Many United States placenames are derived either from a person who may have been associated with the founding of the place, or in honor of a notable person. If there is no citation for a place on this list, its etymology is usually described and referenced in the article about the person or the place.
A
- Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania â Aaron Levy (founder)
- Abbot, Maine â John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)
- Abbott, Texas â Joseph "Jo" Abbott (politician)
- Abbottstown, Pennsylvania â John Abbott (founder)
- Abernathy, Texas â Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
- Abington, Massachusetts â Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire
- Ableman, Wisconsin â S.V.R. Ableman (settler)
- Ackley, Iowa â J.W. Ackley (founder)
- Acworth, New Hampshire â Jacob Acworth (British naval officer)
- Ada Township, Michigan â Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster)
- Adairville, Kentucky â John Adair (governor of Kentucky)
- Adams, California â Charles Adams (landowner)
- Adams, Massachusetts â Samuel Adams
- Adams, Nebraska â J.O. Adams (settler)
- Adams, New York â John Adams
- Adams, Oregon â John F. Adams (homesteader)
- Adams, Tennessee â Reuben Adams (landowner)
- Adamsboro, Indiana â George E. Adams (founder)
- Adamsburg, Pennsylvania â John Adams
- Adams Station, California â Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
- Adamstown, California â George Adams (founder)
- Adamstown, Pennsylvania â John Adams
- Adamsville, Arizona â Charles S. Adams (original settler)
- Addison, 4 places in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont â Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
- Addison, West Virginia â Addison McLaughlin (local lawyer)
- Adin, California â Adin McDowell (founder)
- Adrian, Michigan â Roman Emperor Hadrian
- Adrian, Minnesota â Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company)
- Aguilar, Colorado â José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer)
- Aiken, South Carolina â William Aiken Jr. (governor of South Carolina)
- Ainsworth, Iowa â D.H. Ainsworth (civil engineer)
- Ainsworth, Washington â J.C. Ainsworth (railroader)
- Albany, New Hampshire â James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
- Albany, New York â James of York and Albany
- Albemarle, North Carolina â George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
- Alberhill, California â C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners)
- Albert Lea, Minnesota â Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons)
- Alberton, Montana â Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
- Albuquerque, New Mexico â Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
- Alburgh, Vermont â Ira Allen (landowner)
- Alcester, South Dakota â Colonel Alcester of the British army
- Alden, California â S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
- Alden, Iowa â Henry Alden (settler)
- Alderson, West Virginia â John Alderson (settler and local minister)
- Alexander, New York â Alexander Rea (settler and state senator)
- Alexander, Maine â Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
- Alexandria, Nebraska â S.J. Alexander (secretary of state)
- Alexandria, New York and Alexandria Bay, New York â Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler)
- Alexandria, New Hampshire â John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia)
- Alexandria, South Dakota â Alexander Mitchell (railroad president)
- Alexandria, Virginia â John Alexander (settler)
- Alford, Massachusetts â Colonel John Alford
- Alfordsville, Indiana â James Alford (settler)
- Alfred, Maine â King Alfred the Great
- Alger, Ohio â Russell A. Alger
- Alice, Texas â Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
- Allendale, Oakland, California â Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
- Allendale, South Carolina â Allen family (settlers)
- Allenstown, New Hampshire â Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire)
- Allentown, Georgia â J.W. Allen (postmaster)
- Allentown, Pennsylvania â William Allen
- Alloway Township, New Jersey â Chief Alloway
- Alma, Colorado â Alma James (wife of local merchant)
- Almont, Michigan â Juan Almonte
- Alstead, New Hampshire â Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
- Altheimer, Arkansas â Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders)
- Alton, California â Alton Easton (indirectly, via Alton, Illinois)
- Alton, Illinois â Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)
- Alva, Florida â Thomas Alva Edison (inventor)
- Alvarado, California â Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
- Alvin, Texas â Alvin Morgan (settler)
- Amador City, California â Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
- Ambler, Pennsylvania â Joseph Ambler (settler)
- Amelia Court House, Virginia â Princess Amelia of Great Britain
- Ames, Iowa â Oakes Ames
- Ames, New York â Fisher Ames
- Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts and Maine)
- Anaheim, California â Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
- Anastasia Island, Florida â Saint Anastasia
- Anderson, Indiana â Chief William Anderson
- Anderson, South Carolina â Gen. Robert Anderson
- Andersonia, California â Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
- Andrade, California â Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
- Angelica, New York â Angelica Schuyler Church
- Angels Camp, California â Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
- Ankeny, Iowa â John Fletcher Ankeny
- Anna, Illinois â Anna Davis (landowner's wife)
- Annapolis, Maryland â Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- Ann Arbor, Michigan â Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives)
- Anniston, Alabama - Annie Scott Tyler (1893âÂÂ1980), daughter of railroad president Alfred L. Tyler
- Annsville, New York â Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife)
- Anson, Maine â George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
- Anson, Wisconsin - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
- Ansonia, Connecticut â Anson Greene Phelps
- Ansted, West Virginia â David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner)
- Antis Township, Pennsylvania â Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
- Anthony, Kansas â George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas)
- Applebachsville, Pennsylvania â Gen. Paul Applebach
- Applegate, California â Lisbon Applegate (early settler)
- Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin â Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
- Appling, Georgia â Col. Dan Appling
- Arbuckle, California â Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
- Archdale, North Carolina â John Archdale
- Arco, Idaho â Georg von Arco
- Arenzville, Illinois â Francis A. Arenz (founder)
- Arietta, New York â Arietta Rensselaer (wife of Rensselaer van Rensselaer)
- Arlington, Texas â Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)
- Armourdale, Kansas â Armour brothers (founders of Armour and Company)
- Arnold, California â Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
- Arnold Heights, California â General Henry H. Arnold
- Arundel, Maine â Lord Arundel
- Arvada, Colorado â Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
- Arvin, California â Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
- Asbury Park, New Jersey â Francis Asbury
- Ashburnham, Massachusetts â John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham
- Ashbyburg, Kentucky â Gen. Stephen Ashby
- Asheboro, North Carolina â Samuel Ashe (governor of North Carolina)
- Asherville, Indiana â John Asher (founder)
- Ashford, Alabama â Thomas Ashford
- Ashley, Michigan â H.W. Ashley (manager of the Ann Arbor Railroad)
- Ashley River (South Carolina) â Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida â William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
- Astoria, Oregon â John Jacob Astor
- Atchison, Kansas â David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator)
- Aten, Nebraska â John Aten (state senator)
- Athol, Massachusetts â James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
- Atkinson, Maine â Judge Atkinson (landholder)
- Atkinson, New Hampshire â Theodore Atkinson (landowner)
- Atwater, California â Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
- Atwater, Minnesota â Isaac Atwater (settler of St. Paul)
- Atwater Township, Ohio â Amzi Atwater (surveyor)
- Atwood, Kansas â Attwood Matheny (founder's son)
- Auberry, California â Al Yarborough
- Audubon, Minnesota â John James Audubon
- Augusta, Georgia â Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
- Augusta, Kansas â Augusta James (trader's wife)
- Augusta, Maine â Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)
- Ault, Colorado â Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
- Aurelius, New York â Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)
- Austin, Minnesota â Austin Nichols (settler)
- Austin, Texas â Stephen F. Austin
- Ave Maria, Florida â Mary, mother of Jesus
- Averill, Vermont â Samuel Averill (landholder)
- Avery, California â George J. Avery (first postmaster)
- Averys Gore, Vermont â Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
- Axtell, Kansas â Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway)
- Ayer, Massachusetts â Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)
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- Bagby, California â Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper)
- Bainbridge, New York â Commodore William Bainbridge
- Baird, Texas â Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works)
- Baker, Montana â A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
- Baker City, Oregon â Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon)
- Baker County, Florida â James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator
- Bakersfield, California â Colonel Thomas Baker
- Bakersfield, Vermont â Joseph Baker (landowner)
- Baldwin, Georgia â Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator)
- Baldwin, Maine â Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
- Baldwin, Michigan â Governor Henry P. Baldwin
- Baldwin, Chemung County, New York â Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers)
- Baldwin, Wisconsin â D.A. Baldwin (settler)
- Baldwin City, Kansas â John Baldwin
- Baldwinsville, New York â Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
- Ballantine, Montana â E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
- Ballston, New York and Ballston Spa, New York â Rev. Eliphalet Ball (settler)
- Baltimore, Maryland â Lord Baltimore
- Banning, California â Phineas Banning, stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles.
- Baraboo, Wisconsin â Jean Baribault (settler)
- Baraga, Michigan â Bishop Friedrich Baraga
- Barber, California â O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
- Barberton, Ohio â O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
- Barboursville, West Virginia â Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia)
- Bard, California â Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
- Bardstown, Kentucky â David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site
- Bargersville, Indiana â Jefferson Barger
- Baring Plantation, Maine â Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
- Barker, Broome County, New York â John Barker (settler)
- Barlow, Oregon â John L. Barlow (settler)
- Barnard, Vermont â Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
- Barnard, Missouri â railroad superintendent J. F. Barnard (or possibly B. F. Barnard)
- Barnes, Kansas â A.S. Barnes (publisher)
- Barnum, Denver, Colorado â P. T. Barnum (landowner)
- Barnwell, South Carolina â Barnwell family
- Barraque Township, Arkansas â Antoine Barraqué (landowner)
- Barre, Massachusetts, Barre, New York, Barre (city), Vermont and Barre (town), Vermont â Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)
- Barrington, New Hampshire and Barrington, Rhode Island â John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts)
- Barron, Wisconsin â Henry D. Barron (judge)
- Barstow, California â William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
- Bartlett, Illinois â Luther Bartlett
- Bartlett, New Hampshire â Dr. Josiah Bartlett
- Bartlett Springs, California â Green Bartlett (resort owner)
- Barton, Vermont â General William Barton
- Bartow, Florida and Bartow, Georgia â Francis S. Bartow (Confederate general)
- Bastrop, Louisiana and Bastrop, Texas â Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
- Batesville, Arkansas â James Woodson Bates
- Batesville, Ohio â Rev. Timothy Bates
- Bath, New Hampshire â William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
- Bath, New York â Henrietta Pulteney, Countess of Bath
- Battleboro, North Carolina â James S. and Joseph Battle (railroaders)
- Bayard, West Virginia â Thomas F. Bayard (U.S. Senator from Delaware)
- Bayfield, Wisconsin â Rear Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield
- Bay St. Louis, Mississippi â Louis IX of France
- Beacon, Iowa â Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield
- Beals, Maine â Manwaring Beal (settler)
- Bealville, California â Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
- Beardstown, Illinois â Thomas Beard (settler)
- Beatrice, Humboldt County, California â Beatrice White (first postmaster)
- Beattie, Kansas â A. Beattie (mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri)
- Beattyville, Kentucky â Samuel Beatty (settler)
- Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina â Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
- Beauregard, Mississippi â P. G. T. Beauregard (Confederate general)
- Beaumont, Texas â Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
- Becker, Minnesota â George Loomis Becker (mayor of Saint Paul)
- Beckley, West Virginia â Gen. Alfred Beckley (settler)
- Beckwourth, California â James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler
- Bedford, Massachusetts â Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
- Bedford, New Hampshire and Bedford, Virginia â John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
- Bedford, Tennessee â Thomas Bedford
- Beebe, Arkansas â Roswell Beebe (settler)
- Beecher City, Illinois â Charles A. Beecher (railroader)
- Beekman, New York â Henry Beekman (landowner)
- Beekmantown, New York â William Beekman (landowner)
- Beeville, Texas â Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas)
- Belchertown, Massachusetts â Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)
- Belden, California â Robert Belden (first postmaster)
- Belleville, Kansas â Ara<u>belle</u> Tutton (landowner's wife)
- Bellingham, Massachusetts â Governor Richard Bellingham
- Bellingham, Washington â Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet
- Bellmont, New York â William Bell (landowner)
- Bellows Falls, Vermont â Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
- Bellwood, Nebraska â D.J. Bell (landowner)
- Belmont, Missouri and Belmont, New Hampshire â August Belmont (financier)
- Belton, Texas â Governor Peter Hansborough Bell
- Beltrami, Minnesota â Giacomo Beltrami
- Belva, West Virginia â Belva Ann Lockwood
- Belzoni, Mississippi â Giovanni Battista Belzoni
- Bemis Heights, New York â Jonathan Bemis (innkeeper)
- Benedicta, Maine â Bishop Benedict Fenwick (landowner)
- Benicia, California â Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo (wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo)
- Benner Township, Pennsylvania â General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
- Bennett, Iowa â Chet Bennett (railroader)
- Bennettville, California â Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
- Bennington, New Hampshire â colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont)
- Bennington, Vermont â colonial governor Benning Wentworth
- Benton, 7 places in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, and New Hampshire â Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- Benton, New York â Levi Benton (settler)
- Benton Hot Springs, California â Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- Bentonia, Mississippi â Bentonia Green (resident)
- Bentonville, Arkansas â Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- Benwood, West Virginia â Benjamin Latrobe II
- Beresford, South Dakota â Lord Charles Beresford
- Berkeley, California â Bishop George Berkeley
- Berkeley Springs, West Virginia â colonial governor William Berkeley
- Berkley, Massachusetts â Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
- Berkley, Virginia â Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
- Bermuda, 5 places in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee â Juan de Bermúdez (indirectly, after Bermuda)
- Bernards Township, New Jersey â Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
- Bernardston, Massachusetts â Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
- Berrien Township, Michigan â John M. Berrien
- Berryville, Arkansas â Governor James H. Berry
- Berthoud, Colorado â Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
- Bessemer, Alabama, Bessemer, Michigan, and Bessemer City, North Carolina â Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process)
- Beveridge, California â John Beveridge
- Beverly, West Virginia â William Beverly (landowner)
- Bevier, Kentucky and Bevier, Missouri â Col. Robert Bevier
- Bexar, 4 places in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas (county) â Ferdinand VI of Spain (originally the Duke of Bexar)
- Bieber, California â Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
- Bienville, Louisiana â Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- Billings, Montana â Frederick H. Billings
- Billingsport, New Jersey â Edward Byllynge (merchant and colonial governor) (note the spelling)
- Biltmore Forest, North Carolina â George Washington Vander<u>bilt</u> II
- Bingham, Maine â William Bingham (landowner)
- Binghamton, New York â William Bingham
- Birchville, California â L. Birch Adsit
- Birdsall, New York â John Birdsall (judge)
- Birdsboro, Pennsylvania â William Bird (landowner)
- Bishop, California â Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
- Bismarck, Missouri and Bismarck, North Dakota â Otto von Bismarck
- Blacksburg, Virginia â William Black (landowner)
- Blackstone, Massachusetts â Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
- Blackwells Corner, California â George Blackwell (merchant)
- Bladenboro, North Carolina â Martin Bladen
- Blaine, Maine â James G. Blaine
- Blair, Nebraska â John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
- Blairsden, California â James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)
- Blairstown, Iowa and Blairstown, New Jersey â John Insley Blair (railroad magnate and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men)
- Blairsville, Pennsylvania â John Blair (resident)
- Blakely, Georgia â Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
- Blanchard, California â Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
- Blanchard, Maine â Charles Blanchard (landowner)
- Blanco, Monterey County, California â Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
- Blandford, Massachusetts â John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (also held the title Marquess of Blandford)
- Blandville, Kentucky â Capt. Bland Ballard
- Bleecker, New York â Rutger Jansen Bleecker (landowner)
- Blissfield, Michigan â Henry Bliss (landowner)
- Blocksburg, California â Benjamin Blockburger (merchant and founder)
- Bloomfield, New Jersey â Governor Joseph Bloomfield
- Blossburg, Pennsylvania â Aaron Bloss (settler)
- Blountsville, Indiana â Andrew Blount (founder)
- Blythe, California â Thomas Henry Blythe; San Francisco capitalist
- Boardman, Ohio â Frederick Boardman (landowner)
- Bodfish, California â George H. Bodfish (early settler)
- Bodie, California â W.S. Bodey (prospector)
- Boerne, Texas â Louis Boerne (German writer)
- Bolivar, 4 places in Missouri, Mississippi, New York, and Tennessee â Simón Bolivar
- Bolton, Massachusetts â Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- Bonaparte, Iowa â Napoleon Bonaparte
- Bonds Corner, California â Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
- Bondurant, Iowa â A.C. Bondurant
- Bonham, Texas â Col. J.B. Bonham
- Bonner Springs, Kansas â Robert E. Bonner (editor of the New York Ledger)
- Bonneville, Oregon â Benjamin Bonneville (explorer)
- Booge, South Dakota â C.A. Booge
- Boone, North Carolina, Boone Station, Kentucky, and Boonville, North Carolina â Daniel Boone
- Boonville, California â W.W. Boone (merchant)
- Boonton, New Jersey â Thomas Boone (colonial governor)
- Boonville, New York â Gerrit Boon (land agent)
- Borden, California â Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
- Borden, Texas â Gail Borden (customs official)
- Bordentown, New Jersey â Joseph Borden (founder)
- Boscawen, New Hampshire â Lord Edward Boscawen
- Bossier City, Louisiana â Pierre Bossier (general)
- Bostic, North Carolina â George T. Bostic
- Bottineau, North Dakota â Pierre Bottineau (settler)
- Bouckville, New York â Governor William C. Bouck
- Bourbon, Indiana â House of Bourbon
- Bourne, Massachusetts â Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
- Bowdoin, Maine â James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
- Bowdoinham, Maine â William Bowdoin (landowner)
- Bowerstown, New Jersey â Michael B. Bowers (iron foundry owner)
- Bowie, Maryland â Colonel William D. Bowie
- Bowie, Texas â James Bowie
- Bowman, California â Harry Bowman (fruit grower)
- Boyd, Kentucky â Lt. Governor Linn Boyd
- Boylston, New York â Thomas Boylston (doctor)
- Bozeman, Montana â John Bozeman
- Braddock, Pennsylvania â Gen. Edward Braddock
- Bradford County, Florida â Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
- Bradford, Pennsylvania â Attorney General William Bradford
- Bradfordsville, Kentucky â Peter Bradford (settler)
- Bradley, California â Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
- Bradley, Maine â Bradley Blackman (settler)
- Bradley Beach, New Jersey â James A. Bradley (landowner)
- Bradshaw City, Arizona â William D. Bradshaw
- Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania â Capt. Samuel Brady
- Bradtmoore, California â Bradley T. Moore (founder)
- Brainerd, Kansas â E.B. Brainerd (landowner)
- Brainerd, Minnesota â David Brainerd (missionary)
- Brandon, Mississippi â Governor Gerard Brandon
- Brant, New York â Joseph Brant
- Brandt, South Dakota â Rev. P.O. Brandt
- Branscomb, California â Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
- Brasher, New York â Philip Brasher (landowner)
- Brattleboro, Vermont â Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
- Breckenridge - John C. Breckinridge, 4 places in
*Colorado - Minnesota - Missouri - Texas (all spelling variants)
- Breedsville, Michigan â Silas Breed (settler)
- Breese, Illinois â Lt. Governor Sidney Breese
- Brevard County, Florida and Brevard, North Carolina â Ephraim J. Brevard (possible author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence)
- Brewer, Maine â Colonel John Brewer (settler)
- Brewster, Massachusetts â Elder William Brewster
- Brewster, Minnesota â Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
- Brewster, New York â Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
- Briceburg, California â William M. Brice (merchant)
- Briceland, California â John C. Briceland (landowner)
- Bricelyn, Minnesota â John Brice (landowner)
- Bridger, Montana â Jim Bridger (frontiersman)
- Bridgton, Maine â Moody Bridges (settler)
- Briensburg, Kentucky â James Brien (state legislator)
- Brigham City, Utah â Brigham Young
- Briscoe, Texas â Andrew Briscoe (Texian patriot)
- Bristol (village), Wisconsin â Rev. Ira Bristol (settler)
- Broadus, Montana â Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
- Brockport, New York â Hiel Brockway (settler)
- Brockton, Massachusetts â Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario, on a trip to Niagara Falls)
- Brockway, California â Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)
- Broderick, California â U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
- Bronson, Kansas â Ira D. Bronson (prominent resident of Fort Scott)
- the Bronx, New York City â Jonas Bronck (settler)
- Brooks, Maine â John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
- Brooks County, Georgia â Congressman Preston Brooks
- Brooksville, Florida â Congressman Preston Brooks
- Brookville, Indiana â Jesse Brook Thomas (proprietor)
- Brown, California â George Brown (hotelier)
- Brownfield, Maine â Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
- Brownington, Vermont â Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
- Brownstown, Indiana, Brownsville, Kentucky, and Brownsville, Tennessee â Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
- Browns Valley, Minnesota â Joseph Brown (founder)
- Brownsville, Maryland â Tobias Brown (early settler)
- Brownsville, Pennsylvania â Thomas and Basil Brown (landowners)
- Brownsville, Texas â Major Jacob Brown
- Browntown, Wisconsin â William G. Brown (settler)
- Brownville, Maine â Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
- Brownville, Nebraska â Richard Brown (settler)
- Brownville, New York â John Brown (settler and father of General Jacob Jennings Brown)
- Brownwood, Texas â Henry S. Brown (settler)
- Bruceville, Indiana â William Bruce (landowner)
- Brunswick, Maine â House of Brunswick
- Brunswick, Vermont â from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
- Brushton, New York â Henry N. Brush (landowner)
- Brutus, 4 places in Kentucky, Michigan, New York, and Virginia â Marcus Junius Brutus
- Bryan, Ohio â John A. Bryan (state auditor)
- Bryan, Texas â William Joel Bryan
- Bryson City, North Carolina â T.D. Bryson (state legislator and landowner)
- Bryte, California â Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
- Buchanan, Michigan â James Buchanan
- Buchanan, Virginia â John Buchanan (settler)
- Buckfield, Maine â Abijah Buck (settler)
- Buckner, Missouri â 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 â Isaac Buck (settler)
- Buckskin Joe, Park County, Colorado â Joseph Higginbotham (frontiersman nicknamed "Buckskin Joe")
- Bucksport, California â David A. Buck (founder)
- Bucksport, Maine â Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)
- Bucoda, Washington â J.M. <u>Bu</u>ckley, Samuel <u>Co</u>ulter, and John B. <u>Da</u>vid (businessmen)
- Buels Gore, Vermont â Major Elias Buel (landholder)
- Bullittsville, Kentucky â Alexander Scott Bullitt
- Bullochville, Georgia â Archibald Bulloch
- Buna, Texas â Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
- Bunceton, Missouri â Harvey Bunce (resident)
- Buntingville, California â A.J. Bunting (merchant)
- Burbank, California â David Burbank (dentist)
- Burden, Kansas â Robert F. Burden (landowner)
- Burdell, California â Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
- Bureau County, Illinois and Bureau Junction, Illinois â Pierre de Buero (trader) (note the spelling)
- Burgaw, North Carolina â Burgaw family (residents)
- Burke (town), New York and Burke, Vermont â Edmund Burke
- Burleson, Texas â Edward Burleson (Texian patriot)
- Burlingame, California - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
- Burlingame, Kansas â Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
- Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin â 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).
