List of places in the United States named after people

• Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Levy (founder) • Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College) • Abbott, Texas – Joseph "Jo" Abbott (politician) • Abbottstown, Pennsylvania – John Abbott (founder) • Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town) • Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire • Ableman, Wisconsin – S.V.R. Ableman (settler) • Ackley, Iowa – J.W. Ackley (founder) • Acworth, New Hampshire – Jacob Acworth (British naval officer) • Ada Township, Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster) • Adairville, Kentucky – John Adair (governor of Kentucky) • Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner) • Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams • Adams, Nebraska – J.O. Adams (settler) • Adams, New York – John Adams • Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader) • Adams, Tennessee – Reuben Adams (landowner) • Adamsboro, Indiana – George E. Adams (founder) • Adamsburg, Pennsylvania – John Adams • Adams Station, California – Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner) • Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder) • Adamstown, Pennsylvania – John Adams • Adamsville, Arizona – Charles S. Adams (original settler) • Addison, 4 places in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician) • Addison, West Virginia – Addison McLaughlin (local lawyer) • Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder) • Adrian, Michigan – Roman Emperor Hadrian • Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company) • Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer) • Aiken, South Carolina – William Aiken Jr. (governor of South Carolina) • Ainsworth, Iowa – D.H. Ainsworth (civil engineer) • Ainsworth, Washington – J.C. Ainsworth (railroader) • Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York) • Albany, New York – James of York and Albany • Albemarle, North Carolina – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle • Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners) • Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons) • Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) • Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque • Alburgh, Vermont – Ira Allen (landowner) • Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army • Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner) • Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler) • Alderson, West Virginia – John Alderson (settler and local minister) • Alexander, New York – Alexander Rea (settler and state senator) • Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton • Alexandria, Nebraska – S.J. Alexander (secretary of state) • Alexandria, New York and Alexandria Bay, New York – Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler) • Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia) • Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president) • Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler) • Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford • Alfordsville, Indiana – James Alford (settler) • Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great • Alger, Ohio – Russell A. Alger • Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch) • Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker) • Allendale, South Carolina – Allen family (settlers) • Allenstown, New Hampshire – Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire) • Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster) • Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen • Alloway Township, New Jersey – Chief Alloway • Alma, Colorado – Alma James (wife of local merchant) • Almont, Michigan – Juan Almonte • Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling) • Altheimer, Arkansas – Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders) • Alton, California – Alton Easton (indirectly, via Alton, Illinois) • Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton) • Alva, Florida – Thomas Alva Edison (inventor) • Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California) • Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler) • Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector) • Ambler, Pennsylvania – Joseph Ambler (settler) • Amelia Court House, Virginia – Princess Amelia of Great Britain • Ames, Iowa – Oakes Ames • Ames, New York – Fisher Ames • Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts and Maine) • Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River) • Anastasia Island, Florida – Saint Anastasia • Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson • Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson • Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner) • Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade • Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church • Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant) • Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny • Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife) • Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain • Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives) • Anniston, Alabama - Annie Scott Tyler (1893–1980), daughter of railroad president Alfred L. Tyler • Annsville, New York – Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife) • Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson • Anson, Wisconsin - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat) • Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps • Ansted, West Virginia – David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner) • Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling) • Anthony, Kansas – George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas) • Applebachsville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Paul Applebach • Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler) • Armourdale, Kansas – Armour brothers (founders of Armour and Company) • Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants) • Arnold Heights, California – General Henry H. Arnold • Atchison, Kansas – David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator) • Aten, Nebraska – John Aten (state senator) • Athol, Massachusetts – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl • Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder) • Atkinson, New Hampshire – Theodore Atkinson (landowner) • Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner) • Atwater, Minnesota – Isaac Atwater (settler of St. Paul) • Atwater Township, Ohio – Amzi Atwater (surveyor) • Atwood, Kansas – Attwood Matheny (founder's son) • Auberry, California – Al Yarborough • Audubon, Minnesota – John James Audubon • Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha • Augusta, Kansas – Augusta James (trader's wife) • Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn) • Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner) • Aurelius, New York – Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor) • Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler) • Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin • Ave Maria, Florida – Mary, mother of Jesus • Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder) • Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster) • Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper) • Axtell, Kansas – Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway) • Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer) ==B==

• Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper) • Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge • Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works) • Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) • Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon) • Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator • Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker • Bakersfield, Vermont – Joseph Baker (landowner) • Baldwin, Georgia – Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator) • Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple) • Baldwin, Michigan – Governor Henry P. Baldwin • Baldwin, Chemung County, New York – Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers) • Baldwin, Wisconsin – D.A. Baldwin (settler) • Baldwin City, Kansas – John Baldwin • Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler) • Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader) • Ballston, New York and Ballston Spa, New York – Rev. Eliphalet Ball (settler) • Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore • Banning, California – Phineas Banning, stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles. • Baraboo, Wisconsin – Jean Baribault (settler) • Baraga, Michigan – Bishop Friedrich Baraga • Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company) • Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company) • Barboursville, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia) • Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official) • Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site • Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger • Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton • Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler) • Barlow, Oregon – John L. Barlow (settler) • Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling) • Barnard, Missouri – railroad superintendent J. F. Barnard (or possibly B. F. Barnard) • Barnes, Kansas – A.S. Barnes (publisher) • Barnum, Denver, Colorado – P. T. Barnum (landowner) • Barnwell, South Carolina – Barnwell family • Barraque Township, Arkansas – Antoine Barraqué (landowner) • Barre, Massachusetts, Barre, New York, Barre (city), Vermont and Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician) • Barrington, New Hampshire and Barrington, Rhode Island – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts) • Barron, Wisconsin – Henry D. Barron (judge) • Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president) • Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett • Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett • Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner) • Barton, Vermont – General William Barton • Bartow, Florida and Bartow, Georgia – Francis S. Bartow (Confederate general) • Bastrop, Louisiana and Bastrop, Texas – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman) • Batesville, Arkansas – James Woodson Bates • Batesville, Ohio – Rev. Timothy Bates • Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath • Bath, New York – Henrietta Pulteney, Countess of Bath • Battleboro, North Carolina – James S. and Joseph Battle (railroaders) • Bayard, West Virginia – Thomas F. Bayard (U.S. Senator from Delaware) • Bayfield, Wisconsin – Rear Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield • Bay St. Louis, Mississippi – Louis IX of France • Beacon, Iowa – Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield • Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler) • Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner) • Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler) • Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster) • Beattie, Kansas – A. Beattie (mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri) • Beattyville, Kentucky – Samuel Beatty (settler) • Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort • Beauregard, Mississippi – P. G. T. Beauregard (Confederate general) • Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official) • Becker, Minnesota – George Loomis Becker (mayor of Saint Paul) • Beckley, West Virginia – Gen. Alfred Beckley (settler) • Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler • Bedford, Massachusetts – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford • Bedford, New Hampshire and Bedford, Virginia – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford • Bedford, Tennessee – Thomas Bedford • Beebe, Arkansas – Roswell Beebe (settler) • Beecher City, Illinois – Charles A. Beecher (railroader) • Beekman, New York – Henry Beekman (landowner) • Beekmantown, New York – William Beekman (landowner) • Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas) • Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey) • Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster) – August Belmont (financier) • Belton, Texas – Governor Peter Hansborough Bell • Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami • Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood • Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni • Bemis Heights, New York – Jonathan Bemis (innkeeper) • Benedicta, Maine – Bishop Benedict Fenwick (landowner) • Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo (wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo) • Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster) • Bennett, Iowa – Chet Bennett (railroader) • Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president) • Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont) • Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth • Benton, 7 places in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, and New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton • Benton, New York – Levi Benton (settler) • Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton • Bentonia, Mississippi – Bentonia Green (resident) • Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton • Benwood, West Virginia – Benjamin Latrobe II • Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford • Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley • Berkeley Springs, West Virginia – colonial governor William Berkeley • Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House) • Berkley, Virginia – Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt • Bermuda, 5 places in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee – Juan de Bermúdez (indirectly, after Bermuda) • Bernards Township, New Jersey – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England • Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet • Berrien Township, Michigan – John M. Berrien • Berryville, Arkansas – Governor James H. Berry • Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer) • Bessemer, Alabama, Bessemer, Michigan, and Bessemer City, North Carolina – Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process) • Beveridge, California – John Beveridge • Beverly, West Virginia – William Beverly (landowner) • Bevier, Kentucky and Bevier, Missouri – Col. Robert Bevier • Bexar, 4 places in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas (county) – Ferdinand VI of Spain (originally the Duke of Bexar) • Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster) • Bienville, Louisiana – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville • Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings • Billingsport, New Jersey – Edward Byllynge (merchant and colonial governor) (note the spelling) • Biltmore Forest, North Carolina – George Washington Vanderbilt II • Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner) • Binghamton, New York – William Bingham • Birchville, California – L. Birch Adsit • Bossier City, Louisiana – Pierre Bossier (general) • Bostic, North Carolina – George T. Bostic • Bottineau, North Dakota – Pierre Bottineau (settler) • Bouckville, New York – Governor William C. Bouck • Bourbon, Indiana – House of Bourbon • Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court) • Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts) • Bowdoinham, Maine – William Bowdoin (landowner) • Bowerstown, New Jersey – Michael B. Bowers (iron foundry owner) • Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie • Bowie, Texas – James Bowie • Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower) • Browntown, Wisconsin – William G. Brown (settler) • Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader) • Brownville, Nebraska – Richard Brown (settler) • Brownville, New York – John Brown (settler and father of General Jacob Jennings Brown) • Brownwood, Texas – Henry S. Brown (settler) • Bruceville, Indiana – William Bruce (landowner) • Brunswick, Maine – House of Brunswick • Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg • Brushton, New York – Henry N. Brush (landowner) • Brutus, 4 places in Kentucky, Michigan, New York, and Virginia – Marcus Junius Brutus • Bryan, Ohio – John A. Bryan (state auditor) • Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan • Bryson City, North Carolina – T.D. Bryson (state legislator and landowner) • Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner) • Buchanan, Michigan – James Buchanan • Buchanan, Virginia – John Buchanan (settler) • Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler) • Buckner, Missouri – Senator Alexander Buckner or Real Estate operator Simon Buckner or namesake is Thomas W. Buckner, an original owner of the site. • Bucks Bridge, New York – Isaac Buck (settler) • Buckskin Joe, Park County, Colorado – Joseph Higginbotham (frontiersman nicknamed "Buckskin Joe") • Bucksport, California – David A. Buck (founder) • Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee) • Bucoda, Washington – J.M. Buckley, Samuel Coulter, and John B. David (businessmen) • Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder) • Bullittsville, Kentucky – Alexander Scott Bullitt • Bullochville, Georgia – Archibald Bulloch • Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists) • Bunceton, Missouri – Harvey Bunce (resident) • Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant) • Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist) • Burden, Kansas – Robert F. Burden (landowner) • Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner) • Bureau County, Illinois and Bureau Junction, Illinois – Pierre de Buero (trader) (note the spelling) • Burgaw, North Carolina – Burgaw family (residents) • Burke (town), New York and Burke, Vermont – Edmund Burke • Burleson, Texas – Edward Burleson (Texian patriot) • Burlingame, California - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat) • Burlingame, Kansas – Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat) • Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one). • Burnet, Texas – Governor David G. Burnet • Burnsville, Indiana – Brice Bruns (founder) • Burnsville, North Carolina – Otway Burns (boat captain) • Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher) • Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator) • Burrton, Kansas – I.T. Burr (Vice President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) • Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man) • Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner) • Busti, New York – Paolo Busti (landowner) • Butler, Missouri – General William O. Butler • Buxton, Oregon – Henry Buxton (settler) • Byers, Colorado – W.N. Byers (Denver resident) • Bynumville, Missouri – Dr. Joseph Bynum (settler) • Byron, 3 places in Georgia, Maine, and New York – Lord Byron (English poet) ==C==

