# List of places in the United States named after people

Many United States placenames are derived either from a person who may have been associated with the founding of the place, or in honor of a notable person. If there is no citation for a place on this list, its etymology is usually described and referenced in the article about the person or the place.

## A

* Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania – 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)$^{:1387}$
* Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons)
* Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
* Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
* 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, Kansas – Joseph C. Anderson (state legislator)
* Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson
* Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
* Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
* Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church
* Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
* Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
* Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife)
* Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
* Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives)
* Annsville, New York – Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife)
* Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
* Anson, Wisconsin - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
* 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)$^{:444}$
* Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
* Appling, Georgia – Col. Dan Appling
* Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
* Archdale, North Carolina – John Archdale
* Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco
* Arenzville, Illinois – Francis A. Arenz (founder)
* Arietta, New York – Arietta Rensselaer (wife of Rensselaer van Rensselaer)
* Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)
* 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$^{:1390}$
* Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
* Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
* Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
* Asbury Park, New Jersey – Francis Asbury
* Ashburnham, Massachusetts – John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham
* Ashbyburg, Kentucky – Gen. Stephen Ashby
* Asheboro, North Carolina – Samuel Ashe (governor of North Carolina)
* Asherville, Indiana – John Asher (founder)
* Ashford, Alabama – Thomas Ashford
* Ashley, Michigan – H.W. Ashley (manager of the Ann Arbor Railroad)
* Ashley River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
* Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
* Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor
* 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)$^{:355}$
* Belleville, Kansas – Arabelle Tutton (landowner's wife)
* Bellingham, Massachusetts – Governor Richard Bellingham
* Bellingham, Washington – Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet
* Bellmont, New York – William Bell (landowner)
* Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
* Bellwood, Nebraska – D.J. Bell (landowner)
* Belmont, Missouri and Belmont, New Hampshire – 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$^{:451}$
* Birdsall, New York – John Birdsall (judge)
* Birdsboro, Pennsylvania – William Bird (landowner)
* Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
* Bismarck, Missouri and Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
* Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
* Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
* Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
* Bladenboro, North Carolina – Martin Bladen
* Blaine, Maine – James G. Blaine
* Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
* Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)$^{:358}$
* Blairstown, Iowa and Blairstown, New Jersey – John Insley Blair (railroad magnate and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men)
* Blairsville, Pennsylvania – John Blair (resident)
* Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
* Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
* Blanchard, Maine – Charles Blanchard (landowner)
* Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
* Blandford, Massachusetts – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (also held the title Marquess of Blandford)
* Blandville, Kentucky – Capt. Bland Ballard
* Bleecker, New York – Rutger Jansen Bleecker (landowner)
* Blissfield, Michigan – Henry Bliss (landowner)
* Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant and founder)
* Bloomfield, New Jersey – Governor Joseph Bloomfield
* Blossburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Bloss (settler)
* Blountsville, Indiana – Andrew Blount (founder)
* Blythe, California – Thomas Henry Blythe; San Francisco capitalist
* Boardman, Ohio – Frederick Boardman (landowner)
* Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
* Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
* Boerne, Texas – Louis Boerne (German writer)
* Bolivar, 4 places in Missouri, Mississippi, New York, and Tennessee – Simón Bolivar
* Bolton, Massachusetts – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
* Bonaparte, Iowa – Napoleon Bonaparte
* Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
* Bondurant, Iowa – A.C. Bondurant
* Bonham, Texas – Col. J.B. Bonham
* Bonner Springs, Kansas – Robert E. Bonner (editor of the New York Ledger)
* Bonneville, Oregon – Benjamin Bonneville (explorer)
* Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge
* Boone, North Carolina, Boone Station, Kentucky, and Boonville, North Carolina – Daniel Boone
* Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
* Boonton, New Jersey – Thomas Boone (colonial governor)
* Boonville, New York – Gerrit Boon (land agent)
* Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
* Borden, Texas – Gail Borden (customs official)
* Bordentown, New Jersey – Joseph Borden (founder)
* Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen
* 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)$^{:453}$
* Boyd, Kentucky – Lt. Governor Linn Boyd
* Boylston, New York – Thomas Boylston (doctor)
* Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
* Braddock, Pennsylvania – Gen. Edward Braddock
* Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
* Bradford, Pennsylvania – Attorney General William Bradford
* Bradfordsville, Kentucky – Peter Bradford (settler)
* Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
* Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
* Bradley Beach, New Jersey – James A. Bradley (landowner)
* Bradshaw City, Arizona – William D. Bradshaw
* Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania – Capt. Samuel Brady
* Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
* Brainerd, Kansas – E.B. Brainerd (landowner)
* Brainerd, Minnesota – David Brainerd (missionary)
* Brandon, Mississippi – Governor Gerard Brandon
* Brant, New York – Joseph Brant
* Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
* Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
* Brasher, New York – Philip Brasher (landowner)
* Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
* Breckenridge - John C. Breckinridge, 4 places in
   * Colorado - Minnesota - Missouri - Texas (all spelling variants)
* Breedsville, Michigan – Silas Breed (settler)
* Breese, Illinois – Lt. Governor Sidney Breese
* Brevard County, Florida and Brevard, North Carolina – Ephraim J. Brevard (possible author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence)
* Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
* Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster
* Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
* Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
* Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
* Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
* Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
* Bridger, Montana – Jim Bridger (frontiersman)
* Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges (settler)
* Briensburg, Kentucky – James Brien (state legislator)
* Brigham City, Utah – Brigham Young
* Briscoe, Texas – Andrew Briscoe (Texian patriot)
* Bristol (village), Wisconsin – Rev. Ira Bristol (settler)
* Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
* Brockport, New York – Hiel Brockway (settler)
* Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario, on a trip to Niagara Falls)
* Brockway, California – Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)$^{:454}$
* Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
* Bronson, Kansas – Ira D. Bronson (prominent resident of Fort Scott)
