare, New Hampshire –
Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
Weatherford, Texas – Jefferson Weatherford (settler)
Webster, Massachusetts and
Webster, New Hampshire –
Daniel Webster
Webster Groves, Missouri –
Daniel Webster
Weedsport, New York – Elisha and Edward Weed (settlers)
Weedville, Arizona –
Ora Rush Weed (founder)
Weimar, California – a local
Maidu chief
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Weir, Kansas – T.M. Weir (founder)
Weissport, Pennsylvania – Col.
Jacob Weiss (settler)
Welch, West Virginia – Capt. J.A. Welch
Welcome, Minnesota – Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
Weld, Maine – Benjamin
Weld (proprietor)
Weldon, California – William B. Weldon (rancher)
Wellington, Colorado – C. L. Wellington (employee of the
Colorado and Southern Railway )
Wellington, Kansas and
Wellington, Maine –
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
Wells, New York – Joshua Wells (settler)
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania – Henry Wells Morris (resident)
Wellsburg, West Virginia – Alexander Wells
Wellsville, Kansas – D.L. Wells (railroad contractor)
Wellsville, Ohio – William Wells (founder)
Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of
Boston
Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor
Benning Wentworth
Wesley, Maine and
Wesley Township, Washington County, Ohio –
John Wesley (founder of the English
Methodist movement )
Wesson, Mississippi – Col. J.M. Wesson (founder)
West Gardiner, Maine – Dr.
Sylvester Gardiner (
Boston physician) (indirectly, via
Gardiner, Maine )
West Lafayette, Indiana and
West Lafayette, Ohio –
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
West Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via
Richland, Washington )
West Virginia –
Virgin Queen
West Warwick, Rhode Island –
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via
Warwick, Rhode Island )
Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
Westby, Wisconsin – O.T. Westby (settler)
Westerlo, New York – Rev.
Eilardus Westerlo
Westmoreland, New Hampshire –
John Fane ,
7th Earl of Westmorland
Westport, Oregon – John West
Westville, California – George C. West (first postmaster)
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Westville, Mississippi – Col. Cato West
Westville, Missouri – Dr. William S. West (postmaster)
Wetmore, Kansas – W.T. Wetmore (railroader)
Weyers Cave, Virginia – Bernard Weyer
Wharton, New Jersey –
Joseph Wharton (co-founder of
Bethlehem Steel )
Wharton, Texas –
William H. Wharton and
John A. Wharton (politicians)
Whately, Massachusetts –
Thomas Whately (
Member of Parliament )
Wheeler, New York – Capt.
Silas Wheeler (settler)
Wheelock, Vermont –
Eleazar Wheelock (founder of
Dartmouth College )
Whipple Mountains (California) –
Amiel Weeks Whipple (military engineer)
White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
White Cloud Township, Mills County, Iowa and
White Cloud, Kansas – Ma-Hush-Kah (Native American chief)
Whitefield, Maine and
Whitefield, New Hampshire –
George Whitefield (English evangelist)
White Haven, Pennsylvania –
Josiah White
Whitesboro, New York – Judge Hugh White (settler)
Whitestown, New York – Judge Hugh White (settler)
Whiteville, North Carolina – James B. White (state legislator)
Whiting, Iowa – Charles Whiting (judge)
Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
Whitinsville, Massachusetts –
Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
Whitman, Washington – Dr.
Marcus Whitman (missionary)
Whitney, California – Joel Parker Whitney (rancher)
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Whitney Point, New York – Thomas Whitney (postmaster)
Whitneyville, Connecticut –
Eli Whitney (founder)
Whitneyville, Maine – Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
Whittier, Alaska –
John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
Whittier, California –
John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
Wibaux, Montana –
Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
Wickenburg, Arizona –
Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the
Vulture Mine )
Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
Wilber, Nebraska – C.D. Wilber (founder)
Wilcox, Pennsylvania – A.I. Wilcox
Wilcox Township, Michigan – S.N. Wilcox
Wildomar, California – Wil – William Collier, Do – Donald Graham, Mar – Margaret Collier (city founders)
Wilkes County, Georgia and
Wilkes County, North Carolina –
John Wilkes
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania –
John Wilkes and
Isaac Barré
Wilkesboro, North Carolina –
John Wilkes
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania –
William Wilkins (Secretary of War)
Willet, New York – Colonel Marinus Willet
Williams, California – W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
Williams Bay, Wisconsin – Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the
War of 1812 )
Williamsburg, Ohio – Gen.