• Cable, Illinois – Ransom R. Cable (railroader) • Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride • Cadillac, Michigan – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac • Cadott, Wisconsin – Baptiste Cadotte (resident) (note the spelling) • Caldwell, Kansas – Alexander Caldwell (U.S. Senator) • Caldwell, New Jersey – Rev. James Caldwell • Caldwell, Ohio – Joseph and Samuel Caldwell (landowners) • Caldwell, Texas – Mathew Caldwell (Texian patriot) • Calhoun, Kentucky – John Calhoun (judge) • Callaway, Missouri – Capt. James Callaway • Callensburg, Pennsylvania – Hugh Callen (founder) • Calvert, Maryland – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore • Camano Island, Washington – Jacinto Caamaño (explorer) (note the spelling) • Camden, 4 places in Maine, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden • Cameron, 3 places in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia – Simon Cameron • Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri) • Cameron, New York – Dugald Cameron (land agent) • Cameron, South Carolina – J. Donald Cameron (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania) • Cameron, Texas – Ewen Cameron (Texian patriot) • Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader) • Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster) • Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives) • Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California) • Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster) • Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder) • Campbell, New York – Campbell family (settlers) • Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder) • Campion, Colorado – John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry) • Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith) • Canal Lewisville, Ohio – T.B. Lewis (founder) • Canby, California and Canby, Oregon – General Edward Canby • Canfield, Ohio – Jonathan Canfield (proprietor) • Cannonsburg, Michigan – Le Grand Cannon (resident of Troy, New York) • Cannonsville, New York – Benjamin Cannon (landowner) • Canonsburg, Pennsylvania – John Cannon (founder) (note the spelling) • Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor) • Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury • Capac, Michigan – Manco Cápac (Incan emperor) • Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England) • Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier) • Cape May, New Jersey – Cornelius Jacobsen May (explorer) • Cape Vincent, New York – Vincent, son of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont • Captain Cook, Hawaii – Captain James Cook (English explorer) • Cardwell, Missouri – Frank Cardwell (resident of Paragould, Arkansas) • Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner) • Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution) • Carrollton, New York – G. Carroll (landowner) • Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson • Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson • Carter, Kentucky – William G. Carter (state senator) • Carter, Tennessee – Gen. Landon Carter • Carteret, New Jersey – George Carteret (proprietor of New Jersey) and Philip Carteret (first royal governor of New Jersey) • Cartersville, Georgia – Col. F. Carter • Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer) • Caruthersville, Missouri – Samuel Caruthers • Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony) • Carver, Minnesota – Capt. Jonathan Carver (explorer) • Cary, North Carolina – Samuel Fenton Cary (Prohibition advocate) • Caseyville, Kentucky – Col. William Casey • Cashion, Oklahoma – Roy Cashion (member of the Rough Riders) • Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder) • Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling) • Casselton, North Dakota – Gen. George W. Cass (director of the Union Pacific Railroad) • Cassville, Wisconsin – Lewis Cass • Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin • Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner) • Castroville, Texas – Henri Castro (settler) • Catharine, New York – Catherine Montour (note the spelling) • Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler) • Cato (town), New York – either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger • Cavalier, North Dakota – Charles Cavalier (settler) • Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire • Cawker City, Kansas – E.H. Cawker • Cazenovia, 4 places in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin – Theophilus Cazenove (land agent) (The New York town is the original, and the others were named for it). • Cecilton, Maryland - Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore • Center Harbor, New Hampshire – Col. Joseph Senter (settler) (note the spelling) • Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania – Francis Chadsey (proprietor) • Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher) • Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director) • Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Chambers (founder) • Chambers Lodge, California – David H. Chambers (lodge builder) • Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler) • Charleston, Mississippi – King Charles II of England (indirectly, via Charleston, South Carolina) • Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England • Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here) • Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy • Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England • Charlevoix, Michigan – Francis X. Charlevoix (missionary) • Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance) • Charlotte, New York and Charlottesville, Virginia – Princess Charlotte of Wales • Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III) • Charlotte Amalie – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) • Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet • Chartiers Township, Pennsylvania – Peter Chartier (trader) • Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield • Chatham, 4 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain) • Chaumont, New York – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (proprietor) • Cheney, Kansas – P.B. Cheney (stockholder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) • Cheney, Washington – Benjamin P. Cheney (founder of the Northern Pacific Railway) • Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler) • Chester, Vermont – George IV of the United Kingdom, the Earl of Chester (eldest son of George III of the United Kingdom) • Chesterfield, Massachusetts and Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield • Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester • Childress, Texas – George Childress (Texian patriot) • Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor) • Chivington, Colorado – John Chivington (soldier and perpetrator of the Sand Creek massacre) • Choteau, Montana – Auguste and Pierre Chouteau (founders of St. Louis, Missouri) (note the spelling) • Christiana, Delaware and Christiana, Pennsylvania – Queen Christina of Sweden • Christiansted – Christian VI of Denmark • Churchville, New York – Samuel Church (settler) • Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York) • Cicero, New York – Cicero • Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati) • Cincinnatus, New York – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus • Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad) • Clarkesville, Georgia – Governor John Clarke • Clarksville, Indiana – Gen. George Rogers Clark • Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark • Clarksville, New Hampshire – Benjamin Clark • Clarkton, Missouri – Henry E. Clark (contractor) • Clay, 4 places in Florida (county), Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky – Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century) • Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder) • Clayton, Delaware – Thomas Clayton (U.S. senator) • Clayton, Georgia – Augustin Smith Clayton (U.S. congressman) • Clayton, Missouri – Ralph Clayton • Clayton, New York and Clayton, North Carolina – John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware) • Cleburne, Texas – Patrick Cleburne (Confederate general) • Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin) • Cleveland, North Carolina and Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland • Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling) • Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) • Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland • Clifford, Michigan – Clifford Lyman (first child born there) • Clinton – DeWitt Clinton, 16 places in • Arkansas – Connecticut – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Jersey – New York (city and county) – Ohio – Wisconsin • Clinton, Kansas – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois) • Clinton, Montana – General Sir Henry Clinton • Clinton, Nebraska – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa) • Clinton, Dutchess County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York) • Clinton, Oneida County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York) • Clinton, North Carolina – American Revolution General Richard Clinton • Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge) • Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets) • Clinton, Tennessee - George Clinton (vice president) • Clinton, Washington – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan) • Clockville, New York – John Klock (landowner) (note the spelling) • Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer) • Clymers, Indiana – George Clymer (founder) • Clymer, New York – George Clymer (signer of the Declaration of Independence) • Coatesville, Pennsylvania – Moses Coates (settler) • Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge) • Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler) • Coeymans, New York – Barent Peterse Coeymans (landowner) • Coffeeville, Mississippi – Gen. John Coffee • Coffeyville, Kansas – A.M. Coffey (state legislator) • Cokesbury, South Carolina – Bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury • Colby, Kansas – J.R. Colby (settler) • Colby, Wisconsin – Charles Colby (president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad) • Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester • Colden, New York – Cadwallader D. Colden (state legislator) • Colebrook, New Hampshire – Sir George Colebrooke (landowner) (note the spelling) • Coleman, Texas – R.M. Coleman (Texas Ranger) • Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator) • Colesville, New York – Nathaniel Cole (settler) • Colfax, 5 places in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President) • Collettsville, North Carolina – Colletts family (residents) • Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier • Collinsville, Illinois – Collins brothers (founders) • Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling) • Colquitt, Georgia and Colquitt County, Georgia – U.S. Senator Walter T. Colquitt • Colton, New York – Jesse Colton Higley (settler) • Columbia, South Carolina – Christopher Columbus • Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer) • Communipaw, New Jersey – Michael Reyniersz Pauw (director of the Dutch West India Company) (note the spelling) • Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler) • Conklin, New York – Judge John Conklin • Connellsville, Pennsylvania – Zachariah Connell (founder) • Connersville, Indiana – John Conner (founder) • Connersville, Kentucky – Lewis Conner • Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer) • Constable, New York and Constableville, New York – William Constable (proprietor) • Conway, Arkansas – Henry Wharton Conway (territorial delegate to Congress) • Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army) • Conway, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Conway (resident) • Cooksburg, New York – Thomas B. Cook (landowner) • Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) • Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President • Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) • Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury • Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper • Cooperstown, Pennsylvania – William Cooper (founder) • Coopersville, Clinton County, New York – Ebenezer Cooper (mill owner) • Cope, Colorado – Jonathan Cope (founder) • Cope, South Carolina – J. Martin Cope (founder) • Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Cora Watson (wife of landowner) • Corbett, Oregon – U.S. Senator Henry W. Corbett • Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner) • Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson) • Cornelius, Oregon – Col. Thomas R. Cornelius • Cornettsville, Indiana – Myer and Samuel Cornett (founders) • Corning (city), New York and Corning, Kansas – Erastus Corning (politician) • Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy • Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania – Cornplanter (Native American chief) • Coronado, California and Coronado, Kansas – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (explorer) • Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ) • Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor) • Corry, Pennsylvania – Hiram Corry (landowner) • Corsicana, Texas – Corcisana Navarro (wife of landowner) • Cortland, New York, Cortlandt, New York, and Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York) • Corwin, Ohio – Thomas Corwin (Governor and U.S. Senator) • Cottleville, Missouri – Lorenzo Cottle (settler) • Cottrell Key, Florida – Jeremiah Cottrell (lighthouse keeper) • Coulter, Pennsylvania – Eli Coulter (settler) • Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler) • Coupeville, Washington – Captain Thomas Coupe (founder) • Courtland, Kansas – Pierre Van Cortlandt (indirectly, via Cortland, New York) (note the spelling) • Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant) • Covington, 3 places in Georgia, Kentucky, and New York – Gen. Leonard Covington • Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner) • Cowles, Nebraska – W.D. Cowles (railroader) • Cozad, Nebraska – John J. Cozad (landowner) • Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader) • Crabtree, Oregon – John J. Crabtree (settler) • Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder) • Craig, Colorado – Rev. Bayard Craig • Cranesville, Pennsylvania – Fowler Crane (founder) • Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president) • Cranston, Rhode Island – Gov. Samuel Cranston • Crawford, Georgia and Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury) • Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire – Ethan A. Crawford (landowner) • Crawfordsville, Indiana – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury) • Crawfordsville, Oregon – George F. Crawford (settler) • Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury) • Cresson, Pennsylvania and Cressona, Pennsylvania – Elliott Cresson (Philadelphia merchant) • Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner) • Creswell, North Carolina – Postmaster General John Creswell • Crittenden, Kentucky – U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden • Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge) • Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett • Croghan (town), New York – Col. George Croghan • Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars) • Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner) • Croswell, Michigan – Gov. Charles Croswell • Crowley, Polk County, Oregon – Solomon K. Crowley (settler) • Crugers, New York – Col. John P. Cruger • Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy • Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy (meatpacker) • Cullman, Alabama – Gen. John G. Cullmann (note the spelling) • Culloden, Georgia – William Culloden (settler) • Cullom, Illinois – Shelby Moore Cullom (U.S. Senator) • Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (note the spelling) • Cumberland, Maryland and Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland • Cumming, Georgia – Col. William Cumming • Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler) • Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel John Cummings (landholder) • Cumminsville, Nebraska – J.F. Cummings (county clerk) (note the spelling) • Cumminsville, Ohio – David Cummins (settler) • Cupertino, California – Joseph of Cupertino • Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder) • Curryville, Missouri – Perry Curry (founder) • Curwensville, Pennsylvania – John Curwen • Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts) • Custer, 5 places in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota – Gen. George Armstrong Custer • Cuthbert, Georgia – Col. John Alfred Cuthbert (congressman) • Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler) • Cynthiana, Kentucky – Cynthia and Anna Harris (daughters of landowner) ==D==

• Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents) • Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade • Dadeville, Alabama – Major Francis L. Dade • Daggett, Indiana – Charles Daggett (resident) • Dagsboro, Delaware – Sir John Dagworthy • Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents) • Dallas, North Carolina and Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas • Dallas Center, Iowa – George M. Dallas • Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives) • Dalton, Missouri – William Dalton • Dandridge, Tennessee – Martha Washington (née Dandridge) • Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor) • Danielsville, Georgia – Gen. Allen Daniel Jr. • Dansville, Michigan – Daniel L. Crossman (resident) • Dansville, Livingston County, New York and Dansville, Steuben County, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (founder) • Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family • Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner) • Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes) • Danville, Indiana – Daniel Bales (proprietor) • Danville, Kentucky – Walker Daniel (founder) • Danville, Missouri – Daniel M. Boone (landowner and son of Daniel Boone) • Danville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Daniel Montgomery Jr. • Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville • Darkesville, West Virginia – Gen. William Darke • Darlington, Pennsylvania – S.P. Darlington (Pittsburgh merchant) • Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French • Darwin, Illinois – Charles Darwin • Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician) • Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport • Davenport, Nebraska – Colonel George Davenport (indirectly, via Davenport, Iowa) • Davenport, New York – John Davenport (settler) • Davidson, North Carolina – Gen. William Lee Davidson • Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer) • Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer) • Davis, West Virginia – Henry Gassaway Davis (U.S. Senator) • Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County) • Dawson, Nebraska – Joshua Dawson (settler) • Dawsonville, Georgia – William Crosby Dawson (U.S. Senator) • Dayton, Maine and Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton • Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of ''Day's Town'') • Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day • Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri – Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War) • Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland) • Decatur, 4 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, and New York – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero) • Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators) • Decorah, Iowa – Decorie (Native American chief) • Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner) • Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife) • Delancey, New York – James De Lancey (landowner) • DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University) • Delano, California – Columbus Delano • Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delavan (temperance leader in Albany, New York) • Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (note the spelling) • De Leon, Texas and DeLeon Springs, Florida – Juan Ponce de León • Denison, Iowa – J.W. Denison (founder) • Denison, Texas – Rev. C.W. Denison (abolitionist) • Denmark, South Carolina – B.A. Denmark (railroader) • Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser) • Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister) • Dennison, Ohio – Gov. William Dennison Jr. • Denton, Maryland – Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (colonial governor) (According to , Denton is a short version of the town's original name, Eden Town). • Denton, Texas – Capt. John B. Denton • Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver • Depauville, New York – Francis Depau (proprietor) • Depew, New York – Chauncey Depew • De Peyster, New York – Frederic de Peyster • DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer) • De Smet, Idaho and De Smet, South Dakota – Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary) • DeSoto, 4 places in Florida (county), Georgia, Louisiana (parish), and Mississippi (county) – Hernando de Soto • Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist) • Devine, Texas – Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of San Antonio) • Dewees, Texas – Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen • Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay) • DeWitt, Illinois and De Witt, Missouri – DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York) • DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier) • Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman) • Dexter, Michigan – Samuel W. Dexter (settler) • Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler) • Dexter, New York – S. Newton Dexter (businessman from Whitesboro, New York) • D'Hanis, Texas – William D'Hanis (land agent for Henri Castro) • Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur) • Diamondville, California – James Diamond • Dickey, North Dakota – George H. Dickey (state legislator) • Dickinson, North Dakota – W.S. Dickinson (founder) • Dickson, Tennessee – William Dickson • Dighton, Kansas – Francis Deighton (surveyor) (note the spelling) • Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder) • Diller, Nebraska – H.H. Diller (settler) • Dillon, Montana – Sidney Dillon (railroader) • Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder) • Dillsboro, Indiana – Gen. James Dill (settler) • Dillsboro, North Carolina – George W. Dill (settler) • Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner) • Dinwiddie, Virginia – Robert Dinwiddie (colonial governor) • District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus • Dixfield, Maine and Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner) • Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck) • Dixon, Illinois – John Dixon (founder) • Dixon, Kentucky – Archibald Dixon • Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee) • Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers) • Dobson, North Carolina – W.P. Dobson (state legislator) • Dodge Center, Minnesota and Dodgeville, Wisconsin – Gov. Henry Dodge • Dolph, Oregon – Joseph N. Dolph (U.S. Senator) • Donaldsonville, Louisiana – William Donaldson • Doniphan, 3 places in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska – Col. Alexander William Doniphan • Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group) • Doylestown, Pennsylvania – William Doyle (settler) • Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner) • Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut • Dummer, New Hampshire and Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor) • Dumont, Colorado – John M. Dumont (mine operator) • Dunbar, Nebraska – John Dunbar (landowner) • Duncombe, Iowa – J.F. Duncombe • Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher) • Dunlap, Kansas – Joseph Dunlap (trader and founder) • Dunlapsville, Indiana – John Dunlap (settler) • Dunmore, West Virginia – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (colonial governor) • Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler) • Dunnsville, New York – Christopher Dunn (landowner) • Duplin County, North Carolina – Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin • Duquesne, Pennsylvania – Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville (indirectly, via Fort Duquesne) • Durand, Michigan – George H. Durand (U.S. Representative) • Durand, Wisconsin – Miles Durand Prindle (settler) • Durant, Iowa – Thomas Durant • Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly) • Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham (landowner) • Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834 • Dycusburg, Kentucky – William E. Dycus (founder) • Dyersburg, Tennessee – Col. Henry Dyer • Dyersville, Iowa – James Dyer (landowner) ==E==