* the Bronx, New York City – Jonas Bronck (settler)
* Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
* Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman Preston Brooks
* Brooksville, Florida – Congressman Preston Brooks
* Brookville, Indiana – Jesse Brook Thomas (proprietor)
* Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
* Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
* Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
* Brownstown, Indiana, Brownsville, Kentucky, and Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
* Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
* Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
* Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas and Basil Brown (landowners)
* Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown
* 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)$^{:362}$
* Carlinville, Illinois – Governor Thomas Carlin
* Carlisle, Massachusetts – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
* Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
* Carnegie, Pennsylvania – Andrew Carnegie
* Carnesville, Georgia – Col. T.P. Carnes
* Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
* Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri – Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet
* Carol Stream, Illinois – (named for founder's daughter)
* Carr, Colorado – Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
* Carroll, New Hampshire – Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
* 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)$^{:464}$
* Champion, New York – Gen. Henry Champion (settler)
* Champlain, New York – Samuel de Champlain
* Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
* Chandlerville, Illinois – Dr. Charles Chandler (founder)
* Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire – Jeremiah Chanler (landowner) (note the spelling)
* Chanute, Kansas – O. Chanute (engineer with the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad)
* Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
* Chapman, Pennsylvania – William Chapman (slate mine owner)
* Chardon, Ohio – Peter Chardon Brooks (proprietor)
* Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)
* 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)$^{:466}$
* Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)$^{:466}$
* Clanton, Alabama – James Holt Clanton (Confederate general)
* Clapper, Missouri – Henry Clapper (railroader)
* Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
* Clarence, Missouri – Clarence Duff (son of John Duff, settler)
* Clark Fork, Idaho – Governor William Clark
* Clarkia, Idaho – Governor William Clark
* Clarks, Nebraska – S.H.H. Clark (superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad)
* Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
* Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
* Clarksburg, West Virginia – Gen. George Rogers Clark
* Clarkston, Washington – Governor William Clark
* 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, 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 Gannett (1902, p. 92), Denton is a short version of the town's original name, Eden Town).
* Denton, Texas – Capt. John B. Denton
* Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver
* Depauville, New York – Francis Depau (proprietor)
* Depew, New York – Chauncey Depew
* De Peyster, New York – Frederic de Peyster
* DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
* De Smet, Idaho and De Smet, South Dakota – Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary)
* DeSoto, 4 places in Florida (county), Georgia, Louisiana (parish), and Mississippi (county) – Hernando de Soto
* Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
* Devine, Texas – Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of San Antonio)
* Dewees, Texas – Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen
* Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
* DeWitt, Illinois and De Witt, Missouri – DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York)
* DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
* Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
* Dexter, Michigan – Samuel W. Dexter (settler)
* Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
* Dexter, New York – S. Newton Dexter (businessman from Whitesboro, New York)
* D'Hanis, Texas – William D'Hanis (land agent for Henri Castro)
* 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)$^{:477}$
* Doral, Florida – Alfred Kaskel and his wife Doris Bernstein (1906–1988)
* Dormansville, New York – Daniel Dorman (innkeeper)
* Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
* Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
* Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas
* Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
* Douglass, Kansas – Joseph Douglass (founder)
* Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
* Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
* Downey, California – John G. Downey
* Downingtown, Pennsylvania – Thomas Downing
* Downs, Kansas – William F. Downs (Atchison resident)
* Downsville, New York – Abel Downs (tanner)
* Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
* Doylestown, Ohio – William Doyle
* Doylestown, Pennsylvania – William Doyle (settler)
* Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)$^{:373}$
* Drakesville, Iowa – John A. Drake (founder)
* Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
* Drewry's Bluff, Virginia – Maj. Augustus Drewry
* Dryden, New York – John Dryden
* Duane, New York and Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)
* DuBois, Pennsylvania – John Dubois (founder)
* Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)
* Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
* Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
* Duluth, Georgia – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (indirectly, via Duluth, Minnesota)
* 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
* Galen, New York – Galen
* Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale (founder)
* Galesville, Wisconsin – George Gale (founder)
* Gallatin River – Albert Gallatin
* Gallatin, New York and Gallatin, Tennessee – Albert Gallatin
* Gallaway, Tennessee – J.M. Gallaway (mill owner)
* Gallitzin, Pennsylvania – Pierre Gallitzin (founder)
* Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora, Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo
* Gambier, Ohio – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (benefactor of Kenyon College)
* Gansevoort, New York – Col. Peter Gansevoort (resident)
* Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
* Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
* Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
* Gardiners Island, New York – Lion Gardiner (settler)
* Gardner, Kansas – Henry Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts
* Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
* Garfield, 6 places in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, Mahoning County, Ohio, and Oregon – James A. Garfield
* Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
* Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
* Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
* Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
* Garnett, Kansas – W.A. Garnett (resident of Louisville, Kentucky)
* Garrett, Indiana and Garrett, Pennsylvania – John W. Garrett (president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
* Garretson, South Dakota – A. S. Garretson (banker)
* Garrison, Texas – Z.B. Garrison (settler)
* Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
* Garysburg, North Carolina – Roderick B. Gary
* Gastonia, North Carolina – William Gaston (judge)
* Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
* Gates, New York and Gatesville, North Carolina – Gen. Horatio Gates
* Gaylesville, Alabama – George W. Gayle
* Gaylord, Kansas – C.E. Gaylord (resident of Marshall County)
* Gayoso, Missouri – Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (colonial governor)
* Geary, Kansas – Gov. John W. Geary
* Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
* Gentry, Missouri – Col. Richard Gentry
* George, Washington – George Washington
* George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
* Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
* Georgetown, Colorado – George Griffith (clerk of court)
* Georgetown, Delaware – George Mitchell (resident)
* Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
* Georgetown, Maine and Georgetown, South Carolina – George I of Great Britain
* Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
* 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)