- Burnet, Texas â Governor David G. Burnet
- Burnsville, Indiana â Brice Bruns (founder)
- Burnsville, North Carolina â Otway Burns (boat captain)
- Burrel, California â Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
- Burrillville, Rhode Island â James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
- Burrton, Kansas â I.T. Burr (Vice President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
- Burson, California â David S. Burson (railroad man)
- Bushnell, South Dakota â Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
- Busti, New York â Paolo Busti (landowner)
- Butler, Missouri â General William O. Butler
- Buxton, Oregon â Henry Buxton (settler)
- Byers, Colorado â W.N. Byers (Denver resident)
- Bynumville, Missouri â Dr. Joseph Bynum (settler)
- Byron, 3 places in Georgia, Maine, and New York â Lord Byron (English poet)
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- Cable, Illinois â Ransom R. Cable (railroader)
- Cabot, Vermont â named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
- Cadillac, Michigan â Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
- Cadott, Wisconsin â Baptiste Cadotte (resident) (note the spelling)
- Caldwell, Kansas â Alexander Caldwell (U.S. Senator)
- Caldwell, New Jersey â Rev. James Caldwell
- Caldwell, Ohio â Joseph and Samuel Caldwell (landowners)
- Caldwell, Texas â Mathew Caldwell (Texian patriot)
- Calhoun, Kentucky â John Calhoun (judge)
- Callaway, Missouri â Capt. James Callaway
- Callensburg, Pennsylvania â Hugh Callen (founder)
- Calvert, Maryland â Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
- Camano Island, Washington â Jacinto Caamaño (explorer) (note the spelling)
- Camden, 4 places in Maine, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina â Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
- Cameron, 3 places in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia â Simon Cameron
- Cameron, Missouri â Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
- Cameron, New York â Dugald Cameron (land agent)
- Cameron, South Carolina â J. Donald Cameron (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania)
- Cameron, Texas â Ewen Cameron (Texian patriot)
- Camillus, New York â Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)
- Camp Connell, California â John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster)
- Camp Douglas, Wisconsin â James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives)
- Camp Pardee, California â George Pardee (governor of California)
- Camp Richardson, California â Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
- Campbell, California â Benjamin Campbell (founder)
- Campbell, New York â Campbell family (settlers)
- Campbellsville, Kentucky â Andrew Campbell (founder)
- Campion, Colorado â John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry)
- Camptonville, California â Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
- Canal Lewisville, Ohio â T.B. Lewis (founder)
- Canby, California and Canby, Oregon â General Edward Canby
- Canfield, Ohio â Jonathan Canfield (proprietor)
- Cannonsburg, Michigan â Le Grand Cannon (resident of Troy, New York)
- Cannonsville, New York â Benjamin Cannon (landowner)
- Canonsburg, Pennsylvania â John Cannon (founder) (note the spelling)
- Canova, South Dakota â Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
- Canterbury, New Hampshire â William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Capac, Michigan â Manco Cápac (Incan emperor)
- Cape Elizabeth, Maine â Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri â Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
- Cape May, New Jersey â Cornelius Jacobsen May (explorer)
- Cape Vincent, New York â Vincent, son of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont
- Captain Cook, Hawaii â Captain James Cook (English explorer)
- Cardwell, Missouri â Frank Cardwell (resident of Paragould, Arkansas)
- Caribou, California â Johnny Caribou (early miner)
- Carlinville, Illinois â Governor Thomas Carlin
- Carlisle, Massachusetts â Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
- Carlotta, California â Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
- Carnegie, Pennsylvania â Andrew Carnegie
- Carnesville, Georgia â Col. T.P. Carnes
- Carolina, Rhode Island â Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
- Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri â Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet
- Carol Stream, Illinois â (named for founder's daughter)
- Carr, Colorado â Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
- Carroll, New Hampshire â Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Carroll Plantation, Maine â Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
- Carrollton, New York â G. Carroll (landowner)
- Carson City, Nevada â Kit Carson
- Carson Hill, California â Sergeant James H. Carson
- Carter, Kentucky â William G. Carter (state senator)
- Carter, Tennessee â Gen. Landon Carter
- Carteret, New Jersey â George Carteret (proprietor of New Jersey) and Philip Carteret (first royal governor of New Jersey)
- Cartersville, Georgia â Col. F. Carter
- Caruthers, California â W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
- Caruthersville, Missouri â Samuel Caruthers
- Carver, Massachusetts â John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)
- Carver, Minnesota â Capt. Jonathan Carver (explorer)
- Cary, North Carolina â Samuel Fenton Cary (Prohibition advocate)
- Caseyville, Kentucky â Col. William Casey
- Cashion, Oklahoma â Roy Cashion (member of the Rough Riders)
- Caspar, California â Siegfried Caspar (founder)
- Casper, Wyoming â Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
- Casselton, North Dakota â Gen. George W. Cass (director of the Union Pacific Railroad)
- Cassville, Wisconsin â Lewis Cass
- Castine, Maine â Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin
- Castroville, California â Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
- Castroville, Texas â Henri Castro (settler)
- Catharine, New York â Catherine Montour (note the spelling)
- Catheys Valley, California â Andrew Cathey (early settler)
- Cato (town), New York â either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger
- Cavalier, North Dakota â Charles Cavalier (settler)
- Cavendish, Vermont â William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
- Cawker City, Kansas â E.H. Cawker
- Cazenovia, 4 places in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin â 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 â Col. Joseph Senter (settler) (note the spelling)
- Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania â Francis Chadsey (proprietor)
- Chalfant Valley, California â Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
- Chamberlain, South Dakota â Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
- Chambersburg, Pennsylvania â Benjamin Chambers (founder)
- Chambers Lodge, California â David H. Chambers (lodge builder)
- Champion, New York â Gen. Henry Champion (settler)
- Champlain, New York â Samuel de Champlain
- Chandler, Arizona â Dr. Alexander John Chandler
- Chandlerville, Illinois â Dr. Charles Chandler (founder)
- Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire â Jeremiah Chanler (landowner) (note the spelling)
- Chanute, Kansas â O. Chanute (engineer with the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad)
- Chaplin, Connecticut â Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
- Chapman, Pennsylvania â William Chapman (slate mine owner)
- Chardon, Ohio â Peter Chardon Brooks (proprietor)
- Charles Town, West Virginia â Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)
- Charleston, Maine â Charles Vaughan (settler)
- Charleston, Mississippi â King Charles II of England (indirectly, via Charleston, South Carolina)
- Charleston, South Carolina â King Charles II of England
- Charleston, West Virginia â Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)
- Charlestown, New Hampshire â Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy
- Charlestown, Rhode Island â King Charles II of England
- Charlevoix, Michigan â Francis X. Charlevoix (missionary)
- Charlotte, Maine â Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
- Charlotte, New York and Charlottesville, Virginia â Princess Charlotte of Wales
- Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont â Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)
- Charlotte Amalie â Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
- Charlton, Massachusetts â Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet
- Chartiers Township, Pennsylvania â Peter Chartier (trader)
- Chatfield, Minnesota â Judge Andrew Chatfield
- Chatham, 4 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)
- Chaumont, New York â Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (proprietor)
- Cheney, Kansas â P.B. Cheney (stockholder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
- Cheney, Washington â Benjamin P. Cheney (founder of the Northern Pacific Railway)
- Cheneyville, Louisiana â William Cheney (settler)
- Chester, Vermont â 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 â Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
- Chichester, New Hampshire â Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester
- Childress, Texas â George Childress (Texian patriot)
- Chittenden, Vermont â Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
- Chivington, Colorado â John Chivington (soldier and perpetrator of the Sand Creek massacre)
- Choteau, Montana â Auguste and Pierre Chouteau (founders of St. Louis, Missouri) (note the spelling)
- Christiana, Delaware and Christiana, Pennsylvania â Queen Christina of Sweden
- Christiansted â Christian VI of Denmark
- Churchville, New York â Samuel Church (settler)
- Cicero, Illinois â Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)
- Cicero, New York â Cicero
- Cincinnati, Ohio â Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)
- Cincinnatus, New York â Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
- Cisco, California â John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)
- Cisco Grove, California â John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)
- Clanton, Alabama â James Holt Clanton (Confederate general)
- Clapper, Missouri â Henry Clapper (railroader)
- Claraville, California â Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
- Clarence, Missouri â Clarence Duff (son of John Duff, settler)
- Clark Fork, Idaho â Governor William Clark
- Clarkia, Idaho â Governor William Clark
- Clarks, Nebraska â S.H.H. Clark (superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad)
- Clarksburg, California â Robert C. Clark (early settler)
- Clarksburg, Massachusetts â Nicholas Clark (early settler)
- Clarksburg, West Virginia â Gen. George Rogers Clark
- Clarkston, Washington â Governor William Clark
- Clarkesville, Georgia â Governor John Clarke
- Clarksville, Indiana â Gen. George Rogers Clark
- Clarksville, Missouri â Governor William Clark
- Clarksville, New Hampshire â Benjamin Clark
- Clarkton, Missouri â Henry E. Clark (contractor)
- Clay, 4 places in Florida (county), Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky â Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century)
- Clayton, California â Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
- Clayton, Delaware â Thomas Clayton (U.S. senator)
- Clayton, Georgia â Augustin Smith Clayton (U.S. congressman)
- Clayton, Missouri â Ralph Clayton
- Clayton, New York and Clayton, North Carolina â John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware)
- Cleburne, Texas â Patrick Cleburne (Confederate general)
- Clendenin, West Virginia â Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
- Cleveland, North Carolina and Cleveland, Tennessee â Colonel Benjamin Cleveland
- Cleveland, Ohio â Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)
- Cleveland, Texas â Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
- Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin â Grover Cleveland
- Clifford, Michigan â Clifford Lyman (first child born there)
- Clinton â DeWitt Clinton, 16 places in
- Arkansas â Connecticut â Illinois â Indiana â Iowa â Louisiana â Maine â Massachusetts â Michigan â Minnesota â Mississippi â Missouri â New Jersey â New York (city and county) â Ohio â Wisconsin
- Clinton, Kansas â DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois)
- Clinton, Montana â General Sir Henry Clinton
- Clinton, Nebraska â DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa)
- Clinton, Dutchess County, New York â George Clinton (early governor of New York)
- Clinton, Oneida County, New York â George Clinton (early governor of New York)
- Clinton, North Carolina â American Revolution General Richard Clinton
- Clinton, Oklahoma â Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
- Clinton, South Carolina â Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
- Clinton, Tennessee - George Clinton (vice president)
- Clinton, Washington â DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan)
- Clockville, New York â John Klock (landowner) (note the spelling)
- Clovis, California â Clovis Cole (local farmer)
- Clymers, Indiana â George Clymer (founder)
- Clymer, New York â George Clymer (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Coatesville, Pennsylvania â Moses Coates (settler)
- Cochran, Georgia â Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
- Cockeysville, Maryland â Thomas Cockey (settler)
- Coeymans, New York â Barent Peterse Coeymans (landowner)
- Coffeeville, Mississippi â Gen. John Coffee
- Coffeyville, Kansas â A.M. Coffey (state legislator)
- Cokesbury, South Carolina â Bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
- Colby, Kansas â J.R. Colby (settler)
- Colby, Wisconsin â Charles Colby (president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad)
- Colchester, Vermont â Earl of Colchester
- Colden, New York â Cadwallader D. Colden (state legislator)
- Colebrook, New Hampshire â Sir George Colebrooke (landowner) (note the spelling)
- Coleman, Texas â R.M. Coleman (Texas Ranger)
- Coleville, California â Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
- Colesville, New York â Nathaniel Cole (settler)
- Colfax, 5 places in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington â Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
- Collettsville, North Carolina â Colletts family (residents)
- Collier County, Florida â Barron Collier
- Collinsville, Illinois â Collins brothers (founders)
- Colrain, Massachusetts â Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
- Colquitt, Georgia and Colquitt County, Georgia â U.S. Senator Walter T. Colquitt
- Colton, New York â Jesse Colton Higley (settler)
- Columbia, South Carolina â Christopher Columbus
- Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio â Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
- Communipaw, New Jersey â Michael Reyniersz Pauw (director of the Dutch West India Company) (note the spelling)
- Compton, California â Griffith D. Compton (settler)
- Conklin, New York â Judge John Conklin
- Connellsville, Pennsylvania â Zachariah Connell (founder)
- Connersville, Indiana â John Conner (founder)
- Connersville, Kentucky â Lewis Conner
- Conroe, Texas â Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
- Constable, New York and Constableville, New York â William Constable (proprietor)
- Conway, Arkansas â Henry Wharton Conway (territorial delegate to Congress)
- Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire â General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
- Conway, South Carolina â Gen. Robert Conway (resident)
- Cooksburg, New York â Thomas B. Cook (landowner)
- Coolidge, Kansas â Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
- Coolidge, Arizona â 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 â General John Cooper (landowner)
- Cooper River (South Carolina) â Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
- Cooperstown, New York â William Cooper
- Cooperstown, Pennsylvania â William Cooper (founder)
- Coopersville, Clinton County, New York â Ebenezer Cooper (mill owner)
- Cope, Colorado â Jonathan Cope (founder)
- Cope, South Carolina â J. Martin Cope (founder)
- Coraopolis, Pennsylvania â Cora Watson (wife of landowner)
- Corbett, Oregon â U.S. Senator Henry W. Corbett
- Corinna, Maine â Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
- Corinne, Utah â Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
- Cornelius, Oregon â Col. Thomas R. Cornelius
- Cornettsville, Indiana â Myer and Samuel Cornett (founders)
- Corning (city), New York and Corning, Kansas â Erastus Corning (politician)
- Cornish, New Hampshire â Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
- Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania â Cornplanter (Native American chief)
- Coronado, California and Coronado, Kansas â Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (explorer)
- Corpus Christi, Texas â Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
- Corrigan, Texas â Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
- Corry, Pennsylvania â Hiram Corry (landowner)
- Corsicana, Texas â Corcisana Navarro (wife of landowner)
- Cortland, New York, Cortlandt, New York, and Cortlandville, New York â Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
- Corwin, Ohio â Thomas Corwin (Governor and U.S. Senator)
- Cottleville, Missouri â Lorenzo Cottle (settler)
- Cottrell Key, Florida â Jeremiah Cottrell (lighthouse keeper)
- Coulter, Pennsylvania â Eli Coulter (settler)
- Coulterville, California â George W. Coulter (early settler)
- Coupeville, Washington â Captain Thomas Coupe (founder)
- Courtland, Kansas â Pierre Van Cortlandt (indirectly, via Cortland, New York) (note the spelling)
- Coutolenc, California â Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
- Covington, 3 places in Georgia, Kentucky, and New York â Gen. Leonard Covington
- Cowell, California â Joshua Cowell (landowner)
- Cowles, Nebraska â W.D. Cowles (railroader)
- Cozad, Nebraska â John J. Cozad (landowner)
- Crabtree, California â John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
- Crabtree, Oregon â John J. Crabtree (settler)
- Craftsbury, Vermont â Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
- Craig, Colorado â Rev. Bayard Craig
- Cranesville, Pennsylvania â Fowler Crane (founder)
- Crannell, California â Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
- Cranston, Rhode Island â Gov. Samuel Cranston
- Crawford, Georgia and Crawford, Maine â William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
- Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire â Ethan A. Crawford (landowner)
- Crawfordsville, Indiana â William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
- Crawfordsville, Oregon â George F. Crawford (settler)
- Crawfordville, Georgia â William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
- Cresson, Pennsylvania and Cressona, Pennsylvania â Elliott Cresson (Philadelphia merchant)
- Cressey, California â Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
- Creswell, North Carolina â Postmaster General John Creswell
- Crittenden, Kentucky â U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden
- Crockett, California â Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
- Crockett, Texas â Davy Crockett
- Croghan (town), New York â Col. George Croghan
- Crook, Colorado â General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
- Crosbyton, Texas â Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
- Croswell, Michigan â Gov. Charles Croswell
- Crowley, Polk County, Oregon â Solomon K. Crowley (settler)
- Crugers, New York â Col. John P. Cruger
- Cudahy, California â Michael Cudahy
- Cudahy, Wisconsin â Patrick Cudahy (meatpacker)
- Cullman, Alabama â Gen. John G. Cullmann (note the spelling)
- Culloden, Georgia â William Culloden (settler)
- Cullom, Illinois â Shelby Moore Cullom (U.S. Senator)
- Culpeper, Virginia â Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (note the spelling)
- Cumberland, Maryland and Cumberland, Rhode Island â Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
- Cumming, Georgia â Col. William Cumming
- Cummings, Mendocino County, California â Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
- Cummington, Massachusetts â Colonel John Cummings (landholder)
- Cumminsville, Nebraska â J.F. Cummings (county clerk) (note the spelling)
- Cumminsville, Ohio â David Cummins (settler)
- Cupertino, California â Joseph of Cupertino
- Curry Village, California â David A. Curry (founder)
- Curryville, Missouri â Perry Curry (founder)
- Curwensville, Pennsylvania â John Curwen
- Cushing, Maine â Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
- Custer, 5 places in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota â Gen. George Armstrong Custer
- Cuthbert, Georgia â Col. John Alfred Cuthbert (congressman)
- Cutler, Maine â Joseph Cutler (settler)
- Cynthiana, Kentucky â Cynthia and Anna Harris (daughters of landowner)
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- Dacono, Colorado â <u>Da</u>isy Baum, <u>Co</u>ra Van Vorhies and <u>No</u>na (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
- Dade City, Florida â Major Francis L. Dade
- Dadeville, Alabama â Major Francis L. Dade
- Daggett, Indiana â Charles Daggett (resident)
- Dagsboro, Delaware â Sir John Dagworthy
- Daisetta, Texas â <u>Dais</u>y Barrett and <u>Etta</u> White (early residents)
- Dallas, North Carolina and Dallas, Texas â George M. Dallas
- Dallas Center, Iowa â George M. Dallas
- Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire â Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
- Dalton, Missouri â William Dalton
- Dandridge, Tennessee â Martha Washington (née Dandridge)
- Danforth, Maine â Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
- Danielsville, Georgia â Gen. Allen Daniel Jr.
- Dansville, Michigan â Daniel L. Crossman (resident)
- Dansville, Livingston County, New York and Dansville, Steuben County, New York â Daniel P. Faulkner (founder)
- Danvers, Massachusetts â Danvers Osborn family
- Danville, California â Daniel Inman (local landowner)
- Danville, Georgia â Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)
- Danville, Indiana â Daniel Bales (proprietor)
- Danville, Kentucky â Walker Daniel (founder)
- Danville, Missouri â Daniel M. Boone (landowner and son of Daniel Boone)
- Danville, Pennsylvania â Gen. Daniel Montgomery Jr.
- Danville, Vermont â Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
- Darkesville, West Virginia â Gen. William Darke
- Darlington, Pennsylvania â S.P. Darlington (Pittsburgh merchant)
- Darwin, California â Dr. Darwin French
- Darwin, Illinois â Charles Darwin
- Daulton, California â Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
- Davenport, Iowa â Colonel George Davenport
- Davenport, Nebraska â Colonel George Davenport (indirectly, via Davenport, Iowa)
- Davenport, New York â John Davenport (settler)
- Davidson, North Carolina â Gen. William Lee Davidson
- Davie, Florida â Randolph P. Davie (developer)
- Davis, California â Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
- Davis, West Virginia â Henry Gassaway Davis (U.S. Senator)
- Dawson, Illinois â John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
- Dawson, Nebraska â Joshua Dawson (settler)
- Dawsonville, Georgia â William Crosby Dawson (U.S. Senator)
- Dayton, Maine and Dayton, Ohio â Jonathan Dayton
- Dayton, Texas â I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town)
- Daytona Beach, Florida â Matthias Day
- Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri â Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War)
- Deblois, Maine â T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)
- Decatur, 4 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, and New York â Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)
- Decatur, Nebraska â Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
- Decorah, Iowa â Decorie (Native American chief)
- Decoto, California â Ezra Decoto (landowner)
- Deering, New Hampshire â Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)
- Delancey, New York â James De Lancey (landowner)
- DeLand, Florida â Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)
- Delano, California â Columbus Delano
- Delavan, Wisconsin â Edward C. Delavan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)
- Delaware â Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (note the spelling)
- De Leon, Texas and DeLeon Springs, Florida â Juan Ponce de León
- Denison, Iowa â J.W. Denison (founder)
- Denison, Texas â Rev. C.W. Denison (abolitionist)
- Denmark, South Carolina â B.A. Denmark (railroader)
- Denning, New York â William Denning (land purchaser)
- Dennis, Massachusetts â Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
- Dennison, Ohio â Gov. William Dennison Jr.
- Denton, Maryland â Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (colonial governor) (According to , Denton is a short version of the town's original name, Eden Town).