• Earling, Iowa – Albert J. Earling, Milwaukee Road officer • Earl Park, Indiana – Adams Earl (founder) • Earlville, Iowa – G.M. Earl (settler) • Earlville, New York – Jonas Earll Jr. (canal commissioner) (note the spelling) • East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner) • Eastland, Texas – M.W. Eastland • Eastman, Georgia – W.P. Eastman • Easton, Massachusetts – John Easton (colonial governor of Rhode Island) • East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis • Eaton, Colorado – Benjamin H. and Aaron J. Eaton (millers) • Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton • Eaton, New York and Eaton, Ohio – Gen. William Eaton • Eatonton, Georgia – Gen. William Eaton • Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood) • Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley • Eckley, Colorado – Amos Eckles (cattlehand) • Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution) • Eddyville, Iowa – J.P. Eddy (postmaster) • Eden, Texas – Fred Ede (landowner) • Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge • Edgecomb, Maine – George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (a supporter of the colonists) (note the spelling) • Edgerton, Ohio – Alfred Peck Edgerton • Edgerton, Wisconsin – E.W. Edgerton (settler) • Edison, 3 places in Georgia, New Jersey, and Ohio – Thomas Edison • Edmeston, New York – Robert Edmeston (founder) • Edna, Kansas – Edna Gragery (child who lived there) • Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders) • Edwards, Mississippi – Dick Edwards (Jackson hotelier) • Edwards, New York – Edward McCormack (founder's brother) • Edwardsport, Indiana – Edwards Wilkins • Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards (territorial governor) • Effingham, Illinois and Effingham County, Illinois – Gen. Edward Effingham • Effingham, Kansas – Effingham Nichols (railroader) • Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham • Egremont, Massachusetts – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont • Ehrenberg, Arizona – Herman Ehrenberg (founder) • El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner) • Elberton, Georgia and Elbert County, Georgia – Gov. Samuel Elbert • Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry • Elizabeth, New Jersey and Elizabethtown, North Carolina – Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret) • Elizabeth, Pennsylvania – Elizabeth Bayard (founder's wife) • Elizabeth, West Virginia – Elizabeth Beauchamp • Elizabeth City, North Carolina – Elizabeth I • Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers) • Elizabethtown, Indiana – Elizabeth Branham (founder's wife) • Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes) • Elkader, Iowa – Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot) • Elkins, West Virginia – Stephen Benton Elkins (U.S. Senator) • Ellenburg, New York – Ellen Murray (landowner's daughter) • Ellendale, Delaware – Ellen Prettyman (founder's wife) • Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder) • Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler) • Ellery, New York – William Ellery • Ellicott, New York and Ellicottville, New York – Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company) • Ellicott City, Maryland – John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders) • Ellinwood, Kansas – Col. John R. Ellinwood (engineer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) • Ellisburg, New York – Lyman Ellis (founder) • Ellisville, Mississippi – Powhatan Ellis (U.S. Senator) • Ellsworth, Kansas – Lt. Allen Ellsworth • Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth • Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio) • Elmira, New York – Elmira Teall (tavernkeeper's daughter) • Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner) • Elsie, Michigan – Elsie Tillotson (pioneer's daughter) • Elsie, Nebraska – Elsie Perkins • Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817) • Emerick, Nebraska – John Emerick (settler) • Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner) • Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner) • Emlenton, Pennsylvania – Emlen Fox (landowner's wife) • Emmett, Michigan and Emmetsburg, Iowa – Robert Emmet (Irish nationalist) • Emmitsburg, Maryland – William Emmitt (founder) (note the spelling) • Enfield, Massachusetts – Robert Field • Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler) • Enosburgh, Vermont – Roger Enos (landowner) • Errol, New Hampshire – James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll • Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner) • Erwin, New York – Col. Arthur Erwin • Eskridge, Kansas – C.V. Eskridge (landowner) • Essexville, Michigan – Ransom Essex (settler) • Estes Park, Colorado – Joel Estes (founder) • Estherville, Iowa – Esther Ridley (landowner's wife) • Estill, Kentucky – Capt. James Estill • Estill, Missouri – Col. John R. Estill • Ethel, Mississippi – Ethel McConnico • Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician) • Eudora, Kansas – Eudora Fish • Eugene, Oregon – Eugene Franklin Skinner (settler) • Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city) • Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor) • Evans, Colorado, Evanston, Illinois, and Evanston, Wyoming – Gov. John Evans • Evans, New York – David Ellicott Evans (agent of the Holland Land Company) • Evans Mills, New York – Ethni Evans (mill owner) • Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans (founder) • Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith) • Evart, Michigan – Frank Evart (pioneer) • Everett, Massachusetts and Everett, Pennsylvania – Edward Everett (politician and educator) • Everett, Washington – Everett Colby (son of Charles Colby, local booster) • Ewing Township, New Jersey – Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court) ==F==

• Fairbanks, Alaska – Charles W. Fairbanks • Fairfax, California – Charles S. Fairfax • Fairfax, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia – Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron • Fallon, California – Luke and James Fallon (early settlers) • Fallowfield, Pennsylvania – Lancelot Fallowfield (landowner) • Fannin, Texas – Col. James Fannin (Texian patriot) • Fannett, Texas – B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s) • Fargo, North Dakota – William Fargo • Faribault, Minnesota – Jean-Baptiste Faribault (settler) • Farley, Mendocino County, California – Jackson Farley (early settler) • Farnham, New York – Le Roy Farnham (merchant) • Farragut, Iowa and Farragut, Tennessee – David Farragut • Farrandsville, Pennsylvania – William P. Farrand (founder) • Farwell, Michigan – Samuel B. Farwell (railroader) • Fayette, 12 places in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, and Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette • Fayetteville, 11 places in Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette • Fayette City, Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette • Felix Township, Grundy County, Illinois and Felix Township, Grundy County, Iowa – Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee) • Fellows, California – Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor) • Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland – William Fell (landowner) • Felts Mills, New York – John Felt (proprietor) • Fenner, New York – Rhode Island Governor Arthur Fenner • Fennville, Michigan – Ethan Fenn (founder) • Fenton, New York – Governor Reuben Fenton • Ferdinand, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg • Fernandina Beach, Florida – King Ferdinand VII of Spain • Ferrisburgh, Vermont – Benjamin Ferris (founder) • Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler) • Fieldville, New Jersey – John Field (early settler) • Fincastle, Virginia – George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (son of colonial governor Lord Dunmore and also known by the title Lord Fincastle) • Findlay, Ohio – Col. James Findlay (indirectly, via Fort Findlay) • Findlay Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – Gov. William Findley (note the spelling) • Fine, New York – John Fine (landowner) • Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler) • Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh • Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner) • Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler) • Fithian, Illinois – Dr. William Fithian • Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire – William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor John Wentworth) • Flagler County, Florida – Henry Flagler, built the Florida East Coast Railway • Flandreau, South Dakota – Charles Eugene Flandrau • Fleming, New York – Gen. George Fleming (resident) • Flemingsburg, Kentucky – Col. John Fleming • Flora, Mississippi – Flora Jones (resident) • Florence, Kansas – Florence Crawford • Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler) • Florence, Omaha, Nebraska – Florence Kilbourn • Florence, South Carolina – Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area) • Floresville, Texas – Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler) • Floyd, Iowa – Charles Floyd (explorer with Lewis and Clark) • Floyd, New York – William Floyd (Founding Father) • Floyd, Virginia – John Floyd (Virginia politician) • Floydada, Texas – Dolphin Floyd (died while defending the Alamo) and Ada Price (wife of a local landholder) (indirectly, via Floyd County, Texas) • Fluhr, California – C.G. Fluhr (railroad official) • Fonda, New York – Douw Fonda • Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner) • Ford, Kansas – Col. James Hobart Ford • Forsyth, Georgia – Gov. John Forsyth • Forsyth, Montana – General James W. Forsyth • Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin – Gen. Henry Atkinson • Fort Benton, Montana – Thomas Hart Benton • Fort Bragg, California - American Army officer and Confederate general Braxton Bragg • Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins • Fort Covington, New York – Gen. Leonard Covington • Fort Dodge, Iowa – Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him) • Fort Edward (town), New York – Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany • Fort Fairfield, Maine – Gov. John Fairfield • Fort Fetterman, Wyoming – Lt. Col. William J. Fetterman • Fort Frederica, Georgia – Frederick, Prince of Wales • Fort Gaines, Alabama and Fort Gaines, Georgia – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines • Fort Hamilton, New York – Alexander Hamilton • Fort John, California – John Stuart • Fort Johnston, North Carolina – Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina • Fort Kent, Maine – Edward Kent (governor of Maine) • Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Major William Lauderdale • Fort Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen. Henry Leavenworth • Fort Lee, New Jersey – Charles Lee • Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here) • Fort Madison, Iowa – James Madison • Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan • Fort Myers, Florida and Fort Myers Beach, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers • Fort Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau Jr. • Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner) • Fort Scott, Kansas – Gen. Winfield Scott • Fort Seward, California – William H. Seward • Fort Sheridan, Illinois – Gen. Philip Sheridan • Fort Wayne, Indiana – Anthony Wayne • Fort Worth, Texas – William Jenkins Worth • Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator Theodore Foster • Fostoria, Ohio – Gov. Charles Foster • Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs) • Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator) • Fowler, Michigan – John N. Fowler • Fowler, New York – Theodocius Fowler (landowner) • Fowlerville, Michigan – Ralph Fowler (settler) • Fowlerville, Livingston County, New York – Wells Fowler (settler) • Foxburg, Pennsylvania – H.M. Fox (landowner) • Foxborough, Massachusetts – Charles James Fox • Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife) • Franceville, Colorado – Matt France • Frankfort, Kansas – Frank Schmidt (landowner) • Frankfort, Kentucky – Benjamin Franklin • Frankfort (town), New York – Lawrence Frank (settler) • Franklin – Benjamin Franklin, 36 places in • Alabama – Arkansas – Sacramento County, California – Connecticut – Georgia – Idaho – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kentucky – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Missouri – Nebraska – New Hampshire – New Jersey – Franklin County, New York – Macon County, North Carolina – Surry County, North Carolina – Ohio – Cambria County, Pennsylvania – Venango County, Pennsylvania – Tennessee – Texas – Vermont – Virginia – West Virginia – Jackson County, Wisconsin – Kewaunee County, Wisconsin – Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Milwaukee County, Wisconsin – Sauk County, Wisconsin – Vernon County, Wisconsin • Franklin, Delaware County, New York – William Temple Franklin • Franklin Lakes, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin • Franklin Park, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin • Franklin Township – Benjamin Franklin, 77 places in • DeKalb County, Illinois – DeKalb County, Indiana – Floyd County, Indiana – Grant County, Indiana – Harrison County, Indiana – Hendricks County, Indiana – Henry County, Indiana – Johnson County, Indiana – Kosciusko County, Indiana – Marion County, Indiana – Montgomery County, Indiana – Owen County, Indiana – Pulaski County, Indiana – Putnam County, Indiana – Randolph County, Indiana – Ripley County, Indiana – Washington County, Indiana – Wayne County, Indiana – Allamakee County, Iowa – Appanoose County, Iowa – Bremer County, Iowa – Cass County, Iowa – Clarke County, Iowa – Decatur County, Iowa – Story County, Iowa – Bourbon County, Kansas – Edwards County, Kansas – Franklin County, Kansas – Jackson County, Kansas – Clare County, Michigan – Houghton County, Michigan – Lenawee County, Michigan – Wright County, Minnesota – Bergen County, New Jersey – Gloucester County, New Jersey – Hunterdon County, New Jersey – Somerset County, New Jersey – Warren County, New Jersey – Rowan County, North Carolina – Surry County, North Carolina – Adams County, Ohio – Brown County, Ohio – Clermont County, Ohio – Columbiana County, Ohio – Coshocton County, Ohio – Darke County, Ohio – Franklin County, Ohio – Fulton County, Ohio – Harrison County, Ohio – Jackson County, Ohio – Licking County, Ohio – Mercer County, Ohio – Monroe County, Ohio – Morrow County, Ohio – Portage County, Ohio – Richland County, Ohio – Ross County, Ohio – Shelby County, Ohio – Tuscarawas County, Ohio – Warren County, Ohio – Wayne County, Ohio – Adams County, Pennsylvania – Beaver County, Pennsylvania – Bradford County, Pennsylvania – Butler County, Pennsylvania – Carbon County, Pennsylvania – Chester County, Pennsylvania – Columbia County, Pennsylvania – Erie County, Pennsylvania – Fayette County, Pennsylvania – Greene County, Pennsylvania – Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania – Luzerne County, Pennsylvania – Lycoming County, Pennsylvania – Snyder County, Pennsylvania – Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania – York County, Pennsylvania • Franklinton, Louisiana and Franklinton, North Carolina – Benjamin Franklin • Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania – Stephen Franks (trader) • Franktown, Colorado – J. Frank Gardner (resident) • Fraser, Delaware County, New York – Hugh Frazer (landowner) (note the spelling) • Frederic Township, Michigan – Frederick Barker (pioneer) • Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder) • Frederick, Maryland – Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore • Fredericksburg, Virginia – Frederick, Prince of Wales • Fredericktown, Missouri – George Frederick Bollinger (state legislator) • Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands – Frederick V of Denmark • Freeborn, Minnesota – William Freeborn (town councillor) • Freelandville, Indiana – Dr. John F. Freeland • Freemansburg, Pennsylvania – Jacob Freeman • Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts – John C. Frémont • Frenchburg, Kentucky – Richard French (judge) • French Mills, New York – Abel French (factory owner) • Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive) • Frye Island, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye • Fryeburg, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye • Fulford, Colorado – A.H. Fulford (pioneer) • Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company) • Fullerton, Nebraska – Randall Fuller (stockman) • Fulton, South Dakota – Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat) • Funk, Nebraska – P.C. Funk • Funkstown, Maryland – Jacob Funk (landowner) ==G==

• Gadsden, Alabama – James Gadsden • Gagetown, Michigan – James Gage (settler) • Gaines, New York – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines • Gainesboro, Tennessee – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines • Gainesville, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines • Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain • German, New York – Gen. Obadiah German (landowner) • Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry • Gervais, Oregon – Joseph Gervais (pioneer) • Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler) • Gibbon River – Gen. John Gibbon • Gibbon, Oregon – Gen. John Gibbon • Gibbonsville, Idaho – Gen. John Gibbon • Gibson, Tennessee – Col. Thomas Gibson • Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert • Gilberton, Pennsylvania – John Gilbert (mine owner) • Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913 • Gilford, New Hampshire – S.S. Gillman (settler) • Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts) • Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer) • Gilman, Colorado – H.H. Gilman (resident) • Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors) • Girard, Pennsylvania – Stephen Girard • Girardville, Pennsylvania – Stephen Girard • Gladstone, Michigan and Gladstone, North Dakota – William Ewart Gladstone • Gladwin, Michigan – Maj. Henry Gladwin • Glen, New York – Jacob Glen (resident) • Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants • Glens Falls, New York – John Glenn (discoverer) • Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith) • Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling) • Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor) • Goddard, Kansas – J.F. Goddard (manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) • Godfrey, Illinois – Capt. Benjamin Godfrey • Goff, Kansas – Edward H. Goff • Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling) • Goldsboro, North Carolina – M.T. Goldsboro • Goodhue, Minnesota – James M. Goodhue (journalist) • Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham (The town in New Hampshire was named for the one in Maine). • Gorham, New York – Nathaniel Gorham • Gorman Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota – Gov. Willis A. Gorman • Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold (settler) • Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder) • Gouverneur, New York – Gouverneur Morris • Gove City, Kansas – Capt. Grenville L. Gove • Governors Island (Massachusetts) – Gov. John Winthrop (landowner) • Governors Island (New York) – Gov. Wouter van Twiller (landowner) • Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton • Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) • Graham, North Carolina – William Alexander Graham (U.S. Senator) • Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years' War) • Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby • Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company) • Grant, 4 places in Humboldt County, California, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska – Ulysses S. Grant • Grantsville, West Virginia – Ulysses S. Grant • Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham • Gratiot, Wisconsin – Col. Henry Gratiot • Grattan Township, Michigan – Henry Grattan • Gravette, Arkansas – E.T. Gravette • Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor) • Grays Harbor, Washington – Capt. Robert Gray (explorer) • Grayson, Kentucky – Col. Robert Grayson • Graysville, Indiana – Joe Gray (founder) • Great Barrington, Massachusetts – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington • Greeley, Colorado and Greeley, Kansas – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune) • Greeley Center, Nebraska – Peter Greeley • Greene, Iowa – George Green (judge) (note the spelling) • Greene, Maine and Greene, New York – Nathanael Greene • Greeneville, Tennessee – Nathanael Greene • Greenleaf, Kansas – A.W. Greenleaf (treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad) • Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene • Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner) • Greensburg, Kansas – Col. D.R. Green • Greenup, Kentucky – Gov. Christopher Greenup • Greenville, Kentucky and Greenville, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene • Greenville, Michigan – John Green (settler) • Greenwood, Arkansas – Moses Greenwood (merchant) • Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler) • Greenwood, Mississippi – Greenwood LeFlore (Choctaw chief) • Greenwood, Nebraska – J.S. Green (settler) • Greig, New York – John Greig (U.S. representative) • Grestley, California – James Grestley • Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder) • Gridley, Illinois – Asahel Gridley • Griffin, Georgia – Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin (president of the Macon and Western Railroad) • Grimes, Iowa – James W. Grimes (U.S. Senator) • Grimesland, North Carolina – Gen. Bryan Grimes • Grinnell, Iowa – W.H. Grinnell (resident) • Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold • Grover, North Carolina and Grover, South Carolina – Grover Cleveland • Grundy Center, Iowa – Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee) • Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here) • Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford • Gunnison, Colorado – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer) • Gunnison Island, Utah – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer) • Gunnison River – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer) • Guntown, Mississippi – James G. Gunn (early settler) • Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago) • Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher) • Guthrie Center, Iowa – Capt. Edwin B. Guthrie • Guttenberg, Iowa and Guttenberg, New Jersey – Johannes Gutenberg (note the spelling) • Gwinn, Michigan - William G. Mather ==H==