William Haines Lytle (founder)
Williamsburg, Virginia –
William III of England
Williamsport, Indiana – Gov.
James D. Williams
Williamsport, Pennsylvania – William Hepburn (judge)
Williams River (Vermont) – Rev. John Williams
Williamson, New York – Charles Williamson (land agent)
Williamson River (Oregon) – Lt.
Robert S. Williamson (explorer)
Williamston, South Carolina – Col.
James Williams
Williamstown, Kentucky – William Arnold (settler)
Williamstown, Massachusetts –
Ephraim Williams
Williamstown, Vermont –
Ephraim Williams (indirectly, via Williamston, Mass.)
Williamsville, Missouri – Asa E. Williams (founder)
Williamsville, New York – Jonas Williams (settler)
Willis, Kansas – Martin Cleveland Willis (settler)
Williston, North Dakota – Associate Justice
Lorenzo P. Williston
Williston, Vermont – Samuel Willis (landholder)
Willits, California – Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
Willoughby, Ohio – Dr.
Westel Willoughby, Jr. (
U.S. Representative from
New York )
Willoughby Hills, Ohio – Dr.
Westel Willoughby, Jr.
Wilmette, Illinois – Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
Wilmington , 4 places in
Delaware ,
[446] Massachusetts,
North Carolina , and
Vermont –
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Wilmot, New Hampshire – Dr. James Wilmot (English clergyman)
Wilseyville, California – Lawrence A. Wilsey (corporate executive)
Wilson, Kansas – Hiero T. Wilson (merchant from
Fort Scott )
Wilson (town), New York – Reuben Wilson (settler)
Wilson and
Wilson County ,
North Carolina –
Colonel
Louis D. Wilson (state senator)
Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir
Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
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Winchester, Massachusetts –
Colonel William P. Winchester
Winchester, New Hampshire –
Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton , 8th
Marquess of Winchester , and constable of the
Tower of London
Windham, New Hampshire – Sir
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
Windom, Kansas and
Windom, Minnesota – Senator
William Windom
Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
Winfield, Kansas – Chaplain
Winfield Scott
Winfield (town), New York – Gen.
Winfield Scott
Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
Winnsboro, South Carolina – Gen.
Richard Winn (founder)
Winslow, Maine – General
John Winslow
Winston-Salem, North Carolina –
Joseph Winston
Winters, California – Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
Winthrop, Maine –
John Winthrop (first Governor of
Massachusetts )
Winthrop, Massachusetts – Deane Winthrop (son of
John Winthrop , the first Governor of Massachusetts)
Wofford Heights, California – I.L. Wofford (founder)
Wolcott, Connecticut – Frederick Wolcott
Wolcott, New York and
Wolcott, Vermont – General
Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the
Declaration of Independence )
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General
James Wolfe
Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania – Joseph Wommelsdorf (founder) (note the spelling)
Woodbury, Vermont – Col. Ebenezer Wood (grantee)
Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
Woodhull, New York – Gen.
Nathaniel Woodhull
Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
Woodsfield, Ohio – Archibald Woods (resident of
Wheeling, West Virginia )
Woodsonville, Kentucky – Thomas Woodson (senator)
Woodville, Texas –
George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
Wooster, Ohio – Gen.
David Wooster
Worth, New York – Gen.