- Denton, Texas â Capt. John B. Denton
- Denver, Colorado â James W. Denver
- Depauville, New York â Francis Depau (proprietor)
- Depew, New York â Chauncey Depew
- De Peyster, New York â Frederic de Peyster
- DeSabla, California â Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
- De Smet, Idaho and De Smet, South Dakota â Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary)
- DeSoto, 4 places in Florida (county), Georgia, Louisiana (parish), and Mississippi (county) â Hernando de Soto
- Devens, Massachusetts â Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
- Devine, Texas â Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of San Antonio)
- Dewees, Texas â Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen
- Deweyville, Texas â Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
- DeWitt, Illinois and De Witt, Missouri â DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York)
- DeWitt, New York â Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
- Dexter, Maine â Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
- Dexter, Michigan â Samuel W. Dexter (settler)
- Dexter, Minnesota â Dexter Parrity (early settler)
- Dexter, New York â S. Newton Dexter (businessman from Whitesboro, New York)
- D'Hanis, Texas â William D'Hanis (land agent for Henri Castro)
- Di Giorgio, California â Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
- Diamondville, California â James Diamond
- Dickey, North Dakota â George H. Dickey (state legislator)
- Dickinson, North Dakota â W.S. Dickinson (founder)
- Dickson, Tennessee â William Dickson
- Dighton, Kansas â Francis Deighton (surveyor) (note the spelling)
- Dighton, Massachusetts â Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder)
- Diller, Nebraska â H.H. Diller (settler)
- Dillon, Montana â Sidney Dillon (railroader)
- Dillon Beach, California â George Dillon (founder)
- Dillsboro, Indiana â Gen. James Dill (settler)
- Dillsboro, North Carolina â George W. Dill (settler)
- Dimond, California â Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
- Dinwiddie, Virginia â Robert Dinwiddie (colonial governor)
- District of Columbia â Christopher Columbus
- Dixfield, Maine and Dixmont, Maine â Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
- Dixon, California â Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck)
- Dixon, Illinois â John Dixon (founder)
- Dixon, Kentucky â Archibald Dixon
- Dixville, New Hampshire â Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
- Dobbins, California â William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
- Dobson, North Carolina â W.P. Dobson (state legislator)
- Dodge Center, Minnesota and Dodgeville, Wisconsin â Gov. Henry Dodge
- Dolph, Oregon â Joseph N. Dolph (U.S. Senator)
- Donaldsonville, Louisiana â William Donaldson
- Doniphan, 3 places in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska â Col. Alexander William Doniphan
- Donner, California â Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)
- Doral, Florida â <u>Al</u>fred Kaskel and his wife <u>Dor</u>is Bernstein (1906âÂÂ1988)
- Dormansville, New York â Daniel Dorman (innkeeper)
- Dougherty, California â James Witt Dougherty (founder)
- Douglas, Massachusetts â Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
- Douglas, Wyoming â Stephen A. Douglas
- Douglas Flat, California â Tom Douglas (early merchant)
- Douglass, Kansas â Joseph Douglass (founder)
- Dover-Foxcroft, Maine â Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
- Downers Grove, Illinois â Pierce Downer (settler)
- Downey, California â John G. Downey
- Downingtown, Pennsylvania â Thomas Downing
- Downs, Kansas â William F. Downs (Atchison resident)
- Downsville, New York â Abel Downs (tanner)
- Doyle, Lassen County, California â Oscar Doyle (landowner)
- Doylestown, Ohio â William Doyle
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania â William Doyle (settler)
- Drakesbad, California â Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)
- Drakesville, Iowa â John A. Drake (founder)
- Dresbach Township, Minnesota â George B. Dresbach (founder)
- Drewry's Bluff, Virginia â Maj. Augustus Drewry
- Dryden, New York â John Dryden
- Duane, New York and Duanesburg, New York â James Duane (grantee)
- DuBois, Pennsylvania â John Dubois (founder)
- Dubuque, Iowa â Julien Dubuque (early resident)
- Dudley, Georgia â Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
- Dudley, Massachusetts â Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
- Duluth, Georgia â Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (indirectly, via Duluth, Minnesota)
- Duluth, Minnesota â Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
- Dummer, New Hampshire and Dummerston, Vermont â William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)
- Dumont, Colorado â John M. Dumont (mine operator)
- Dunbar, Nebraska â John Dunbar (landowner)
- Duncombe, Iowa â J.F. Duncombe
- Dunlap, California â George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
- Dunlap, Kansas â Joseph Dunlap (trader and founder)
- Dunlapsville, Indiana â John Dunlap (settler)
- Dunmore, West Virginia â John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (colonial governor)
- Dunnigan, California â A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
- Dunnsville, New York â Christopher Dunn (landowner)
- Duplin County, North Carolina â Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
- Duquesne, Pennsylvania â Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville (indirectly, via Fort Duquesne)
- Durand, Michigan â George H. Durand (U.S. Representative)
- Durand, Wisconsin â Miles Durand Prindle (settler)
- Durant, Iowa â Thomas Durant
- Durham, California â W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
- Durham, North Carolina â Bartlett S. Durham (landowner)
- Duval County, Florida â William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834
- Dycusburg, Kentucky â William E. Dycus (founder)
- Dyersburg, Tennessee â Col. Henry Dyer
- Dyersville, Iowa â James Dyer (landowner)
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- Earling, Iowa â Albert J. Earling, Milwaukee Road officer
- Earl Park, Indiana â Adams Earl (founder)
- Earlville, Iowa â G.M. Earl (settler)
- Earlville, New York â Jonas Earll Jr. (canal commissioner) (note the spelling)
- East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania â Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner)
- Eastland, Texas â M.W. Eastland
- Eastman, Georgia â W.P. Eastman
- Easton, Massachusetts â John Easton (colonial governor of Rhode Island)
- East St. Louis, Illinois â Saint Louis
- Eaton, Colorado â Benjamin H. and Aaron J. Eaton (millers)
- Eaton, New Hampshire â Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton
- Eaton, New York and Eaton, Ohio â Gen. William Eaton
- Eatonton, Georgia â Gen. William Eaton
- Ebensburg, Pennsylvania â Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)
- Eckley, California â Commodore John L. Eckley
- Eckley, Colorado â Amos Eckles (cattlehand)
- Eddington, Maine â Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution)
- Eddyville, Iowa â J.P. Eddy (postmaster)
- Eden, Texas â Fred Ede (landowner)
- Edgartown, Massachusetts â Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
- Edgecomb, Maine â George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (a supporter of the colonists) (note the spelling)
- Edgerton, Ohio â Alfred Peck Edgerton
- Edgerton, Wisconsin â E.W. Edgerton (settler)
- Edison, 3 places in Georgia, New Jersey, and Ohio â Thomas Edison
- Edmeston, New York â Robert Edmeston (founder)
- Edna, Kansas â Edna Gragery (child who lived there)
- Edroy, Texas â <u>Ed</u> Cubage and <u>Roy</u> Miller (co-founders)
- Edwards, Mississippi â Dick Edwards (Jackson hotelier)
- Edwards, New York â Edward McCormack (founder's brother)
- Edwardsport, Indiana â Edwards Wilkins
- Edwardsville, Illinois â Ninian Edwards (territorial governor)
- Effingham, Illinois and Effingham County, Illinois â Gen. Edward Effingham
- Effingham, Kansas â Effingham Nichols (railroader)
- Effingham, New Hampshire â Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham
- Egremont, Massachusetts â Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont
- Ehrenberg, Arizona â Herman Ehrenberg (founder)
- El Macero, California â Bruce Mace (local landowner)
- Elberton, Georgia and Elbert County, Georgia â Gov. Samuel Elbert
- Elbridge, New York â Elbridge Gerry
- Elizabeth, New Jersey and Elizabethtown, North Carolina â Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret)
- Elizabeth, Pennsylvania â Elizabeth Bayard (founder's wife)
- Elizabeth, West Virginia â Elizabeth Beauchamp
- Elizabeth City, North Carolina â Elizabeth I
- Elizabethton, Tennessee â Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
- Elizabethtown, Indiana â Elizabeth Branham (founder's wife)
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky â Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes)
- Elkader, Iowa â Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot)
- Elkins, West Virginia â Stephen Benton Elkins (U.S. Senator)
- Ellenburg, New York â Ellen Murray (landowner's daughter)
- Ellendale, Delaware â Ellen Prettyman (founder's wife)
- Ellensburg, Washington â Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
- Ellenville, New York â Ellen Snyder (settler)
- Ellery, New York â William Ellery
- Ellicott, New York and Ellicottville, New York â Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company)
- Ellicott City, Maryland â John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders)
- Ellinwood, Kansas â Col. John R. Ellinwood (engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
- Ellisburg, New York â Lyman Ellis (founder)
- Ellisville, Mississippi â Powhatan Ellis (U.S. Senator)
- Ellsworth, Kansas â Lt. Allen Ellsworth
- Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire â Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
- Elmendorf, Texas â Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio)
- Elmira, New York â Elmira Teall (tavernkeeper's daughter)
- Elmore, Vermont â Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)
- Elsie, Michigan â Elsie Tillotson (pioneer's daughter)
- Elsie, Nebraska â Elsie Perkins
- Elyria, Ohio â Heman Ely (1817)
- Emerick, Nebraska â John Emerick (settler)
- Emery, South Dakota â S.M. Emery (landowner)
- Emeryville, California â Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
- Emlenton, Pennsylvania â Emlen Fox (landowner's wife)
- Emmett, Michigan and Emmetsburg, Iowa â Robert Emmet (Irish nationalist)
- Emmitsburg, Maryland â William Emmitt (founder) (note the spelling)
- Enfield, Massachusetts â Robert Field
- Ennis, Montana â William Ennis (settler)
- Enosburgh, Vermont â Roger Enos (landowner)
- Errol, New Hampshire â James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
- Erving, Massachusetts â John Erving (early farmer landowner)
- Erwin, New York â Col. Arthur Erwin
- Eskridge, Kansas â C.V. Eskridge (landowner)
- Essexville, Michigan â Ransom Essex (settler)
- Estes Park, Colorado â Joel Estes (founder)
- Estherville, Iowa â Esther Ridley (landowner's wife)
- Estill, Kentucky â Capt. James Estill
- Estill, Missouri â Col. John R. Estill
- Ethel, Mississippi â Ethel McConnico
- Euclid, Ohio â Euclid (Greek mathematician)
- Eudora, Kansas â Eudora Fish
- Eugene, Oregon â Eugene Franklin Skinner (settler)
- Eunice, Louisiana â Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city)
- Eustis, Maine â Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)
- Evans, Colorado, Evanston, Illinois, and Evanston, Wyoming â Gov. John Evans
- Evans, New York â David Ellicott Evans (agent of the Holland Land Company)
- Evans Mills, New York â Ethni Evans (mill owner)
- Evansville, Indiana â Robert Morgan Evans (founder)
- Evansville, Wyoming â W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
- Evart, Michigan â Frank Evart (pioneer)
- Everett, Massachusetts and Everett, Pennsylvania â Edward Everett (politician and educator)
- Everett, Washington â Everett Colby (son of Charles Colby, local booster)
- Ewing Township, New Jersey â Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)
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- Fairbanks, Alaska â Charles W. Fairbanks
- Fairfax, California â Charles S. Fairfax
- Fairfax, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia â Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
- Fallon, California â Luke and James Fallon (early settlers)
- Fallowfield, Pennsylvania â Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner)
- Fannin, Texas â Col. James Fannin (Texian patriot)
- Fannett, Texas â B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s)
- Fargo, North Dakota â William Fargo
- Faribault, Minnesota â Jean-Baptiste Faribault (settler)
- Farley, Mendocino County, California â Jackson Farley (early settler)
- Farnham, New York â Le Roy Farnham (merchant)
- Farragut, Iowa and Farragut, Tennessee â David Farragut
- Farrandsville, Pennsylvania â William P. Farrand (founder)
- Farwell, Michigan â Samuel B. Farwell (railroader)
- Fayette, 12 places in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin â 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 â Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
- Fayette City, Pennsylvania â Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
- Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois and Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa â Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)
- Fellows, California â Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor)
- Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland â William Fell (landowner)
- Felts Mills, New York â John Felt (proprietor)
- Fenner, New York â Rhode Island Governor Arthur Fenner
- Fennville, Michigan â Ethan Fenn (founder)
- Fenton, New York â Governor Reuben Fenton
- Ferdinand, Vermont â from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
- Fernandina Beach, Florida â King Ferdinand VII of Spain
- Ferrisburgh, Vermont â Benjamin Ferris (founder)
- Fields Landing, California â Waterman Field (early settler)
- Fieldville, New Jersey â John Field (early settler)
- Fincastle, Virginia â George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (son of colonial governor Lord Dunmore and also known by the title Lord Fincastle)
- Findlay, Ohio â Col. James Findlay (indirectly, via Fort Findlay)
- Findlay Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania â Gov. William Findley (note the spelling)
- Fine, New York â John Fine (landowner)
- Finley, California â Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
- Firebaugh, California â Andrew D. Firebaugh
- Firestone, Colorado â Jacob Firestone (landowner)
- Fitchburg, Massachusetts â John Fitch (settler)
- Fithian, Illinois â Dr. William Fithian
- Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire â William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor John Wentworth)
- Flagler County, Florida â Henry Flagler, built the Florida East Coast Railway
- Flandreau, South Dakota â Charles Eugene Flandrau
- Fleming, New York â Gen. George Fleming (resident)
- Flemingsburg, Kentucky â Col. John Fleming
- Flora, Mississippi â Flora Jones (resident)
- Florence, Kansas â Florence Crawford
- Florence, Kentucky â Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
- Florence, Omaha, Nebraska â Florence Kilbourn
- Florence, South Carolina â Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area)
- Floresville, Texas â Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler)
- Floyd, Iowa â Charles Floyd (explorer with Lewis and Clark)
- Floyd, New York â William Floyd (Founding Father)
- Floyd, Virginia â John Floyd (Virginia politician)
- Floydada, Texas â Dolphin <u>Floyd</u> (died while defending the Alamo) and <u>Ada</u> Price (wife of a local landholder) (indirectly, via Floyd County, Texas)
- Fluhr, California â C.G. Fluhr (railroad official)
- Fonda, New York â Douw Fonda
- Forbestown, California â B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
- Ford, Kansas â Col. James Hobart Ford
- Forsyth, Georgia â Gov. John Forsyth
- Forsyth, Montana â General James W. Forsyth
- Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin â Gen. Henry Atkinson
- Fort Benton, Montana â Thomas Hart Benton
- Fort Bragg, California - American Army officer and Confederate general Braxton Bragg
- Fort Collins, Colorado â Colonel William O. Collins
- Fort Covington, New York â Gen. Leonard Covington
- Fort Dodge, Iowa â Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)
- Fort Edward (town), New York â Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany
- Fort Fairfield, Maine â Gov. John Fairfield
- Fort Fetterman, Wyoming â Lt. Col. William J. Fetterman
- Fort Frederica, Georgia â Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Fort Gaines, Alabama and Fort Gaines, Georgia â Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
- Fort Hamilton, New York â Alexander Hamilton
- Fort John, California â John Stuart
- Fort Johnston, North Carolina â Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina
- Fort Kent, Maine â Edward Kent (governor of Maine)
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida â Major William Lauderdale
- Fort Leavenworth, Kansas â Gen. Henry Leavenworth
- Fort Lee, New Jersey â Charles Lee
- Fort Lupton, Colorado â Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)
- Fort Madison, Iowa â James Madison
- Fort Morgan, Colorado â Colonel Christopher A. Morgan
- Fort Myers, Florida and Fort Myers Beach, Florida â Col. Abraham C. Myers
- Fort Pierre, South Dakota â Pierre Chouteau Jr.
- Fort Romie, California â Charles Romie (landowner)
- Fort Scott, Kansas â Gen. Winfield Scott
- Fort Seward, California â William H. Seward
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois â Gen. Philip Sheridan
- Fort Wayne, Indiana â Anthony Wayne
- Fort Worth, Texas â William Jenkins Worth
- Foster, Rhode Island â U.S. Senator Theodore Foster
- Fostoria, Ohio â Gov. Charles Foster
- Fouts Springs, California â John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
- Fowler, California â Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
- Fowler, Michigan â John N. Fowler
- Fowler, New York â Theodocius Fowler (landowner)
- Fowlerville, Michigan â Ralph Fowler (settler)
- Fowlerville, Livingston County, New York â Wells Fowler (settler)
- Foxburg, Pennsylvania â H.M. Fox (landowner)
- Foxborough, Massachusetts â Charles James Fox
- Francestown, New Hampshire â Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife)
- Franceville, Colorado â Matt France
- Frankfort, Kansas â Frank Schmidt (landowner)
- Frankfort, Kentucky â Benjamin Franklin
- Frankfort (town), New York â Lawrence Frank (settler)
- Franklin â Benjamin Franklin, 36 places in
- Alabama â Arkansas â Sacramento County, California â Connecticut â Georgia â Idaho â Illinois â Indiana â Iowa â Kentucky â Louisiana â Maine â Massachusetts â Michigan â Minnesota â Missouri â Nebraska â New Hampshire â New Jersey â Franklin County, New York â Macon County, North Carolina â Surry County, North Carolina â Ohio â Cambria County, Pennsylvania â Venango County, Pennsylvania â Tennessee â Texas â Vermont â Virginia â West Virginia â Jackson County, Wisconsin â Kewaunee County, Wisconsin â Manitowoc County, Wisconsin â Milwaukee County, Wisconsin â Sauk County, Wisconsin â Vernon County, Wisconsin
- Franklin, Delaware County, New York â William Temple Franklin
- Franklin Lakes, New Jersey â Benjamin Franklin
- Franklin Park, New Jersey â Benjamin Franklin
- Franklin Township â Benjamin Franklin, 77 places in
- DeKalb County, Illinois â DeKalb County, Indiana â Floyd County, Indiana â Grant County, Indiana â Harrison County, Indiana â Hendricks County, Indiana â Henry County, Indiana â Johnson County, Indiana â Kosciusko County, Indiana â Marion County, Indiana â Montgomery County, Indiana â Owen County, Indiana â Pulaski County, Indiana â Putnam County, Indiana â Randolph County, Indiana â Ripley County, Indiana â Washington County, Indiana â Wayne County, Indiana â Allamakee County, Iowa â Appanoose County, Iowa â Bremer County, Iowa â Cass County, Iowa â Clarke County, Iowa â Decatur County, Iowa â Story County, Iowa â Bourbon County, Kansas â Edwards County, Kansas â Franklin County, Kansas â Jackson County, Kansas â Clare County, Michigan â Houghton County, Michigan â Lenawee County, Michigan â Wright County, Minnesota â Bergen County, New Jersey â Gloucester County, New Jersey â Hunterdon County, New Jersey â Somerset County, New Jersey â Warren County, New Jersey â Rowan County, North Carolina â Surry County, North Carolina â Adams County, Ohio â Brown County, Ohio â Clermont County, Ohio â Columbiana County, Ohio â Coshocton County, Ohio â Darke County, Ohio â Franklin County, Ohio â Fulton County, Ohio â Harrison County, Ohio â Jackson County, Ohio â Licking County, Ohio â Mercer County, Ohio â Monroe County, Ohio â Morrow County, Ohio â Portage County, Ohio â Richland County, Ohio â Ross County, Ohio â Shelby County, Ohio â Tuscarawas County, Ohio â Warren County, Ohio â Wayne County, Ohio â Adams County, Pennsylvania â Beaver County, Pennsylvania â Bradford County, Pennsylvania â Butler County, Pennsylvania â Carbon County, Pennsylvania â Chester County, Pennsylvania â Columbia County, Pennsylvania â Erie County, Pennsylvania â Fayette County, Pennsylvania â Greene County, Pennsylvania â Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania â Luzerne County, Pennsylvania â Lycoming County, Pennsylvania â Snyder County, Pennsylvania â Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania â York County, Pennsylvania
- Franklinton, Louisiana and Franklinton, North Carolina â Benjamin Franklin
- Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania â Stephen Franks (trader)
- Franktown, Colorado â J. Frank Gardner (resident)
- Fraser, Delaware County, New York â Hugh Frazer (landowner) (note the spelling)
- Frederic Township, Michigan â Frederick Barker (pioneer)
- Frederick, Colorado â Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
- Frederick, Maryland â Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
- Fredericksburg, Virginia â Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Fredericktown, Missouri â George Frederick Bollinger (state legislator)
- Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands â Frederick V of Denmark
- Freeborn, Minnesota â William Freeborn (town councillor)
- Freelandville, Indiana â Dr. John F. Freeland
- Freemansburg, Pennsylvania â Jacob Freeman
- Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts â John C. Frémont
- Frenchburg, Kentucky â Richard French (judge)
- French Mills, New York â Abel French (factory owner)
- Friant, California â Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
- Frye Island, Maine â Captain Joseph Frye
- Fryeburg, Maine â Captain Joseph Frye
- Fulford, Colorado â A.H. Fulford (pioneer)
- Fullerton, California â George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
- Fullerton, Nebraska â Randall Fuller (stockman)
- Fulton, South Dakota â Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat)
- Funk, Nebraska â P.C. Funk
- Funkstown, Maryland â Jacob Funk (landowner)
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- Gadsden, Alabama â James Gadsden
- Gagetown, Michigan â James Gage (settler)
- Gaines, New York â Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
- Gainesboro, Tennessee â Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
- Gainesville, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas â Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
- Galen, New York â Galen
- Galesburg, Illinois â George Washington Gale (founder)
- Galesville, Wisconsin â George Gale (founder)
- Gallatin River â Albert Gallatin
- Gallatin, New York and Gallatin, Tennessee â Albert Gallatin
- Gallaway, Tennessee â J.M. Gallaway (mill owner)
- Gallitzin, Pennsylvania â Pierre Gallitzin (founder)
- Galveston, Texas â Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora, MatÃÂas de Gálvez y Gallardo
- Gambier, Ohio â James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (benefactor of Kenyon College)
- Gansevoort, New York â Col. Peter Gansevoort (resident)
- Garberville, California â Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
- Gardiner, Maine â Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
- Gardiner, New York â Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
- Gardiners Island, New York â Lion Gardiner (settler)
- Gardner, Kansas â Henry Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts
- Gardner, Massachusetts â Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
- Garfield, 6 places in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, Mahoning County, Ohio, and Oregon â James A. Garfield
- Garibaldi, Oregon â Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Garland, Maine â Joseph Garland (settler)
- Garland, Texas â Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
- Garlock, California â Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
- Garnett, Kansas â W.A. Garnett (resident of Louisville, Kentucky)
- Garrett, Indiana and Garrett, Pennsylvania â John W. Garrett (president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
- Garretson, South Dakota â A. S. Garretson (banker)
- Garrison, Texas â Z.B. Garrison (settler)
- Gary, Indiana â Elbert Henry Gary
- Garysburg, North Carolina â Roderick B. Gary
- Gastonia, North Carolina â William Gaston (judge)
- Gasquet, California â Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
- Gates, New York and Gatesville, North Carolina â Gen. Horatio Gates
- Gaylesville, Alabama â George W. Gayle
- Gaylord, Kansas â C.E. Gaylord (resident of Marshall County)
- Gayoso, Missouri â Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (colonial governor)
- Geary, Kansas â Gov. John W. Geary
- Geddes, New York â James Geddes (early settler)
- Gentry, Missouri â Col. Richard Gentry
- George, Washington â George Washington
- George West, Texas â George Washington West (founder)
- Georgetown, California â George Phipps (founder)
- Georgetown, Colorado â George Griffith (clerk of court)
- Georgetown, Delaware â George Mitchell (resident)
- Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts â George Washington
- Georgetown, Maine and Georgetown, South Carolina â George I of Great Britain
- Georgetown, Washington, D.C. â George II of Great Britain
- Georgia (U.S. state) â King George II of Great Britain
- German, New York â Gen. Obadiah German (landowner)
- Gerry, New York â Elbridge Gerry
- Gervais, Oregon â Joseph Gervais (pioneer)
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania â Samuel Gettys (settler)
- Gibbon River â Gen. John Gibbon
- Gibbon, Oregon â Gen. John Gibbon
- Gibbonsville, Idaho â Gen. John Gibbon
- Gibson, Tennessee â Col. Thomas Gibson
- Gilbert, Arizona â William "Bobby" Gilbert
- Gilberton, Pennsylvania â John Gilbert (mine owner)
- Gilchrist County, Florida â Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913
- Gilford, New Hampshire â S.S. Gillman (settler)
- Gill, Massachusetts â Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
- Gillette, Wyoming â Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
- Gilman, Colorado â H.H. Gilman (resident)
- Gilsum, New Hampshire â Samuel <u>Gil</u>bert and his son-in-law, Thomas <u>Sum</u>ner (proprietors)
- Girard, Pennsylvania â Stephen Girard
- Girardville, Pennsylvania â Stephen Girard
- Gladstone, Michigan and Gladstone, North Dakota â William Ewart Gladstone
- Gladwin, Michigan â Maj. Henry Gladwin
- Glen, New York â Jacob Glen (resident)
- Glen Burnie, Maryland â Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
- Glens Falls, New York â John Glenn (discoverer)
- Glennville, California â James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
- Glocester, Rhode Island â Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
- Glover, Vermont â Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
- Goddard, Kansas â J.F. Goddard (manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
- Godfrey, Illinois â Capt. Benjamin Godfrey
- Goff, Kansas â Edward H. Goff
- Goffstown, New Hampshire â Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
- Goldsboro, North Carolina â M.T. Goldsboro
- Goodhue, Minnesota â James M. Goodhue (journalist)
- Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire â Captain John Gorham (The town in New Hampshire was named for the one in Maine).