• Hackettstown, New Jersey – Samuel Hackett (early settler) • Haddonfield, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon) (landowner) • Haddon Township, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon (landowner) • Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager • Hahns Peak and Hahns Peak Village, Colorado – Joe Hahn (settler) • Halcott, New York – George W. Halcott (sheriff) • Hale, Missouri – John P. Hale (Carrollton resident) • Halifax, Massachusetts and Halifax, Vermont – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax • Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner) • Hallstead, Pennsylvania – William F. Hallstead (general manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad) • Hallsville, New York – Capt. Robert Hall • Hallsville, Texas – Robert Burton Hall (railroader) • Halstead, Kansas – Murat Halstead (journalist) • Hamden, Connecticut – John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling) • Hamersville, Ohio – Gen. Thomas L. Hamer • Hamilton, Georgia – James Hamilton Jr. (Governor of South Carolina) • Hamilton, Massachusetts and Hamilton, Ohio – Alexander Hamilton • Hamilton, Montana – J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad) • Hamilton City, California – J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president) • Hamilton County, 7 places in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee – Alexander Hamilton • Hamlin, Kansas – Vice President Hannibal Hamlin • Hammond, Illinois – Charles Goodrich Hamilton (railroader) • Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here) • Hammond, New York – Abijah Hammond (landowner) • Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official) • Hampden, Maine and Hampden, Massachusetts – John Hampden (English patriot) • Hampton, South Carolina – Gen. Wade Hampton I • Hancock, 6 places in Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont – John Hancock • Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive) • Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler) • Hannibal, Missouri and Hannibal, New York – Hannibal • Hanson, Massachusetts – Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator) • Haralson, Georgia and Haralson County, Georgia – Gen. Hugh A. Haralson (U.S. representative) • Harbeson, Delaware – Harbeson Hickman (landowner) • Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs) • Harbine, Nebraska – Col. John Harbine • Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner) • Hardin, Missouri – Gov. Charles Henry Hardin • Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill) • Hardinsburg, Kentucky – Capt. William Hardin (pioneer) • Hardwick, Massachusetts – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (note the spelling) • Harlan, Iowa – James Harlan (United States Senator) • Harlan, Kansas – John C. Harlan (settler) • Harlan, Kentucky – Maj. Silas Harlan • Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad) • Harney, Oregon – Gen. William S. Harney • Harpers Ferry, West Virginia – Robert Harper (ferry owner) • Harpersfield, New York – Joseph Harper (landowner) • Harperville, Mississippi – G.W. Harper (resident) • Harrietstown, New York – Harriet Duane (wife of James Duane) • Harriman, New York – E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad) • Harrington, Delaware – Samuel M. Harrington (judge) • Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer) • Harrisburg, New York – Richard Harrison • Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – John Harris, Sr. (founder) • Harrison, Maine – Harrison Gray Otis (landowner) • Harrison, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison • Harrison, New York – John Harrison (Quaker leader) • Harrison Township, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison • Harrisonburg, Virginia – Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community) • Harrisville, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner) • Harrisville, New York – Fosket Harris (settler) • Harrisville, Ohio – Meigs Harris (pioneer) • Harrisville, West Virginia – Thomas Harris • Harrodsburg, Kentucky – Col. James Harrod (settler) • Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel John Hart • Hartsville, Indiana – Gideon B. Hart (pioneer) • Hartwick, New York – Christopher Hartwick (landowner) • Harvard, Illinois – John Harvard (indirectly, via Harvard University) • Harvard, Massachusetts – John Harvard • Hastings, Michigan – Eurotas Hastings (state auditor) • Hathaway Pines, California – Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster) • Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy) • Haugan, Montana – H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) • Havensville, Kansas – Paul E. Havens (Leavenworth resident) • Hawesville, Kentucky – Richard Hawes (U.S. representative) • Hawkeye, Iowa – Chief Hawkeye • Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution) • Hawthorne, New Jersey – Nathaniel Hawthorne • Hayden, Colorado – Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist) • Hayden Hill, California – Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (geologist) • Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster) • Hayesville, North Carolina – George W. Hayes (state senator) • Hays, Kansas – Gen. William Hays • Hayward, California – William Dutton Hayward (early settler) • Hayward, Minnesota – David Hayward (settler) • Hazard, Kentucky – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812) • Hazardville, Connecticut – Colonel Augustus George Hazard (gunpowder manufacturer) • Hazelton, California – Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman) • Hazelton, Kansas – Rev. J.H. Hazelton (founder) • Hazelrigg, Indiana – H.G. Hazlerigg (founder) (note the spelling) • Healdsburg, California – Col. Harmon Heald (settler) • Hearst, California – George Hearst • Heath, Massachusetts – General William Heath • Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president) • Heber City, Utah – Heber C. Kimball (Mormon leader) • Heceta Beach, Oregon – Bruno de Heceta (explorer) • Helena, New York – Helena Pitcairn • Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher) • Henderson, Nevada – U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson • Henderson, Kentucky and Henderson, Tennessee – Col. Richard Henderson • Henderson, Nebraska – David Henderson (settler) • Henderson, New York – William Henderson (landowner) • Hendersonville, North Carolina – North Carolina Chief Justice Leonard Henderson • Hendry County, Florida – Major Francis A. Hendry • Hennepin, Illinois – Louis Hennepin (explorer) • Hennessey, Oklahoma – Pat Hennessey (freighter) • Henniker, New Hampshire – John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker • Henrietta, New York – Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath • Henrietta, North Carolina – Henrietta Tanner • Hensley, Arkansas – William B. Hensley (founder and landowner) • Hepburn, Iowa – William Peters Hepburn (U.S. representative) • Hepler, Kansas – B.F. Hepler (resident of Fort Scott) • Herington, Kansas – M.D. Herington (founder) • Herkimer, New York – Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War) • Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (World War II casualty) • Herman, Nebraska – Samuel Herman (railroad conductor) • Hermann, Missouri – Arminius (Germanic chief) • Hernando, Mississippi – Hernando de Soto • Hernando County, Florida – Hernando de Soto • Hershey, Pennsylvania – Milton S. Hershey (Chocolatier) • Hertford County, North Carolina – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford • Heuvelton, New York – Jacob van Heuvel • Hewes Point, Maine – Paola Hewes (settler) • Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn • Hickman, Kentucky – Capt. Paschal Hickman • Hickory, Mississippi and Hickory, North Carolina – Andrew Jackson (nicknamed "Old Hickory") • Hicksville, New York – Charles Hicks (Quaker cleric) • Hicksville, Ohio – Henry W. Hicks (founder) • Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant) • Higginsport, Ohio – Col. Robert Higgins (founder) • Hildebran, North Carolina – Pope Gregory VII (né Hildebrand) • Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire) • Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder) • Hillsboro, Kansas – John G. Hill (mayor) • Hillsborough, New Hampshire and Hillsborough, North Carolina – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough • Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough • Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk) • Hinesville, Georgia – Charlton Hines • Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner) • Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale • Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire) • Hiram, Maine – Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre) • Hobart, New York – Bishop John Henry Hobart • Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner) • Hodgdon, Maine – John Hodgdon (landowner) • Hodgenville, Kentucky – Robert Hodgen • Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier) • Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders) • Hoisington, Kansas – A.J. Hoisington (resident of Great Bend) • Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor) • Holden, Massachusetts – Samuel Holden (banker) • Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness • Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman) • Holland Patent, New York – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (landowner) • Holley, New York – Myron Holley (canal commissioner) • Holliday, Missouri – Samuel Holliday (resident of St. Louis) • Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders) • Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note the spelling) • Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College) • Holmesville, Nebraska – L.M. Holmes (founder) • Holmesville, Ohio – Maj. Andrew Holmes • Holt, Missouri – Jerry Holt (landowner) • Holton, Kansas – Edward Holton • Holts Summit, Missouri – Timothy Holt • Holyoke, Massachusetts — Elizur Holyoke, (colonist, scribe and surveyor) • Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet) • Honesdale, Pennsylvania – Philip Dale (canal builder) • Hood River, Oregon – Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport • Hookstown, Pennsylvania – Matthias Hook (resident) • Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder) • Hoover, Alabama – William H. Hoover (1890–1979), a local insurance of Alabama • Hoover, Indiana – Riley Hoover (founder) • Hoover Town, West Virginia – Herbert Hoover • Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General Samuel Hopkins • Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) • Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts) • Hopkinton, New York – Roswell Hopkins (settler) • Hopkinton, Rhode Island – Gov. Stephen Hopkins • Horace, Kansas – Horace Greeley • Hornbeak, Tennessee – Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster) • Hornby, New York – John Hornby (landowner) • Hornellsville, New York – George Hornell (settler) • Hornersville, Missouri – William H. Horner (founder) • Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher) • Horton, Kansas – A.H. Horton (judge) • Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler) • Hounsfield, New York – Ezra Hounsfield (landowner) • Houston, Delaware – John W. Houston • Houston, Minnesota, Houston, Mississippi, and Houston, Texas – Sam Houston • Houstonia, Missouri – Sam Houston • Howard, Kansas – General Oliver Otis Howard • Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin and Howard, Chippewa County, Wisconsin – Brigadier General Benjamin Howard (officer in the War of 1812) • Howard Springs, California – C.W. Howard (resort owner) • Howards Grove, Wisconsin – H.B. Howard (hotelier and postmaster) • Howell, Evansville, Indiana – Capt. Lee Howell (railroader) • Howell Township, New Jersey – Gov. Richard Howell • Howland, Maine – John Howland (Mayflower passenger) • Hoxie, Kansas – H.M. Hoxie (general manager of the Missouri Pacific Railroad) • Hubbard, Nebraska – Asahel W. Hubbard (judge) • Hubbardston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner) • Hubbardton, Vermont – Thomas Hubbard (landholder) • Hudson, Maine – Charles Hudson (indirectly, via Hudson, Massachusetts) • Hudson, Massachusetts – Charles Hudson (United States Representative) • Hudson, New York – Henry Hudson • Hudson, Ohio – David Hudson (settler) • Hudson River – Henry Hudson • Hugoton, Kansas – Victor Hugo • Hull, Iowa – John Hull • Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster) • Humboldt, Kansas and Humboldt, South Dakota – Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat) • Hummelstown, Pennsylvania – Frederick Hummel (founder) • Humphrey, New York – Charles Humphrey (state legislator) • Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer) • Humphreysville, Connecticut – David Humphreys • Hunnewell, Kansas and Hunnewell, Missouri – H.H. Hunnewell (banker) • Hunter, New York – John Hunter (landowner) • Huntingdon, Pennsylvania – Selena Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon • Huntingdon, Tennessee – Memucan Hunt (landowner) • Huntington, Massachusetts – Charles P. Huntington • Huntington, Oregon – J.B. Huntington (landowner) • Huntington, Vermont – Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders) • Huntington, West Virginia – Collis P. Huntington • Huntington Beach, California – Henry E. Huntington • Huntley, Montana – S.O. Huntley (partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley) • Huntsville, Alabama – John Hunt (settler) • Huntsville, Missouri – David Hunt (settler) • Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland • Hustisford, Wisconsin – John Hustis (settler) • Hutchinson, Kansas – C.C. Hutchinson (founder) • Hyannis, Massachusetts – Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe) • Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner) • Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner) • Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman) ==I==

• Iliff, Colorado – John Wesley Iliff (cattleman) • Ingalls, Oklahoma – John James Ingalls (U.S. Senator from Kansas) • Inman, Kansas – Maj. Henry Inman • Inman, Nebraska – W.H. Inman (settler) • Iola, Kansas – Iola Colborn • Ira, Vermont – Ira Allen (one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen) • Irasburg, Vermont – Ira Allen (landholder, one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen) • Ireland, Texas - John Ireland • Irvine, California – James Irvine I (landowner) • Irvine, Kentucky – Col. William Irvine • Irving, Kansas – Washington Irving • Irving Park, Chicago - Washington Irving • Irvington, New Jersey and Irvington, New York – Washington Irving • Irwin, California – W.A. Irwin (founder) • Irwinton, Georgia – Gov. Jared Irwin • Isabella, California, Isabella County, Michigan & Isabella Township, Michigan - Isabella I of Castile • Isle La Motte, Vermont – Captain La Motte (established Fort Sainte Anne on this island) • Ives Grove, Wisconsin - Joseph Ives ==J==