## 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)
* 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$^{:649}$
* Knoxville, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Albany County, New York, and Tennessee – Henry Knox
* Knoxville, Pennsylvania – John C. Knox (judge)
* Kokomo, Indiana – Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo (Miami tribal chief)
* Kortright, New York – Lawrence Kortright (patentee)
* Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Kossuth, Mississippi and Kossuth, Ohio – Lajos Kossuth
* Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue
* Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
* Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
* Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)

## L

* Laceyville, Ohio – Maj. John S. Lacey
* Laclede, Missouri – Pierre Laclède (founder of St. Louis)
* La Conner, Washington – J.J. Connor (settler) (note the spelling)
* Laddonia, Missouri – Amos Ladd (settler)
* Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
* Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
* Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
* Lairdsville, New York – Samuel Laird (settler)
* Lake Ann, Michigan – Ann Wheelock (settler's wife)
* Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
* Lake Helen, Florida – Helen DeLand (founder's daughter)
* Lake Lanier (Georgia) – Sidney Lanier (poet)
* 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)$^{:512}$
* Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln
* Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
* Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
* 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)$^{:396}$
* Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)$^{:516}$
* Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
* Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
* Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
* Louisa, Virginia – Princess Louisa of Great Britain
* Louisiana – Louis XIV (King of France)
* Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
* Louisville, Kansas – Louis Wilson (landowner's son)
* Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
* Louisville, Mississippi – Col. Louis Wiston (settler)
* Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
* Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
* Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
* Lowell, Maine – Lowell Hayden (first person born in the town)
* Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell, Michigan, and Lowell, North Carolina – Francis Cabot Lowell
* Lowville, New York – Nicholas Low
* Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
* Lucas, Iowa – Robert Lucas (territorial governor)
* Ludington, Michigan – James Ludington (businessman)
* Ludlow, Kentucky – Israel Ludlow (pioneer)
* Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
* Lumpkin, Georgia – Gov. Wilson Lumpkin
* Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
* Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
* Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
* Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
* Lutesville, Missouri – Eli Lutes (founder)
* Luther, Michigan – B.T. Luther (sawmill owner)
* Luthersburg, Pennsylvania – W.H. Luther (resident)
* Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
* Lykens, Pennsylvania – Andrew Lycan (note the spelling)
* Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
* Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
* 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
* 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)
* 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)$^{:525}$
* Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
* Moorefield, West Virginia – Conrad Moore
* Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler)
* Mooresville, Indiana – Samuel Moore (founder)
* Mooresville, Missouri – W.B. Moore (founder)
* Moorhead, Minnesota – Gen. James K. Moorhead
* Moorhead, Montana – W.G. Moorehead (railroader) (note the spelling)
* Moosup, Connecticut and Moosup River (Connecticut) – Moosup (Native American chief)
* Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
* Moran, Kansas – Daniel Moran (businessman)
* Moreau, New York – Jean Victor Marie Moreau (French general)
* Morehead, Kentucky – Gov. James Turner Morehead
* Morehead City, North Carolina – Gov. John Motley Morehead
* Moreno Valley, California – Frank E Brown (Moreno is Spanish for brown); Land developer
* Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
* Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
* Morganfield, Kentucky – Gen. Daniel Morgan
* Morganton, North Carolina – Gen. Daniel Morgan
* Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas)
* Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan (landowner)
* Morganville, Kansas – Ebenezer Morgan (founder)
* Morrill, Kansas – Gov. Edmund Needham Morrill
* Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
* Morrilton, Arkansas – E.J. and George H. Morrill (settlers) (note the spelling)
* Morris, Connecticut – James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier)
* Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
* Morrisania, New York, New York – Lewis Morris (statesman)
* Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
* Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
* Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
* Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania – Robert Morris (financier)
* Morrow, Ohio – Gov. Jeremiah Morrow
* Morton Grove, Illinois – Levi P. Morton
* Moses Lake, Washington – Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia)
* Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
* Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
* Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
* Moultrie, Georgia – Gen. William Moultrie
* 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)
* Niles, Fremont, California – Addison Niles
* Nobleboro, Maine – James Noble (settler)
* Noblesville, Indiana – Gov. Noah Noble
* Norden, California – Charles Van Norden (water company official)$^{:530}$
* Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
* Normans Kill (New York) – Albert de Norman (settler)
* Norristown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Norris (Mayor of Philadelphia in 1724)
* North, South Carolina – John F. North (founder)
* North Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
* North Anna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
* North Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
* North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
* North Dansville, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (settler)
* North Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
* North Webster, Indiana – Daniel Webster
* Norton, Kansas – Capt. Orloff Norton
* Norton Sound (Alaska) – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
* Nortonville, California – Noah Norton (founder)
* Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (dry goods merchant)
* Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder)
* Nottingham, New Hampshire – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
* Novato, California – a local Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Saint Novatus at his baptism