- Gorham, New York â Nathaniel Gorham
- Gorman Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota â Gov. Willis A. Gorman
- Gosnold, Massachusetts â Bartholomew Gosnold (settler)
- Gouldsboro, Maine â Robert Gould (landholder)
- Gouverneur, New York â Gouverneur Morris
- Gove City, Kansas â Capt. Grenville L. Gove
- Governors Island (Massachusetts) â Gov. John Winthrop (landowner)
- Governors Island (New York) â Gov. Wouter van Twiller (landowner)
- Grafton, Massachusetts â Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
- Grafton, New Hampshire â Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
- Graham, North Carolina â William Alexander Graham (U.S. Senator)
- Granby, Massachusetts â John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years' War)
- Granby, Vermont â Marquis of Granby
- Granger, Washington â Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
- Grant, 4 places in Humboldt County, California, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska â Ulysses S. Grant
- Grantsville, West Virginia â Ulysses S. Grant
- Grantham, New Hampshire â Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
- Gratiot, Wisconsin â Col. Henry Gratiot
- Grattan Township, Michigan â Henry Grattan
- Gravette, Arkansas â E.T. Gravette
- Gray, Maine â Thomas Gray (proprietor)
- Grays Harbor, Washington â Capt. Robert Gray (explorer)
- Grayson, Kentucky â Col. Robert Grayson
- Graysville, Indiana â Joe Gray (founder)
- Great Barrington, Massachusetts â William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
- Greeley, Colorado and Greeley, Kansas â Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
- Greeley Center, Nebraska â Peter Greeley
- Greene, Iowa â George Green (judge) (note the spelling)
- Greene, Maine and Greene, New York â Nathanael Greene
- Greeneville, Tennessee â Nathanael Greene
- Greenleaf, Kansas â A.W. Greenleaf (treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad)
- Greensboro, North Carolina â Nathanael Greene
- Greensboro, Vermont â Timothy Green (landowner)
- Greensburg, Kansas â Col. D.R. Green
- Greenup, Kentucky â Gov. Christopher Greenup
- Greenville, Kentucky and Greenville, North Carolina â Nathanael Greene
- Greenville, Michigan â John Green (settler)
- Greenwood, Arkansas â Moses Greenwood (merchant)
- Greenwood, El Dorado County, California â John Greenwood (early settler)
- Greenwood, Mississippi â Greenwood LeFlore (Choctaw chief)
- Greenwood, Nebraska â J.S. Green (settler)
- Greig, New York â John Greig (U.S. representative)
- Grestley, California â James Grestley
- Gridley, California â George W. Gridley (founder)
- Gridley, Illinois â Asahel Gridley
- Griffin, Georgia â Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin (president of the Macon and Western Railroad)
- Grimes, Iowa â James W. Grimes (U.S. Senator)
- Grimesland, North Carolina â Gen. Bryan Grimes
- Grinnell, Iowa â W.H. Grinnell (resident)
- Griswold, Connecticut â Governor Roger Griswold
- Grover, North Carolina and Grover, South Carolina â Grover Cleveland
- Grundy Center, Iowa â Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)
- Guilford, Maine â Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
- Guilford, Vermont â Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
- Gunnison, Colorado â Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
- Gunnison Island, Utah â Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
- Gunnison River â Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
- Guntown, Mississippi â James G. Gunn (early settler)
- Gurnee, Illinois â Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
- Gustine, California â Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)
- Guthrie Center, Iowa â Capt. Edwin B. Guthrie
- Guttenberg, Iowa and Guttenberg, New Jersey â Johannes Gutenberg (note the spelling)
- Gwinn, Michigan - William G. Mather
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- Hackettstown, New Jersey â Samuel Hackett (early settler)
- Haddonfield, New Jersey â Elizabeth Haddon) (landowner)
- Haddon Township, New Jersey â Elizabeth Haddon (landowner)
- Hagerstown, Maryland â Jonathan Hager
- Hahns Peak and Hahns Peak Village, Colorado â Joe Hahn (settler)
- Halcott, New York â George W. Halcott (sheriff)
- Hale, Missouri â John P. Hale (Carrollton resident)
- Halifax, Massachusetts and Halifax, Vermont â George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
- Hallowell, Maine â Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)
- Hallstead, Pennsylvania â William F. Hallstead (general manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad)
- Hallsville, New York â Capt. Robert Hall
- Hallsville, Texas â Robert Burton Hall (railroader)
- Halstead, Kansas â Murat Halstead (journalist)
- Hamden, Connecticut â John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
- Hamersville, Ohio â Gen. Thomas L. Hamer
- Hamilton, Georgia â James Hamilton Jr. (Governor of South Carolina)
- Hamilton, Massachusetts and Hamilton, Ohio â Alexander Hamilton
- Hamilton, Montana â J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad)
- Hamilton City, California â J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president)
- Hamilton County, 7 places in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee â Alexander Hamilton
- Hamlin, Kansas â Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
- Hammond, Illinois â Charles Goodrich Hamilton (railroader)
- Hammond, Indiana â George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)
- Hammond, New York â Abijah Hammond (landowner)
- Hammonton, California â W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
- Hampden, Maine and Hampden, Massachusetts â John Hampden (English patriot)
- Hampton, South Carolina â Gen. Wade Hampton I
- Hancock, 6 places in Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont â John Hancock
- Hanford, California â James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
- Hankamer, Texas â I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
- Hannibal, Missouri and Hannibal, New York â Hannibal
- Hanson, Massachusetts â Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
- Haralson, Georgia and Haralson County, Georgia â Gen. Hugh A. Haralson (U.S. representative)
- Harbeson, Delaware â Harbeson Hickman (landowner)
- Harbin Springs, California â James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
- Harbine, Nebraska â Col. John Harbine
- Hardenburgh, New York â Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)
- Hardin, Missouri â Gov. Charles Henry Hardin
- Hardin, Montana â Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill)
- Hardinsburg, Kentucky â Capt. William Hardin (pioneer)
- Hardwick, Massachusetts â Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (note the spelling)
- Harlan, Iowa â James Harlan (United States Senator)
- Harlan, Kansas â John C. Harlan (settler)
- Harlan, Kentucky â Maj. Silas Harlan
- Harlowton, Montana â Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad)
- Harney, Oregon â Gen. William S. Harney
- Harpers Ferry, West Virginia â Robert Harper (ferry owner)
- Harpersfield, New York â Joseph Harper (landowner)
- Harperville, Mississippi â G.W. Harper (resident)
- Harrietstown, New York â Harriet Duane (wife of James Duane)
- Harriman, New York â E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad)
- Harrington, Delaware â Samuel M. Harrington (judge)
- Harrisburg, Inyo County, California â Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
- Harrisburg, New York â Richard Harrison
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania â John Harris, Sr. (founder)
- Harrison, Maine â Harrison Gray Otis (landowner)
- Harrison, New Jersey â William Henry Harrison
- Harrison, New York â John Harrison (Quaker leader)
- Harrison Township, New Jersey â William Henry Harrison
- Harrisonburg, Virginia â Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community)
- Harrisville, New Hampshire â Milan Harris (mill owner)
- Harrisville, New York â Fosket Harris (settler)
- Harrisville, Ohio â Meigs Harris (pioneer)
- Harrisville, West Virginia â Thomas Harris
- Harrodsburg, Kentucky â Col. James Harrod (settler)
- Hart's Location, New Hampshire â Colonel John Hart
- Hartsville, Indiana â Gideon B. Hart (pioneer)
- Hartwick, New York â Christopher Hartwick (landowner)
- Harvard, Illinois â John Harvard (indirectly, via Harvard University)
- Harvard, Massachusetts â John Harvard
- Hastings, Michigan â Eurotas Hastings (state auditor)
- Hathaway Pines, California â Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster)
- Hattiesburg, Mississippi â Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy)
- Haugan, Montana â H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
- Havensville, Kansas â Paul E. Havens (Leavenworth resident)
- Hawesville, Kentucky â Richard Hawes (U.S. representative)
- Hawkeye, Iowa â Chief Hawkeye
- Hawley, Massachusetts â Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution)
- Hawthorne, New Jersey â Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Hayden, Colorado â Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist)
- Hayden Hill, California â Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist)
- Hayes, California â William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
- Hayesville, North Carolina â George W. Hayes (state senator)
- Hays, Kansas â Gen. William Hays
- Hayward, California â William Dutton Hayward (early settler)
- Hayward, Minnesota â David Hayward (settler)
- Hazard, Kentucky â Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
- Hazardville, Connecticut â Colonel Augustus George Hazard (gunpowder manufacturer)
- Hazelton, California â Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman)
- Hazelton, Kansas â Rev. J.H. Hazelton (founder)
- Hazelrigg, Indiana â H.G. Hazlerigg (founder) (note the spelling)
- Healdsburg, California â Col. Harmon Heald (settler)
- Hearst, California â George Hearst
- Heath, Massachusetts â General William Heath
- Heber, California â A.H. Heber (development company president)
- Heber City, Utah â Heber C. Kimball (Mormon leader)
- Heceta Beach, Oregon â Bruno de Heceta (explorer)
- Helena, New York â Helena Pitcairn
- Helm, California â William Helm (early rancher)
- Henderson, Nevada â U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson
- Henderson, Kentucky and Henderson, Tennessee â Col. Richard Henderson
- Henderson, Nebraska â David Henderson (settler)
- Henderson, New York â William Henderson (landowner)
- Hendersonville, North Carolina â North Carolina Chief Justice Leonard Henderson
- Hendry County, Florida â Major Francis A. Hendry
- Hennepin, Illinois â Louis Hennepin (explorer)
- Hennessey, Oklahoma â Pat Hennessey (freighter)
- Henniker, New Hampshire â John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
- Henrietta, New York â Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath
- Henrietta, North Carolina â Henrietta Tanner
- Hensley, Arkansas â William B. Hensley (founder and landowner)
- Hepburn, Iowa â William Peters Hepburn (U.S. representative)
- Hepler, Kansas â B.F. Hepler (resident of Fort Scott)
- Herington, Kansas â M.D. Herington (founder)
- Herkimer, New York â Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War)
- Herlong, California â Capt. Henry W. Herlong (World War II casualty)
- Herman, Nebraska â Samuel Herman (railroad conductor)
- Hermann, Missouri â Arminius (Germanic chief)
- Hernando, Mississippi â Hernando de Soto
- Hernando County, Florida â Hernando de Soto
- Hershey, Pennsylvania â Milton S. Hershey (Chocolatier)
- Hertford County, North Carolina â Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
- Heuvelton, New York â Jacob van Heuvel
- Hewes Point, Maine â Paola Hewes (settler)
- Heyburn, Idaho â Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn
- Hickman, Kentucky â Capt. Paschal Hickman
- Hickory, Mississippi and Hickory, North Carolina â Andrew Jackson (nicknamed "Old Hickory")
- Hicksville, New York â Charles Hicks (Quaker cleric)
- Hicksville, Ohio â Henry W. Hicks (founder)
- Hildreth, California â Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
- Higginsport, Ohio â Col. Robert Higgins (founder)
- Hildebran, North Carolina â Pope Gregory VII (né Hildebrand)
- Hill, New Hampshire â Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
- Hillrose, Colorado â Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
- Hillsboro, Kansas â John G. Hill (mayor)
- Hillsborough, New Hampshire and Hillsborough, North Carolina â Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
- Hillsborough County, Florida â Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
- Hinesburg, Vermont â Abel Hine (town clerk)
- Hinesville, Georgia â Charlton Hines
- Hinsdale, Massachusetts â Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)
- Hinsdale, New Hampshire â Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
- Hinsdale, New York â Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
- Hiram, Maine â Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre)
- Hobart, New York â Bishop John Henry Hobart
- Hobergs, California â Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
- Hodgdon, Maine â John Hodgdon (landowner)
- Hodgenville, Kentucky â Robert Hodgen
- Hodson, California â J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
- Hoffman Estates, Illinois â Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
- Hoisington, Kansas â A.J. Hoisington (resident of Great Bend)
- Holbrook, Massachusetts â Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
- Holden, Massachusetts â Samuel Holden (banker)
- Holderness, New Hampshire â Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
- Holland, Massachusetts â Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
- Holland Patent, New York â Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (landowner)
- Holley, New York â Myron Holley (canal commissioner)
- Holliday, Missouri â Samuel Holliday (resident of St. Louis)
- Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania â Adam and William Holliday (founders)
- Hollis, New Hampshire â John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note the spelling)
- Holliston, Massachusetts â Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)
- Holmesville, Nebraska â L.M. Holmes (founder)
- Holmesville, Ohio â Maj. Andrew Holmes
- Holt, Missouri â Jerry Holt (landowner)
- Holton, Kansas â Edward Holton
- Holts Summit, Missouri â Timothy Holt
- Holyoke, Massachusetts â Elizur Holyoke, (colonist, scribe and surveyor)
- Homer, New York â Homer (Greek poet)
- Honesdale, Pennsylvania â Philip Dale (canal builder)
- Hood River, Oregon â Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
- Hookstown, Pennsylvania â Matthias Hook (resident)
- Hookton, California â John Hookton (founder)
- Hoover, Alabama â William H. Hoover (1890âÂÂ1979), a local insurance of Alabama
- Hoover, Indiana â Riley Hoover (founder)
- Hoover Town, West Virginia â Herbert Hoover
- Hopkinsville, Kentucky â General Samuel Hopkins
- Hopkinton, Massachusetts â Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University)
- Hopkinton, New Hampshire â Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
- Hopkinton, New York â Roswell Hopkins (settler)
- Hopkinton, Rhode Island â Gov. Stephen Hopkins
- Horace, Kansas â Horace Greeley
- Hornbeak, Tennessee â Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster)
- Hornby, New York â John Hornby (landowner)
- Hornellsville, New York â George Hornell (settler)
- Hornersville, Missouri â William H. Horner (founder)
- Horstville, California â E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
- Horton, Kansas â A.H. Horton (judge)
- Houlton, Maine â Joseph Houlton (settler)
- Hounsfield, New York â Ezra Hounsfield (landowner)
- Houston, Delaware â John W. Houston
- Houston, Minnesota, Houston, Mississippi, and Houston, Texas â Sam Houston
- Houstonia, Missouri â Sam Houston
- Howard, Kansas â General Oliver Otis Howard
- Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin and Howard, Chippewa County, Wisconsin â Brigadier General Benjamin Howard (officer in the War of 1812)
- Howard Springs, California â C.W. Howard (resort owner)
- Howards Grove, Wisconsin â H.B. Howard (hotelier and postmaster)
- Howell, Evansville, Indiana â Capt. Lee Howell (railroader)
- Howell Township, New Jersey â Gov. Richard Howell
- Howland, Maine â John Howland (Mayflower passenger)
- Hoxie, Kansas â H.M. Hoxie (general manager of the Missouri Pacific Railroad)
- Hubbard, Nebraska â Asahel W. Hubbard (judge)
- Hubbardston, Massachusetts â Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner)
- Hubbardton, Vermont â Thomas Hubbard (landholder)
- Hudson, Maine â Charles Hudson (indirectly, via Hudson, Massachusetts)
- Hudson, Massachusetts â Charles Hudson (United States Representative)
- Hudson, New York â Henry Hudson
- Hudson, Ohio â David Hudson (settler)
- Hudson River â Henry Hudson
- Hugoton, Kansas â Victor Hugo
- Hull, Iowa â John Hull
- Humble, Texas â Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
- Humboldt, Kansas and Humboldt, South Dakota â Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)
- Hummelstown, Pennsylvania â Frederick Hummel (founder)
- Humphrey, New York â Charles Humphrey (state legislator)
- Humphreys Station, California â John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
- Humphreysville, Connecticut â David Humphreys
- Hunnewell, Kansas and Hunnewell, Missouri â H.H. Hunnewell (banker)
- Hunter, New York â John Hunter (landowner)
- Huntingdon, Pennsylvania â Selena Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
- Huntingdon, Tennessee â Memucan Hunt (landowner)
- Huntington, Massachusetts â Charles P. Huntington
- Huntington, Oregon â J.B. Huntington (landowner)
- Huntington, Vermont â Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders)
- Huntington, West Virginia â Collis P. Huntington
- Huntington Beach, California â Henry E. Huntington
- Huntley, Montana â S.O. Huntley (partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley)
- Huntsville, Alabama â John Hunt (settler)
- Huntsville, Missouri â David Hunt (settler)
- Hurley, New York â Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland
- Hustisford, Wisconsin â John Hustis (settler)
- Hutchinson, Kansas â C.C. Hutchinson (founder)
- Hyannis, Massachusetts â Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
- Hyde Park, Vermont â Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)
- Hydesville, California â John Hyde (local landowner)
- Hysham, Montana â Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)
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- Iliff, Colorado â John Wesley Iliff (cattleman)
- Ingalls, Oklahoma â John James Ingalls (U.S. Senator from Kansas)
- Inman, Kansas â Maj. Henry Inman
- Inman, Nebraska â W.H. Inman (settler)
- Iola, Kansas â Iola Colborn
- Ira, Vermont â Ira Allen (one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen)
- Irasburg, Vermont â Ira Allen (landholder, one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen)
- Ireland, Texas - John Ireland
- Irvine, California â James Irvine I (landowner)
- Irvine, Kentucky â Col. William Irvine
- Irving, Kansas â Washington Irving
- Irving Park, Chicago - Washington Irving
- Irvington, New Jersey and Irvington, New York â Washington Irving
- Irwin, California â W.A. Irwin (founder)
- Irwinton, Georgia â Gov. Jared Irwin
- Isabella, California, Isabella County, Michigan & Isabella Township, Michigan - Isabella I of Castile
- Isle La Motte, Vermont â Captain La Motte (established Fort Sainte Anne on this island)
- Ives Grove, Wisconsin - Joseph Ives
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- Jackson, California â Colonel Alden Jackson
- Jackson, Maine â General Henry Jackson
- Jackson, Burnett County, Wisconsin â Stonewall Jackson
- Jackson, Wyoming â Davey Jackson
- Jackson â Andrew Jackson, 14 places in
- Alabama â Georgia â Kentucky â Louisiana â Michigan â Minnesota â Mississippi â Missouri â New Hampshire â New Jersey â New York â Ohio â Tennessee â Washington County, Wisconsin
- Jacksonville, Arkansas â Nicholas and Elizabeth Jackson (landowners)
- Jacksonville, Texas â Jackson Smith (soldier)
- Jacksonville â Andrew Jackson, 7 places in
- Alabama â Florida â Illinois â Missouri â North Carolina â Oregon â Pennsylvania
- Jacobs Corner, California â Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster)
- Jaffrey, New Hampshire â George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy Portsmouth family)
- Jamesburg, California â John James (founder)
- Jamestown, Indiana â James Mattock (founder)
- Jamestown, Kansas â James P. Pomeroy (railroader)
- Jamestown, New York â James Prendergast (settler)
- Jamestown, Rhode Island â James II of England
- Jamestown, Virginia â James I of England
- Jamesville, New York â James De Witt
- Janesville, California â Jane Bankhead (early settler)
- Janesville, Wisconsin â Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster)
- Jasonville, Indiana â Jason Rogers (founder)
- Jasper, 3 places in Georgia, New York, and Texas â William Jasper (American Revolution hero)
- Jay, Maine, Jay, New York, and Jay, Vermont â John Jay (the first chief justice of the Supreme Court)
- Jayem, Kentucky - John M. Robsion
- Jean, Nevada â Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle)
- Jefferson, Maine, Jefferson, New Jersey, and Jefferson, New Hampshire â Thomas Jefferson
- Jefferson City, Missouri â Thomas Jefferson
- Jefferson County, Thomas Jefferson, 19 places in
- Arkansas â Colorado â Florida â Georgia â Illinois â Indiana â Iowa â Kansas â Kentucky â Mississippi â Missouri â Montana â New York â Pennsylvania â Tennessee â Washington â West Virginia â Wisconsin
- Jeffersonville, Georgia â Thomas Jefferson
- Jekyll Island, Georgia â Sir Joseph Jekyll
- Jenny Lind, California â Jenny Lind
- Jeromesville, Ohio â John Baptiste Jerome (trader)
- Jesup, Iowa â Morris Ketchum Jesup
- Jesus Maria, California â Jesus Maria (local farmer)
- Jetmore, Kansas â Col. A.B. Jetmore
- Jewell, California â Omar Jewell (local rancher)
- Jewell, Kansas â Lt. Col. Lewis R. Jewell
- Jewett, New York â Freeborn G. Jewett (judge)
- Jewett, Ohio â T.M. Jewett (railroader)
- Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania â Jim Thorpe
- Joaquin, Texas â Joaquin Morris (grandson of Benjamin Franklin Morris, who donated the land for the site)
- Joe, Montana â Joe Montana
- Joe Walker Town, California â Joe Walker
- Johnsburg, New York â John Thurman (settler)
- Johnson, Nebraska â Julius A. Johnson (landowner)
- Johnson, Vermont â William Samuel Johnson (landowner)
- Johnson City, Kansas â Col. Alexander S. Johnson
- Johnson City, New York George F. Johnson
- Johnston, Rhode Island â Augustus Johnston (colonial attorney general)
- Johnston County, North Carolina â Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina
- Johnstonville, California â Robert Johnston (town developer)
- Johnstown, Colorado â John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
- Johnstown (city), New York â Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (founder)
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania â Joseph Jahns (settler) (note the spelling)
- Joliet, Illinois â Louis Jolliet (note the spelling)
- Jonesboro, Maine â John Coffin Jones (landholder)
- Jonesborough, Tennessee â William Jones (statesman)
- Jonesport, Maine â John Coffin Jones (landholder)
- Jonesville, Indiana â Benjamin Jones (founder)
- Jonesville, Virginia â Frederick Jones (landowner)
- Joplin, Missouri â Rev. H.G. Joplin (resident) (indirectly, via Joplin Creek)
- Joplin Creek, Missouri â Rev. H.G. Joplin (resident)
- Jordan, Montana â Arthur Jordan (founder)
- Judith River â Judith Hancock
- Judsonia, Arkansas â Rev. Adoniram Judson (missionary)
- Judsonville, California â Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine)
- Julesburg, Colorado â Jules Beni (established a trading post here)
- Jump-off Joe â Joe McLaughlin (trapper)
- Juneau, Alaska â Joe Juneau (prospector)
- Juneau, Wisconsin â Solomon Juneau (founder of Milwaukee)
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- Kamrar, Iowa â J.L. Kamrar (judge)
- Kanawyers, California â Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
- Kaneville, Illinois â Gen. Thomas L. Kane
- Karnes City, Texas â Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
- Kaufman, Texas â David S. Kaufman (U.S. representative)
- Kearney, Missouri â Charles E. Kearney, the president of the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad
- Kearney, Nebraska â Gen. Philip Kearny (note the spelling)
- Kearny, New Jersey â Gen. Philip Kearny
- Keene, California â James R. Keene (financier)
- Keene, New Hampshire â Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and West Indies trader)
- Keenesburg, Colorado â Les Keene (settler)
- Keeseville, New York â Richard Keese (founder)
- Keizer, Oregon â Thomas Dove Keizur
- Kelleys Island, Ohio â Datus and Irad Kelly (landowners) (note the spelling)
- Kellogg, Idaho â Noah Kellogg (prospector)
- Kelsey, California â Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
- Kelso, California â Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
- Kenansville, North Carolina â James Kenan (U.S. representative)
- Kendall, New York â Postmaster General Amos Kendall
- Kennard, Nebraska â Thomas P. Kennard (secretary of state of Nebraska)
- Kenedy, Texas â Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
- Kenner, Louisiana â Duncan F. Kenner (lawyer)
- Kensington, New Hampshire â Edward Rich, 8th Earl of Warwick and Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
- Kent, Ohio â Marvin Kent
- Kentfield, California â Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
- Kenton, Ohio â Gen. Simon Kenton
- Keough Hot Springs, California â Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
- Keokuk, Iowa â Keokuk (Sauk leader)
- Kerman, California â W.G. <u>Ker</u>ckhoff and Jacob <u>Man</u>sar (promoters)
- Kettleman City, California â Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
- Keyesville, California â Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
- Kiester, Minnesota â Jacob Kiester (county historian)
- Kilbourn City, Wisconsin â Byron Kilbourn (pioneer)
- Kilbuck Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania â chieftain of the Lenape
- Kimball, South Dakota â J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
- Kincaid, Kansas â Robert Kincaid (resident of Mound City)
- King City, California â Charles King (founder)
- King County, Washington - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (originally for Vice President William R. King)
- King of Prussia, Pennsylvania â after a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
- Kingfield, Maine â William King (future governor of Maine)
- Kingman, Kansas â Samuel Austin Kingman (judge)
- Kingman, Maine â R.S. Kingman
- Kingsbury Plantation, Maine â Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
- Kingsley, Michigan â Judson Kingsley (landowner)
- Kingston, Georgia â J.P. King (resident of Augusta)
- Kingston, Massachusetts â Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
- Kingston, Missouri â Gov. Austin Augustus King
- Kingsville, Missouri â Gen. William M. King (resident)
- Kingsville, Texas â Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
- Kinman Pond, California â Seth Kinman (settler)
- Kinsley, Kansas â W.E.W. Kinsley (resident of Boston, Massachusetts)
- Kinston, North Carolina â George III
- Kirbyville, Texas â John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
- Kirkland, New York â Rev. Samuel Kirkland
- Kirklin, Indiana â Nathan Kirk (founder)
- Kirksville, Missouri â Jesse Kirk
- Kirkwood, California â Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
- Kirkwood, Delaware and Kirkwood, Ohio â Maj. Robert Kirkwood (officer in the American Revolutionary War)
- Kirtland, Ohio â Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
- Kirwin, Kansas â Col. John Kirwin
- Kiryas Joel, New York â Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
- Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado â Kit Carson
- Klej Grange, Maryland â <u>K</u>atherine (1866-1918), <u>L</u>ucy (1867-1943), <u>E</u>lizabeth (1868-1944), and <u>J</u>osephine Drexel (1878-1966) (daughters of Joseph William Drexel)
- Kneeland, California â John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
- Knights Landing, California â Dr. William Knight (early settler)
- Knightsen, California â George W. <u>Knight</u> (town founder) and his wife Christina Christen<u>sen</u>
- Knightsville, Indiana â A.W. Knight (founder)
- Knowles, California â F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
- Knox, Maine â General Henry Knox
- Knoxville, California â Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster
- Knoxville, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Albany County, New York, and Tennessee â Henry Knox
- Knoxville, Pennsylvania â John C. Knox (judge)
- Kokomo, Indiana â Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo (Miami tribal chief)
- Kortright, New York â Lawrence Kortright (patentee)
- Kosciusko, Mississippi â Tadeusz KoÃ
Âciuszko
- Kossuth, Mississippi and Kossuth, Ohio â Lajos Kossuth
- Kotzebue, Alaska â Otto von Kotzebue
- Kountze, Texas â Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
- Kranzburg, South Dakota â Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
- Kyle, Texas â Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)
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- Laceyville, Ohio â Maj. John S. Lacey
- Laclede, Missouri â Pierre Laclède (founder of St. Louis)
- La Conner, Washington â J.J. Connor (settler) (note the spelling)
- Laddonia, Missouri â Amos Ladd (settler)
- Laddville, California â Alphonso Ladd (founder)
- Lafayette, Colorado â Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
- Lairds Landing, California â George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
- Lairdsville, New York â Samuel Laird (settler)
- Lake Ann, Michigan â Ann Wheelock (settler's wife)
- Lake Charles, Louisiana â Charles Sallier
- Lake Helen, Florida â Helen DeLand (founder's daughter)
- Lake Lanier (Georgia) â Sidney Lanier (poet)
- Lake Wilson, Minnesota â Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
- Lakin, Kansas â David L. Lakin (resident of Topeka)