• Jackson, California – Colonel Alden Jackson • Jackson, Maine – General Henry Jackson • Jackson, Burnett County, Wisconsin – Stonewall Jackson • Jackson, Wyoming – Davey Jackson • Jackson – Andrew Jackson, 14 places in • Alabama – Georgia – Kentucky – Louisiana – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – Ohio – Tennessee – Washington County, Wisconsin • Jacksonville, Arkansas – Nicholas and Elizabeth Jackson (landowners) • Jacksonville, Texas – Jackson Smith (soldier) • Jacksonville – Andrew Jackson, 7 places in • Alabama – Florida – Illinois – Missouri – North Carolina – Oregon – Pennsylvania • Jacobs Corner, California – Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster) • Jaffrey, New Hampshire – George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy Portsmouth family) • Jamesburg, California – John James (founder) • Jamestown, Indiana – James Mattock (founder) • Jamestown, Kansas – James P. Pomeroy (railroader) • Jamestown, New York – James Prendergast (settler) • Jamestown, Rhode Island – James II of England • Jamestown, Virginia – James I of England • Jamesville, New York – James De Witt • Janesville, California – Jane Bankhead (early settler) • Janesville, Wisconsin – Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster) • Jasonville, Indiana – Jason Rogers (founder) • Jasper, 3 places in Georgia, New York, and Texas – William Jasper (American Revolution hero) • Jay, Maine, Jay, New York, and Jay, Vermont – John Jay (the first chief justice of the Supreme Court) • Jayem, Kentucky - John M. Robsion • Jean, Nevada – Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle) • Jefferson, Maine, Jefferson, New Jersey, and Jefferson, New Hampshire – Thomas Jefferson • Jefferson City, Missouri – Thomas Jefferson • Jefferson County, Thomas Jefferson, 19 places in • Arkansas – Colorado – Florida – Georgia – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kansas – Kentucky – Mississippi – Missouri – Montana – New York – Pennsylvania – Tennessee – Washington – West Virginia – Wisconsin • Jeffersonville, Georgia – Thomas Jefferson • Jekyll Island, Georgia – Sir Joseph Jekyll • Jenny Lind, California – Jenny Lind • Jeromesville, Ohio – John Baptiste Jerome (trader) • Jesup, Iowa – Morris Ketchum Jesup • Jesus Maria, California – Jesus Maria (local farmer) • Jetmore, Kansas – Col. A.B. Jetmore • Jewell, California – Omar Jewell (local rancher) • Jewell, Kansas – Lt. Col. Lewis R. Jewell • Jewett, New York – Freeborn G. Jewett (judge) • Jewett, Ohio – T.M. Jewett (railroader) • Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania – Jim Thorpe • Joaquin, Texas – Joaquin Morris (grandson of Benjamin Franklin Morris, who donated the land for the site) • Joe, Montana – Joe Montana • Joe Walker Town, California – Joe Walker • Johnsburg, New York – John Thurman (settler) • Johnson, Nebraska – Julius A. Johnson (landowner) • Johnson, Vermont – William Samuel Johnson (landowner) • Johnson City, Kansas – Col. Alexander S. Johnson • Johnson City, New York George F. Johnson • Johnston, Rhode Island – Augustus Johnston (colonial attorney general) • Johnston County, North Carolina – Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina • Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer) • Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town) • Johnstown (city), New York – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (founder) • Johnstown, Pennsylvania – Joseph Jahns (settler) (note the spelling) • Joliet, Illinois – Louis Jolliet (note the spelling) • Jonesboro, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder) • Jonesborough, Tennessee – William Jones (statesman) • Jonesport, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder) • Jonesville, Indiana – Benjamin Jones (founder) • Jonesville, Virginia – Frederick Jones (landowner) • Joplin, Missouri – Rev. H.G. Joplin (resident) (indirectly, via Joplin Creek) • Joplin Creek, Missouri – Rev. H.G. Joplin (resident) • Jordan, Montana – Arthur Jordan (founder) • Judith River – Judith Hancock • Judsonia, Arkansas – Rev. Adoniram Judson (missionary) • Judsonville, California – Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine) • Julesburg, Colorado – Jules Beni (established a trading post here) • Jump-off Joe – Joe McLaughlin (trapper) • Juneau, Alaska – Joe Juneau (prospector) • Juneau, Wisconsin – Solomon Juneau (founder of Milwaukee) ==K==

• Kamrar, Iowa – J.L. Kamrar (judge) • Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder) • Kaneville, Illinois – Gen. Thomas L. Kane • Karnes City, Texas – Henry Karnes (Texas patriot) • Kaufman, Texas – David S. Kaufman (U.S. representative) • Kearney, Missouri – Charles E. Kearney, the president of the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad • Kearney, Nebraska – Gen. Philip Kearny (note the spelling) • Kearny, New Jersey – Gen. Philip Kearny • Keene, California – James R. Keene (financier) • Keene, New Hampshire – Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and West Indies trader) • Keenesburg, Colorado – Les Keene (settler) • Keeseville, New York – Richard Keese (founder) • Keizer, Oregon – Thomas Dove Keizur • Kelleys Island, Ohio – Datus and Irad Kelly (landowners) (note the spelling) • Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector) • Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder) • Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster) • Kenansville, North Carolina – James Kenan (U.S. representative) • Kendall, New York – Postmaster General Amos Kendall • Kennard, Nebraska – Thomas P. Kennard (secretary of state of Nebraska) • Kenedy, Texas – Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor) • Kenner, Louisiana – Duncan F. Kenner (lawyer) • Kensington, New Hampshire – Edward Rich, 8th Earl of Warwick and Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London) • Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent • Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner) • Kenton, Ohio – Gen. Simon Kenton • Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner) • Keokuk, Iowa – Keokuk (Sauk leader) • Kerman, California – W.G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar (promoters) • Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher) • Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County) • Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian) • Kilbourn City, Wisconsin – Byron Kilbourn (pioneer) • Kilbuck Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – chieftain of the Lenape • Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor) • Kincaid, Kansas – Robert Kincaid (resident of Mound City) • King City, California – Charles King (founder) • King County, Washington - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (originally for Vice President William R. King) • King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – after a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia • Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine) • Kingman, Kansas – Samuel Austin Kingman (judge) • Kingman, Maine – R.S. Kingman • Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner) • Kingsley, Michigan – Judson Kingsley (landowner) • Kingston, Georgia – J.P. King (resident of Augusta) • Kingston, Massachusetts – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull • Kingston, Missouri – Gov. Austin Augustus King • Kingsville, Missouri – Gen. William M. King (resident) • Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch) • Kinman Pond, California – Seth Kinman (settler) • Kinsley, Kansas – W.E.W. Kinsley (resident of Boston, Massachusetts) • Kinston, North Carolina – George III • Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman) • Kirkland, New York – Rev. Samuel Kirkland • Kirklin, Indiana – Nathan Kirk (founder) • Kirksville, Missouri – Jesse Kirk • Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler) • Kirkwood, Delaware and Kirkwood, Ohio – Maj. Robert Kirkwood (officer in the American Revolutionary War) • Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company) • Kirwin, Kansas – Col. John Kirwin • Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar) • Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson • Klej Grange, Maryland – Katherine (1866-1918), Lucy (1867-1943), Elizabeth (1868-1944), and Josephine Drexel (1878-1966) (daughters of Joseph William Drexel) • Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers) • Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler) • Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen • Knightsville, Indiana – A.W. Knight (founder) • Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner) • Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox • Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster • Knoxville, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Albany County, New York, and Tennessee – Henry Knox • Knoxville, Pennsylvania – John C. Knox (judge) • Kokomo, Indiana – Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo (Miami tribal chief) • Kortright, New York – Lawrence Kortright (patentee) • Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko • Kossuth, Mississippi and Kossuth, Ohio – Lajos Kossuth • Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue • Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad) • Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers) • Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder) ==L==

• Laceyville, Ohio – Maj. John S. Lacey • Laclede, Missouri – Pierre Laclède (founder of St. Louis) • La Conner, Washington – J.J. Connor (settler) (note the spelling) • Laddonia, Missouri – Amos Ladd (settler) • Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder) • Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town) • Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers) • Lairdsville, New York – Samuel Laird (settler) • Lake Ann, Michigan – Ann Wheelock (settler's wife) • Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier • Lake Helen, Florida – Helen DeLand (founder's daughter) • Lake Lanier (Georgia) – Sidney Lanier (poet) • Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner) • Lakin, Kansas – David L. Lakin (resident of Topeka) • Missouri - Mirabeau B. Lamar • Lamar, 3 places in Colorado and Mississippi – L.Q.C. Lamar • Lamar River (Wyoming) – L.Q.C. Lamar • Lamartine, Wisconsin – Alphonse de Lamartine (French historian) • Lambertville, New Jersey – John Lambert (settler) • Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner) • Lamy, New Mexico – Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy • Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer) • Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter) • Landisburg, Pennsylvania – James Landis (founder) • Lanesborough, Massachusetts – James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough • Lanesboro, Pennsylvania – Martin Lane (settler) • Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon • Langhorne, Pennsylvania – Jeremiah Langhorne (jurist) • Lanier, Georgia – Clement Lanier • Lansingburgh, New York – Abraham Lansing (founder) • Laramie River (Ohio) – Pierre-Louis de Lorimier (French fur trader) • Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader) • Larned, Kansas – Gen. B.F. Larned • Larrabee, Iowa – Gov. William Larrabee • LaSalle, Illinois – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (explorer) • Lassen Peak (California) – Peter Lassen (explorer) • Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II • Latty, Ohio – A.S. Latty (settler) • Lauderdale, Mississippi – Col. James Lauderdale • Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner) • Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder) • Laurens, South Carolina – Henry Laurens • Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder) • Lawrence, Kansas – Amos Lawrence • Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder) • Lawrenceburg, Tennessee – Capt. James Lawrence • Lawrenceville, Georgia – Capt. James Lawrence • Lawson, Colorado – Alexander Lawson (innkeeper) • Lawton, Michigan – Nathaniel Lawton (landowner) • Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder) • Le Claire, Iowa – Antoine Le Claire (founder of Davenport) • Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson • Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion) • Le Ray, New York – Le Ray Chaumont • Le Raysville, Pennsylvania – Vincent le Ray (landowner's son) • Leakesville, Mississippi – Gov. Walter Leake • Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen. Henry Leavenworth (indirectly, via Fort Leavenworth) • Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster) • Lebec, California – Peter Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837) • Lecompton, Kansas – Judge D.S. Lecompte • Ledyard, Connecticut – Col. William Ledyard (state militiaman) • Ledyard, New York – Benjamin Ledyard (land agent) • Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site) • Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler) • Lee, Massachusetts, Lee, New Hampshire, and Lee, New York – General Charles Lee • Leechburg, Pennsylvania – David Leech • Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder) • Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner) • Leicester, Massachusetts – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester • Leitchfield, Kentucky – Maj. David Leitch • Leland, Illinois – Edwin S. Leland • Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler) • Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England • Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official) • Lenoir, North Carolina – Gen. William Lenoir • Lenora, Kansas – Lenora Hauser • Lenox, Massachusetts – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (note the spelling) • Leon, Iowa – David Camden de Leon • Leon, Kansas – Juan Ponce de León or after the Iowan town • Leonard, Michigan – Leonard Rowland • Leonardville, Kansas – Leonard T. Smith (railroader) • Leopold, Indiana – Leopold I of Belgium • Le Roy, New York – Herman Le Roy (landowner) • Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor) • Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) • Levittown, 2 places in New York and Pennsylvania – William Levitt • Lewis and Clark River (Oregon) – Capt. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (explorers) • Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders) • Lewisboro, New York – John Lewis (resident) • Lewisburg, West Virginia – Samuel Lewis • Lewiston, Idaho – Meriwether Lewis • Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler) • Lewiston (town), New York – Gov. Morgan Lewis • Lewistown, Ohio – Capt. John Lewis (Shawnee chief) • Lewistown, Pennsylvania – William Lewis • Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter) • Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent) • Ligonier, Pennsylvania – John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier • Lillington, North Carolina – Col. Alexander Lillington • Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor) • Lincklaen, New York – John Lincklaen (landowner) • Lincoln, Alabama and Lincoln, Vermont – Major General Benjamin Lincoln • Lincoln, California – Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the California Central Railroad) • Lincoln Center, Kansas – Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas) • Lincolnton, Georgia and Lincolnton, North Carolina – Major General Benjamin Lincoln • Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner) • Lincolnville, South Carolina – Abraham Lincoln • Lindley, New York – Col. Eleazar Lindley • Linn, Missouri – Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator) • Linneus, Missouri – Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator) • Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer) • Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield • Littleton, Colorado – Richard S. Little • Littleton, Massachusetts – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (note the spelling) • Littleton, New Hampshire – Col. Moses Little • Livermore, California – Robert Livermore • Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler) • Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler) • Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official) • Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director) • Livingston, New Jersey – William Livingston • Locke, New York – John Locke • Lockwood, 3 places in California, New York, and West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood • Logan Creek Dredge (Nebraska) – Logan Fontenelle (Omaha chief) • Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole) • Logansport, Indiana – Captain Logan (Native American chief) • Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak) • Longs Peak (Colorado) – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) • Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner) • Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers) • Louisville, Kansas – Louis Wilson (landowner's son) • Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI (King of France) • Louisville, Mississippi – Col. Louis Wiston (settler) • Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad) • Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling) • Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant) • Lowell, Maine – Lowell Hayden (first person born in the town) • Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell, Michigan, and Lowell, North Carolina – Francis Cabot Lowell • Lowville, New York – Nicholas Low • Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock • Lucas, Iowa – Robert Lucas (territorial governor) • Ludington, Michigan – James Ludington (businessman) • Ludlow, Kentucky – Israel Ludlow (pioneer) • Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman) • Lumpkin, Georgia – Gov. Wilson Lumpkin • Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner) • Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg • Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg • Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder) • Lutesville, Missouri – Eli Lutes (founder) • Luther, Michigan – B.T. Luther (sawmill owner) • Luthersburg, Pennsylvania – W.H. Luther (resident) • Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer) • Lykens, Pennsylvania – Andrew Lycan (note the spelling) • Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman I (merchant) • Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War) • Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named) • Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island) • Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder) • Lyons, Kansas – Truman J. Lyon (landowner) • Lyons, Nebraska – Waldo Lyon (resident) • Lyonsdale, New York – Calen Lyon (settler) • Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader) ==M==