## 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)$^{:684}$
* 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)$^{:543}$
* Ralston, Pennsylvania – Matthew C. Ralston
* Ramseur, North Carolina – Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur
* Randalls and Wards Islands (New York) – Jonathan Randall (owner)
* Randolph, Maine – Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
* Randolph, Massachusetts – Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
* Randolph, Nebraska – Jasper Randolph (postman)
* Randolph, New Hampshire – John Randolph (Virginia congressman and senator)
* Randolph, New York – Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Vermont)
* 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 Phillip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio)
* Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio – Sir Philip Sidney (English author)
* Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
* Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
* Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
* Sigel, Illinois – Gen. Franz Sigel
* Sigourney, Iowa – Lydia Sigourney (poet)
* Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
* Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
* Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
* Simpsonville, Kentucky – John Simpson (U.S. representative)
* Sinclairville, New York – Samuel Sinclair (settler)
* Sinton, Texas – David Sinton
* Skilesville, Kentucky – James R. Skiles
* Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
* Slatersville, Rhode Island – Samuel Slater (founder)
* Slaughters, Kentucky – G.G. Slaughter (settler)
* Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
* Sleepy Eye, Minnesota – Ishanumbak (Native American chief whose eyes were said "to have the appearance of sleep.")
* Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official)
* Sloansville, New York – John R. Sloan (settler)
* Sloat, California – John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)$^{:418}$
* Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
* Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
* Smethport, Pennsylvania – Theodore Smeth (friend of proprietor)
* Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
* Smith Center, Kansas – J. Nelson Smith (soldier) (indirectly, via Smith County)
* Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
* Smithfield, New York – Peter Smith
* Smithfield, North Carolina – John Smith (state legislator)
* Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
* Smith River (Montana) – Robert Smith (Secretary of State)
* Smithtown, New York – Richard Smith (proprietor)
* Smithville, Missouri – Humphrey Smith (settler)
* Smithville, New York – Jesse Smith (lumber dealer)
* Snydertown, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania – Gov. Simon Snyder
* Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodder (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
* Solon, Maine and Solon, New York – Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
* Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
* Somers, New York – Capt. Richard Somers
* Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
* Somerville, Massachusetts – Capt. Richard Somers
* Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
* South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
* South Anna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
* South Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
* South Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
* 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)$^{:565}$
* 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)$^{:569}$
* Townsend, Delaware – Samuel Townsend (landowner)
* Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
* Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
* Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
* Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
* Trexlertown, Pennsylvania – John Trexler
* Troy, North Carolina – Matthew Troy (lawyer)
* Truesdale, Missouri – William Truesdale (landowner)
* Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
* Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
* Tryon, North Carolina – William Tryon (colonial governor)
* Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
* Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
* Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
* Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
* Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
* Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
* Tuscola, Illinois – Tusco (Native American chief)
* Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
* Tusten, New York – Col. Benjamin Tusten
* Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
* Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
* 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

* Udall, Kansas – Cornelius Udall
* Ulysses, Kansas and Ulysses, Nebraska – Ulysses S. Grant
* Uncasville, Connecticut – Uncas (Native American chief)
* Underhill, Wisconsin – William Underhill (settler from Vermont)
* Urban, California – Eva L. Urban (first postmaster)
* Uvalde, Texas – Juan de Ugalde (Spanish governor of Coahuila) (indirectly, via Uvalde County, Texas)
* Uxbridge, Massachusetts – Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge

## V

* Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca (founder)
* Vade, California – Sierra Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
* Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
* Valdosta, Georgia – Augustus (indirectly, via Aosta, Italy)
* Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
* Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
* Van Lear, Kentucky – Van Lear Black (businessman)
* Van Nuys, California – Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
* Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
* Vanceboro, North Carolina – Zebulon Baird Vance (governor and U.S. Senator)
* Vancouver, Washington – George Vancouver (explorer)
* Van Etten, New York – James B. Van Etten (state legislator)
* Vassalboro, Maine – Florentins Vassall (patentee)
* Vaugine Township, Arkansas – Francis Vaugine (landowner)
* Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
* Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
* Verplanck, New York – Philip Verplanck
* Vicksburg, Mississippi – Neivitt Vick (founder)
* Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
* Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
* Vidalia, Louisiana – Don José Vidal (colonial governor)
* Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
* Villemont Township, Arkansas – Carlos de Villemont (landowner)
* Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
* Vining, Kansas – E.P. Vining (railroader)
* Vinton, California – Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)$^{:427}$
* Viola, Wisconsin – Viola Buck
* Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
* Virgilia, California – Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive Virgil Bogue)$^{:427}$
* Virginia – Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen"
* Virginia City, Nevada – Elizabeth I of England, the "Virgin Queen" (indirectly, via Virginia)
* Volney, New York – Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (philosopher)
* Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)
* Voorheesville, New York – Theodore Voorhees (railroader)