- Missouri - Mirabeau B. Lamar
- Lamar, 3 places in Colorado and Mississippi â L.Q.C. Lamar
- Lamar River (Wyoming) â L.Q.C. Lamar
- Lamartine, Wisconsin â Alphonse de Lamartine (French historian)
- Lambertville, New Jersey â John Lambert (settler)
- Lamoine, Maine â DeLamoine (early landowner)
- Lamy, New Mexico â Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy
- Lanare, California â L.A. Nares (developer)
- Landaff, New Hampshire â Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
- Landisburg, Pennsylvania â James Landis (founder)
- Lanesborough, Massachusetts â James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough
- Lanesboro, Pennsylvania â Martin Lane (settler)
- Langdon, New Hampshire â Governor John Langdon
- Langhorne, Pennsylvania â Jeremiah Langhorne (jurist)
- Lanier, Georgia â Clement Lanier
- Lansingburgh, New York â Abraham Lansing (founder)
- Laramie River (Ohio) â Pierre-Louis de Lorimier (French fur trader)
- Laramie, Wyoming â Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
- Larned, Kansas â Gen. B.F. Larned
- Larrabee, Iowa â Gov. William Larrabee
- LaSalle, Illinois â René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (explorer)
- Lassen Peak (California) â Peter Lassen (explorer)
- Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania â Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
- Latty, Ohio â A.S. Latty (settler)
- Lauderdale, Mississippi â Col. James Lauderdale
- Laughlin, California â James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
- Laughlin, Nevada â Don Laughlin (founder)
- Laurens, South Carolina â Henry Laurens
- Lavers' Crossing, California â David Lavers (founder)
- Lawrence, Kansas â Amos Lawrence
- Lawrence, Massachusetts â Abbott Lawrence (founder)
- Lawrenceburg, Tennessee â Capt. James Lawrence
- Lawrenceville, Georgia â Capt. James Lawrence
- Lawson, Colorado â Alexander Lawson (innkeeper)
- Lawton, Michigan â Nathaniel Lawton (landowner)
- Laytonville, California â F.B. Layton (founder)
- Le Claire, Iowa â Antoine Le Claire (founder of Davenport)
- Le Grand, California â William Legrand Dickinson
- Le Mars, Iowa â <u>L</u>ucy Underhill, <u>E</u>lizabeth Parson, <u>M</u>ary Weare, <u>A</u>nna Blair, <u>R</u>ebecca Smith and <u>S</u>arah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
- Le Ray, New York â Le Ray Chaumont
- Le Raysville, Pennsylvania â Vincent le Ray (landowner's son)
- Leakesville, Mississippi â Gov. Walter Leake
- Leavenworth, Kansas â Gen. Henry Leavenworth (indirectly, via Fort Leavenworth)
- Leavitt, California â May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
- Lebec, California â Peter Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
- Lecompton, Kansas â Judge D.S. Lecompte
- Ledyard, Connecticut â Col. William Ledyard (state militiaman)
- Ledyard, New York â Benjamin Ledyard (land agent)
- Lee, California â Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
- Lee, Maine â Stephen Lee (settler)
- Lee, Massachusetts, Lee, New Hampshire, and Lee, New York â General Charles Lee
- Leechburg, Pennsylvania â David Leech
- Lee Vining, California â Leroy Vining (founder)
- Leesville, California â Lee Harl (local landowner)
- Leicester, Massachusetts â Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- Leitchfield, Kentucky â Maj. David Leitch
- Leland, Illinois â Edwin S. Leland
- Lemoore, California â Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
- Lempster, New Hampshire â from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
- Lennox, South Dakota â Ben Lennox (railroad official)
- Lenoir, North Carolina â Gen. William Lenoir
- Lenora, Kansas â Lenora Hauser
- Lenox, Massachusetts â Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (note the spelling)
- Leon, Iowa â David Camden de Leon
- Leon, Kansas â Juan Ponce de León or after the Iowan town
- Leonard, Michigan â Leonard Rowland
- Leonardville, Kansas â Leonard T. Smith (railroader)
- Leopold, Indiana â Leopold I of Belgium
- Le Roy, New York â Herman Le Roy (landowner)
- Letcher, California â F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
- Leverett, Massachusetts â John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
- Levittown, 2 places in New York and Pennsylvania â William Levitt
- Lewis and Clark River (Oregon) â Capt. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (explorers)
- Lewis, Vermont â Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
- Lewisboro, New York â John Lewis (resident)
- Lewisburg, West Virginia â Samuel Lewis
- Lewiston, Idaho â Meriwether Lewis
- Lewiston, Minnesota â Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
- Lewiston (town), New York â Gov. Morgan Lewis
- Lewistown, Ohio â Capt. John Lewis (Shawnee chief)
- Lewistown, Pennsylvania â William Lewis
- Lila C, California â Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
- Lillis, California â Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
- Ligonier, Pennsylvania â John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
- Lillington, North Carolina â Col. Alexander Lillington
- Limon, Colorado â John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
- Lincklaen, New York â John Lincklaen (landowner)
- Lincoln, Alabama and Lincoln, Vermont â Major General Benjamin Lincoln
- Lincoln, California â Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the California Central Railroad)
- Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Lincoln, Rhode Island â Abraham Lincoln
- Lincoln, Maine â Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
- Lincoln, New Hampshire â Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
- Lincoln Center, Kansas â Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas)
- Lincolnton, Georgia and Lincolnton, North Carolina â Major General Benjamin Lincoln
- Lincolnville, Maine â Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
- Lincolnville, South Carolina â Abraham Lincoln
- Lindley, New York â Col. Eleazar Lindley
- Linn, Missouri â Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator)
- Linneus, Missouri â Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator)
- Litchfield, California â Thomas Litch (pioneer)
- Litchfield, New Hampshire â George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
- Littleton, Colorado â Richard S. Little
- Littleton, Massachusetts â George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (note the spelling)
- Littleton, New Hampshire â Col. Moses Little
- Livermore, California â Robert Livermore
- Livermore, Maine â Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
- Livermore Falls, Maine â Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
- Livingston, California â Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
- Livingston, Montana â Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
- Livingston, New Jersey â William Livingston
- Locke, New York â John Locke
- Lockwood, 3 places in California, New York, and West Virginia â Belva Ann Lockwood
- Logan Creek Dredge (Nebraska) â Logan Fontenelle (Omaha chief)
- Logan, Montana â Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole)
- Logansport, Indiana â Captain Logan (Native American chief)
- Longmont, Colorado â Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak)
- Longs Peak (Colorado) â Stephen Harriman Long (explorer)
- Longville, California â W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner)
- Loomis, California â Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)
- Lorenzo, Texas â Lorenzo Dow
- Los Angeles â Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
- Loudon, New Hampshire â John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
- Louisa, Virginia â Princess Louisa of Great Britain
- Louisiana â Louis XIV (King of France)
- Louisiana, Missouri â Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
- Louisville, Kansas â Louis Wilson (landowner's son)
- Louisville, Kentucky â Louis XVI (King of France)
- Louisville, Mississippi â Col. Louis Wiston (settler)
- Loveland, Colorado â William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
- Lovell, Maine â Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
- Lovelock, California â George Lovelock (early merchant)
- Lowell, Maine â Lowell Hayden (first person born in the town)
- Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell, Michigan, and Lowell, North Carolina â Francis Cabot Lowell
- Lowville, New York â Nicholas Low
- Lubbock, Texas â Thomas Saltus Lubbock
- Lucas, Iowa â Robert Lucas (territorial governor)
- Ludington, Michigan â James Ludington (businessman)
- Ludlow, Kentucky â Israel Ludlow (pioneer)
- Lufkin, Texas â Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
- Lumpkin, Georgia â Gov. Wilson Lumpkin
- Lundy, California â W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
- Lunenburg, Massachusetts â from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Lunenburg, Vermont â from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
- Lusk, Wyoming â Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
- Lutesville, Missouri â Eli Lutes (founder)
- Luther, Michigan â B.T. Luther (sawmill owner)
- Luthersburg, Pennsylvania â W.H. Luther (resident)
- Lutherville, Maryland â Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
- Lykens, Pennsylvania â Andrew Lycan (note the spelling)
- Lyman, Maine â Theodore Lyman I (merchant)
- Lyman, New Hampshire â General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
- Lyndeborough, New Hampshire â Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
- Lyndon, Vermont â Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island)
- Lyons, Colorado â Edward S. Lyon (founder)
- Lyons, Kansas â Truman J. Lyon (landowner)
- Lyons, Nebraska â Waldo Lyon (resident)
- Lyonsdale, New York â Calen Lyon (settler)
- Lysander, New York â Lysander (Spartan military leader)
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- Mabbettsville, New York â James Mabbett (landowner)
- Macclenny, Florida â H.C. Macclenny (founder)
- Macksville, Kansas â George Mack (postmaster)
- Macomb, New York â Gen. Alexander Macomb
- Macon, 5 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina â Nathaniel Macon
- Madelia, Minnesota â Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn)
- Madison, 5 places in Georgia, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire and Wisconsin â James Madison
- Madison, South Dakota â James Madison (indirectly, via Madison, Wisconsin)
- Madison County â 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 â Muhammad (antiquated spelling)
- Mahon, Mississippi â John Mahon
- Mahon, Indiana - Archibald Mahon
- Mamajuda Island, Michigan â Mamajuda (Native American woman)
- Mamakating, New York â Mamakating (Native American chief)
- Mamaroneck, New York â Mamaroneck (Native American chief)
- Mancelona, Michigan â Mancelona Andrews (settler's daughter)
- Manchester, Vermont â Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
- Mandeville, Louisiana â Antoine James de Marigny de Mandeville
- Manlius, New York â Manlius (Roman general)
- Manly, North Carolina â Gov. Charles Manly
- Mannsville, New York â Col. H.B. Mann
- Mansfield, Connecticut â Moses Mansfield (mayor of New Haven)
- Mansfield, Massachusetts â William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
- Mansfield, Ohio â Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General)
- Mansfield, Pennsylvania â Asa Mann (landowner) (note the spelling)
- Mansfield, Texas â R.S. <u>Man</u> and Julian <u>Feild</u> (settlers) (note spelling)
- Manteo, North Carolina â Manteo (Native American chief)
- Manton, Michigan â George Manton (settler)
- Manuelito, New Mexico â Manuelito (Navajo chief)
- Marcellus, Michigan and Marcellus, New York â Marcus Claudius Marcellus
- Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania â Maarte (Native American chief)
- Marcy, New York â Gov. William L. Marcy
- Margarettsville, North Carolina â Margaret Ridley
- Margaretville, New York â Margaret Lewis (landowner)
- Marias River (Montana) â Maria Wood
- Mariaville, Maine â Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham)
- Mariaville Lake, New York â Maria Duane (daughter of James Duane)
- Marietta, Ohio â Marie Antoinette
- Marilla, New York â Marilla Rogers
- Marinette, Wisconsin â Marie Antoinette Chevalier (common-law wife of an early fur trader)
- Marion â Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero), 14 places in
- Alabama â Illinois â Indiana â Iowa â Kansas â Kentucky â Louisiana â Massachusetts â Mississippi â New York â North Carolina â Ohio â South Carolina â Virginia
- Marion, North Dakota â Marion Mellen (daughter of Charles Sanger Mellen)
- Marion, Oregon â Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero) (indirectly, via Marion County, Oregon)
- Marion, South Dakota â Marion Merrill (daughter of S.S. Merrill, railroad official)
- Marion, Texas â Marion Dove (granddaughter of Joshua W. Young, owner of a plantation that the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway passed through)
- Marion County â 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 â Gen. Francis Marion
- Marklee Village, California â Jacob Marklee (early settler)
- Markleeville, California â Jacob Marklee (early settler)
- Marlboro, Vermont â John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
- Marlborough, Massachusetts and Marlborough, New York â John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
- Marlborough, New Hampshire â John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
- Marquam, Oregon â Philip Augustus Marquam (resident of Portland)
- Marquette â 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 â John Marsh
- Marshall, Colorado â Joseph M. Marshall (coal miner)
- Marshall, Minnesota â Gov. William Rainey Marshall
- Marshall, Texas â John Marshall
- Marshallton, Delaware â John Marshall (mill owner)
- Marshfield, Vermont â Capt. Isaac Marsh (landowner)
- Martensdale, California â Harry J. Marten (founder)
- Martin County, Florida â John W. Martin 24th Governor of Florida
- Martinez, California â Don Ygnacio MartÃÂnez
- Martinsburg, Nebraska â Jonathan Martin (settler)
- Martinsburg, West Virginia â Col. Thomas Bryan Martin (landowner)
- Martins Ferry, California â John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator)
- Martin's Location, New Hampshire â Thomas Martin (grantee)
- Martinsville, Indiana â John Martin (commissioner)
- Maryhill, Washington - Mary Francis "Mamie" Hill (1868âÂÂ1947) and Mary Mendenhall Hill (1889âÂÂ1941)
- Maryland â Queen Henrietta Maria of France
- Maryland, New York â Queen Henrietta Maria of France (indirectly, via the state of Maryland)
- Marysville, California â Mary Murphy Covillaud (Donner Party survivor)
- Marysville, Kansas â Mary Marshall (wife of Francis J. Marshall, namesake of Marshall County)
- Maryville, Missouri â Mary Graham (wife of Amos Graham, county clerk)
- Masaryktown, Florida â TomáÃ
¡ Garrigue Masaryk (Czechoslovak President)
- Mason, Illinois â Roswell B. Mason (railroader)
- Mason, New Hampshire â Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
- Masonville, New York â Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
- Massena, New York â André Masséna (French military officer)
- Massillon, Ohio â Jean Baptiste Massillon (French cleric)
- Matoaca, Virginia â Pocahontas (Matoaca was her name in her native language).
- Mathis, Texas â Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
- Matteson, Illinois â George Joel Aldrich Mattison (note the spelling)
- Mattoon, Illinois â William Mattoon
- Maupin, Oregon â Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here)
- Mauriceville, Texas â Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway)
- Mauston, Wisconsin â Milton M. Maughs (founder) (note the spelling)
- Mayer, Arizona â Joe Mayer (founder)
- Mayersville, Mississippi â David Meyers (landowner) (note the spelling)
- Maynard, Massachusetts â Amory Maynard (mill owner)
- Mays Landing, New Jersey â Cornelius Jacobsen May
- Maysville, Kentucky â John May (landowner)
- McAdenville, North Carolina â R.Y. McAden (state legislator)
- McAllen, Texas â John McAllen (settler)
- McArthur, Ohio â Gen. Duncan McArthur
- McClellandville, Delaware â William McClelland (settler)
- McColl, South Carolina â D.D. McColl (businessman)
- McConnelsville, Ohio â Robert McConnel
- McCool, Mississippi â James F. McCool
- McCracken, Kansas â William McCracken (railroader)
- McCune, Kansas â Isaac McCune (founder)
- McDonough, 3 places in Delaware, Georgia, and New York â Thomas Macdonough (naval officer) (note the spelling)
- McFarland, California â J.B. McFarland (founder)
- McGraw, New York â Samuel McGraw
- McGregor, Iowa â Alexander McGregor (landowner)
- McHenry, Illinois â William McHenry
- McKee, Kentucky â George R. McKee (judge)
- McKeesport, Pennsylvania â David McKee (ferry owner)
- McKinleyville, California â President William McKinley
- McKittrick, California â Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
- McMechen, West Virginia - the McMechen family (pioneers)
- McMinnville, Tennessee âÂÂGov. Joseph McMinn
- McPherson, Kansas â Major Gen. James B. McPherson
- Mead, Colorado â Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
- Meade, Kansas â Gen. George Meade
- Meadville, Mississippi â Cowles Mead (territorial official)
- Meadville, Pennsylvania â Gen. David Mead (founder)
- Mebane, North Carolina â Gen. Alexander Mebane
- Medary, South Dakota â Samuel Medary (territorial governor of Kansas)
- Meeker, Colorado â Nathan Meeker (journalist)
- Mendenhall Springs, California â William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
- Mendoza, Texas â Antonio de Mendoza (colonial governor)
- Menifee, California â Luther Menifee Wilson (gold miner)
- Mercer, Maine â Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
- Mercersburg, Pennsylvania â Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
- Mercey Hot Springs, California â J.N. Mercy (early settler)
- Meredith, New Hampshire â Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of British Parliament)
- Meredith, New York â Samuel Meredith (merchant)
- Merrill, Wisconsin â S.S. Merrill (railroader)
- Merritt, California â Hiram P. Merritt (early settler)
- Methuen, Massachusetts â Sir Paul Methuen (British diplomat)
- Mettler, California â W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist)
- Metz, California â W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster)
- Meyers, California â George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner)
- Mianus, Connecticut â Mayanno (Native American chief)
- Micanopy, Florida â Micanopy, leading chief of Seminoles, led the tribe during the Second Seminole War
- Middleton, New Hampshire â Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
- Milan, New Hampshire â Milan Harris (mill owner)
- Milbank, South Dakota â Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director)
- Milburn, Kentucky â William Milburn
- Milesburg, Pennsylvania â Col. Samuel Miles (founder)
- Miles City, Montana â General Nelson A. Miles
- Miley, California â Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
- Millard, Omaha, Nebraska â Ezra Millard (founder)
- Millbrae, California â Darius Ogden Mills
- Milledgeville, Georgia â Gov. John Milledge
- Miller, Nebraska â Capt. J.M. Miller (settler)
- Miller Place, New York â Andrew Miller (pioneer)
- Millersburg, Missouri â Thomas Miller (settler)
- Millersburg, Ohio â Charles Miller (founder)
- Millersburg, Pennsylvania â Daniel Miller (founder)
- Millerton, New York â Samuel G. Miller (railroad contractor)
- Milliken, Colorado â John D. Milliken (railroad official)
- Millis, Massachusetts â Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
- Millsfield, New Hampshire â Sir Thomas Mills
- Millspaugh, California â Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
- Milo, Maine â Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece)
- Milton, California â Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
- Milton, 4 places in Ulster County, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia â John Milton
- Miltonvale, Kansas â Milton Tootle (landowner)
- Minkler, California â Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
- Minor Creek (California) â Isaac Minor
- Minot, Maine â Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
- Minturn, California â Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
- Mitchell, Colorado â George R. Mitchell
- Mitchell, Iowa â John Mitchel (Irish patriot) (note the spelling)
- Mitchell, Oregon â U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell
- Mitchell, South Dakota â Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
- Mitchellville, Iowa â Thomas Mitchell
- Moberly, Missouri â Col. William E. Moberly
- Modesto, California â William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man
- Moffat, Colorado â David Moffat (president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad)
- Moira, New York â Earl of Moira
- Monroe â James Monroe, 12 places in
- Connecticut â Georgia â Maine â Massachusetts â Michigan â New Hampshire â New Jersey â New York â North Carolina â Ohio â Utah â Washington
- Monroe City, Indiana â Monroe Alton (founder)
- Monroeville, California â U.P. Monroe (founder)
- Monroeville, New Jersey â Rev. S.T. Monroe
- Monroeville, Pennsylvania â Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
- Monson, Maine â Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts)
- Monson, Massachusetts â Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson
- Montague, Massachusetts â Capt. William Montague
- Monterey, California â Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (colonial governor)
- Monterey, Massachusetts â 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 â Moctezuma I (note the spelling)
- Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York â General Richard Montgomery
- Montgomery, Indiana â Valentine B. Montgomery (founder)
- Montgomery, Texas â Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
- Montrose, Pennsylvania â Dr. Robert H. Rose
- Mooers, New York â Gen. Benjamin Mooers
- Mooney Flat, California â Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher)
- Moorcroft, Wyoming â Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
- Moorefield, West Virginia â Conrad Moore
- Moores Flat, California â H.M. Moore (first settler)
- Mooresville, Indiana â Samuel Moore (founder)
- Mooresville, Missouri â W.B. Moore (founder)
- Moorhead, Minnesota â Gen. James K. Moorhead
- Moorhead, Montana â W.G. Moorehead (railroader) (note the spelling)
- Moosup, Connecticut and Moosup River (Connecticut) â Moosup (Native American chief)
- Moraga, California â Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
- Moran, Kansas â Daniel Moran (businessman)
- Moreau, New York â Jean Victor Marie Moreau (French general)
- Morehead, Kentucky â Gov. James Turner Morehead
- Morehead City, North Carolina â Gov. John Motley Morehead
- Moreno Valley, California â Frank E Brown (Moreno is Spanish for brown); Land developer
- Morgan, Utah â Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
- Morgan, Vermont â John Morgan (landholder)
- Morganfield, Kentucky â Gen. Daniel Morgan
- Morganton, North Carolina â Gen. Daniel Morgan
- Morgan's Point, Texas â Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas)
- Morgantown, West Virginia â Zackquill Morgan (landowner)
- Morganville, Kansas â Ebenezer Morgan (founder)
- Morrill, Kansas â Gov. Edmund Needham Morrill
- Morrill, Maine â Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
- Morrilton, Arkansas â E.J. and George H. Morrill (settlers) (note the spelling)
- Morris, Connecticut â James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier)
- Morris, New York â General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Morrisania, New York, New York â Lewis Morris (statesman)
- Morris Plains, New Jersey â Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
- Morris Township, New Jersey â Lewis Morris
- Morristown, New Jersey â Lewis Morris
- Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania â Robert Morris (financier)
- Morrow, Ohio â Gov. Jeremiah Morrow
- Morton Grove, Illinois â Levi P. Morton
- Moses Lake, Washington â Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia)
- Moss, Monterey County, California â Charles Moss (wharf owner)
- Moss Landing, California â Charles Moss (wharf owner)
- Moultonborough, New Hampshire â Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
- Moultrie, Georgia â Gen. William Moultrie
- Moultrieville, South Carolina â Gen. William Moultrie
- Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California â Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
- Mount Madison (New Hampshire) â James Madison
- Mount Marcy (New York) â Gov. William L. Marcy
- Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) â Elisha Mitchell (surveyor)
- Mount Monroe (New Hampshire) â James Monroe
- Mount Moran (Wyoming) â Thomas Moran (artist)
- Mount Morris, New York â Thomas Morris (resident of Philadelphia)
- Mount Pulaski, Illinois â Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
- Mount Vernon, Missouri â Admiral Edward Vernon (indirectly, via Mount Vernon)
- Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts â George Washington
- Muir, Michigan â W.K. Muir (railroader)
- Muldrow, Oklahoma â Henry L. Muldrow (politician)
- Mullan, Idaho â John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route)
- Mulvane, Kansas â John R. Mulvane (resident of Topeka)
- Mundy Township, Michigan â Lt. Gov. Edward Mundy
- Munfordville, Kentucky â Richard I. Munford (landowner)
- Munnsville, New York â Asa Munn (storekeeper)
- Murdo, South Dakota â Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman)
- Murfreesboro, North Carolina and Murfreesboro, Tennessee â Col. Hardy Murfree
- Muroc, California â Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) â Muroc is Corum spelled backwards
- Murphy, North Carolina â A.D. Murphy (judge)
- Murphys, California â Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers)
- Murray, California â David Murray (olive industry figure)
- Murray, Kentucky â John L. Murray (former Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844)
- Murray, Utah â Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah)
- Murrieta, California â Juan Murrieta (Rancher)
- Myerstown, Pennsylvania â Isaac Myers (founder)
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- Naperville, Illinois â Joseph Naper
- Napoleon, Michigan â Napoleon Bonaparte
- Napoleon, Missouri â Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nashmead, California â J. Nash (first postmaster)
- Nashville, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee â Gen. Francis Nash
- Nashville, Ohio â Simon Nash (judge)
- Neals Diggins, California â Sam Neal (founder)
- Neligh, Nebraska â John Neligh
- Nelson, California â A.D. Nelson (early settler)
- Nelson, Nebraska â C. Nelson Wheeler (landowner)
- Nelson, New Hampshire â Viscount Horatio Nelson (British admiral and naval hero)
- Nelsonville, New York â Elisha Nelson (settler)
- New Brunswick, New Jersey â George II of Great Britain (also Duke of Brunswick)
- New Florence, Missouri â Florence Lewis (settler's daughter)
- New Franklin, Missouri and New Franklin, Ohio â Benjamin Franklin
- New Marlborough, Massachusetts â John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
- New Orleans, Louisiana â Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
- New Port Richey, Florida â Captain Aaron M. Richey
- New York City and New York (state) â James of York and Albany
- Newberry, Michigan â John A. Newberry (railroader)
- Newcastle, Maine â Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- New Coeln, Milwaukee - Christopher Columbus
- Newell, California â Frederick Haynes Newell
- Newellton, Louisiana â Edward D. Newell
- Newfane, Vermont â John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
- Newnan, Georgia â Gen. Daniel Newnan
- Newnansville, Florida â Gen. Daniel Newnan
- Newport, New Hampshire â Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman)
- Newport News, Virginia â Christopher Newport and William Newce (sea captains) (note the spelling for the latter)
- Newton, Georgia and Newton, Texas â John Newton (soldier of the American Revolutionary War)
- Nicholasville, Kentucky â Col. George Nicholas
- Nichols, California â William H. Nichols (landowner)
- Nick's Cove, California â Nick Kojich (restaurateur)
- Nickerson, Kansas â Thomas Nickerson (ATSF president)
- Nicollet, Minnesota â Joseph Nicollet (explorer)
- Nielsburg, California â Arthur C. Neill (first postmaster)
- Niles, Fremont, California â Addison Niles
- Nobleboro, Maine â James Noble (settler)
- Noblesville, Indiana â Gov. Noah Noble
- Norden, California â Charles Van Norden (water company official)
- Norman, Oklahoma â Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
- Normans Kill (New York) â Albert de Norman (settler)
- Norristown, Pennsylvania â Isaac Norris (Mayor of Philadelphia in 1724)
- North, South Carolina â John F. North (founder)
- North Adams, Massachusetts â Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
- North Anna River (Virginia) â Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- North Carolina â Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
- North Cleveland, Texas â Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
- North Dansville, New York â Daniel P. Faulkner (settler)
- North Fort Myers, Florida â Col. Abraham C. Myers
- North Webster, Indiana â Daniel Webster
- Norton, Kansas â Capt. Orloff Norton
- Norton Sound (Alaska) â Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
- Nortonville, California â Noah Norton (founder)
- Norvelt, Pennsylvania - Eleanor Roosevelt
- Norwell, Massachusetts â Henry Norwell (1832-1903), dry goods merchant
- Notleys Landing, California â Godfrey Notley (founder)
- Nottingham, New Hampshire â Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
- Novato, California â a local Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Saint Novatus at his baptism
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- O'Fallon, Missouri â Col. John O'Fallon
- O'Neals, California â Charles O'Neal (merchant and first postmaster)
- O'Neill, Nebraska â Gen. John O'Neil (settler)
- Oakley, Kansas â Eliza Oakley Gardner
- Oatman Flat (Arizona) â Royce Oatman (Oatman and his family were killed by a group of Apaches here).