William J. Worth
Worthington, Massachusetts – Col. John Worthington (proprietor)
Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
Wray, Colorado – John Wray (foreman)
Wright, New York –
Silas Wright (politician)
Wright City, Missouri – Dr. H.C. Wright (settler)
Wrightsboro, Georgia – Augustus R. Wright (judge)
Wrightstown, Wisconsin – H.S. Wright (ferry owner)
Wrightsville, Pennsylvania – Samuel Wright (settler)
Wurtsboro, New York – Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal )
Wyandanch, New York –
Wyandanch (
sachem of the
Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
Wytheville, Virginia –
George Wythe (a signer of the
Declaration of Independence )
Y
Yankee Jims, California – a criminal with that nickname
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Yale, Michigan –
Elihu Yale (indirectly, via
Yale University )
Yaquina Bay (Oregon) – Yaquina (Native American chief)
Yates Center, Kansas – Abner Yates (landowner)
Ybor City, Tampa, Florida –
Vicente Martinez Ybor
Yellville, Arkansas – Governor
Archibald Yell
Yonkers, New York –
Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the
Jonkheer )
Yorba Linda, California –
Bernardo Yorba (built
Yorba Hacienda near here)
York, Maine –
James II of England (known as the Duke of York before ascending the throne)
York Center, Illinois -
Samuel York
Yorkville, California – R.H. York (Founder)
Yorkville, Wisconsin -
Samuel York
Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
Youngs Bay (Washington) – Sir Charles Young (naval officer)
Youngstown, New York – John Young (merchant)
Youngstown, Ohio –
John Young (Founder)
Ypsilanti, Michigan –
Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the
Greek War of Independence )
Z
Zanesfield, Ohio – Isaac Zane (younger brother of
Ebenezer Zane )
Zanesville, Ohio –
Ebenezer Zane (founder)
Zapata, Texas –
Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata
Zavalla, Texas –
Lorenzo de Zavala (note spelling)
Zebulon, Georgia –
Zebulon Pike
Zenda, Wisconsin -
Anthony Hope , author of The Prisoner Of Zenda
Zillah, Washington – Miss Zillah Oakes (daughter of
Thomas Fletcher Oakes , president of the
Northern Pacific Railway )
Zionsville, Indiana – William Zion (pioneer)
Zwingle, Iowa –
Huldrych Zwingli (Protestant reformer)
Former names
Adams was the name of
Corte Madera, California – Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
Adele was the name of
Fields Landing, California – Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
Alexander's Corner was the name of
Weedpatch, California – Cal Alexander (early resident)
Allen's Camp was the name of
Caliente, California – Gabriel Allen (early settler)
Arp's' was the name of
Riverview, Kern County, California – James H. Arp (real estate developer)
Barker House was the name of
Woodleaf, California – Charles Barker (early settler)
Barrons Landing was the name of
Eden Landing, California – Richard Barron (landowner)
Barrow was the name of
Utqiaġvik, Alaska –
Sir John Barrow
Beal's Landing was the name of
Westport, California – Samuel Beal (early settler)
Bells Harbor was the name of
Little River, California – Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
Benton Mills was the name of
Ridleys Ferry, California –
Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of
Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – William C. Biddle (early settler)
Black's was the name of
Zamora, California – J.J. Black (early settler)
Boust City was the name of
Taft Heights, California – E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
Bowman's Point was the name of
West End, Alameda, California – Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
Brannan Springs was the name of
Woodfords, California –
Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
Brown's was the name of
North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler)
Brown's Mill was the name of
Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
Brownsville was the name of
Samoa, California – James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
Brownsville was the name of
Tecopa, California – William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
Buckingham was the name of
Unity, New Hampshire –
John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
Bucktooth was the name of
Salamanca (town), New York – Bucktooth (notable
Native American who lived in the area)
Bulwinkle was the name of
Crannell, California – Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of
Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California – Robert and John Burns (founders)
Burrville was the name of
Clinton, Tennessee –
Aaron Burr
Cabarker was the name of
El Centro, California – C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
Cantu was the name of
Andrade, California – Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
Cardigan was the name of
Orange, New Hampshire –
George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
Carson's Creek was the name of
Angels Camp, California –
Kit Carson
Charley's Flat was the name of
Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)
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Clark's Station and Clark's Ranch were names of
Wawona, California – Galen Clark (founder)
Clifton was the name of
Del Rey, California – Clift Wilkinson (town founder)
Cochran's Crossing was the name of
Yolo, California – Thomas Cochran (early settler)
Cockermouth was the name of
Groton, New Hampshire –
Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont
Collis was the name of
Kerman, California –
Collis Potter Huntington
Converse Ferry was the name of
Friant, California – Charles Converse (ferryman)
Cowan Station was the name of
Dunmovin, California – James Cowan (homesteader)
Crabtown was the name of
Helena, Montana – John Crab (early gold prospector)
Crumville was the name of
Ridgecrest, California – James and Robert Crum (local dairymen)
Dewey and Deweyville were names of
Wasco, California – Adm.