## W

* Wabasha, Minnesota – Wabasha (Native American chief)
* Wabaunsee, Kansas – Waubonsie (Native American chief) (note the spelling)
* Wacouta, Minnesota – Wacouta (Native American chief)
* Waddington, California – Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
* Waddington, New York – Joshua Waddington (proprietor)
* Wadesboro, North Carolina – Col. Thomas Wade
* Wadsworth, Ohio – General Elijah Wadsworth
* Wagener, South Carolina - George Wagener (Charleston merchant and railroad company president)
* Waite, Maine – Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
* Waitsfield, Vermont – General Benjamin Wait (founder)
* WaKeeney, Kansas – A.E. Warren and J.F. Keeney (founders)
* Wakefield, Kansas – Rev. Richard Wake (founder)
* Wakefield, Massachusetts – Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
* Wakefield, North Carolina – Margaret Wake Tryon (colonial governor's wife) (indirectly, via Wake County)
* Wake Forest, North Carolina – Margaret Wake Tryon (colonial governor's wife) (indirectly, via Wake County)
* Walden, New York – Jacob T. Walden
* Waldo, Maine – General Samuel Waldo (proprietor)
* Waldo, Wisconsin – O.H. Waldo (railroad company president)
* Waldo Junction, California – William Waldo (early settler)
* Waldoboro, Maine – General Samuel Waldo
* Waldron Island (Washington) – W.T. Waldron (sailor)
* Wales, Massachusetts – James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
* Walesboro, Indiana – John P. Wales (founder)
* Walker Pass (California) – Joseph R. Walker (explorer)
* Walker River (Nevada) – Joseph R. Walker (explorer)
* Wallace, California – John Wallace (surveyor)
* Wallace, Idaho – Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
* Wallington, New Jersey – Walling van Winkle (landowner)
* Walpole, Massachusetts and Walpole, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
* Walsenburg, Colorado – Fred Walsen (store owner)
* Walthall, Mississippi – Gen. Edward C. Walthall
* Walton (town), New York – William Walton (landowner)
* Walworth, New York – Reuben H. Walworth (politician)
* Ward, Indiana – Thomas B. Ward (U.S. representative)
* Wardner, Idaho – James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
* Wardsboro, Vermont – William Ward (grantee)
* Wards Island (New York) – Jasper and Bartholomew Ward (landowners)
* Waresboro, Georgia – Nicholas Ware (U.S. Senator)
* Warner, New Hampshire – Jonathan Warner (leading Portsmouth citizen)
* Warnerville, New York – Capt. George Warner (settler)
* Warren, 6 places in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – Major General Joseph Warren
* Warren, New Hampshire and Warren, Rhode Island – Admiral Sir Peter Warren (British naval hero)
* Warren, Ohio – Moses Warren (surveyor)
* Warrenton, North Carolina – Major General Joseph Warren
* Warrenville, Illinois – Julius Warren (settler)
* Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
* Washburn, Maine – Governor Israel Washburn Jr.
* Washington (state) and Washington, D.C. – George Washington
* Washington, 14 places in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania – George Washington
* Washington Court House, Ohio – George Washington
* Washington Crossing, New Jersey and Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania – George Washington
* Washington Terrace, Utah – George Washington
* Washingtonville, New York and Washingtonville, Pennsylvania – George Washington
* Waterboro, Maine – Colonel Joshua Waters (proprietor)
* Wathena, Kansas – Wathena (Native American chief)
* Watkins Glen, New York – Dr. Samuel Watkins (founder)
* Watkinsville, Georgia – Col. Robert Watkins (state legislator)
* Watrous, New Mexico – Samuel B. Watrous (settler)
* Watson, New York – James Watson (proprietor)
* Watson, West Virginia – Joseph Watson (landowner)
* Wattsburg, Pennsylvania – David Watts (settler)
* Wauponsee, Illinois – Waubonsie (Native American chief) (note the spelling)
* Wauseon, Ohio – Wauseon (Native American chief)
* Wayland, Massachusetts and Wayland, New York – Dr. Francis Wayland (president of Brown University)
* Waymansville, Indiana – Charles L. Wayman (founder)
* Wayne, Maine – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
* Waynesboro, 3 places in Georgia, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
* Waynesburg, Pennsylvania and Waynesburg, Ohio – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
* Waynesfield, Ohio – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
* Waynesville, North Carolina and Waynesville, Ohio – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
* Weare, New Hampshire – Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
* Weatherford, Texas – Jefferson Weatherford (settler)
* Webster, Massachusetts and Webster, New Hampshire – Daniel Webster
* Webster Groves, Missouri – Daniel Webster
* Weedsport, New York – Elisha and Edward Weed (settlers)
* Weedville, Arizona – Ora Rush Weed (founder)
* Weimar, California – a local Maidu chief$^{:575}$
* Weir, Kansas – T.M. Weir (founder)
* Weissport, Pennsylvania – Col. Jacob Weiss (settler)
* Welch, West Virginia – Capt. J.A. Welch
* Welcome, Minnesota – Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
* Weld, Maine – Benjamin Weld (proprietor)
* Weldon, California – William B. Weldon (rancher)
* Wellington, Colorado – C. L. Wellington (employee of the Colorado and Southern Railway)
* Wellington, Kansas and Wellington, Maine – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
* Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
* Wells, New York – Joshua Wells (settler)
* Wellsboro, Pennsylvania – Henry Wells Morris (resident)
* Wellsburg, West Virginia – Alexander Wells
* Wellsville, Kansas – D.L. Wells (railroad contractor)
* Wellsville, Ohio – William Wells (founder)
* Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
* Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor Benning Wentworth
* Wesley, Maine and Wesley Township, Washington County, Ohio – John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
* Wesson, Mississippi – Col. J.M. Wesson (founder)
* West Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician) (indirectly, via Gardiner, Maine)
* West Lafayette, Indiana and West Lafayette, Ohio – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
* West Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via Richland, Washington)
* West Virginia – Virgin Queen
* West Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via Warwick, Rhode Island)
* Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
* Westby, Wisconsin – O.T. Westby (settler)
* Westerlo, New York – Rev. Eilardus Westerlo
* Westmoreland, New Hampshire – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
* Westport, Oregon – John West
* Westville, California – George C. West (first postmaster)$^{:575}$
* Westville, Mississippi – Col. Cato West
* Westville, Missouri – Dr. William S. West (postmaster)
* Wetmore, Kansas – W.T. Wetmore (railroader)
* Weyers Cave, Virginia – Bernard Weyer