- Oberlin, Ohio â J. F. Oberlin (philanthropist)
- Ockenden, California â Thomas J. Ockenden (first postmaster)
- Odem, Texas â David Odem (San Patricio County sheriff)
- Odenton, Maryland â Oden Bowie (Governor of Maryland)
- Ogden, Kansas â Maj. E.A. Ogden
- Ogden, New York â William Ogden (landowner's son-in-law)
- Ogden, Utah â Peter Skene Ogden
- Ogilby, California â E.R. Ogilby (mine promoter)
- Oglesby, Illinois â Gov. Richard J. Oglesby
- Oglethorpe, Georgia â James Oglethorpe (colonial leader)
- Ogletown, Delaware â Thomas Ogle (landowner)
- Ogontz, 3 places in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania â Ogontz (Native American chief)
- Oketo, Kansas â Arktatetah (Native American chief)
- Old Ornbaun Hot Springs, California â John S. Ornbaun (early settler and rancher)
- Olean, New York â Olean Shephard (the first white child born here)
- Oleander, California â William Oleander Johnson (first postmaster)
- Oleona, Pennsylvania â Ole Bull (settler)
- Orange, 5 places in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, and Virginia â William, Prince of Orange
- Orange, Ohio â William, Prince of Orange (indirectly, via Orange, Connecticut)
- Orangeburg, South Carolina â William, Prince of Orange
- Orbisonia, Pennsylvania â William Orbison (settler)
- Ord, Nebraska â Gen. Edward Ord
- Ordbend, California â Edward Ord
- Ordway, Colorado â George N. Ordway (Denver politician)
- Orem, Utah â Walter C. Orem (President of the Salt Lake and Utah Electric Urban Railroad)
- Orford, New Hampshire â Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
- Orinda, California â Katherine Philips (a poet whose nickname was "Matchless Orinda")
- Orlando, Florida â Orlando Reeves
- Orleans, Massachusetts â Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
- Orono, Maine â Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation
- Orrick, Missouri â John C. Orrick (resident of St. Louis)
- Orrs Springs, California â Samuel Orr (early settler)
- Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania â Peter Orwig (founder)
- Osborne, Kansas â Vincent Osborne (member of the Second Kansas Cavalry)
- Osburn, Idaho â Bill Osborne (trading post establisher) (note spelling)
- Osceola, 5 places in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, and Wisconsin â Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry"
- Osceola County, 3 places in Florida, Iowa, and Michigan â Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry"
- Oskaloosa, Iowa and Oskaloosa, Kansas â Oskaloosa (wife of the Native American chief Mahaska)
- Oshkosh, Wisconsin â Chief Oshkosh
- Otis, Maine â James Otis Jr. (proprietor)
- Otis, Massachusetts â Harrison Gray Otis
- Otisfield, Maine â James Otis, Jr. (grantee)
- Otisville, Michigan â Byron Otis (settler)
- Otisville, New York â Isaac Otis (settler)
- Otto, New York â Jacob S. Otto (land agent)
- Ouray, Colorado â Ouray (Ute chief)
- Ovid, Colorado â Newton Ovid (local resident)
- Ovid, Michigan and Ovid (town), New York â Ovid (poet)
- Owensboro, Kentucky â Abraham Owen
- Owingsville, Kentucky â Col. T.D. Owings
- Oxnard, California â Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard
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- Pacheco, California â Salvio Pacheco
- Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska â Algernon Paddock (U.S. Senator)
- Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas â Chief Paduke
- Painesville, Ohio â General Edward Paine (early settler)
- Palmer, Massachusetts â Thomas Palmer (judge)
- Palmer, Michigan â Waterman Palmer (founder)
- Palmer Lake, Colorado â Gen. William Jackson Palmer
- Pamelia, New York â Pamelia Brown (wife of Gen. Jacob Brown)
- Papinville, Missouri â Pierre Papin
- Paragould, Arkansas â W.J. <u>Para</u>more and Jay Gould (railroaders)
- Pardeeville, Wisconsin â John S. Pardee (founder)
- Paris, New York â Isaac Paris (merchant)
- Parish, New York â David Parish (landowner)
- Parishville, New York â David Parish (landowner)
- Parker, Kansas â J.W. Parker (landowner)
- Parkersburg, West Virginia â Alexander Parker
- Parkman, Maine â Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
- Parkman, Wyoming â Francis Parkman (historian)
- Parkston, South Dakota â R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
- Parkville, Missouri â George S. Park (founder)
- Parlier, California â I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
- Parry Peak (Colorado) â Charles Christopher Parry (botanist)
- Parsons, Kansas â Levi Parsons (judge and railroader)
- Parsonsfield, Maine â Thomas Parsons (proprietor)
- Pasco County, Florida â Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida
- Paterson, New Jersey â William Paterson
- Patten, Maine â Amos Patten (settler)
- Patterson, New York â Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling)
- Patton Township, Pennsylvania â Colonel John Patton (co-owner)
- Paulding, Mississippi and Paulding, Ohio â John Paulding (Revolutionary War soldier)
- Paulsboro, New Jersey â Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler)
- Pawling, New York â Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck)
- Paxton, Massachusetts â Charles Paxton
- Paxton, Nebraska â W.A. Paxton
- Payne, Ohio â Henry B. Payne (U.S. Senator)
- Payson, Arizona â Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman)
- Peabody, Kansas â F.H. Peabody
- Peabody, Massachusetts â George Peabody (philanthropist)
- Peekskill, New York â Jan Peek (mariner)
- Pelham, Massachusetts â Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
- Pelham, New Hampshire â Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
- Pelham, New York â Pelham Burton (tutor of Thomas Pell)
- Pembroke, Georgia â Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident)
- Pembroke, New Hampshire â Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke
- Pendleton, Indiana â Thomas M. Pendleton (landowner)
- Pendleton, New York â Sylvester Pendleton Clark
- Pendleton, Oregon â George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice President in the 1864 presidential campaign)
- Pendleton, South Carolina â Henry Pendleton (judge)
- Penfield, Georgia â Josiah Penfield
- Penfield, New York â Daniel Penfield (settler)
- Pennsylvania â William Penn (Penn's Woods)
- Pepperell, Massachusetts â Sir William Pepperrell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg)
- Perham, Maine â Gov. Sidney Perham
- Perham, Minnesota â Josiah Perham (officer of the Northern Pacific Railway)
- Perinton, New York â Glover Perrin (settler) (note the spelling)
- Perkins Township, Maine â Thomas Handasyd Perkins
- Perris, California â Frederick Thomas Perris (chief engineer of the California Southern Railroad)
- Perry, Kansas â John D. Perry (railroader)
- Perry, Maine, Perry, New York and Perry, Ohio â Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
- Perry, Florida â Madison Stark Perry, fourth Governor of the State of Florida, Confederate States Army colonel
- Perrysburg (town), New York and Perrysburg, Ohio â Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
- Perryville, Missouri and Perryville, New Jersey â Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
- Perth Amboy, New Jersey â James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
- Peterboro, New York â Peter Smith
- Peterborough, New Hampshire â Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
- Petersburg, Alaska â Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant)
- Petersburg, California â Peter Gardett (early merchant)
- Petersburg, Delaware â Peter Fowler
- Petersburg, Indiana â Peter Brenton (settler)
- Petersburg, Pennsylvania â Peter Fleck (settler)
- Petersburg, Virginia â Peter Jones (co-founder)
- Petersburgh, New York â Peter Simmons (early settler)
- Petersham, Massachusetts â William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, Viscount Petersham
- Petersville, Indiana â Peter T. Blessing (founder)
- Peytona, West Virginia â William M. Peyton
- Pheba, Mississippi â Pheba Robinson
- Phelps, Missouri â Gov. John S. Phelps
- Phelps, New York â Oliver Phelps (proprietor)
- Pharr, Texas - Henry Newton Pharr (1872-1966)
- Phil Campbell, Alabama â Phil Campbell (Railroad engineer)
- Philippi, West Virginia â Philip P. Barbour (judge)
- Phillips, California â Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
- Phillips, Maine â Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
- Phillips, Wisconsin â Elijah B. Phillips (railroader)
- Philipsburg, Montana â Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
- Philipsburg, Pennsylvania â James and Henry Philips (settlers)
- Phillipston, Massachusetts â William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
- Philipstown, New York â Adolphus Philipse (patentee)
- Phillipsville, California â George Stump Philipps (early settler)
- Phippsburg, Maine â Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling)
- Phoenix, New York â Alexander Phoenix
- Pickens, Mississippi â James Pickens (landowner)
- Pickens, South Carolina â Gen. Andrew Pickens
- Pickensville, Alabama â Gen. Andrew Pickens
- Pierce, Texas â Thomas W. Pierce (railroader)
- Pierceton, Indiana â Franklin Pierce
- Piercy, California â Sam Piercy (early settler)
- Pierre's Hole (Idaho) â Pierre (Iroquois chief)
- Pierre, South Dakota â Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
- Pierrepont, New York â Hezekiah Pierrepont (proprietor)
- Pierrepont Manor, New York â William C. Pierrepont (resident)
- Pierson, Michigan â O.A. Pierson (settler)
- Pieta, California â Chief Pieta (local chief)
- Piffard, New York â David Piffard (settler)
- Pike, New Hampshire â Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders)
- Pike, New York â Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
- Pikes Peak (Colorado) â Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
- Pikesville, Maryland â Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
- Pillsbury, Minnesota â Gov. John S. Pillsbury (businessman)
- Pinckney, New York â Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Pine Hill, California â Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
- Pinkham's Grant, New Hampshire â Daniel Pinkham (grantee)
- Pishelville, Nebraska â Anton Pishel (postmaster)
- Pitcairn, New York â Joseph Pitcairn (proprietor)
- Pitcher, New York â Lt. Gov. Nathaniel Pitcher
- Pitkin, Colorado â Gov. Frederick Walker Pitkin
- Pittsboro, North Carolina â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsburg, New Hampshire â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsfield, Maine â William Pitts (proprietor)
- Pittsfield, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
- Pittsford, New York â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont)
- Pittsford, Vermont â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittston, Maine â John Pitt (judge)
- Pittstown, New Jersey â William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Plant City, Florida â Henry B. Plant
- Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York â Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
- Pleasanton, California and Pleasanton, Kansas â Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
- Pocahontas, Illinois and Pocahontas, Missouri â Pocahontas
- Pocatello, Idaho â Chief Pocatello
- Pokagon Township, Michigan â Chief Pokagon (Pottawattomie leader)
- Poland, Maine â Chief Poland
- Poland, Ohio â George Poland (proprietor)
- Polk County â James K. Polk, 11 places:
- Arkansas â Florida â Georgia â Iowa â Minnesota â Missouri â Nebraska â Oregon â Tennessee â Texas â Wisconsin
- Polkton, North Carolina â Bishop Leonidas Polk
- Polo, Illinois â Marco Polo
- Pomeroy, Ohio â Samuel Wyllis Pomeroy (proprietor)
- Pomins, California â Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
- Pompey, New York â Pompey (Roman general)
- Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan â Chief Pontiac
- Pontotoc, Mississippi â Pontotoc (Chickasaw chief)
- Pooler, Georgia â Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
- Pope Valley, California â William Pope (land grantee)
- Poplarville, Mississippi â "Poplar" Jim Smith (storekeeper)
- Port Alsworth, Alaska - Leon "Babe" Alsworth (1909-2004), and Mary Alsworth (1923-1996)
- Port Arthur, Texas â Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
- Port Clinton, Ohio â DeWitt Clinton (father of the Erie Canal)
- Port Clinton, Pennsylvania â DeWitt Clinton (father of the Erie Canal)
- Port Colden, New Jersey â Cadwallader D. Colden (president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company)
- Port Dickinson, New York â Daniel S. Dickinson (U.S. Senator)
- Port Gibson, Mississippi â David Gibson (landowner)
- Port Kenyon, California â John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
- Port Jervis, New York â John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
- Port Morris, Bronx, New York â Gouverneur Morris
- Port Murray, New Jersey â James Boyles Murray (third president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company)
- Port Orford, Oregon â George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
- Port Penn, Delaware â William Penn
- Port Richey, Florida â Captain Aaron M. Richey
- Port Townsend, Washington â George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
- Porter, Indiana â Commodore David Porter
- Porter, Maine â Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
- Portola, California â Gaspar de PortolÃÂ
- Portola Valley, California â Gaspar de PortolÃÂ
- Poseyville, Indiana â Gen. Thomas Posey (governor)
- Post Falls, Idaho â Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
- Posts, California â William Brainard Post (homesteader)
- Potter, New York â Arnold Potter (proprietor)
- Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania â Gen. James Potter
- Potter Valley, California â William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
- Pottersville, Michigan â George N. Potter
- Potts Camp, Mississippi â Col. E.F. Potts
- Pottstown, Pennsylvania â John Potts (landowner)
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania â John Potts (landowner) (This is the same John Potts as Pottstown).
- Poultney, Vermont â William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
- Powellton, California â R.P. Powell (early settler)
- Powhattan, Kansas â Chief Powhatan (note the spelling)
- Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont â Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
- Poynette, Wisconsin â Peter Paquette (The present name arose from a clerical error).
- Prather, California â Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
- Pratt, Kansas â Caleb S. Pratt (Civil War soldier)
- Prattsburgh, New York â Capt. Joel Pratt (settler)
- Prattsville (town), New York â Zadock Pratt
- Preble, New York â Commodore Edward Preble
- Prentice, Wisconsin â Alexander Prentice (postmaster)
- Prentiss, Maine â Henry Prentiss (landowner)
- Prescott, Arizona â William H. Prescott (historian)
- Prescott, Kansas â C.H. Prescott (railroader)
- Prescott, Massachusetts â Col. William Prescott (Revolutionary War officer)
- Presho, South Dakota â J. S. Presho (early settler)
- Preston, Minnesota â Luther Preston (millwright)
- Preston Township, Pennsylvania â Samuel Preston (judge and settler)
- Prestonsburg, Kentucky â James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia)
- Prestonville, Kentucky â James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia)
- Preston-Potter Hollow, New York â Preston family and Samuel Potter
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska) â Gavriil Pribylov (navigator)
- Prince Frederick, Maryland â Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Prince's Lakes, Indiana â Howard Prince (founder)
- Princeton, Indiana â William Prince
- Princeton, Maine â Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
- Princeton, Massachusetts â Rev. Thomas Prince
- Princetown, New York â John Prince (politician)
- Proctor, Kentucky â Rev. Joseph Proctor
- Proctor, Minnesota â J. Proctor Knott
- Proctor, Vermont â Senator Redfield Proctor
- Prophetstown, Illinois â Tenskwatawa Native American leader ("the Shawnee Prophet")
- Prosser, Washington â Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
- Provo, Utah â ÃÂtienne Provost
- Puget Sound (Washington) â Peter Puget (explorer)
- Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, and Brown County, Wisconsin â Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
- Pulaski Township, Ohio â Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
- Pullman, 3 places in Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia â George Pullman
- Pullman, Chicago â George <u>Pull</u>man and Solon S. Be<u>man</u>
- Pulteney, New York and Pultneyville, New York (note spelling) â Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, British land speculator
- Pushmataha County, Oklahoma â Chief Pushmataha (Choctaw leader during the War of 1812)
- Putnam, Connecticut â Israel Putnam
- Putnam County, Florida â Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president â Florida Historic Society
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- Quanah, Texas â Quanah Parker (the last Comanche chief)
- Queens, New York City â Catherine of Braganza
- Quenemo, Kansas â Quenemo (Native American resident)
- Quincy, Illinois and Quincy, Michigan â John Quincy Adams
- Quincy, Massachusetts â Colonel John Quincy
- Quincy, Washington â John Quincy Adams (indirectly, via Quincy, Illinois)
- Quinlan, Texas â G.A. Quinlan (vice president of the Houston and Texas Central Railway)
- Quintana, Texas â Andrés Quintana Roo
- Quitman, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas â Gen. John A. Quitman (also governor of Mississippi)
R
- Rackerby, California â William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
- Radford, Virginia â William Radford
- Rahway, New Jersey â Rahway (Native American chief)
- Rainier, Oregon â Peter Rainier (British admiral)
- Rainsville, Indiana â Isaac Rains (proprietor)
- Raleigh, 3 places in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee â Sir Walter Raleigh
- Ralston, California â William C. Ralston (mine owner)
- Ralston, Pennsylvania â Matthew C. Ralston
- Ramseur, North Carolina â Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur
- Randalls and Wards Islands (New York) â Jonathan Randall (owner)
- Randolph, Maine â Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
- Randolph, Massachusetts â Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
- Randolph, Nebraska â Jasper Randolph (postman)
- Randolph, New Hampshire â John Randolph (Virginia congressman and senator)
- Randolph, New York â Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Vermont)
- Randolph, Vermont â Edmund Randolph
- Rangeley, Maine â Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
- Rangeley Plantation, Maine â Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
- Ransom Township, Michigan â Gov. Epaphroditus Ransom
- Ransomville, New York â Clark Ransom (settler)
- Rapidan River (Virginia) â Anne, Queen of Great Britain (The name is a conjunction of the phrase "Rapid Anne").
