•
Arkansas (named by French explorers from aboriginal word meaning "south wind") •
Antoine ("Anthony") •
Aurelle •
Auvergne (
a French region) •
Barraque Township (named for French
émigré Antoine Barraqué,
19th-century landowner) •
Bauxite, Arkansas •
Bayou •
Bayou Meto, Arkansas County, Arkansas •
Bayou Meto, Lonoke County, Arkansas •
Beauchamp (fair of beautiful field or plain) •
Beaudry •
Belleaire (from "belle aire", beautiful place) •
Belleville ("Beautiful City") •
Bellefonte (maybe from "belle fontaine", beautiful fountain) •
Boeuf ("Beef") •
Bonair (good air) •
Buie •
Burdette •
Cache •
Cadron ("sun dial") •
Calumet The French word for a Native American tobacco pipe. •
Calvin (from the famous French Protestant) •
Champagnolle (meaning a person from
Champagne) •
Chancel •
Chicot County (a stump) •
Claude •
Cloquet •
Cossatot River ("tomahawk") •
Dardanelle •
Darcy •
DeGray Lake ("sandstone") •
De Roche (of the rock) •
Deberrie •
Decatur •
Delaplaine (Of-the-plains, surname) •
Departee •
Devue •
Des Arc ("At the bend") •
Dumas (French surname, possibly for
Alexandre Dumas) •
Ecore Fabre •
Fayetteville (named for French general,
Marquis de La Fayette) •
Fontaine ("Fountain", a surname) •
Fourche ("Pitchfork") •
Fourche Lafave •
Fourche Valley •
Francure •
Frenchman's Bayou •
Galla Rock (from "gallets," meaning pebbles) •
Gallatin •
Glazypeau Mountain (Anglicization of "Glaise à Paul," meaning "Paul's clay pit") •
Grand Glaise ("Large Clay") •
Gravette •
Guion, Arkansas (named for a railroad conductor of French-Canadian descent) •
La Fave ("bean") •
La Grue (the crane) •
La Grue Springs •
Lacrosse •
Ladelle •
Lafayette County •
LaGrange ("the barn" (possibly for the plantation of the Marquis de Lafayette)) •
Lamartine (French author Alphonse de Lamartine, also a surname) •
L'Aigle Creek ("the eagle") •
L'Anguille ("The Eel") •
Lapile ("a pile," possibly a surname) •
Larue (the street) •
Latour (the tower) •
Lave Creek •
Levesque ("Bishop", a common French-Canadian surname) •
L'Eau Frais Creek •
Macon (French city "
Mâcon") •
Magnolia, Arkansas (named for the plant, which was named for the botanist Pierre Magnol) •
Marais Saline (saline marsh) •
Marche •
Maumee •
Maumelle (breasts) •
Monette •
Mont Sandels •
Montreal (royal mount) •
Moreau (feedbag, probably a family's proper name) •
Mount Magazine ("Magasin," meaning barn or warehouse) •
New Gascony (
Gascony, France) •
Ozan, Arkansas •
Ozark (phonetic rendering of either
aux Arks, "of the Ark(ansas)" or
aux Arcs, "of the arches", or possibly
aux arcs-en-ciel, "of the rainbows") •
Ozark Mountains as per immediately above •
Paris •
Paroquet •
Partain •
Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River) •
Pollard •
Prairie County ("prairie, meadow") •
Saline County •
Sans Souci (literally without concern) •
Segur (French city) •
Sevier County •
Smackover (
Anglicization of
chemin couvert, "covered way") •
Soudan •
St. Francis County •
Terre Noire (black earth) •
Terre Rouge (redland or red earth) •
Tollette •
Tully •
Urbanette •
Vallier (French surname) •
Vaucluse (French region) •
Vaugine Township (named for Francis Vaugine, 19th-century landowner) •
Vidette •
Villemont (named for Carlos de Villemont, 19th-century landowner) •
Villemont Township (named for Carlos de Villemont, 19th-century landowner) ==California==