* Wharton, New Jersey – Joseph Wharton (co-founder of Bethlehem Steel)
* Wharton, Texas – William H. Wharton and John A. Wharton (politicians)
* Whately, Massachusetts – Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
* Wheeler, New York – Capt. Silas Wheeler (settler)
* Wheelock, Vermont – Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
* Whipple Mountains (California) – Amiel Weeks Whipple (military engineer)
* White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
* White Cloud Township, Mills County, Iowa and White Cloud, Kansas – Ma-Hush-Kah (Native American chief)
* Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire – George Whitefield (English evangelist)
* White Haven, Pennsylvania – Josiah White
* Whitesboro, New York – Judge Hugh White (settler)
* Whitestown, New York – Judge Hugh White (settler)
* Whiteville, North Carolina – James B. White (state legislator)
* Whiting, Iowa – Charles Whiting (judge)
* Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
* Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
* Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
* Whitinsville, Massachusetts – Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
* Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
* Whitman, Washington – Dr. Marcus Whitman (missionary)
* Whitney, California – Joel Parker Whitney (rancher)$^{:576}$
* Whitney Point, New York – Thomas Whitney (postmaster)
* Whitneyville, Connecticut – Eli Whitney (founder)
* Whitneyville, Maine – Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
* Whittier, Alaska – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
* Whittier, California – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
* Wibaux, Montana – Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
* Wickenburg, Arizona – Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
* Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
* Wilber, Nebraska – C.D. Wilber (founder)
* Wilcox, Pennsylvania – A.I. Wilcox
* Wilcox Township, Michigan – S.N. Wilcox
* Wildomar, California – Wil – William Collier, Do – Donald Graham, Mar – Margaret Collier (city founders)
* Wilkes County, Georgia and Wilkes County, North Carolina – John Wilkes
* Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – John Wilkes and Isaac Barré
* Wilkesboro, North Carolina – John Wilkes
* Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania – William Wilkins (Secretary of War)
* Willet, New York – Colonel Marinus Willet
* Williams, California – W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
* Williams Bay, Wisconsin – Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the War of 1812)
* Williamsburg, Ohio – Gen. William Haines Lytle (founder)
* Williamsburg, Virginia – William III of England
* Williamsport, Indiana – Gov. James D. Williams
* Williamsport, Pennsylvania – William Hepburn (judge)
* Williams River (Vermont) – Rev. John Williams
* Williamson, New York – Charles Williamson (land agent)
* Williamson River (Oregon) – Lt. Robert S. Williamson (explorer)
* Williamston, South Carolina – Col. James Williams
* Williamstown, Kentucky – William Arnold (settler)
* Williamstown, Massachusetts – Ephraim Williams
* Williamstown, Vermont – Ephraim Williams (indirectly, via Williamston, Mass.)
* Williamsville, Missouri – Asa E. Williams (founder)
* Williamsville, New York – Jonas Williams (settler)
* Willis, Kansas – Martin Cleveland Willis (settler)
* Williston, North Dakota – Associate Justice Lorenzo P. Williston
* Williston, Vermont – Samuel Willis (landholder)
* Willits, California – Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
* Willoughby, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr. (U.S. Representative from New York)
* Willoughby Hills, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr.
* Wilmette, Illinois – Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
* Wilmington, 4 places in Delaware, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Vermont – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
* Wilmot, New Hampshire – Dr. James Wilmot (English clergyman)
* Wilseyville, California – Lawrence A. Wilsey (corporate executive)
* Wilson, Kansas – Hiero T. Wilson (merchant from Fort Scott)
* Wilson (town), New York – Reuben Wilson (settler)
* Wilson and Wilson County, North Carolina – Colonel Louis D. Wilson (state senator)
* Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
* Winchester, Massachusetts – Colonel William P. Winchester
* Winchester, New Hampshire – Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London
* Windham, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
* Windom, Kansas and Windom, Minnesota – Senator William Windom
* Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
* Winfield, Kansas – Chaplain Winfield Scott
* Winfield (town), New York – Gen. Winfield Scott
* Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
* Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
* Winnsboro, South Carolina – Gen. Richard Winn (founder)
* Winslow, Maine – General John Winslow
* Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Joseph Winston
* Winters, California – Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
* Winthrop, Maine – John Winthrop (first Governor of Massachusetts)
* Winthrop, Massachusetts – Deane Winthrop (son of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts)
* Wofford Heights, California – I.L. Wofford (founder)
* Wolcott, Connecticut – Frederick Wolcott
* Wolcott, New York and Wolcott, Vermont – General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
* Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General James Wolfe
* Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania – Joseph Wommelsdorf (founder) (note the spelling)
* Woodbury, Vermont – Col. Ebenezer Wood (grantee)
* Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
* Woodhull, New York – Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull
* Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
* Woodsfield, Ohio – Archibald Woods (resident of Wheeling, West Virginia)
* Woodsonville, Kentucky – Thomas Woodson (senator)
* Woodville, Texas – George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
* Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
* Wooster, Ohio – Gen. David Wooster
* Worth, New York – Gen. William J. Worth
* Worthington, Massachusetts – Col. John Worthington (proprietor)
* Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
* Wray, Colorado – John Wray (foreman)
* Wright, New York – Silas Wright (politician)
* Wright City, Missouri – Dr. H.C. Wright (settler)
* Wrightsboro, Georgia – Augustus R. Wright (judge)
* Wrightstown, Wisconsin – H.S. Wright (ferry owner)
* Wrightsville, Pennsylvania – Samuel Wright (settler)
* Wurtsboro, New York – Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
* Wyandanch, New York – Wyandanch (sachem of the Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
* Wytheville, Virginia – George Wythe (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)