- Rathbone, New York â Gen. Ransom Rathbone (settler)
- Rayl, California â David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
- Raymond, California â Raymond Whitcomb (travel official)
- Raymond, Maine â Captain William Raymond
- Raymond, New Hampshire â John Raymond (grantee)
- Raymondville, New York â Benjamin Raymond (land agent)
- Raysville, Indiana â Gov. James B. Ray
- Readington Township, New Jersey â John Reading (governor of the Province of New Jersey)
- Readsboro, Vermont â John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
- Rector, Arkansas â Wharton or Elias W. Rector (politicians)
- Red Cloud, Nebraska â Red Cloud (Lakota chief)
- Redding, Connecticut â John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
- Redfield, Arkansas â Jared E. Redfield (railroad executive)
- Redmond, Oregon â Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
- Red Shirt, South Dakota â Red Shirt (Lakota chief)
- Red Wing, Minnesota â Red Wing (Native American chief)
- Reedley, California â Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
- Reedsburg, Wisconsin â David C. Reed (settler)
- Reeseville, Wisconsin â Samuel Reese (settler)
- Reidsville, Georgia â Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida)
- Reidsville, North Carolina â Gov. David Settle Reid
- Reiff, California â John Reiff (first postmaster)
- Remsen, New York â Henry Remsen (patentee)
- Reno, Nevada â Jesse L. Reno
- Rensselaer, New York â Kiliaen van Rensselaer
- Revere, Massachusetts â Paul Revere
- Revillagigedo Islands (Alaska) â Count of Revilla Gigedo (Viceroy of New Spain)
- Reynoldsburg, Ohio â Jeremiah N. Reynolds (author and newspaper editor)
- Rhinebeck (village), New York â William <u>Beek</u>man (founder) (also named for Rhineland, Germany (Beekman's home))
- Rheem, California â Donald I. Rheem (developer)
- Ricardo, California â Richard Hagen
- Richardson Springs, California â J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
- Richburg, New York â Alvan Richardson (settler)
- Richland, Washington â Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
- Richmond, Maine â Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
- Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire â Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
- Richmond, Rhode Island â Edward Richmond (colonial attorney general)
- Richville, New York â Salmon Rich (settler)
- Ridgway, Pennsylvania â John Jacob Ridgway (landowner)
- Ridleys Ferry, California â Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
- Rienzi, Mississippi â Cola di Rienzo
- Rindge, New Hampshire â Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
- Ripley, Maine and Ripley, New York â Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812)
- Rippey, Iowa â C.M. Rippey (settler)
- Rising City, Nebraska â A.W. and S.W. Rising (landowners)
- Rivanna River (Virginia) â Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- Ritzville, Washington â Philip Ritz (settler)
- Robbinston, Maine â Edward H. and Nathaniel J. Robbins (landowners)
- Robert Lee, Texas â Robert E. Lee (US Civil War General)
- Robidoux Pass (Nebraska) â Antoine Robidoux (trader)
- Robinson, Kansas â Gov. Charles L. Robinson
- Robstown, Texas â Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner)
- Rochester, New Hampshire and Rochester, Ulster County, New York â Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to James II of England)
- Rochester, Minnesota â Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via Rochester, New York)
- Rochester, New York â Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
- Rockingham, Vermont â Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
- Rockwood, California â Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter)
- Rodman, New York â Daniel Rodman
- Rohnerville, California â Henry Rohner (founder)
- Rolfe, Iowa â John Rolfe (settler of Virginia)
- Rollinsford, New Hampshire â descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire)
- Rollinsville, Colorado â John Q.A. Rollins
- Romulus, Michigan and Romulus, New York â Romulus
- Roodhouse, Illinois â John Roodhouse (founder)
- Roosevelt, New Jersey â Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Root, New York â Erastus Root (politician)
- Rose, New York â Robert L. Rose (congressman)
- Roseboom, New York â Abraham Roseboom (settler)
- Ross, California â James Ross (early settler)
- Ross Corner, California â W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
- Rossie, New York â Rossie Parish (proprietor's sister)
- Rossville, Kansas â W.W. Ross (Indian agent)
- Rossville, Tennessee â John Ross (Cherokee chief)
- Roswell, Colorado â Roswell P. Flower (governor of New York)
- Roswell, Georgia â Roswell King (founder)
- Rothville, Missouri â John Roth (settler)
- Rowe, Massachusetts â John Rowe (Boston merchant)
- Rowesville, South Carolina â Gen. William Rowe
- Rowletts, Kentucky â John P. Rowlett
- Royalston, Massachusetts â Isaac Royal (landowner)
- Ruckersville, Virginia - John Rucker (founder)
- Rulo, Nebraska â Charles Rouleau (note the spelling)
- Rumford, Maine â Benjamin Thompson (also known as Count Rumford)
- Rumney, New Hampshire â Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
- Rumsey, California â Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
- Rumsey, Kentucky â Edward Rumsey
- Rushmore, Minnesota â S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
- Rushville, Indiana and Rushville, Illinois â Dr. Benjamin Rush (Founding Father)
- Rusk, Texas â Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
- Russell, Kansas â Capt. Avra Russell
- Russell, New York â Russell Atwater (proprietor)
- Russell City, California â Frederick James Russell (town planner)
- Rutherford, New Jersey â John Rutherford (landowner)
- Rutherfordton, North Carolina â Gen. Griffith Rutherford
- Ryan, California â John Ryan (borax company official)
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- Sabattus, Maine â Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
- Sackets Harbor, New York â Augustus Sacketts (settler) (note the spelling)
- Safford, Arizona â Anson P. K. Safford (territorial governor)
- Sageville, Iowa â Hezekiah Sage
- St. Anthony, Minnesota â Anthony of Padua (indirectly, via Saint Anthony Falls)
- Saint Anthony Falls (Minnesota) â Anthony of Padua
- St. Augustine, Florida â Saint Augustine
- St. Augustine, Maryland â Augustine Herman (explorer)
- St. Clair, Michigan â Clare of Assisi (note the spelling)
- St. Clair, Pennsylvania â Gen. Arthur St. Clair
- St. Clairsville, Ohio â Gen. Arthur St. Clair
- St. Clement, Missouri â Clement Grote (settler)
- St. Deroin, Nebraska â Joseph Deroin (Otoe chief)
- Ste. Genevieve, Missouri â Genevieve
- St. George, Maine â Saint George
- St. George, Vermont â George III of Great Britain
- St. George, West Virginia â St. George Tucker (state legislator)
- Saint James, Indiana â Saint James
- St. James, 5 places in Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, and North Carolina â Saint James
- St. John, Kansas â Gov. John St. John
- St. Johns, Michigan â John Swegles Jr. (founder)
- St. Johnsbury, Vermont â J. Hector St. John de CrèvecÃ
Âur (diplomat)
- St. Johns River (Florida) â John the Baptist
- St. Joseph, Michigan â Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
- St. Joseph, Missouri â Joseph Robidoux IV (founder)
- St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) â Saint Joseph
- St. Lawrence River â Saint Lawrence
- St. Louis, Missouri â Saint Louis
- St. Nazianz, Wisconsin â Gregory of Nazianzus
- St. Paul, Minnesota â Saint Paul
- St. Paul, Nebraska â J.N. and N.J. Paul (settlers)
- St. Pete Beach, Florida â Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
- St. Petersburg, Florida â Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
- St. Marys River (MichiganâÂÂOntario) â Mary, mother of Jesus
- St. Vrain Creek (Colorado) â Ceran St. Vrain (fur trader)
- Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York â Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
- Salisbury, Missouri â Lucius Salisbury (resident)
- Sallis, Mississippi â Dr. James Sallis (landowner)
- Salyersville, Kentucky â Samuel Salyer (state legislator)
- Samsonville, New York â Gen. Henry A. Sampson (note the spelling)
- San Andreas, California â Saint Andrew
- San Angelo, Texas â Carolina Angela DeWitt (wife of the city's founder Bartholomew J. DeWitt)
- San Antonio, Florida and San Antonio, Texas â Saint Anthony of Padua
- San Bernardino, California â Saint Bernardine of Siena
- San Bruno, California â Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the San Bruno Creek)
- San Diego, California â Saint Didacus
- San Francisco, California â Saint Francis
- San Jose, California â Saint Joseph
- San Juan Capistrano, California â Saint John Capistrano
- San Leandro, California â Saint Leander of Seville
- San Lorenzo, California â Saint Lawrence
- San Lucas, California â Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant)
- San Luis Obispo, California â Saint Louis of Toulouse
- San Luis Rey, California â Saint Louis
- San Mateo, California â Saint Matthew
- San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California â Saint Michael
- San Pablo, California â Saint Paul
- Sanborn, Iowa â George W. Sanborn (railroader)
- Sanbornton, New Hampshire â John Sanborn (grantee)
- Sanders, California â Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
- Sandisfield, Massachusetts â Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (note the spelling)
- Sanford, Florida â Henry Shelton Sanford (diplomat and founder)
- Sanford, Maine â Peleg Sanford (proprietor)
- Sanger, California â Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
- Sangerfield, New York â Jedediah Sanger (judge)
- Sangerville, Maine â Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner)
- Santa Ana, California and Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico â Saint Anne
- Santa Barbara, California â Saint Barbara
- Santa Clara, California â Saint Clare of Assisi
- Santa Monica, California â Saint Monica
- Santa Ynez, California â Saint Agnes
- Sapinero, Colorado â Sapinero (Native American chief)
- Saranap, California â <u>Sara Nap</u>thaly (mother of a railroad man)
- Sarcoxie, Missouri â Sarcoxie (Native American chief)
- Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan â Mary, mother of Jesus (indirectly, after the St. Marys River)
- Sauvie Island (Oregon) â Jean Baptiste Sauve (dairy owner)
- Sayre, Pennsylvania â R.S. Sayre (railroader)
- Schererville, Indiana â Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
- Schoolcraft, Michigan â Henry Schoolcraft (anthropologist)
- Schroeppel, New York â Henry W. Schroeppel (resident)
- Schuyler, Nebraska â Vice President Schuyler Colfax
- Schuylerville, New York â Gen. Philip Schuyler
- Schwaub, California â Charles M. Schwab (note the spelling)
- Scipio, New York â Scipio Africanus (Roman general)
- Scott, New York â General Winfield Scott
- Scottdale, Georgia â George Washington Scott
- Scottdale, Pennsylvania â Thomas A. Scott (railroader)
- Scotts, California â Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)
- Scottsboro, Georgia â Gen. John Scott
- Scottsburg, New York â Matthew and William Scott (settlers)
- Scotts Corner, California â Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
- Scottsdale, Arizona â Chaplain Winfield Scott
- Scottsville, Kentucky â Gen. Charles Scott (also served as governor of Kentucky)
- Scottsville, New York â Isaac Scott (settler)
- Scranton, Pennsylvania â Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
- Scriba, New York â George Scriba (proprietor)
- Searsmont, Maine â David Sears (proprietor)
- Searsport, Maine â David Sears (proprietor)
- Seattle, Washington â Chief Seattle
- Sedgwick, Arkansas â Union Major General John Sedgwick
- Sedgwick, Colorado â Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick)
- Sedgwick, Kansas â Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Sedgwick County)
- Sedgwick, Maine â Major Robert Sedgwick
- Sedona, Arizona â Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster)
- Seeley, California â Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County)
- Seguin, Texas â Juan Seguin (Texas political figure and Texas Revolution patriot)
- Seigler Springs, California â Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs)
- Selby, California â Prentiss Selby (first postmaster)
- Selma, California â Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee)
- Sempronius, New York â Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Roman tribunes and agrarian reformers)
- Senath, Missouri â Senath Douglass (settler's wife)
- Sergeant Bluff, Iowa â Sergeant Charles Floyd
- Seward, Alaska, Seward, Nebraska, and Seward, New York â William H. Seward
- Seymour, Connecticut â Governor Thomas H. Seymour
- Shafter, California â Gen. William Rufus Shafter
- Shaftsbury, Vermont â Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
- Shakopee, Minnesota â Shakopee (Native American chief)
- Shapleigh, Maine â Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
- Sharon, California â William Sharon (financier)
- Sharpsburg, Kentucky â Moses Sharp
- Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania â James Sharp (proprietor)
- Shaver Lake, California â C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
- Sheffield, Iowa â James Sheffield (railroad contractor)
- Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont â William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
- Shelby, New York â Gen. Isaac Shelby
- Shelbyville, 3 places in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri â Gen. Isaac Shelby
- Shepherd, Michigan â I.N. Shepherd (founder)
- Shepherdstown, West Virginia â Capt. Thomas Shepherd
- Sheridan, Montana and Sheridan, Wyoming â General Philip Sheridan (Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War)
- Sherman, Michigan â Gen. William T. Sherman
- Sherman, New York â Roger Sherman (Founding Father)
- Sherman, Texas â Sidney Sherman (Texian patriot)
- Shirley, Maine â William Shirley (indirectly, via Shirley, Massachusetts)
- Shirley, Massachusetts â William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
- Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania â William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
- Shoup, Idaho â George L. Shoup (U.S. Senator)
- Shreveport, Louisiana â Captain Henry Shreve, who opened the Red River, which runs through Shreveport, to marine navigation
- Shrewsbury, Massachusetts â George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
- Shrewsbury, Vermont â Earl of Shrewsbury
- Shullsburg, Wisconsin â Jesse W. Shull (settler)
- Shutesbury, Massachusetts â Samuel Shute (governor of Massachusetts)
- Sicard Flat, California â Theodore Sicard (early settler)
- Sidney, Iowa â Sir Philip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio)
- Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio â Sir Philip Sidney (English author)
- Sidney, Montana â Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
- Sidney, Nebraska â Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
- Sidney, New York â Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
- Sigel, Illinois â Gen. Franz Sigel
- Sigourney, Iowa â Lydia Sigourney (poet)
- Sikeston, Missouri â John Sikes (founder)
- Silsbee, California â Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
- Silsbee, Texas â Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
- Simpsonville, Kentucky â John Simpson (U.S. representative)
- Sinclairville, New York â Samuel Sinclair (settler)
- Sinton, Texas â David Sinton
- Skilesville, Kentucky â James R. Skiles
- Slates Hot Springs, California â Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
- Slatersville, Rhode Island â Samuel Slater (founder)
- Slaughters, Kentucky â G.G. Slaughter (settler)
- Slayton, Minnesota â Charles Slayton (founder)
- Sleepy Eye, Minnesota â Ishtakhaba (pronounced: Ish-Ta-Ka-Ba) (Native American chief whose eyes were said "to have the appearance of sleep.")
- Sloan, Iowa â Samuel Sloan (railroad official)
- Sloansville, New York â John R. Sloan (settler)
- Sloat, California â John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)
- Sly Park, California â James Sly (pioneer)
- Smartsville, California â Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
- Smethport, Pennsylvania â Theodore Smeth (friend of proprietor)
- Smith's Ferry, California â James Smith (founder)
- Smith Center, Kansas â J. Nelson Smith (soldier) (indirectly, via Smith County)
- Smithfield, Maine â Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
- Smithfield, New York â Peter Smith
- Smithfield, North Carolina â John Smith (state legislator)
- Smithflat, California â Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
- Smith River (Montana) â Robert Smith (Secretary of State)
- Smithtown, New York â Richard Smith (proprietor)
- Smithville, Missouri â Humphrey Smith (settler)
- Smithville, New York â Jesse Smith (lumber dealer)
- Snydertown, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania â Gov. Simon Snyder
- Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee â William <u>Sodd</u>er (trading post proprietor) and <u>Daisy</u> Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
- Solon, Maine and Solon, New York â Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
- Somers, Connecticut â Lord John Somers of England
- Somers, New York â Capt. Richard Somers
- Somersville, California â Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
- Somerville, Massachusetts â Capt. Richard Somers
- Soperton, Georgia â Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
- South Amboy, New Jersey â James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
- South Anna River (Virginia) â Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- South Burlington, Vermont â Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
- South Carolina â Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
- South Euclid, Ohio â Euclid (Greek mathematician)
- South Padre Island, Texas â José Nicolás Ballà(Padre BallÃÂ) (Catholic priest and settler)
- South Thomaston, Maine â General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine)
- Spafford, New York â Horatio Spafford
- Spalding, Missouri â Robert Marion Spalding owner of Spalding Springs
- Spalding Tract, California â John S. Spalding (founder)
- Sparks, Nevada â John Sparks
- Spearville, Kansas â Alden Speare (resident of Boston)
- Spencer, Indiana â Capt. Spier Spencer
- Spencer, Massachusetts â Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
- Spencerport, New York â William H. Spencer (settler)
- Spivey, Kansas â R.M. Spivey (landowner)
- Sprague, Washington â General John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
- Spreckels, California â Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
- Stacy, California â Stacy Spoon
- Stafford, Humboldt County, California â Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
- Stafford, Kansas â Lewis Stafford (soldier)
- Standish, California and Standish, Maine â Myles Standish
- Stanfield, Oregon â Senator Robert N. Stanfield
- Stanley, North Carolina â Elwood Stanley (U.S. representative)
- Stannard, Vermont â George J. Stannard
- Stanton, Michigan â Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War)
- Stark, Kansas â General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois)
- Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York â General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die")
- Starkey, New York â John Starkey (settler)
- Starks, Maine â General John Stark
- Starksboro, Vermont â General John Stark
- Starkville, Colorado â Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
- Starkville, Mississippi â General John Stark
- Stege, California â Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
- Stephenson, Michigan â Robert Stephenson
- Stephentown, New York â Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
- Sterling, Kansas â Sterling Rosan (settlers' father)
- Sterling, Massachusetts â General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling)
- Stetson, Maine â Amasa Stetson (landowner)
- Steuben, Maine and Steuben, New York â Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
- Steubenville, Ohio â Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
- Stevens Point, Wisconsin â J.D. Stevens (missionary)
- Stevensville, Michigan â Thomas L. Stevens (founder)
- Stevensville, Montana â Isaac Stevens (1st governor of Washington Territory)
- Stevinson, California â James J. Stevinson (landowner)
- Stewartstown, New Hampshire â Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
- Stewartsville, Missouri â Gov. Robert Marcellus Stewart
- Stewartville, California â William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
- Stickney, South Dakota â J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
- Stilesville, Indiana â Jeremiah Stiles (proprietor)
- Stinson Beach, California â Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
- Stockton, 3 places in California, Missouri, and New York â Robert F. Stockton
- Stoddard, New Hampshire â Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
- Stokes Landing, California â James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
- Stonewall, North Carolina â Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general)
- Stoughton, Massachusetts â William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
- Stoughton, Wisconsin â Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
- Stoutsville, Missouri â Robert P. Stout
- Stoystown, Pennsylvania â John Stoy (settler)
- Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont â Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
- Stratham, New Hampshire â Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling)
- Stratton, Vermont â Samuel Stratton (settler)
- Strong, Maine â Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
- Strong City, Kansas â William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
- Strother, Missouri â French Strother (professor)
- Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania â Col. Jacob Stroud (settler)
- Struthers, Ohio â Captain John Struthers (founder)
- Stuart, Nebraska â Peter Stuart (settler)
- Sturgeon, Missouri â Isaac Sturgeon (resident of St. Louis)
- Sturgis, Michigan â Judge John Sturgis (settler)
- Stuyvesant, New York â Peter Stuyvesant (colonial governor)
- Suffern, New York â John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
- Sullivan, Indiana â Daniel Sullivan (soldier)
- Sullivan, Maine â Daniel Sullivan (settler)
- Sullivan, Missouri â General John Sullivan (indirectly, via Sullivan County, Tennessee)
- Sullivan, New Hampshire and Sullivan, New York â General John Sullivan
- Sumner, Maine â Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
- Sumter, South Carolina â Gen. Thomas Sumter
- Sunderland, Massachusetts â Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
- Sunol, California â Antonio Suñol (Californio ranchero)
- Surry, New Hampshire â Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
- Sutro, Nevada â Adolph Sutro
- Susanville, California â Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop)
- Sutter, California â John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
- Sutter Creek, California â John A. Sutter
- Sutter Hill, California â John A. Sutter
- Swainsboro, Georgia â Stephen Swain (state senator)
- Swan's Island, Maine â Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser)
- Sweetland, California â Sweetland brothers (early settlers)
- Swepsonville, North Carolina â George William Swepson (capitalist)
- Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio â John Cleves Symmes (judge)
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- Taft, California â William Howard Taft
- Talbott, Tennessee â Col. John Talbott
- Talbotton, Georgia â Gov. Matthew Talbot
- Talmadge, Maine â Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
- Talmage, California â Junius Talmage (early settler)
- Tamworth, New Hampshire â British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
- Tancred, California â Tancred, Prince of Galilee
- Taopi, Minnesota â Taopi (Native American chief)
- Tarkington Prairie, Texas â Burton Tarkington (early settler)
- Tarpey, California â Arthur B. Tarpey
- Tatamy, Pennsylvania â Tatamy (Native American chief)
- Taylor, New York â Zachary Taylor
- Taylor County, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Kentucky â Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America
- Taylor Ridge (Georgia) â Richard Taylor (Cherokee chief)
- Taylorsville, Indiana â Zachary Taylor
- Taylorsville, Kentucky â Richard Taylor (proprietor)
- Taylorsville, North Carolina â John Louis Taylor (judge)
- Taylorville, California â Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
- Tazewell, Georgia and Tazewell, Virginia â Henry Tazewell (U.S. Senator from Virginia)
- Tecopa, California â Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
- Tecumseh, 3 places in Michigan, Nebraska, and Oklahoma â Tecumseh (Native American leader)
- Tekonsha, Michigan â Tekonsha (Native American chief)
- Temple, New Hampshire â John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
- Temple, Texas â Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
- Templeton, Massachusetts â Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
- Terry, Mississippi â Bill Terry (resident)
- Terry, Montana â General Alfred Howe Terry
- Thacher Island (Massachusetts) â Anthony Thacher (sailor shipwrecked there)
- Thayer, Kansas â Nathaniel Thayer
- Thetford, Vermont â Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
- Thibodaux, Louisiana â Gov. Henry S. Thibodaux
- Thomaston, Connecticut â Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
- Thomaston, Georgia â Gen. Jett Thomas
- Thomaston, Maine â General John Thomas of the Continental Army
- Thomasville, Georgia â Gen. Jett Thomas
- Thompson, Connecticut â Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
- Thorndike, Maine â Israel Thorndike (landowner)
- Thornton, Colorado â Governor Dan Thornton
- Thornton, Mississippi â Dr. C.C. Thornton (landowner)
- Thornton, New Hampshire â Dr. Matthew Thornton (grantee and signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Throggs Neck, Bronx, New York â John Throckmorton (patentee)
- Throop, New York â Gov. Enos T. Throop
- Thurman, New York â John Thurman
- Thurston, New York â William R. Thurston (landowner)
- Tiffin, Ohio â Gov. Edward Tiffin
- Tilton, New Hampshire â Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
- Tinley Park, Illinois â Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
- Tipton, Indiana â John Tipton (U.S. Senator)
- Titusville, Pennsylvania â Jonathan Titus (landowner)
- Todd Valley, California â Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)
- Tomah, Wisconsin â Tomah (Menominee chief)
- Tome, New Mexico â Saint Thomas
- Tompkins, New York â Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York)
- Tompkinsville, Kentucky and Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York â Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York)
- Toms Place, California â Tom Yernby (resort owner)
- Toms River, New Jersey â Capt. William Tom (settler)
- Tormey, California â Patrick Tormey (landowner)
- Torrance, California â Jared Sidney Torrance
- Torrey, New York â Henry Torrey
- Tower City, North Dakota and Tower City, Pennsylvania â Charlemagne Tower
- Towle, California â George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)
- Townsend, Delaware â Samuel Townsend (landowner)
- Townsend, Massachusetts â Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
- Townshend, Vermont â the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
- Towson, Maryland â Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
- Trenton, New Jersey â William Trent (landholder)
- Trexlertown, Pennsylvania â John Trexler
- Troy, North Carolina â Matthew Troy (lawyer)
- Truesdale, Missouri â William Truesdale (landowner)
- Trumbull, Connecticut â Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
- Truxton, New York â Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
- Tryon, North Carolina â William Tryon (colonial governor)
- Tuftonboro, New Hampshire â John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
- Tully, New York â Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Tunbridge, Vermont â William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
- Tupman, California â H.V. Tupman (landowner)
- Turner, Maine â Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
- Turners Falls, Massachusetts â Captain William Turner
- Tuscola, Illinois â Tusco (Native American chief)
- Tustin, California â Columbus Tustin
- Tusten, New York â Col. Benjamin Tusten
- Tuttle, California â R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
- Twain Harte, California â Mark Twain and Bret Harte
- Two Strike, South Dakota â Two Strike (Lakota chief)
- Tygart Valley River (West Virginia) â David Tygart (settler)
- Tyler, Texas â John Tyler
- Tyngsborough, Massachusetts â Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
- Tyringham, Massachusetts â 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
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- Udall, Kansas â Cornelius Udall
- Ulysses, Kansas and Ulysses, Nebraska â Ulysses S. Grant
- Uncasville, Connecticut â Uncas (Native American chief)
- Underhill, Wisconsin â William Underhill (settler from Vermont)
- Urban, California â Eva L. Urban (first postmaster)
- Uvalde, Texas â Juan de Ugalde (Spanish governor of Coahuila) (indirectly, via Uvalde County, Texas)
- Uxbridge, Massachusetts â Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
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- Vacaville, California â Juan Manuel Vaca (founder)
- Vade, California â Sierra Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
- Valdez, Alaska â Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
- Valdosta, Georgia â Augustus (indirectly, via Aosta, Italy)
- Vallejo, California â Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
- Van Buren, New York â Martin van Buren
- Van Lear, Kentucky â Van Lear Black (businessman)
- Van Nuys, California â Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
- Vanceboro, Maine â William Vance (landowner)
- Vanceboro, North Carolina â Zebulon Baird Vance (governor and U.S. Senator)
- Vancouver, Washington â George Vancouver (explorer)
- Van Etten, New York â James B. Van Etten (state legislator)
- Vassalboro, Maine â Florentins Vassall (patentee)
- Vaugine Township, Arkansas â Francis Vaugine (landowner)
- Veazie, Maine â General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
- Vergennes, Vermont â Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
- Verplanck, New York â Philip Verplanck
- Vicksburg, Mississippi â Neivitt Vick (founder)
- Victoria, Texas â General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
- Victorville, California â Jacob Nash Victor
- Vidalia, Louisiana â Don José Vidal (colonial governor)
- Vidor, Texas â Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
- Villemont Township, Arkansas â Carlos de Villemont (landowner)
- Vinalhaven, Maine â John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
- Vincent House (Fort Dodge, Iowa) - Web Vincent (businessman)
- Vining, Kansas â E.P. Vining (railroader)
- Vinton, California â Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)
- Viola, Wisconsin â Viola Buck
- Virgil, New York â Virgil (Roman poet)
- Virgilia, California â Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive Virgil Bogue)
- Virginia â Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen"
- Virginia City, Nevada â Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen" (indirectly, via Virginia)
- Volney, New York â Constantin François de ChassebÃ
Âuf, comte de Volney (philosopher)
- Votaw, Texas â Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)
- Voorheesville, New York â Theodore Voorhees (railroader)
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- Wabasha, Minnesota â Wabasha (Native American chief)
- Wabaunsee, Kansas â Waubonsie (Native American chief) (note the spelling)
- Wacouta, Minnesota â Wacouta (Native American chief)
- Waddington, California â Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
- Waddington, New York â Joshua Waddington (proprietor)
- Wadesboro, North Carolina â Col. Thomas Wade
- Wadsworth, Ohio â General Elijah Wadsworth
- Wagener, South Carolina - George Wagener (Charleston merchant and railroad company president)
- Waite, Maine â Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
- Waitsfield, Vermont â General Benjamin Wait (founder)
- WaKeeney, Kansas â A.E. <u>Wa</u>rren and J.F. Keeney (founders)
- Wakefield, Kansas â Rev. Richard Wake (founder)
- Wakefield, Massachusetts â Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
- Wakefield, North Carolina â Margaret Wake Tryon (colonial governor's wife) (indirectly, via Wake County)
- Wake Forest, North Carolina â Margaret Wake Tryon (colonial governor's wife) (indirectly, via Wake County)
- Walden, New York â Jacob T. Walden
- Waldo, Maine â General Samuel Waldo (proprietor)
- Waldo, Wisconsin â O.H. Waldo (railroad company president)
- Waldo Junction, California â William Waldo (early settler)
- Waldoboro, Maine â General Samuel Waldo
- Waldron Island (Washington) â W.T. Waldron (sailor)
- Wales, Massachusetts â James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
- Walesboro, Indiana â John P. Wales (founder)
- Walker Pass (California) â Joseph R. Walker (explorer)
- Walker River (Nevada) â Joseph R. Walker (explorer)
- Wallace, California â John Wallace (surveyor)
- Wallace, Idaho â Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
- Wallington, New Jersey â Walling van Winkle (landowner)
- Walpole, Massachusetts and Walpole, New Hampshire â Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
- Walsenburg, Colorado â Fred Walsen (store owner)
- Walthall, Mississippi â Gen. Edward C. Walthall
- Walton (town), New York â William Walton (landowner)
- Walworth, New York â Reuben H. Walworth (politician)
- Ward, Indiana â Thomas B. Ward (U.S. representative)
- Wardner, Idaho â James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
- Wardsboro, Vermont â William Ward (grantee)
- Wards Island (New York) â Jasper and Bartholomew Ward (landowners)
- Waresboro, Georgia â Nicholas Ware (U.S. Senator)
- Warner, New Hampshire â Jonathan Warner (leading Portsmouth citizen)
- Warnerville, New York â Capt. George Warner (settler)
- Warren, 6 places in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont â Major General Joseph Warren
- Warren, New Hampshire and Warren, Rhode Island â Admiral Sir Peter Warren (British naval hero)
- Warren, Ohio â Moses Warren (surveyor)
- Warrenton, North Carolina â Major General Joseph Warren
- Warrenville, Illinois â Julius Warren (settler)
- Warwick, Rhode Island â Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
- Washburn, Maine â Governor Israel Washburn Jr.