• Mabbettsville, New York – James Mabbett (landowner) • Macclenny, Florida – H.C. Macclenny (founder) • Macksville, Kansas – George Mack (postmaster) • Macomb, New York – Gen. Alexander Macomb • Macon, 5 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina – Nathaniel Macon • Madelia, Minnesota – Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn) • Madison, 5 places in Georgia, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire and Wisconsin – James Madison • Madison, South Dakota – James Madison (indirectly, via Madison, Wisconsin) • Madison County – James Madison, 18 places in • Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia • Mahomet, Illinois – Muhammad (antiquated spelling) • Mahon, Mississippi – John Mahon • Mahon, Indiana - Archibald Mahon • Mamajuda Island, Michigan – Mamajuda (Native American woman) • Mamakating, New York – Mamakating (Native American chief) • Mamaroneck, New York – Mamaroneck (Native American chief) • Mancelona, Michigan – Mancelona Andrews (settler's daughter) • Manchester, Vermont – Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester • Mandeville, Louisiana – Antoine James de Marigny de Mandeville • Manlius, New York – Manlius (Roman general) • Manly, North Carolina – Gov. Charles Manly • Mannsville, New York – Col. H.B. Mann • Mansfield, Connecticut – Moses Mansfield (mayor of New Haven) • Mansfield, Massachusetts – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield • Mansfield, Ohio – Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General) • Mansfield, Pennsylvania – Asa Mann (landowner) (note the spelling) • Mansfield, Texas – R.S. Man and Julian Feild (settlers) (note spelling) • Manteo, North Carolina – Manteo (Native American chief) • Manton, Michigan – George Manton (settler) • Manuelito, New Mexico – Manuelito (Navajo chief) • Marcellus, Michigan and Marcellus, New York – Marcus Claudius Marcellus • Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania – Maarte (Native American chief) • Marcy, New York – Gov. William L. Marcy • Margarettsville, North Carolina – Margaret Ridley • Margaretville, New York – Margaret Lewis (landowner) • Marias River (Montana) – Maria Wood • Mariaville, Maine – Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham) • Mariaville Lake, New York – Maria Duane (daughter of James Duane) • Marietta, Ohio – Marie Antoinette • Marilla, New York – Marilla Rogers • Marinette, Wisconsin – Marie Antoinette Chevalier (common-law wife of an early fur trader) • Marion – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero), 14 places in • Alabama – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kansas – Kentucky – Louisiana – Massachusetts – Mississippi – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – South Carolina – Virginia • Marion, North Dakota – Marion Mellen (daughter of Charles Sanger Mellen) • Marion, Oregon – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero) (indirectly, via Marion County, Oregon) • Marion, South Dakota – Marion Merrill (daughter of S.S. Merrill, railroad official) • Marion, Texas – Marion Dove (granddaughter of Joshua W. Young, owner of a plantation that the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway passed through) • Marion County – General Francis Marion of South Carolina, guerilla fighter and hero of the American Revolutionary War, 17 places in • Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia • Marionville, Missouri – Gen. Francis Marion • Marklee Village, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler) • Markleeville, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler) • Marlboro, Vermont – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough • Marlborough, Massachusetts and Marlborough, New York – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough • Marlborough, New Hampshire – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts) • Marquam, Oregon – Philip Augustus Marquam (resident of Portland) • Marquette – Jacques Marquette (French missionary and explorer), 8 places in 7 states: • Marquette Heights, Illinois - Marquette, Iowa - Marquette, Kansas - Marquette, Michigan - Marquette County, Michigan - Marquette Island, an island in Michigan - Pere Marquette River, a river in Michigan - Lake Marquette, a lake in Minnesota - Marquette, Nebraska - Marquette (town), Wisconsin - Marquette County, Wisconsin • Marsh Creek Springs, California – John Marsh • Marshall, Colorado – Joseph M. Marshall (coal miner) • Marshall, Minnesota – Gov. William Rainey Marshall • Marshall, Texas – John Marshall • Marshallton, Delaware – John Marshall (mill owner) • Marshfield, Vermont – Capt. Isaac Marsh (landowner) • Martensdale, California – Harry J. Marten (founder) • Martin County, Florida – John W. Martin 24th Governor of Florida • Martinez, California – Don Ygnacio Martínez • Martinsburg, Nebraska – Jonathan Martin (settler) • Martinsburg, West Virginia – Col. Thomas Bryan Martin (landowner) • Martins Ferry, California – John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator) • Martin's Location, New Hampshire – Thomas Martin (grantee) • Martinsville, Indiana – John Martin (commissioner) • Maryhill, Washington - Mary Francis "Mamie" Hill (1868–1947) and Mary Mendenhall Hill (1889–1941) • Maryland – Queen Henrietta Maria of France • Maryland, New York – Queen Henrietta Maria of France (indirectly, via the state of Maryland) • Marysville, California – Mary Murphy Covillaud (Donner Party survivor) • Marysville, Kansas – Mary Marshall (wife of Francis J. Marshall, namesake of Marshall County) • Maryville, Missouri – Mary Graham (wife of Amos Graham, county clerk) • Masaryktown, Florida – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czechoslovak President) • Mason, Illinois – Roswell B. Mason (railroader) • Mason, New Hampshire – Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder) • Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder) • Massena, New York – André Masséna (French military officer) • Massillon, Ohio – Jean Baptiste Massillon (French cleric) • Matoaca, Virginia – Pocahontas (Matoaca was her name in her native language). • Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor) • Matteson, Illinois – George Joel Aldrich Mattison (note the spelling) • Mattoon, Illinois – William Mattoon • Maupin, Oregon – Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here) • Mauriceville, Texas – Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway) • Mauston, Wisconsin – Milton M. Maughs (founder) (note the spelling) • Mayer, Arizona – Joe Mayer (founder) • Mayersville, Mississippi – David Meyers (landowner) (note the spelling) • Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner) • Mays Landing, New Jersey – Cornelius Jacobsen May • Maysville, Kentucky – John May (landowner) • McAdenville, North Carolina – R.Y. McAden (state legislator) • McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler) • McArthur, Ohio – Gen. Duncan McArthur • McClellandville, Delaware – William McClelland (settler) • McColl, South Carolina – D.D. McColl (businessman) • McConnelsville, Ohio – Robert McConnel • McCool, Mississippi – James F. McCool • McCracken, Kansas – William McCracken (railroader) • McCune, Kansas – Isaac McCune (founder) • McDonough, 3 places in Delaware, Georgia, and New York – Thomas Macdonough (naval officer) (note the spelling) • McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder) • McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw • McGregor, Iowa – Alexander McGregor (landowner) • McHenry, Illinois – William McHenry • McKee, Kentucky – George R. McKee (judge) • McKeesport, Pennsylvania – David McKee (ferry owner) • McKinleyville, California – President William McKinley • McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher) • McMechen, West Virginia - the McMechen family (pioneers) • McMinnville, Tennessee –Gov. Joseph McMinn • McPherson, Kansas – Major Gen. James B. McPherson • Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner) • Meade, Kansas – Gen. George Meade • Meadville, Mississippi – Cowles Mead (territorial official) • Meadville, Pennsylvania – Gen. David Mead (founder) • Mebane, North Carolina – Gen. Alexander Mebane • Medary, South Dakota – Samuel Medary (territorial governor of Kansas) • Meeker, Colorado – Nathan Meeker (journalist) • Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor) • Mendoza, Texas – Antonio de Mendoza (colonial governor) • Menifee, California – Luther Menifee Wilson (gold miner) • Mercer, Maine – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero) • Mercersburg, Pennsylvania – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero) • Mercey Hot Springs, California – J.N. Mercy (early settler) • Meredith, New Hampshire – Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of British Parliament) • Meredith, New York – Samuel Meredith (merchant) • Merrill, Wisconsin – S.S. Merrill (railroader) • Merritt, California – Hiram P. Merritt (early settler) • Methuen, Massachusetts – Sir Paul Methuen (British diplomat) • Mettler, California – W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist) • Metz, California – W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster) • Meyers, California – George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner) • Mianus, Connecticut – Mayanno (Native American chief) • Micanopy, Florida – Micanopy, leading chief of Seminoles, led the tribe during the Second Seminole War • Middleton, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham • Milan, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner) • Milbank, South Dakota – Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director) • Milburn, Kentucky – William Milburn • Milesburg, Pennsylvania – Col. Samuel Miles (founder) • Miles City, Montana – General Nelson A. Miles • Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster) • Millard, Omaha, Nebraska – Ezra Millard (founder) • Millbrae, California – Darius Ogden Mills • Milledgeville, Georgia – Gov. John Milledge • Miller, Nebraska – Capt. J.M. Miller (settler) • Miller Place, New York – Andrew Miller (pioneer) • Millersburg, Missouri – Thomas Miller (settler) • Millersburg, Ohio – Charles Miller (founder) • Millersburg, Pennsylvania – Daniel Miller (founder) • Millerton, New York – Samuel G. Miller (railroad contractor) • Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official) • Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive) • Millsfield, New Hampshire – Sir Thomas Mills • Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster) • Milo, Maine – Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece) • Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer) • Milton, 4 places in Ulster County, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia – John Milton • Miltonvale, Kansas – Milton Tootle (landowner) • Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer) • Minor Creek (California) – Isaac Minor • Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation) • Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers) • Mitchell, Colorado – George R. Mitchell • Mitchell, Iowa – John Mitchel (Irish patriot) (note the spelling) • Mitchell, Oregon – U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell • Mitchell, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) • Mitchellville, Iowa – Thomas Mitchell • Moberly, Missouri – Col. William E. Moberly • Modesto, California – William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man • Moffat, Colorado – David Moffat (president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad) • Moira, New York – Earl of Moira • Monroe – James Monroe, 12 places in • Connecticut – Georgia – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – Utah – Washington • Monroe City, Indiana – Monroe Alton (founder) • Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder) • Monroeville, New Jersey – Rev. S.T. Monroe • Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster) • Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts) • Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson • Montague, Massachusetts – Capt. William Montague • Monterey, California – Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (colonial governor) • Monterey, Massachusetts – Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (indirectly, via Monterrey, Mexico) (The town was named during the Mexican War to commemorate the battle fought there). • Montezuma, Colorado – Moctezuma I (note the spelling) • Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York – General Richard Montgomery • Montgomery, Indiana – Valentine B. Montgomery (founder) • Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher) • Montrose, Pennsylvania – Dr. Robert H. Rose • Mooers, New York – Gen. Benjamin Mooers • Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher) • Moultrieville, South Carolina – Gen. William Moultrie • Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion") • Mount Madison (New Hampshire) – James Madison • Mount Marcy (New York) – Gov. William L. Marcy • Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) – Elisha Mitchell (surveyor) • Mount Monroe (New Hampshire) – James Monroe • Mount Moran (Wyoming) – Thomas Moran (artist) • Mount Morris, New York – Thomas Morris (resident of Philadelphia) • Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero) • Mount Vernon, Missouri – Admiral Edward Vernon (indirectly, via Mount Vernon) • Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington • Muir, Michigan – W.K. Muir (railroader) • Muldrow, Oklahoma – Henry L. Muldrow (politician) • Mullan, Idaho – John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route) • Mulvane, Kansas – John R. Mulvane (resident of Topeka) • Mundy Township, Michigan – Lt. Gov. Edward Mundy • Munfordville, Kentucky – Richard I. Munford (landowner) • Munnsville, New York – Asa Munn (storekeeper) • Murdo, South Dakota – Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman) • Murfreesboro, North Carolina and Murfreesboro, Tennessee – Col. Hardy Murfree • Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) – Muroc is Corum spelled backwards • Murphy, North Carolina – A.D. Murphy (judge) • Murphys, California – Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers) • Murray, California – David Murray (olive industry figure) • Murray, Kentucky – John L. Murray (former Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844) • Murray, Utah – Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah) • Murrieta, California – Juan Murrieta (Rancher) • Myerstown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Myers (founder) ==N==

• Naperville, Illinois – Joseph Naper • Napoleon, Michigan – Napoleon Bonaparte • Napoleon, Missouri – Napoleon Bonaparte • Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster) • Nashville, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee – Gen. Francis Nash • Nashville, Ohio – Simon Nash (judge) • Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder) • Neligh, Nebraska – John Neligh • Nelson, California – A.D. Nelson (early settler) • Nelson, Nebraska – C. Nelson Wheeler (landowner) • Nelson, New Hampshire – Viscount Horatio Nelson (British admiral and naval hero) • Nelsonville, New York – Elisha Nelson (settler) • New Brunswick, New Jersey – George II of Great Britain (also Duke of Brunswick) • New Florence, Missouri – Florence Lewis (settler's daughter) • New Franklin, Missouri and New Franklin, Ohio – Benjamin Franklin • New Marlborough, Massachusetts – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts) • New Orleans, Louisiana – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans • New Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey • New York City and New York (state) – James of York and Albany • Newberry, Michigan – John A. Newberry (railroader) • Newcastle, Maine – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne • New Coeln, Milwaukee - Christopher Columbus • Newell, California – Frederick Haynes Newell • Newellton, Louisiana – Edward D. Newell • Newfane, Vermont – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland • Newnan, Georgia – Gen. Daniel Newnan • Newnansville, Florida – Gen. Daniel Newnan • Newport, New Hampshire – Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman) • Newport News, Virginia – Christopher Newport and William Newce (sea captains) (note the spelling for the latter) • Newton, Georgia and Newton, Texas – John Newton (soldier of the American Revolutionary War) • Nicholasville, Kentucky – Col. George Nicholas • Nichols, California – William H. Nichols (landowner) • Nick's Cove, California – Nick Kojich (restaurateur) • Nickerson, Kansas – Thomas Nickerson (ATSF president) • Nicollet, Minnesota – Joseph Nicollet (explorer) • Nielsburg, California – Arthur C. Neill (first postmaster) • North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas) • North Dansville, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (settler) • North Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers • North Webster, Indiana – Daniel Webster • Norton, Kansas – Capt. Orloff Norton • Norton Sound (Alaska) – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley • Nortonville, California – Noah Norton (founder) • Norvelt, Pennsylvania - Eleanor Roosevelt • Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (1832-1903), dry goods merchant • Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder) • Nottingham, New Hampshire – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham • Novato, California – a local Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Saint Novatus at his baptism ==O==

• O'Fallon, Missouri – Col. John O'Fallon • O'Neals, California – Charles O'Neal (merchant and first postmaster) • O'Neill, Nebraska – Gen. John O'Neil (settler) • Oakley, Kansas – Eliza Oakley Gardner • Oatman Flat (Arizona) – Royce Oatman (Oatman and his family were killed by a group of Apaches here). • Oberlin, Ohio – J. F. Oberlin (philanthropist) • Ockenden, California – Thomas J. Ockenden (first postmaster) • Odem, Texas – David Odem (San Patricio County sheriff) • Odenton, Maryland – Oden Bowie (Governor of Maryland) • Ogden, Kansas – Maj. E.A. Ogden • Ogden, New York – William Ogden (landowner's son-in-law) • Ogden, Utah – Peter Skene Ogden • Ogilby, California – E.R. Ogilby (mine promoter) • Oglesby, Illinois – Gov. Richard J. Oglesby • Oglethorpe, Georgia – James Oglethorpe (colonial leader) • Ogletown, Delaware – Thomas Ogle (landowner) • Ogontz, 3 places in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania – Ogontz (Native American chief) • Oketo, Kansas – Arktatetah (Native American chief) • Old Ornbaun Hot Springs, California – John S. Ornbaun (early settler and rancher) • Olean, New York – Olean Shephard (the first white child born here) • Oleander, California – William Oleander Johnson (first postmaster) • Oleona, Pennsylvania – Ole Bull (settler) • Orange, 5 places in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, and Virginia – William, Prince of Orange • Orange, Ohio – William, Prince of Orange (indirectly, via Orange, Connecticut) • Orangeburg, South Carolina – William, Prince of Orange • Orbisonia, Pennsylvania – William Orbison (settler) • Ord, Nebraska – Gen. Edward Ord • Ordbend, California – Edward Ord • Ordway, Colorado – George N. Ordway (Denver politician) • Orem, Utah – Walter C. Orem (President of the Salt Lake and Utah Electric Urban Railroad) • Orford, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford • Orinda, California – Katherine Philips (a poet whose nickname was "Matchless Orinda") • Orlando, Florida – Orlando Reeves • Orleans, Massachusetts – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans • Orono, Maine – Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation • Orrick, Missouri – John C. Orrick (resident of St. Louis) • Orrs Springs, California – Samuel Orr (early settler) • Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania – Peter Orwig (founder) • Osborne, Kansas – Vincent Osborne (member of the Second Kansas Cavalry) • Osburn, Idaho – Bill Osborne (trading post establisher) (note spelling) • Osceola, 5 places in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, and Wisconsin – Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry" • Osceola County, 3 places in Florida, Iowa, and Michigan – Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry" • Oskaloosa, Iowa and Oskaloosa, Kansas – Oskaloosa (wife of the Native American chief Mahaska) • Oshkosh, Wisconsin – Chief Oshkosh • Otis, Maine – James Otis Jr. (proprietor) • Otis, Massachusetts – Harrison Gray Otis • Otisfield, Maine – James Otis, Jr. (grantee) • Otisville, Michigan – Byron Otis (settler) • Otisville, New York – Isaac Otis (settler) • Otto, New York – Jacob S. Otto (land agent) • Ouray, Colorado – Ouray (Ute chief) • Ovid, Colorado – Newton Ovid (local resident) • Ovid, Michigan and Ovid (town), New York – Ovid (poet) • Owensboro, Kentucky – Abraham Owen • Owingsville, Kentucky – Col. T.D. Owings • Oxnard, California – Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard ==P==

• Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco • Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska – Algernon Paddock (U.S. Senator) • Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke • Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler) • Palmer, Massachusetts – Thomas Palmer (judge) • Palmer, Michigan – Waterman Palmer (founder) • Palmer Lake, Colorado – Gen. William Jackson Palmer • Pamelia, New York – Pamelia Brown (wife of Gen. Jacob Brown) • Papinville, Missouri – Pierre Papin • Paragould, Arkansas – W.J. Paramore and Jay Gould (railroaders) • Pardeeville, Wisconsin – John S. Pardee (founder) • Paris, New York – Isaac Paris (merchant) • Parish, New York – David Parish (landowner) • Parishville, New York – David Parish (landowner) • Parker, Kansas – J.W. Parker (landowner) • Parkersburg, West Virginia – Alexander Parker • Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor) • Parkman, Wyoming – Francis Parkman (historian) • Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling) • Parkville, Missouri – George S. Park (founder) • Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster) • Parry Peak (Colorado) – Charles Christopher Parry (botanist) • Parsons, Kansas – Levi Parsons (judge and railroader) • Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor) • Pasco County, Florida – Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida • Paterson, New Jersey – William Paterson • Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler) • Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling) • Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner) • Paulding, Mississippi and Paulding, Ohio – John Paulding (Revolutionary War soldier) • Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler) • Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck) • Paxton, Massachusetts – Charles Paxton • Paxton, Nebraska – W.A. Paxton • Payne, Ohio – Henry B. Payne (U.S. Senator) • Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman) • Peabody, Kansas – F.H. Peabody • Peabody, Massachusetts – George Peabody (philanthropist) • Peekskill, New York – Jan Peek (mariner) • Pelham, Massachusetts – Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) • Pelham, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle • Pelham, New York – Pelham Burton (tutor of Thomas Pell) • Pembroke, Georgia – Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident) • Pembroke, New Hampshire – Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke • Pendleton, Indiana – Thomas M. Pendleton (landowner) • Pendleton, New York – Sylvester Pendleton Clark • Pendleton, Oregon – George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice President in the 1864 presidential campaign) • Pendleton, South Carolina – Henry Pendleton (judge) • Penfield, Georgia – Josiah Penfield • Penfield, New York – Daniel Penfield (settler) • Pennsylvania – William Penn (''Penn's Woods'') • Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir William Pepperrell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg) • Perham, Maine – Gov. Sidney Perham • Perham, Minnesota – Josiah Perham (officer of the Northern Pacific Railway) • Perinton, New York – Glover Perrin (settler) (note the spelling) • Perkins Township, Maine – Thomas Handasyd Perkins • Perris, California – Frederick Thomas Perris (chief engineer of the California Southern Railroad) • Perry, Kansas – John D. Perry (railroader) • Perry, Maine, Perry, New York and Perry, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812) • Perry, Florida – Madison Stark Perry, fourth Governor of the State of Florida, Confederate States Army colonel • Perrysburg (town), New York and Perrysburg, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry • Perryville, Missouri and Perryville, New Jersey – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry • Perth Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology) • Peterboro, New York – Peter Smith • Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator) • Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant) • Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant) • Petersburg, Delaware – Peter Fowler • Petersburg, Indiana – Peter Brenton (settler) • Petersburg, Pennsylvania – Peter Fleck (settler) • Petersburg, Virginia – Peter Jones (co-founder) • Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler) • Petersham, Massachusetts – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, Viscount Petersham • Petersville, Indiana – Peter T. Blessing (founder) • Peytona, West Virginia – William M. Peyton • Pheba, Mississippi – Pheba Robinson • Phelps, Missouri – Gov. John S. Phelps • Phelps, New York – Oliver Phelps (proprietor) • Pharr, Texas - Henry Newton Pharr (1872-1966) • Phil Campbell, Alabama – Phil Campbell (Railroad engineer) • Philippi, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (judge) • Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder) • Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee) • Phillips, Wisconsin – Elijah B. Phillips (railroader) • Philipsburg, Montana – Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer) • Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers) • Phillipston, Massachusetts – William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts) • Philipstown, New York – Adolphus Philipse (patentee) • Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler) • Phippsburg, Maine – Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling) • Phoenix, New York – Alexander Phoenix • Pickens, Mississippi – James Pickens (landowner) • Pickens, South Carolina – Gen. Andrew Pickens • Pickensville, Alabama – Gen. Andrew Pickens • Pierce, Texas – Thomas W. Pierce (railroader) • Pierceton, Indiana – Franklin Pierce • Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler) • Pierre's Hole (Idaho) – Pierre (Iroquois chief) • Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau, Jr. • Pierrepont, New York – Hezekiah Pierrepont (proprietor) • Pierrepont Manor, New York – William C. Pierrepont (resident) • Pierson, Michigan – O.A. Pierson (settler) • Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief) • Piffard, New York – David Piffard (settler) • Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders) • Pike, New York – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer) • Pikes Peak (Colorado) – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer) • Pikesville, Maryland – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer) • Pillsbury, Minnesota – Gov. John S. Pillsbury (businessman) • Pinckney, New York – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney • Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer) • Pinkham's Grant, New Hampshire – Daniel Pinkham (grantee) • Pishelville, Nebraska – Anton Pishel (postmaster) • Pitcairn, New York – Joseph Pitcairn (proprietor) • Pitcher, New York – Lt. Gov. Nathaniel Pitcher • Pitkin, Colorado – Gov. Frederick Walker Pitkin • Pittsboro, North Carolina – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Pittsburg, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Pittsfield, Maine – William Pitts (proprietor) • Pittsfield, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts) • Pittsford, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont) • Pittsford, Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Pittsgrove Township, New Jersey – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (judge) • Pittstown, New Jersey – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham • Plant City, Florida – Henry B. Plant • Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York – Zephaniah Platt (landowner) • Pleasanton, California and Pleasanton, Kansas – Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general) • Pocahontas, Illinois and Pocahontas, Missouri – Pocahontas • Pocatello, Idaho – Chief Pocatello • Pokagon Township, Michigan – Chief Pokagon (Pottawattomie leader) • Poland, Maine – Chief Poland • Poland, Ohio – George Poland (proprietor) • Polk County – James K. Polk, 11 places: • Arkansas – Florida – Georgia – Iowa – Minnesota – Missouri – Nebraska – Oregon – Tennessee – Texas – Wisconsin • Polkton, North Carolina – Bishop Leonidas Polk • Polo, Illinois – Marco Polo • Pomeroy, Ohio – Samuel Wyllis Pomeroy (proprietor) • Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster) • Pompey, New York – Pompey (Roman general) • Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan – Chief Pontiac • Pontotoc, Mississippi – Pontotoc (Chickasaw chief) • Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee) • Pope Valley, California – William Pope (land grantee) • Poplarville, Mississippi – "Poplar" Jim Smith (storekeeper) • Port Alsworth, Alaska - Leon "Babe" Alsworth (1909-2004), and Mary Alsworth (1923-1996) • Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder) • Port Clinton, Ohio – DeWitt Clinton (father of the Erie Canal) • Port Clinton, Pennsylvania – DeWitt Clinton (father of the Erie Canal) • Port Colden, New Jersey – Cadwallader D. Colden (president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company) • Port Dickinson, New York – Daniel S. Dickinson (U.S. Senator) • Port Gibson, Mississippi – David Gibson (landowner) • Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder) • Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal) • Port Morris, Bronx, New York – Gouverneur Morris • Port Murray, New Jersey – James Boyles Murray (third president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company) • Port Orford, Oregon – George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford • Port Penn, Delaware – William Penn • Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey • Port Townsend, Washington – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend • Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter • Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor) • Portola, California – Gaspar de Portolà • Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà • Poseyville, Indiana – Gen. Thomas Posey (governor) • Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder) • Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader) • Potter, New York – Arnold Potter (proprietor) • Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania – Gen. James Potter • Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers) • Pottersville, Michigan – George N. Potter • Potts Camp, Mississippi – Col. E.F. Potts • Pottstown, Pennsylvania – John Potts (landowner) • Pottsville, Pennsylvania – John Potts (landowner) (This is the same John Potts as Pottstown). • Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling) • Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler) • Powhattan, Kansas – Chief Powhatan (note the spelling) • Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling) • Poynette, Wisconsin – Peter Paquette (The present name arose from a clerical error). • Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher) • Pratt, Kansas – Caleb S. Pratt (Civil War soldier) • Prattsburgh, New York – Capt. Joel Pratt (settler) • Prattsville (town), New York – Zadock Pratt • Preble, New York – Commodore Edward Preble • Prentice, Wisconsin – Alexander Prentice (postmaster) • Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner) • Prescott, Arizona – William H. Prescott (historian) • Prescott, Kansas – C.H. Prescott (railroader) • Prescott, Massachusetts – Col. William Prescott (Revolutionary War officer) • Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler) • Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright) • Preston Township, Pennsylvania – Samuel Preston (judge and settler) • Prestonsburg, Kentucky – James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia) • Prestonville, Kentucky – James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia) • Preston-Potter Hollow, New York – Preston family and Samuel Potter • Pribilof Islands (Alaska) – Gavriil Pribylov (navigator) • Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales • Prince's Lakes, Indiana – Howard Prince (founder) • Princeton, Indiana – William Prince • Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts) • Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince • Princetown, New York – John Prince (politician) • Proctor, Kentucky – Rev. Joseph Proctor • Proctor, Minnesota – J. Proctor Knott • Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor • Prophetstown, Illinois – Tenskwatawa Native American leader ("the Shawnee Prophet") • Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader) • Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost • Puget Sound (Washington) – Peter Puget (explorer) • Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, and Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero) • Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero) • Pullman, 3 places in Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia – George Pullman • Pullman, Chicago – George Pullman and Solon S. Beman • Pulteney, New York and Pultneyville, New York (note spelling) – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, British land speculator • Pushmataha County, Oklahoma – Chief Pushmataha (Choctaw leader during the War of 1812) • Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam • Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society ==Q==

• Quanah, Texas – Quanah Parker (the last Comanche chief) • Queens, New York City – Catherine of Braganza • Quenemo, Kansas – Quenemo (Native American resident) • Quincy, Illinois and Quincy, Michigan – John Quincy Adams • Quincy, Massachusetts – Colonel John Quincy • Quincy, Washington – John Quincy Adams (indirectly, via Quincy, Illinois) • Quinlan, Texas – G.A. Quinlan (vice president of the Houston and Texas Central Railway) • Quintana, Texas – Andrés Quintana Roo • Quitman, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas – Gen. John A. Quitman (also governor of Mississippi) ==R==

• Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster) • Radford, Virginia – William Radford • Rahway, New Jersey – Rahway (Native American chief) • Rainier, Oregon – Peter Rainier (British admiral) • Rainsville, Indiana – Isaac Rains (proprietor) • Raleigh, 3 places in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee – Sir Walter Raleigh • Ralston, California – William C. Ralston (mine owner) • Randolph, Vermont – Edmund Randolph • Rangeley, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor) • Rangeley Plantation, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor) • Ransom Township, Michigan – Gov. Epaphroditus Ransom • Ransomville, New York – Clark Ransom (settler) • Rapidan River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (The name is a conjunction of the phrase "Rapid Anne"). • Rathbone, New York – Gen. Ransom Rathbone (settler) • Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant) • Raymond, California – Raymond Whitcomb (travel official) • Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond • Raymond, New Hampshire – John Raymond (grantee) • Raymondville, New York – Benjamin Raymond (land agent) • Raysville, Indiana – Gov. James B. Ray • Readington Township, New Jersey – John Reading (governor of the Province of New Jersey) • Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling) • Rector, Arkansas – Wharton or Elias W. Rector (politicians) • Red Cloud, Nebraska – Red Cloud (Lakota chief) • Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation) • Redfield, Arkansas – Jared E. Redfield (railroad executive) • Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders) • Red Shirt, South Dakota – Red Shirt (Lakota chief) • Red Wing, Minnesota – Red Wing (Native American chief) • Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner) • Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler) • Reeseville, Wisconsin – Samuel Reese (settler) • Reidsville, Georgia – Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida) • Reidsville, North Carolina – Gov. David Settle Reid • Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster) • Remsen, New York – Henry Remsen (patentee) • Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno • Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer • Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere • Revillagigedo Islands (Alaska) – Count of Revilla Gigedo (Viceroy of New Spain) • Reynoldsburg, Ohio – Jeremiah N. Reynolds (author and newspaper editor) • Rhinebeck (village), New York – William Beekman (founder) (also named for Rhineland, Germany (Beekman's home)) • Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer) • Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen • Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers) • Richburg, New York – Alvan Richardson (settler) • Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) • Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond • Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond • Richmond, Rhode Island – Edward Richmond (colonial attorney general) • Richville, New York – Salmon Rich (settler) • Ridgway, Pennsylvania – John Jacob Ridgway (landowner) • Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator) • Rienzi, Mississippi – Cola di Rienzo • Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders) • Ripley, Maine and Ripley, New York – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812) • Rippey, Iowa – C.M. Rippey (settler) • Rising City, Nebraska – A.W. and S.W. Rising (landowners) • Rivanna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain • Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler) • Robbinston, Maine – Edward H. and Nathaniel J. Robbins (landowners) • Robert Lee, Texas – Robert E. Lee (US Civil War General) • Robidoux Pass (Nebraska) – Antoine Robidoux (trader) • Robinson, Kansas – Gov. Charles L. Robinson • Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner) • Rochester, New Hampshire and Rochester, Ulster County, New York – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to James II of England) • Rochester, Minnesota – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via Rochester, New York) • Rochester, New York – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester • Rockingham, Vermont – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham • Rockwood, California – Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter) • Rodman, New York – Daniel Rodman • Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder) • Rolfe, Iowa – John Rolfe (settler of Virginia) • Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire) • Rollinsville, Colorado – John Q.A. Rollins • Romulus, Michigan and Romulus, New York – Romulus • Roodhouse, Illinois – John Roodhouse (founder) • Roosevelt, New Jersey – Franklin D. Roosevelt • Root, New York – Erastus Root (politician) • Rose, New York – Robert L. Rose (congressman) • Roseboom, New York – Abraham Roseboom (settler) • Ross, California – James Ross (early settler) • Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant) • Rossie, New York – Rossie Parish (proprietor's sister) • Rossville, Kansas – W.W. Ross (Indian agent) • Rossville, Tennessee – John Ross (Cherokee chief) • Roswell, Colorado – Roswell P. Flower (governor of New York) • Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder) • Rothville, Missouri – John Roth (settler) • Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant) • Rowesville, South Carolina – Gen. William Rowe • Rowletts, Kentucky – John P. Rowlett • Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner) • Ruckersville, Virginia - John Rucker (founder) • Rulo, Nebraska – Charles Rouleau (note the spelling) • Rumford, Maine – Benjamin Thompson (also known as Count Rumford) • Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling) • Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler) • Rumsey, Kentucky – Edward Rumsey • Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer) • Rushville, Indiana and Rushville, Illinois – Dr. Benjamin Rush (Founding Father) • Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence) • Russell, Kansas – Capt. Avra Russell • Russell, New York – Russell Atwater (proprietor) • Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner) • Rutherford, New Jersey – John Rutherford (landowner) • Rutherfordton, North Carolina – Gen. Griffith Rutherford • Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official) ==S==

• Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief) • Sackets Harbor, New York – Augustus Sacketts (settler) (note the spelling) • Safford, Arizona – Anson P. K. Safford (territorial governor) • Sageville, Iowa – Hezekiah Sage • St. Anthony, Minnesota – Anthony of Padua (indirectly, via Saint Anthony Falls) • Saint Anthony Falls (Minnesota) – Anthony of Padua • St. Augustine, Florida – Saint Augustine • St. Augustine, Maryland – Augustine Herman (explorer) • St. Clair, Michigan – Clare of Assisi (note the spelling) • St. Clair, Pennsylvania – Gen. Arthur St. Clair • St. Clairsville, Ohio – Gen. Arthur St. Clair • St. Clement, Missouri – Clement Grote (settler) • St. Deroin, Nebraska – Joseph Deroin (Otoe chief) • Ste. Genevieve, Missouri – Genevieve • St. George, Maine – Saint George • St. George, Vermont – George III of Great Britain • St. George, West Virginia – St. George Tucker (state legislator) • Saint James, Indiana – Saint James • St. James, 5 places in Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, and North Carolina – Saint James • St. John, Kansas – Gov. John St. John • St. Johns, Michigan – John Swegles Jr. (founder) • St. Johnsbury, Vermont – J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (diplomat) • St. Johns River (Florida) – John the Baptist • St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River) • St. Joseph, Missouri – Joseph Robidoux IV (founder) • St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) – Saint Joseph • St. Lawrence River – Saint Lawrence • St. Louis, Missouri – Saint Louis • St. Nazianz, Wisconsin – Gregory of Nazianzus • St. Paul, Minnesota – Saint Paul • St. Paul, Nebraska – J.N. and N.J. Paul (settlers) • St. Pete Beach, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia) • St. Petersburg, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia) • St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) – Mary, mother of Jesus • St. Vrain Creek (Colorado) – Ceran St. Vrain (fur trader) • Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca • Salisbury, Missouri – Lucius Salisbury (resident) • Sallis, Mississippi – Dr. James Sallis (landowner) • Salyersville, Kentucky – Samuel Salyer (state legislator) • Samsonville, New York – Gen. Henry A. Sampson (note the spelling) • San Andreas, California – Saint Andrew • San Angelo, Texas – Carolina Angela DeWitt (wife of the city's founder Bartholomew J. DeWitt) • San Antonio, Florida and San Antonio, Texas – Saint Anthony of Padua • San Bernardino, California – Saint Bernardine of Siena • San Bruno, California – Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the San Bruno Creek) • San Diego, California – Saint Didacus • San Francisco, California – Saint Francis • San Jose, California – Saint Joseph • San Juan Capistrano, California – Saint John Capistrano • San Leandro, California – Saint Leander of Seville • San Lorenzo, California – Saint Lawrence • San Lucas, California – Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant) • San Luis Obispo, California – Saint Louis of Toulouse • San Luis Rey, California – Saint Louis • San Mateo, California – Saint Matthew • San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California – Saint Michael • San Pablo, California – Saint Paul • Sanborn, Iowa – George W. Sanborn (railroader) • Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee) • Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster) • Sandisfield, Massachusetts – Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (note the spelling) • Sanford, Florida – Henry Shelton Sanford (diplomat and founder) • Sanford, Maine – Peleg Sanford (proprietor) • Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer) • Sangerfield, New York – Jedediah Sanger (judge) • Sangerville, Maine – Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner) • Santa Ana, California and Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico – Saint Anne • Santa Barbara, California – Saint Barbara • Santa Clara, California – Saint Clare of Assisi • Santa Monica, California – Saint Monica • Santa Ynez, California – Saint Agnes • Sapinero, Colorado – Sapinero (Native American chief) • Saranap, California – Sara Napthaly (mother of a railroad man) • Sarcoxie, Missouri – Sarcoxie (Native American chief) • Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan – Mary, mother of Jesus (indirectly, after the St. Marys River) • Sauvie Island (Oregon) – Jean Baptiste Sauve (dairy owner) • Sayre, Pennsylvania – R.S. Sayre (railroader) • Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler) • Schoolcraft, Michigan – Henry Schoolcraft (anthropologist) • Schroeppel, New York – Henry W. Schroeppel (resident) • Schuyler, Nebraska – Vice President Schuyler Colfax • Schuylerville, New York – Gen. Philip Schuyler • Schwaub, California – Charles M. Schwab (note the spelling) • Scipio, New York – Scipio Africanus (Roman general) • Scott, New York – General Winfield Scott • Scottdale, Georgia – George Washington Scott • Scottdale, Pennsylvania – Thomas A. Scott (railroader) • Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster) • Scottsboro, Georgia – Gen. John Scott • Scottsburg, New York – Matthew and William Scott (settlers) • Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant) • Scottsdale, Arizona – Chaplain Winfield Scott • Scottsville, Kentucky – Gen. Charles Scott (also served as governor of Kentucky) • Scottsville, New York – Isaac Scott (settler) • Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city) • Scriba, New York – George Scriba (proprietor) • Searsmont, Maine – David Sears (proprietor) • Searsport, Maine – David Sears (proprietor) • Seattle, Washington – Chief Seattle • Sedgwick, Arkansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick • Sedgwick, Colorado – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick) • Sedgwick, Kansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Sedgwick County) • Sedgwick, Maine – Major Robert Sedgwick • Sedona, Arizona – Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster) • Seeley, California – Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County) • Seguin, Texas – Juan Seguin (Texas political figure and Texas Revolution patriot) • Seigler Springs, California – Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs) • Selby, California – Prentiss Selby (first postmaster) • Selma, California – Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee) • Sempronius, New York – Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Roman tribunes and agrarian reformers) • Senath, Missouri – Senath Douglass (settler's wife) • Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant Charles Floyd • Seward, Alaska, Seward, Nebraska, and Seward, New York – William H. Seward • Seymour, Connecticut – Governor Thomas H. Seymour • Shafter, California – Gen. William Rufus Shafter • Shaftsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling) • Shakopee, Minnesota – Shakopee (Native American chief) • Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor) • Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier) • Sharpsburg, Kentucky – Moses Sharp • Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania – James Sharp (proprietor) • Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder) • Sheffield, Iowa – James Sheffield (railroad contractor) • Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne • Shelby, New York – Gen. Isaac Shelby • Shelbyville, 3 places in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri – Gen. Isaac Shelby • Shepherd, Michigan – I.N. Shepherd (founder) • Shepherdstown, West Virginia – Capt. Thomas Shepherd • Sheridan, Montana and Sheridan, Wyoming – General Philip Sheridan (Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War) • Sherman, Michigan – Gen. William T. Sherman • Sherman, New York – Roger Sherman (Founding Father) • Sherman, Texas – Sidney Sherman (Texian patriot) • Shirley, Maine – William Shirley (indirectly, via Shirley, Massachusetts) • Shirley, Massachusetts – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts) • Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts) • Shoup, Idaho – George L. Shoup (U.S. Senator) • Shreveport, Louisiana – Captain Henry Shreve, who opened the Red River, which runs through Shreveport, to marine navigation • Shrewsbury, Massachusetts – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury • Shrewsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shrewsbury • Shullsburg, Wisconsin – Jesse W. Shull (settler) • Shutesbury, Massachusetts – Samuel Shute (governor of Massachusetts) • Sicard Flat, California – Theodore Sicard (early settler) • Sidney, Iowa – Sir Philip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio) • Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio – Sir Philip Sidney (English author) • Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers) • Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney) • Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir Sidney Smith • Sigel, Illinois – Gen. Franz Sigel • Sigourney, Iowa – Lydia Sigourney (poet) • Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder) • Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher) • Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor) • Simpsonville, Kentucky – John Simpson (U.S. representative) • Sinclairville, New York – Samuel Sinclair (settler) • Sinton, Texas – David Sinton • Skilesville, Kentucky – James R. Skiles • Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder) • Slatersville, Rhode Island – Samuel Slater (founder) • Slaughters, Kentucky – G.G. Slaughter (settler) • Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder) • Sleepy Eye, Minnesota – Ishtakhaba (pronounced: Ish-Ta-Ka-Ba) (Native American chief whose eyes were said "to have the appearance of sleep.") • Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official) • Sloansville, New York – John R. Sloan (settler) • Sloat, California – John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States) • South Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician) • South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler) • South Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine) • Spafford, New York – Horatio Spafford • Spalding, Missouri – Robert Marion Spalding owner of Spalding Springs • Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder) • Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks • Spearville, Kansas – Alden Speare (resident of Boston) • Spencer, Indiana – Capt. Spier Spencer • Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts) • Spencerport, New York – William H. Spencer (settler) • Spivey, Kansas – R.M. Spivey (landowner) • Sprague, Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive) • Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate) • Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon • Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford • Stafford, Kansas – Lewis Stafford (soldier) • Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish • Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield • Stanley, North Carolina – Elwood Stanley (U.S. representative) • Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard • Stanton, Michigan – Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War) • Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois) • Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die") • Starkey, New York – John Starkey (settler) • Starks, Maine – General John Stark • Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark • Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner) • Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark • Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner) • Stephenson, Michigan – Robert Stephenson • Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York) • Sterling, Kansas – Sterling Rosan (settlers' father) • Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling) • Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner) • Steuben, Maine and Steuben, New York – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben • Steubenville, Ohio – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben • Stevens Point, Wisconsin – J.D. Stevens (missionary) • Stevensville, Michigan – Thomas L. Stevens (founder) • Stevensville, Montana – Isaac Stevens (1st governor of Washington Territory) • Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner) • Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name) • Stewartsville, Missouri – Gov. Robert Marcellus Stewart • Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner) • Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official) • Stilesville, Indiana – Jeremiah Stiles (proprietor) • Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner) • Stockton, 3 places in California, Missouri, and New York – Robert F. Stockton • Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory) • Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder) • Stonewall, North Carolina – Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general) • Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts) • Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont) • Stoutsville, Missouri – Robert P. Stout • Stoystown, Pennsylvania – John Stoy (settler) • Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford • Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling) • Stratton, Vermont – Samuel Stratton (settler) • Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts) • Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president) • Strother, Missouri – French Strother (professor) • Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania – Col. Jacob Stroud (settler) • Struthers, Ohio – Captain John Struthers (founder) • Stuart, Nebraska – Peter Stuart (settler) • Sturgeon, Missouri – Isaac Sturgeon (resident of St. Louis) • Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler) • Stuyvesant, New York – Peter Stuyvesant (colonial governor) • Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge) • Sullivan, Indiana – Daniel Sullivan (soldier) • Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler) • Sullivan, Missouri – General John Sullivan (indirectly, via Sullivan County, Tennessee) • Sullivan, New Hampshire and Sullivan, New York – General John Sullivan • Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts) • Sumter, South Carolina – Gen. Thomas Sumter • Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland • Sunol, California – Antonio Suñol (Californio ranchero) • Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey • Sutro, Nevada – Adolph Sutro • Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop) • Sutter, California – John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush) • Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter • Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter • Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator) • Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser) • Sweetland, California – Sweetland brothers (early settlers) • Swepsonville, North Carolina – George William Swepson (capitalist) • Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio – John Cleves Symmes (judge) ==T==

• Taft, California – William Howard Taft • Talbott, Tennessee – Col. John Talbott • Talbotton, Georgia – Gov. Matthew Talbot • Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner) • Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler) • Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth • Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee • Taopi, Minnesota – Taopi (Native American chief) • Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler) • Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey • Tatamy, Pennsylvania – Tatamy (Native American chief) • Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor • Taylor County, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Kentucky – Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America • Taylor Ridge (Georgia) – Richard Taylor (Cherokee chief) • Taylorsville, Indiana – Zachary Taylor • Taylorsville, Kentucky – Richard Taylor (proprietor) • Taylorsville, North Carolina – John Louis Taylor (judge) • Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner) • Tazewell, Georgia and Tazewell, Virginia – Henry Tazewell (U.S. Senator from Virginia) • Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief) • Tecumseh, 3 places in Michigan, Nebraska, and Oklahoma – Tecumseh (Native American leader) • Tekonsha, Michigan – Tekonsha (Native American chief) • Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth) • Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer) • Templeton, Massachusetts – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple • Terry, Mississippi – Bill Terry (resident) • Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry • Thacher Island (Massachusetts) – Anthony Thacher (sailor shipwrecked there) • Thayer, Kansas – Nathaniel Thayer • Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford • Thibodaux, Louisiana – Gov. Henry S. Thibodaux • Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker) • Thomaston, Georgia – Gen. Jett Thomas • Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army • Thomasville, Georgia – Gen. Jett Thomas • Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder) • Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner) • Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton • Thornton, Mississippi – Dr. C.C. Thornton (landowner) • Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (grantee and signer of the Declaration of Independence) • Throggs Neck, Bronx, New York – John Throckmorton (patentee) • Throop, New York – Gov. Enos T. Throop • Thurman, New York – John Thurman • Thurston, New York – William R. Thurston (landowner) • Tiffin, Ohio – Gov. Edward Tiffin • Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier) • Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent) • Tipton, Indiana – John Tipton (U.S. Senator) • Titusville, Pennsylvania – Jonathan Titus (landowner) • Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner) • Tomah, Wisconsin – Tomah (Menominee chief) • Tome, New Mexico – Saint Thomas • Tompkins, New York – Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York) • Tompkinsville, Kentucky and Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York – Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York) • Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner) • Toms River, New Jersey – Capt. William Tom (settler) • Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner) • Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance • Torrey, New York – Henry Torrey • Tower City, North Dakota and Tower City, Pennsylvania – Charlemagne Tower • Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen) • Townsend, Delaware – Samuel Townsend (landowner) • Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling) • Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics) • Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier) • Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder) • Trexlertown, Pennsylvania – John Trexler • Troy, North Carolina – Matthew Troy (lawyer) • Truesdale, Missouri – William Truesdale (landowner) • Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut) • Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution) • Tryon, North Carolina – William Tryon (colonial governor) • Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town) • Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester • Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner) • Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town) • Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner • Tuscola, Illinois – Tusco (Native American chief) • Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin • Tusten, New York – Col. Benjamin Tusten • Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive) • Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte • Two Strike, South Dakota – Two Strike (Lakota chief) • Tygart Valley River (West Virginia) – David Tygart (settler) • Tyler, Texas – John Tyler • Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner) • Tyringham, Massachusetts – Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard; the only town in Massachusetts named after a woman; Sir Francis Bernard inherited Nether Winchendon House, Bucks., England from her ==U==