## Y

* Yankee Jims, California – a criminal with that nickname$^{:579}$
* Yale, Michigan – Elihu Yale (indirectly, via Yale University)
* Yaquina Bay (Oregon) – Yaquina (Native American chief)
* Yates Center, Kansas – Abner Yates (landowner)
* Ybor City, Tampa, Florida – Vicente Martinez Ybor
* Yellville, Arkansas – Governor Archibald Yell
* Yonkers, New York – Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
* Yorba Linda, California – Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
* York, Maine – James II of England (known as the Duke of York before ascending the throne)
* York Center, Illinois - Samuel York
* Yorkville, California – R.H. York (Founder)
* Yorkville, Wisconsin - Samuel York
* Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
* Youngs Bay (Washington) – Sir Charles Young (naval officer)
* Youngstown, New York – John Young (merchant)
* Youngstown, Ohio – John Young (Founder)
* Ypsilanti, Michigan – Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the Greek War of Independence)

## Z

* Zanesfield, Ohio – Isaac Zane (younger brother of Ebenezer Zane)
* Zanesville, Ohio – Ebenezer Zane (founder)
* Zapata, Texas – Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata
* Zavalla, Texas – Lorenzo de Zavala (note spelling)
* Zebulon, Georgia – Zebulon Pike
* Zenda, Wisconsin - Anthony Hope, author of The Prisoner Of Zenda
* Zillah, Washington – Miss Zillah Oakes (daughter of Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of the Northern Pacific Railway)
* Zionsville, Indiana – William Zion (pioneer)
* Zwingle, Iowa – Huldrych Zwingli (Protestant reformer)