- Washington (state) and Washington, D.C. â 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 â George Washington
- Washington Court House, Ohio â George Washington
- Washington Crossing, New Jersey and Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania â George Washington
- Washington Terrace, Utah â George Washington
- Washingtonville, New York and Washingtonville, Pennsylvania â George Washington
- Waterboro, Maine â Colonel Joshua Waters (proprietor)
- Wathena, Kansas â Wathena (Native American chief)
- Watkins Glen, New York â Dr. Samuel Watkins (founder)
- Watkinsville, Georgia â Col. Robert Watkins (state legislator)
- Watrous, New Mexico â Samuel B. Watrous (settler)
- Watson, New York â James Watson (proprietor)
- Watson, West Virginia â Joseph Watson (landowner)
- Wattsburg, Pennsylvania â David Watts (settler)
- Wauponsee, Illinois â Waubonsie (Native American chief) (note the spelling)
- Wauseon, Ohio â Wauseon (Native American chief)
- Wayland, Massachusetts and Wayland, New York â Dr. Francis Wayland (president of Brown University)
- Waymansville, Indiana â Charles L. Wayman (founder)
- Wayne, Maine â Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
- Waynesboro, 3 places in Georgia, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania â Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
- Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and Waynesburg, Ohio â Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
- Waynesfield, Ohio â Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
- Waynesville, North Carolina and Waynesville, Ohio â Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
- Weare, New Hampshire â Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
- Weatherford, Texas â Jefferson Weatherford (settler)
- Webster, Massachusetts and Webster, New Hampshire â Daniel Webster
- Webster Groves, Missouri â Daniel Webster
- Weedsport, New York â Elisha and Edward Weed (settlers)
- Weedville, Arizona â Ora Rush Weed (founder)
- Weimar, California â a local Maidu chief
- Weir, Kansas â T.M. Weir (founder)
- Weissport, Pennsylvania â Col. Jacob Weiss (settler)
- Welch, West Virginia â Capt. J.A. Welch
- Welcome, Minnesota â Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
- Weld, Maine â Benjamin Weld (proprietor)
- Weldon, California â William B. Weldon (rancher)
- Wellington, Colorado â C. L. Wellington (employee of the Colorado and Southern Railway)
- Wellington, Kansas and Wellington, Maine â Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Wells, Minnesota â the wife of Clark W. Thompson
- Wells, New York â Joshua Wells (settler)
- Wellsboro, Pennsylvania â Henry Wells Morris (resident)
- Wellsburg, West Virginia â Alexander Wells
- Wellsville, Kansas â D.L. Wells (railroad contractor)
- Wellsville, Ohio â William Wells (founder)
- Wendell, Massachusetts â Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
- Wentworth, New Hampshire â Governor Benning Wentworth
- Wesley, Maine and Wesley Township, Washington County, Ohio â John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
- Wesson, Mississippi â Col. J.M. Wesson (founder)
- West Gardiner, Maine â Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician) (indirectly, via Gardiner, Maine)
- West Lafayette, Indiana and West Lafayette, Ohio â Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
- West Richland, Washington â Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via Richland, Washington)
- West Virginia â Virgin Queen
- West Warwick, Rhode Island â Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via Warwick, Rhode Island)
- Westbrook, Maine â Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
- Westby, Wisconsin â O.T. Westby (settler)
- Westerlo, New York â Rev. Eilardus Westerlo
- Westmoreland, New Hampshire â John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
- Westport, Oregon â John West
- Westville, California â George C. West (first postmaster)
- Westville, Mississippi â Col. Cato West
- Westville, Missouri â Dr. William S. West (postmaster)
- Wetmore, Kansas â W.T. Wetmore (railroader)
- Weyers Cave, Virginia â Bernard Weyer
- Wharton, New Jersey â Joseph Wharton (co-founder of Bethlehem Steel)
- Wharton, Texas â William H. Wharton and John A. Wharton (politicians)
- Whately, Massachusetts â Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
- Wheeler, New York â Capt. Silas Wheeler (settler)
- Wheelock, Vermont â Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
- Whipple Mountains (California) â Amiel Weeks Whipple (military engineer)
- White, South Dakota â W.H. White (settler)
- White Cloud Township, Mills County, Iowa and White Cloud, Kansas â Ma-Hush-Kah (Native American chief)
- Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire â George Whitefield (English evangelist)
- White Haven, Pennsylvania â Josiah White
- Whitesboro, New York â Judge Hugh White (settler)
- Whitestown, New York â Judge Hugh White (settler)
- Whiteville, North Carolina â James B. White (state legislator)
- Whiting, Iowa â Charles Whiting (judge)
- Whiting, Maine â Timothy Whiting (settler)
- Whiting, Vermont â John Whiting (landholder)
- Whitingham, Vermont â Nathan Whiting (landholder)
- Whitinsville, Massachusetts â Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
- Whitman, Massachusetts â Augustus Whitman (landowner)
- Whitman, Washington â Dr. Marcus Whitman (missionary)
- Whitney, California â Joel Parker Whitney (rancher)
- Whitney Point, New York â Thomas Whitney (postmaster)
- Whitneyville, Connecticut â Eli Whitney (founder)
- Whitneyville, Maine â Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
- Whittier, Alaska â John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
- Whittier, California â John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
- Wibaux, Montana â Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
- Wickenburg, Arizona â Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
- Wiggins, Colorado â Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
- Wilber, Nebraska â C.D. Wilber (founder)
- Wilcox, Pennsylvania â A.I. Wilcox
- Wilcox Township, Michigan â S.N. Wilcox
- Wildomar, California â Wil â William Collier, Do â Donald Graham, Mar â Margaret Collier (city founders)
- Wilkes County, Georgia and Wilkes County, North Carolina â John Wilkes
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania â John Wilkes and Isaac Barré
- Wilkesboro, North Carolina â John Wilkes
- Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania â William Wilkins (Secretary of War)
- Willet, New York â Colonel Marinus Willet
- Williams, California â W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
- Williams Bay, Wisconsin â Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the War of 1812)
- Williamsburg, Ohio â Gen. William Haines Lytle (founder)
- Williamsburg, Virginia â William III of England
- Williamsport, Indiana â Gov. James D. Williams
- Williamsport, Pennsylvania â William Hepburn (judge)
- Williams River (Vermont) â Rev. John Williams
- Williamson, New York â Charles Williamson (land agent)
- Williamson River (Oregon) â Lt. Robert S. Williamson (explorer)
- Williamston, South Carolina â Col. James Williams
- Williamstown, Kentucky â William Arnold (settler)
- Williamstown, Massachusetts â Ephraim Williams
- Williamstown, Vermont â Ephraim Williams (indirectly, via Williamston, Mass.)
- Williamsville, Missouri â Asa E. Williams (founder)
- Williamsville, New York â Jonas Williams (settler)
- Willis, Kansas â Martin Cleveland Willis (settler)
- Williston, North Dakota â Associate Justice Lorenzo P. Williston
- Williston, Vermont â Samuel Willis (landholder)
- Willits, California â Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
- Willoughby, Ohio â Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr. (U.S. Representative from New York)
- Willoughby Hills, Ohio â Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr.
- Wilmette, Illinois â Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
- Wilmington, 4 places in Delaware, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Vermont â Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
- Wilmot, New Hampshire â Dr. James Wilmot (English clergyman)
- Wilseyville, California â Lawrence A. Wilsey (corporate executive)
- Wilson, Kansas â Hiero T. Wilson (merchant from Fort Scott)
- Wilson (town), New York â Reuben Wilson (settler)
- Wilson and Wilson County, North Carolina â Colonel Louis D. Wilson (state senator)
- Wilton, New Hampshire â Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
- Winchester, Massachusetts â Colonel William P. Winchester
- Winchester, New Hampshire â Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London
- Windham, New Hampshire â Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
- Windom, Kansas and Windom, Minnesota â Senator William Windom
- Windsor, Colorado â Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
- Winfield, Kansas â Chaplain Winfield Scott
- Winfield (town), New York â Gen. Winfield Scott
- Winn, Maine â John M. Winn (landholder)
- Winnie, Texas â Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
- Winnsboro, South Carolina â Gen. Richard Winn (founder)
- Winslow, Maine â General John Winslow
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina â Joseph Winston
- Winters, California â Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
- Winthrop, Maine â John Winthrop (first Governor of Massachusetts)
- Winthrop, Massachusetts â Deane Winthrop (son of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts)
- Wofford Heights, California â I.L. Wofford (founder)
- Wolcott, Connecticut â Frederick Wolcott
- Wolcott, New York and Wolcott, Vermont â General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Wolfeboro, New Hampshire â English General James Wolfe
- Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania â Joseph Wommelsdorf (founder) (note the spelling)
- Woodbury, Vermont â Col. Ebenezer Wood (grantee)
- Woodfords, California â Daniel Woodford (early settler)
- Woodhull, New York â Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull
- Woodleaf, California â James Wood (property owner)
- Woodsfield, Ohio â Archibald Woods (resident of Wheeling, West Virginia)
- Woodsonville, Kentucky â Thomas Woodson (senator)
- Woodville, Texas â George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
- Woody, California â Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
- Wooster, Ohio â Gen. David Wooster
- Worth, New York â Gen. William J. Worth
- Worthington, Massachusetts â Col. John Worthington (proprietor)
- Worthington, Minnesota â the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
- Wray, Colorado â John Wray (foreman)
- Wright, New York â Silas Wright (politician)
- Wright City, Missouri â Dr. H.C. Wright (settler)
- Wrightsboro, Georgia â Augustus R. Wright (judge)
- Wrightstown, Wisconsin â H.S. Wright (ferry owner)
- Wrightsville, Pennsylvania â Samuel Wright (settler)
- Wurtsboro, New York â Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
- Wyandanch, New York â Wyandanch (sachem of the Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
- Wytheville, Virginia â George Wythe (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
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- Yankee Jims, California â a criminal with that nickname
- Yale, Michigan â Elihu Yale (indirectly, via Yale University)
- Yaquina Bay (Oregon) â Yaquina (Native American chief)
- Yates Center, Kansas â Abner Yates (landowner)
- Ybor City, Tampa, Florida â Vicente Martinez Ybor
- Yellville, Arkansas â Governor Archibald Yell
- Yonkers, New York â Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
- Yorba Linda, California â Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
- York, Maine â James II of England (known as the Duke of York before ascending the throne)
- York Center, Illinois - Samuel York
- Yorkville, California â R.H. York (Founder)
- Yorkville, Wisconsin - Samuel York
- Youngs, California â Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
- Youngs Bay (Washington) â Sir Charles Young (naval officer)
- Youngstown, New York â John Young (merchant)
- Youngstown, Ohio â John Young (Founder)
- Ypsilanti, Michigan â Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the Greek War of Independence)
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- Zanesfield, Ohio â Isaac Zane (younger brother of Ebenezer Zane)
- Zanesville, Ohio â Ebenezer Zane (founder)
- Zapata, Texas â Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata
- Zavalla, Texas â Lorenzo de Zavala (note spelling)
- Zebulon, Georgia â Zebulon Pike
- Zenda, Wisconsin - Anthony Hope, author of The Prisoner Of Zenda
- Zillah, Washington â Miss Zillah Oakes (daughter of Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of the Northern Pacific Railway)
- Zionsville, Indiana â William Zion (pioneer)
- Zwingle, Iowa â Huldrych Zwingli (Protestant reformer)
Former names
- Adams was the name of Corte Madera, California â Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
- Adele was the name of Fields Landing, California â Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
- Alexander's Corner was the name of Weedpatch, California â Cal Alexander (early resident)
- Allen's Camp was the name of Caliente, California â Gabriel Allen (early settler)
- Arp's was the name of Riverview, Kern County, California â James H. Arp (real estate developer)
- Barker House was the name of Woodleaf, California â Charles Barker (early settler)
- Barrons Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California â Richard Barron (landowner)
- Barrow was the name of Utqiaávik, Alaska â Sir John Barrow
- Beal's Landing was the name of Westport, California â Samuel Beal (early settler)
- Bells Harbor was the name of Little River, California â Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
- Benton Mills was the name of Ridleys Ferry, California â Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California â William C. Biddle (early settler)
- Black's was the name of Zamora, California â J.J. Black (early settler)
- Boust City was the name of Taft Heights, California â E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
- Bowman's Point was the name of West End, Alameda, California â Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
- Brannan Springs was the name of Woodfords, California â Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
- Brown's was the name of North Fork, California â Milton Brown (early settler)
- Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt County, California â Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
- Brownsville was the name of Samoa, California â James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
- Brownsville was the name of Tecopa, California â William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
- Buckingham was the name of Unity, New Hampshire â John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
- Bucktooth was the name of Salamanca (town), New York â Bucktooth (notable Native American who lived in the area)
- Bulwinkle was the name of Crannell, California â Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
- Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California â Robert and John Burns (founders)
- Burrville was the name of Clinton, Tennessee â Aaron Burr
- Cabarker was the name of El Centro, California â C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
- Cantu was the name of Andrade, California â Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
- Cardigan was the name of Orange, New Hampshire â George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
- Carson's Creek was the name of Angels Camp, California â Kit Carson
- Charley's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California â Charles Dornbach (founder)
- Clark's Station and Clark's Ranch were names of Wawona, California â Galen Clark (founder)
- Clifton was the name of Del Rey, California â Clift Wilkinson (town founder)
- Cochran's Crossing was the name of Yolo, California â Thomas Cochran (early settler)
- Cockermouth was the name of Groton, New Hampshire â Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont
- Collis was the name of Kerman, California â Collis Potter Huntington
- Converse Ferry was the name of Friant, California â Charles Converse (ferryman)
- Cowan Station was the name of Dunmovin, California â James Cowan (homesteader)
- Crabtown was the name of Helena, Montana â John Crab (early gold prospector)
- Crumville was the name of Ridgecrest, California â James and Robert Crum (local dairymen)
- Dewey and Deweyville were names of Wasco, California â Adm. George Dewey
- Dorris Bridge was the name of Alturas, California â Pressley and James Dorris (early settlers)
- Dow's Prairie was the name of McKinleyville, California â Joe Dow (founder)
- Drapersville was the name of Kingsburg, California â Josiah Draper (founder)
- Dupplin was the name of Lempster, New Hampshire â Scottish lord Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
- Durkee's Ferry was the name of Weitchpec, California â Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
- Dutch Charlie's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California â Charles Dornbach (founder)
- Dykesboro was the name of Cochran, Georgia â B. B. Dykes (settler)
- Eastland was the name of Mill Valley, California â 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 â Robert Field (early settler)
- Etter was the name of Ettersburg, California â Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
- Fassking's Station was the name of Encinal, Alameda, California â Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
- Fletcher was the name of Aurora, Colorado â Donald Fletcher (businessman)
- Foremans was the name of Fourth Crossing, California â David Foreman (town founder)
- Franklin Township was the name of Nutley, New Jersey â 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 â John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
- Grenville was the name of Newport, New Hampshire â George Grenville (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
- Hamilton's was the name of Buck Meadows, California â Alva Hamilton (founder)
- Hamptonville was the name of Friant, California â William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
- Hans Lof's was the name of Toms Place, California â Hans Lof (resort owner)
- Hansen was the name of Alton, California â Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
- Harrisberry was the name of Harrisburg, Inyo County, California â Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
- Harrisburgh was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California â Abram Harris (early settler)
- Haydenville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California â David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
- Hearst was the name of Hacienda, California â Phoebe Hearst
- Hopkins and Hopkins Springs was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California â Mark Hopkins (railroad baron who built a resort there)
- Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of Whitney Portal, California â William L. Hunter (pioneer)
- Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of DeSabla, California â John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
- Hutton's Ranch was the name of Yolo, California â James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
- Jacksonville was the name of Floyd, Virginia â President Andrew Jackson
- Jewetta was the name of Saco, California â Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
- Joe was the name of Ismay, Montana â Joe Montana, (American Football player)
- Johnson's Diggings was the name of Birchville, California â David Johnson (first prospector at the site)
- Johnsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California â John F. Johnson (early settler)
- Jones Ferry was the name of Friant, California â J.R. Jones (early merchant)
- Kellyvale was the name of Lowell, Vermont â John Kelley (grantee)
- Kendall's City was the name of Boonville, California â Alonzo Kendall (early hotelier)
- Kents Landing was the name of Little River, California â W.H. Kent (early settler, landowner)
- Kenyon was the name of Pineridge, California â Silas W. Kenyon (first postmaster)
- Kunze was the name of Greenwater, California â Arthur Kunze (founder)
- Langville was the name of Capay, California â John Arnold Lang (early settler)
- Laphams was the name of Stateline, California â William W. Lapham (hotel owner)
- Levittown and Levittown Township were names of Willingboro Township, New Jersey (from 1958 to 1963) â William Levitt
- Lewisville was the name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California â Lewis B. Meyer (early settler)
- Lisbon was the name of Applegate, California â Lisbon Applegate (early settler)
- Maltermoro was the name of Sunnyside, Fresno County, California â George H. Malter (postmaster)
- Marthasville was the name of Atlanta, Georgia â Martha Lumpkin (daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin)
- Marsh was the name of Avon, Contra Costa County, California â John Marsh
- Marshall was the name of Lotus, California â James W. Marshall
- Marshs Landing was the name of Antioch, California â John Marsh
- Maxwell's Creek was the name of Coulterville, California â George Maxwell (early settler)
- McKinney was the name of Chambers Lodge, California â John McKinney (early settler)
- Meiggstown was the name of Mendocino, California â Henry Meiggs
- Michaels was the name of Coarsegold, California â Charles Michaels (merchant)
- Mingusville was the name of Wibaux, Montana â <u>Min</u>nie and <u>Gus</u> Grisy (postmasters)
- Minorsville was the name of McKinleyville, California â Isaac Minor (founder)
- Moores was the name of Riverton, California â John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
- Moores Station was the name of Honcut, California â John C. Moore (first postmaster)
- Norris was the name of Lake Delton, Wisconsin â Edward Norris (surveyor)
- Old Lovelock was the name of Coutolenc, California â George Lovelock (early merchant)
- Partridgefield was the name of Hinsdale, Massachusetts â Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
- Peacock's was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California â George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
- Peterman's Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California â Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
- Phillipsburg was the name of Hollis, Maine â Major William Phillips (proprietor)
- Phipps-Canada was the name of Jay, Maine â Captain Joseph Phipps
- Pollasky was the name of Friant, California â Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
- Portersville was the name of Valparaiso, Indiana â Commodore David Porter
- Powellville was the name of Blocksburg, California â 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 â Colonel William Prescott
- Putnam's was the name of Independence, California â Charles Putnam (early merchant)
- Ralston City was the name of Shakespeare, New Mexico â William Chapman Ralston
- Ralston Point was the name of Arvada, Colorado â Lewis Ralston (prospector from Georgia)
- Randall was the name of White Hall, California â Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
- Rolph was the name of Fairhaven, California â James Rolph (governor of California)
- Rooptown was the name of Susanville, California â Isaac Roop (settler)
- Ross Landing was the name of Kentfield, California â James Ross (founder)
- Ross's Camp was the name of Melbourne Camp, California â William Ross (operator)
- Rust was the name of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California â William R. Rust (first postmaster)
- Ryan was the name of Lila C, California â John Ryan (borax company official)
- Scodie was the name of Onyx, California â William Scodie (early merchant)
- Sherburne was the name of Killington, Vermont â Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
- Simpsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California â Robert Simpson (local merchant)
- Smith's Landing was the name of Antioch, California â William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
- Smithville was the name of Loomis, California â L.G. Smith (store owner)
- Sotoville was the name of Santa Rita, Monterey County, California â Jose Manuel Soto (landowner, founder)
- Spoonville was the name of Edgemont, Lassen County, California â Lorella A. Spoon
- Stantonville was the name of Chilton, Wisconsin â Moses and Catherine Stanton (early residents)
- Stratton was the name of Stratford, California â William Stratton (developer)
- Stubbs was the name of Clearlake Oaks, California â Charles Stubbs (landowner)
- Surrattsville was the name of Clinton, Maryland â Surratt family (18th century settlers)
- Swauger was the name of Loleta, California â Samuel A. Swauger (landowner)
- Taylors Landing was the name of Bijou, California â Almon M. Taylor (founder)
- Tinkers Station was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California â J.A. Tinker (local freight hauler)
- Townsend was the name of Boothbay, Maine and Southport, Maine â Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
- Trecothick was the name of Ellsworth, New Hampshire â 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 â Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
- Vaughn was the name of Bodfish, California â Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
- Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of Laredo, Texas â Saint Augustine
- Warnersville was the name of Trinidad, California â R.V. Warner (early settler)
- Washington was the name of South River, New Jersey â George Washington
- Washington Township was the name of Robbinsville Township, New Jersey â George Washington
- Wells was the name of Keene, California â Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
- Wendell was the name of Sunapee, New Hampshire â John Wendell (proprietor)
- Weringdale was the name of Woody, California â Joseph Weringer (town planner)
- Wheelersborough was the name of Hampden, Maine â Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
- Whitley's Ford was the name of Lookout, California â James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
- Williamsburg was the name of Old Town, Kern County, California â James E. Williams (businessman)
- Woods Dry Diggings was the name of Auburn, California â John S. Wood
- Yanks was the name of Meyers, California â Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)
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