George Dewey
Dorris Bridge was the name of
Alturas, California – Pressley and James Dorris (early settlers)
Dow's Prairie was the name of
McKinleyville, California – Joe Dow (founder)
Drapersville was the name of
Kingsburg, California – Josiah Draper (founder)
Dupplin was the name of
Lempster, New Hampshire – Scottish lord
Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
Durkee's Ferry was the name of
Weitchpec, California – Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
Dutch Charlie's Flat was the name of
Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)
[12] : 479
Dykesboro was the name of
Cochran, Georgia – B. B. Dykes (settler)
Eastland was the name of
Mill Valley, California – Joseph G. Eastland (developer)
Enfield was the name of a
Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the
Quabbin Reservoir – Robert Field (early settler)
Etter was the name of
Ettersburg, California – Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
Fassking's Station was the name of
Encinal, Alameda, California – Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
Fletcher was the name of
Aurora, Colorado –
Donald Fletcher (businessman)
Foremans was the name of
Fourth Crossing, California – David Foreman (town founder)
Franklin Township was the name of
Nutley, New Jersey –
Benjamin Franklin
Greenwich was the name of a
Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the
Quabbin Reservoir –
John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
Grenville was the name of
Newport, New Hampshire –
George Grenville (
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom )
Hamilton's was the name of
Buck Meadows, California – Alva Hamilton (founder)
Hamptonville was the name of
Friant, California – William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
Hans Lof's was the name of
Toms Place, California – Hans Lof (resort owner)
Hansen was the name of
Alton, California – Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
Harrisberry was the name of
Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
Harrisburgh was the name of
Warm Springs, Fremont, California – Abram Harris (early settler)
Haydenville was the name of
Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
Hearst was the name of
Hacienda, California –
Phoebe Hearst
Hopkins and Hopkins Springs was the name of
Soda Springs, Nevada County, California –
Mark Hopkins (railroad baron who built a resort there)
[12] : 558
Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of
Whitney Portal, California – William L. Hunter (pioneer)
Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of
DeSabla, California – John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
Hutton's Ranch was the name of
Yolo, California – James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
Jacksonville was the name of
Floyd, Virginia – President
Andrew Jackson
Jewetta' was the name of Saco, California – Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
Joe was the name of
Ismay, Montana –
Joe Montana , (American Football player)
Johnson's Diggings was the name of
Birchville, California – David Johnson (first prospector at the site)
[12] : 451
Johnsonville was the name of
Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – John F. Johnson (early settler)
Jones Ferry was the name of
Friant, California – J.R. Jones (early merchant)
Kellyvale was the name of
Lowell, Vermont – John Kelley (grantee)
Kendall's City was the name of
Boonville, California – Alonzo Kendall (early hotelier)
Kents Landing was the name of
Little River, California – W.H. Kent (early settler, landowner)
Kenyon was the name of
Pineridge, California – Silas W. Kenyon (first postmaster)
Kunze was the name of
Greenwater, California – Arthur Kunze (founder)
Langville was the name of
Capay, California – John Arnold Lang (early settler)
Laphams was the name of
Stateline, California – William W. Lapham (hotel owner)
Levittown and Levittown Township were names of
Willingboro Township, New Jersey (from 1958 to 1963) –
William Levitt
Lewisville was the name of
Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – Lewis B. Meyer (early settler)
Lisbon was the name of
Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)
[12] : 444
Maltermoro was the name of
Sunnyside, Fresno County, California – George H. Malter (postmaster)
Marthasville was the name of
Atlanta, Georgia – Martha Lumpkin (daughter of Governor
Wilson Lumpkin )
[454]
Marsh was the name of
Avon, Contra Costa County, California –
John Marsh
Marshall was the name of
Lotus, California –
James W. Marshall
Marshs Landing was the name of
Antioch, California –
John Marsh
Maxwell's Creek was the name of
Coulterville, California – George Maxwell (early settler)
McKinney was the name of
Chambers Lodge, California – John McKinney (early settler)
[12] : 464
Meiggstown was the name of
Mendocino, California –
Henry Meiggs
Michaels was the name of
Coarsegold, California – Charles Michaels (merchant)
Mingusville was the name of
Wibaux, Montana – Min nie and Gus Grisy (postmasters)
Minorsville was the name of
McKinleyville, California – Isaac Minor (founder)
Moores was the name of
Riverton, California – John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
Moores Station was the name of
Honcut, California – John C. Moore (first postmaster)
Norris was the name of
Lake Delton, Wisconsin – Edward Norris (surveyor)
Old Lovelock was the name of
Coutolenc, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
Partridgefield was the name of
Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
Peacock's was the name of
Warm Springs, Fremont, California – George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
Peterman's Landing was the name of
Eden Landing, California – Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
Phillipsburg was the name of
Hollis, Maine – Major William Phillips (proprietor)
Phipps-Canada was the name of
Jay, Maine – Captain Joseph Phipps
Pollasky was the name of
Friant, California – Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
Portersville was the name of
Valparaiso, Indiana – Commodore
David Porter
Powellville was the name of
Blocksburg, California – Joseph James Powell (first settler)
Prescott was the name of a
Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the
Quabbin Reservoir – Colonel
William Prescott
Putnam's was the name of
Independence, California – Charles Putnam (early merchant)
Ralston City was the name of
Shakespeare, New Mexico –
William Chapman Ralston
Ralston Point was the name of
Arvada, Colorado – Lewis Ralston (prospector from
Georgia )
Randall was the name of
White Hall, California – Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
Rolph was the name of
Fairhaven, California –
James Rolph (governor of California)
Rooptown was the name of
Susanville, California –
Isaac Roop (settler)
Ross Landing was the name of
Kentfield, California – James Ross (founder)
Ross's Camp was the name of
Melbourne Camp, California – William Ross (operator)
Rust was the name of
El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California – William R. Rust (first postmaster)
Ryan was the name of
Lila C, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
Scodie was the name of
Onyx, California – William Scodie (early merchant)
Sherburne was the name of
Killington, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
Simpsonville was the name of
Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – Robert Simpson (local merchant)
Smith's Landing was the name of
Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
Smithville was the name of
Loomis, California – L.G. Smith (store owner)
[12] : 516
Sotoville was the name of
Santa Rita, Monterey County, California – Jose Manuel Soto (landowner, founder)
Spoonville was the name of
Edgemont, Lassen County, California – Lorella A. Spoon
Stantonville was the name of
Chilton, Wisconsin – Moses and Catherine Stanton (early residents)
Stratton was the name of
Stratford, California – William Stratton (developer)
Stubbs was the name of
Clearlake Oaks, California – Charles Stubbs (landowner)
Surrattsville was the name of
Clinton, Maryland – Surratt family (18th century settlers)
Swauger was the name of
Loleta, California – Samuel A. Swauger (landowner)
Taylors Landing was the name of
Bijou, California – Almon M. Taylor (founder)
Tinkers Station was the name of
Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – J.A. Tinker (local freight hauler)
[12] : 558
Townsend was the name of
Boothbay, Maine and
Southport, Maine –
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
Trecothick was the name of
Ellsworth, New Hampshire –
Barlow Trecothick (
Alderman ,
Member of Parliament , and a
Lord Mayor of London , raised in colonial Boston)
Troupville was the name of
Valdosta, Georgia -
George Troup , governor of Georgia
Turner was the name of
Harriman, New York – Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
Vaughn was the name of
Bodfish, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of
Laredo, Texas –
Saint Augustine
Warnersville was the name of
Trinidad, California – R.V. Warner (early settler)
Washington was the name of
South River, New Jersey –
George Washington
Washington Township was the name of
Robbinsville Township, New Jersey –
George Washington
Wells was the name of
Keene, California – Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
Wendell was the name of
Sunapee, New Hampshire – John Wendell (proprietor)
Weringdale was the name of
Woody, California – Joseph Weringer (town planner)
Wheelersborough was the name of
Hampden, Maine – Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
Whitley's Ford was the name of
Lookout, California – James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
Williamsburg was the name of
Old Town, Kern County, California – James E. Williams (businessman)
Woods Dry Diggings was the name of
Auburn, California – John S. Wood
[12] : 444
Yanks was the name of
Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)
See also
Notes
^
Fulmore (1915 , pp. 10–12) identifies any of these three as the city's namesake.
Gannett (1902 , p. 117) identifies only Jose de Galvez.
^ There is also a town in North Carolina called
Hertford .
Gannett (1902 , p. 135) identifies the Marquess as this town's namesake as well, while
Powell & Hill (2010 , p. 238) identify the namesake of the town as the
town in England .
^ May also have been named for Henry Jackson, a merchant from
St. Paul . See
Upham (1920 , p. 260).
^ Possibly also
Elias Kent Kane , for whom
Kane County was named. (Kaneville is in Kane County).
^ While Gannett names Thomas Pelham-Holles as the town's namesake, the New Hampshire state government identifies Henry Pelham as the town's namesake.
[335]
^
Gannett (1902 , p. 262) identifies F.W. Wagener, a relative of George Wagener, as the town's namesake.
^
Gannett (1902 , p. 275) claims the town in New Hampshire is named for a town in England.
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