## Former names

* Adams was the name of Corte Madera, California – Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
* Adele was the name of Fields Landing, California – Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
* Alexander's Corner was the name of Weedpatch, California – Cal Alexander (early resident)
* Allen's Camp was the name of Caliente, California – Gabriel Allen (early settler)
* Arp's' was the name of Riverview, Kern County, California – James H. Arp (real estate developer)
* Barker House was the name of Woodleaf, California – Charles Barker (early settler)
* Barrons Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Richard Barron (landowner)
* Barrow was the name of Utqiaġvik, Alaska – Sir John Barrow
* Beal's Landing was the name of Westport, California – Samuel Beal (early settler)
* Bells Harbor was the name of Little River, California – Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
* Benton Mills was the name of Ridleys Ferry, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
* Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – William C. Biddle (early settler)
* Black's was the name of Zamora, California – J.J. Black (early settler)
* Boust City was the name of Taft Heights, California – E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
* Bowman's Point was the name of West End, Alameda, California – Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
* Brannan Springs was the name of Woodfords, California – Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
* Brown's was the name of North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler)
* Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
* Brownsville was the name of Samoa, California – James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
* Brownsville was the name of Tecopa, California – William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
* Buckingham was the name of Unity, New Hampshire – John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
* Bucktooth was the name of Salamanca (town), New York – Bucktooth (notable Native American who lived in the area)
* Bulwinkle was the name of Crannell, California – Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
* Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California – Robert and John Burns (founders)
* Burrville was the name of Clinton, Tennessee – Aaron Burr
* Cabarker was the name of El Centro, California – C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
* Cantu was the name of Andrade, California – Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
* Cardigan was the name of Orange, New Hampshire – George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
* Carson's Creek was the name of Angels Camp, California – Kit Carson
* Charley's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)$^{:479}$
* Clark's Station and Clark's Ranch were names of Wawona, California – Galen Clark (founder)
* Clifton was the name of Del Rey, California – Clift Wilkinson (town founder)
* Cochran's Crossing was the name of Yolo, California – Thomas Cochran (early settler)
* Cockermouth was the name of Groton, New Hampshire – Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont
* Collis was the name of Kerman, California – Collis Potter Huntington
* Converse Ferry was the name of Friant, California – Charles Converse (ferryman)
* Cowan Station was the name of Dunmovin, California – James Cowan (homesteader)
* Crabtown was the name of Helena, Montana – John Crab (early gold prospector)
* Crumville was the name of Ridgecrest, California – James and Robert Crum (local dairymen)
* Dewey and Deweyville were names of Wasco, California – Adm. George Dewey
* Dorris Bridge was the name of Alturas, California – Pressley and James Dorris (early settlers)
* Dow's Prairie was the name of McKinleyville, California – Joe Dow (founder)
* Drapersville was the name of Kingsburg, California – Josiah Draper (founder)
* Dupplin was the name of Lempster, New Hampshire – Scottish lord Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
* Durkee's Ferry was the name of Weitchpec, California – Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
* Dutch Charlie's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)$^{:479}$
* Dykesboro was the name of Cochran, Georgia – B. B. Dykes (settler)
* Eastland was the name of Mill Valley, California – Joseph G. Eastland (developer)
* Enfield was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Robert Field (early settler)
* Etter was the name of Ettersburg, California – Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
* Fassking's Station was the name of Encinal, Alameda, California – Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
* Fletcher was the name of Aurora, Colorado – Donald Fletcher (businessman)
* Foremans was the name of Fourth Crossing, California – David Foreman (town founder)
* Franklin Township was the name of Nutley, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
* Greenwich was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
* Grenville was the name of Newport, New Hampshire – George Grenville (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
* Hamilton's was the name of Buck Meadows, California – Alva Hamilton (founder)
* Hamptonville was the name of Friant, California – William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
* Hans Lof's was the name of Toms Place, California – Hans Lof (resort owner)
* Hansen was the name of Alton, California – Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
* Harrisberry was the name of Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
* Harrisburgh was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – Abram Harris (early settler)
* Haydenville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
* Hearst was the name of Hacienda, California – Phoebe Hearst
* Hopkins and Hopkins Springs was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – Mark Hopkins (railroad baron who built a resort there)$^{:558}$
* Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of Whitney Portal, California – William L. Hunter (pioneer)
* Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of DeSabla, California – John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
* Hutton's Ranch was the name of Yolo, California – James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
* Jacksonville was the name of Floyd, Virginia – President Andrew Jackson
* Jewetta' was the name of Saco, California – Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
* Joe was the name of Ismay, Montana – Joe Montana, (American Football player)
* Johnson's Diggings was the name of Birchville, California – David Johnson (first prospector at the site)$^{:451}$
* Johnsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – John F. Johnson (early settler)
* Jones Ferry was the name of Friant, California – J.R. Jones (early merchant)
* Kellyvale was the name of Lowell, Vermont – John Kelley (grantee)
* Kendall's City was the name of Boonville, California – Alonzo Kendall (early hotelier)
* Kents Landing was the name of Little River, California – W.H. Kent (early settler, landowner)
* Kenyon was the name of Pineridge, California – Silas W. Kenyon (first postmaster)
* Kunze was the name of Greenwater, California – Arthur Kunze (founder)
* Langville was the name of Capay, California – John Arnold Lang (early settler)
* Laphams was the name of Stateline, California – William W. Lapham (hotel owner)
* Levittown and Levittown Township were names of Willingboro Township, New Jersey (from 1958 to 1963) – William Levitt
* Lewisville was the name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – Lewis B. Meyer (early settler)
* Lisbon was the name of Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)$^{:444}$
* Maltermoro was the name of Sunnyside, Fresno County, California – George H. Malter (postmaster)
* Marthasville was the name of Atlanta, Georgia – Martha Lumpkin (daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin)
* Marsh was the name of Avon, Contra Costa County, California – John Marsh
* Marshall was the name of Lotus, California – James W. Marshall
* Marshs Landing was the name of Antioch, California – John Marsh
* Maxwell's Creek was the name of Coulterville, California – George Maxwell (early settler)
* McKinney was the name of Chambers Lodge, California – John McKinney (early settler)$^{:464}$
* Meiggstown was the name of Mendocino, California – Henry Meiggs
* Michaels was the name of Coarsegold, California – Charles Michaels (merchant)
* Mingusville was the name of Wibaux, Montana – Minnie and Gus Grisy (postmasters)
* Minorsville was the name of McKinleyville, California – Isaac Minor (founder)
* Moores was the name of Riverton, California – John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
* Moores Station was the name of Honcut, California – John C. Moore (first postmaster)
* Norris was the name of Lake Delton, Wisconsin – Edward Norris (surveyor)
* Old Lovelock was the name of Coutolenc, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
* Partridgefield was the name of Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
* Peacock's was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
* Peterman's Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
* Phillipsburg was the name of Hollis, Maine – Major William Phillips (proprietor)
* Phipps-Canada was the name of Jay, Maine – Captain Joseph Phipps
* Pollasky was the name of Friant, California – Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
* Portersville was the name of Valparaiso, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
* Powellville was the name of Blocksburg, California – Joseph James Powell (first settler)
* Prescott was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938, as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Colonel William Prescott
* Putnam's was the name of Independence, California – Charles Putnam (early merchant)
* Ralston City was the name of Shakespeare, New Mexico – William Chapman Ralston
* Ralston Point was the name of Arvada, Colorado – Lewis Ralston (prospector from Georgia)
* Randall was the name of White Hall, California – Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
* Rolph was the name of Fairhaven, California – James Rolph (governor of California)
* Rooptown was the name of Susanville, California – Isaac Roop (settler)
* Ross Landing was the name of Kentfield, California – James Ross (founder)
* Ross's Camp was the name of Melbourne Camp, California – William Ross (operator)
* Rust was the name of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California – William R. Rust (first postmaster)
* Ryan was the name of Lila C, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
* Scodie was the name of Onyx, California – William Scodie (early merchant)
* Sherburne was the name of Killington, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
* Simpsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – Robert Simpson (local merchant)
* Smith's Landing was the name of Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
* Smithville was the name of Loomis, California – L.G. Smith (store owner)$^{:516}$
* Sotoville was the name of Santa Rita, Monterey County, California – Jose Manuel Soto (landowner, founder)
* Spoonville was the name of Edgemont, Lassen County, California – Lorella A. Spoon
* Stantonville was the name of Chilton, Wisconsin – Moses and Catherine Stanton (early residents)
* Stratton was the name of Stratford, California – William Stratton (developer)
* Stubbs was the name of Clearlake Oaks, California – Charles Stubbs (landowner)
* Surrattsville was the name of Clinton, Maryland – Surratt family (18th century settlers)
* Swauger was the name of Loleta, California – Samuel A. Swauger (landowner)
* Taylors Landing was the name of Bijou, California – Almon M. Taylor (founder)
* Tinkers Station was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – J.A. Tinker (local freight hauler)$^{:558}$
* Townsend was the name of Boothbay, Maine and Southport, Maine – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
* Trecothick was the name of Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Barlow Trecothick (Alderman, Member of Parliament, and a Lord Mayor of London, raised in colonial Boston)
* Troupville was the name of Valdosta, Georgia - George Troup, governor of Georgia
* Turner was the name of Harriman, New York – Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
* Vaughn was the name of Bodfish, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
* Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of Laredo, Texas – Saint Augustine
* Warnersville was the name of Trinidad, California – R.V. Warner (early settler)
* Washington was the name of South River, New Jersey – George Washington
* Washington Township was the name of Robbinsville Township, New Jersey – George Washington
* Wells was the name of Keene, California – Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
* Wendell was the name of Sunapee, New Hampshire – John Wendell (proprietor)
* Weringdale was the name of Woody, California – Joseph Weringer (town planner)
* Wheelersborough was the name of Hampden, Maine – Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
* Whitley's Ford was the name of Lookout, California – James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
* Williamsburg was the name of Old Town, Kern County, California – James E. Williams (businessman)
* Woods Dry Diggings was the name of Auburn, California – John S. Wood$^{:444}$
* Yanks was the name of Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)