List of places named after people in the United States
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This is a list of places in the United States which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the place name.
Contents
A
- Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)
- Abbott, Texas – Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)[1]
- Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
- Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire[2]
- Ackerman, California – John Q. Ackerman (first postmaster)[3]
- Acorn, Humboldt County, California – Alonzo and Elizabeth Acorn
- Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
- Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams[4]
- Adams, New York – John Adams[5]
- Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
- Adams Station, California – Mary Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
- Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
- Addington, California – Joseph and Jess Addington (local farmers)
- Addison, Maine and Addison, Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
- Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
- Adrian, Michigan – Roman Emperor Hadrian[6]
- 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)
- Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
- Albany, New York – James of York and Albany[7]
- Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners).[8]
- 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[9]
- Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
- Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
- Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
- Alexandria, California – Alexander C. McSwain (first postmaster)
- 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
- Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great
- Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
- Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
- Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
- Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen
- Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
- Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)
- Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
- Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
- Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
- Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
- Anderson, Mendocino County, California – Walter Anderson (founder)
- Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson
- Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson
- Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
- Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
- Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church
- Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
- Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
- Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain[10]
- Annette, California – Annette L. Jenness (first postmaster)
- Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
- Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps
- Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
- Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)[11]
- Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
- Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
- Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco
- Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)[12]
- Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
- Arnold Heights, California – General Henry H. Arnold[13]
- Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
- Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
- Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
- Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
- Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor[14]
- Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)
- Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
- Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
- Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha[15]
- Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)
- Auld, California – George Auld (first postmaster)[16]
- Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
- Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)
- Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin[17]
- Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
- Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
- Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
- Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)
B
- Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, a judge and Confederate Senator.[18]
- 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)[19][20]
- Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker[21]
- Baldwin, Maine – Colonel (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
- Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
- Bale, California – Edward Turner Bale, land grantee
- Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
- Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore
- Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
- Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
- 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.
- Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
- Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
- Barnes, California – Peter Barnes (first postmaster)
- Barnes Settlement, California – Thomas Barnes (founder)
- Barre, Massachusetts, Barre (city), Vermont & Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)
- Barrington, New Hampshire – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts)
- Barrow, Alaska – Sir John Barrow
- Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
- Bartlett, California – Frank J. Barlett (chemical company executive)
- Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
- Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett
- Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
- Barton, Vermont – General William Barton
- Bastrop, Louisiana – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
- Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
- Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
- Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
- Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
- Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
- Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
- Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler[22]
- Bedford, New Hampshire – Lord John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
- 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)[23]
- Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)[24]
- Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster)[25]
- Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
- Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier)[26]
- Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami
- Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
- Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni
- Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo
- Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
- 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, 4 places in Arkansas/California/Maine/New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton[27][28][29]
- Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
- Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
- Bergman, California – Jacob Bergman (stage coach driver)[8]
- Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley[30]
- Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
- ((Bernards Township)) Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
- Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
- Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
- Bethel, California – James W. Bethel (local merchant)
- Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
- Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
- Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings
- Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner)
- Binghamton, New York – William Bingham
- Birchville, California – L. Birch Adsit[31]
- Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
- Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
- Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
- Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
- Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
- Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
- Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)[32]
- Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
- Blakes Landing, California – Jeremiah Blakes (owner)
- Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
- Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
- Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant)
- Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
- Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
- Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
- Bondville, California – Stephen Bond (merchant)
- Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge
- Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
- Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
- Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen[33]
- 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 – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
- Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
- Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower)[34]
- Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
- Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
- Bradford Siding, California – Johnnie Bradford (clay businessman)
- Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
- Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
- Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
- Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
- Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
- Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
- Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
- 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)
- Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
- Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
- Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges
- Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
- 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)[35]
- Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
- Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
- Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman Preston Brooks
- Brooksville, Florida – Congressman Preston Brooks
- 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)
- Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
- Brownsville, Calaveras County, California – Alfred Brown
- Brownsville, Yuba County, California – I.E. Brown (sawmill owner)
- Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
- Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas Brown (landowner)
- Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
- Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown[36]
- Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
- Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
- Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
- Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
- Buchanan, Michigan – James Buchanan (fifteenth president)
- Buck's Port, California – David A. Buck (founder)
- Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)
- Bucknell, California – Charles M. Bucknell (early settler)
- Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)
- Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder)
- Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
- Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
- Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
- Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist)
- Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
- Burkeville, California – Edwin Burke (mine owner)
- Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
- Burlington, Wisconsin – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
- Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
- Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man)
- Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
- Byron, Maine – Lord Byron (English poet)[37]
C
- Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
- Cadenasso, California – Nicolo Cadenasso (early settler)
- Camden, Maine – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden[38]
- Cameron, California – George W. Cameron (early settler)
- Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
- Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)[39]
- 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)
- 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)
- Canby, California – General Edward Canby
- Canfield, California – Charles W. Canfield (founder)
- Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
- Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury[40]
- Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)[41]
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
- Carey, California – George R. Carey (first postmaster)
- Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner)[32]
- Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
- Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
- 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)[42]
- Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
- Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson[43]
- Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson
- Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
- Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)
- Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
- Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
- Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin[44]
- Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
- Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
- Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire[45]
- Village of Cazenovia and the Town of Cazenovia, in New York – Theophilus Cazenove
- Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
- Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
- Chambers Lodge, California – David H. Chambers (lodge builder)[46]
- Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
- Chanz, California – George A. Chanz (first postmaster)
- Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
- Chardon, California – Charles Langdon (early settler)
- Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)[47]
- Charleston, Merced County, California – Charles Bambauer (first postmaster)
- Charleston, Yolo County, California – Charles H. Gray (first postmaster)
- Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)
- 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[48]
- Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England
- Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
- Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)[49][50]
- Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton
- Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
- Chatham, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)[51]
- 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 – Earl of Chesterfield
- Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield[52]
- Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester[53]
- Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
- Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)[54]
- Cicero, New York – Cicero[55]
- Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)[56]
- Christiana, Delaware – Queen Christina of Sweden
- Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)[57]
- Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad[which?])[57]
- Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
- Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
- Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
- Clarkston, Washington – Governor William Clark[58]
- Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark[59]
- Clay County, Florida – Henry Clay United States Secretary of State in the 19th century.
- Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
- Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
- Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)[60]
- Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland[61]
- Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
- Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
- Clinton, – DeWitt Clinton[62][63][64][65][66][67][68] 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, Lassen County, California – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Maine, home town of its first postmaster)
- 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)[69]
- Clinton, Oneida County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)[70]
- 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)
- Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
- Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
- Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
- Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
- Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
- Colfax, California – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
- Colfax, Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
- Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier
- Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
- Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
- Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
- Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
- Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
- Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
- Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
- Cordua Bar, California – Theodore Cordua (local merchant)
- Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
- Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
- Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
- Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
- Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
- Cortland, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
- Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt
- Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
- Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
- Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
- Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
- Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
- Craig, Modoc County, California – Robert A. Craig (first postmaster)
- Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
- Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
- Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
- Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
- Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
- Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett
- Cromwell, California – F.T Cromwell (founder)
- Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
- Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
- Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
- Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy
- Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
- Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
- Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
- Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel Cummings (landholder)
- Cupertino, California – Joseph of Cupertino
- Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
- Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
- Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
- Cuttens, California – Charles R. Cuttens (first postmaster)
D
- Daby's Ferry, California – S. Daby (ferry operator)
- Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
- Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade
- Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
- Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas
- Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
- Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
- 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, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
- Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)
- Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French
- Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
- Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport
- Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
- Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
- Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
- Dayton, Maine – Thomas Day (submitted the petition for Dayton to separate from Hollis)
- 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, Illinois – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)
- Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
- Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
- Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)
- DeHaven, California – John J. De Haven
- 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)
- Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)
- Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
- Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver
- DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
- DeSoto County, Florida – Hernando de Soto
- Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
- Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
- DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
- Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
- Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
- Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
- Diamondville, California – James Diamond
- Dickenson, California – William Legrand Dickinson
- Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, a town elder)
- Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
- Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
- Dixfield, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
- 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)
- Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
- Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
- Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)[71]
- 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)
- Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
- Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
- Downey, California – John G. Downey
- Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
- Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler & lodge owner)[72]
- Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
- Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)
- Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)
- Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
- Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
- Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
- Dummer, New Hampshire – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)
- Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer
- Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
- Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
- Duplin County, North Carolina ] – Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin[73]
- Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
- Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham
- Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834
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- Earling, Iowa – Albert J. Earling, Milwaukee Road officer
- East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis
- Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton
- Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)
- Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley
- Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution)
- Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
- Edgecomb, Maine – Lord Edgecomb (a supporter of the colonists)
- Edison, Georgia and Edison, New Jersey – Thomas Edison
- Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders)
- Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards
- Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham
- El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner)
- Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry
- Elizabeth, New Jersey – Lady Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret)
- Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes)
- Elkader, Iowa – Abd el-Kader (Algerian patriot)
- Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
- Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler)
- Ellicott, New York – Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company)
- Ellicott City, Maryland – John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders)
- Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
- Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio)
- Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)
- Ely's, California – Benjamin Ely (first post master)
- Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817)
- Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner)
- Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
- Emory, California – A. Emory Wishon (cement company official)
- Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler)
- Epperson, California – Brutus E Eperson (first postmaster)
- Errol, New Hampshire – James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
- Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner)
- Estes Park, Colorado – Joel Estes (founder)
- Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
- Eugene, Oregon – Eugene Franklin Skinner
- Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city)
- Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)
- Evan's Ranch, California – Alvira Evans (first postmaster)
- Evans, Colorado – John Evans
- Evanston, Illinois – John Evans
- Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans
- Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
- Evelyn, California – Evelyn Smith (wife of Borax company official)
- Everett, Massachusetts – Edward Everett (politician and educator)
- Ewing Township, New Jersey – Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)
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- Fagan, California – Edward Fagan (local landowner)
- Fairbanks, Alaska – Charles W. Fairbanks
- Fairbanks, Mendocino County, California – Isabel G. Fairbanks (first postmaster)
- Fairfax, California – Charles S. Fairfax
- Fallon, California – Luke and James Fallon (early settlers)
- Fannett, Texas – B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s)
- Fargo, North Dakota – William Fargo
- Farley, Mendocino County, California – Jackson Farley (early settler)
- Farragut, Iowa and Farragut, Tennessee – David Farragut
- Farwell, California – James Dumaresy Farwell (landowner)
- Fayette, 12 places in Alabama/Indiana/Iowa/Maine/Michigan/Mississippi/Missouri/New York/Ohio/Utah/West Virginia/Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
- Fayetteville, 11 places in Arkansas/Georgia/Illinois/Indiana/New York/North Carolina/Ohio/Pennsylvania/Tennessee/Texas/West Virginia – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
- Fayette City, Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
- Fellows, California – Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor)
- Femmon, California – Frank Femmon (apple grower)
- Fenton, New York – Governor Reuben Fenton
- Ferdinand, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
- Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler)
- Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
- Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh
- Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner)
- Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler)
- 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
- Fleener, California – Sam Fleener (homesteader)
- Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
- 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, 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)
- Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
- Forsyth, Montana – General James W. Forsyth
- Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins
- Fort Dodge, Iowa – Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)
- Fort John, California – John Stuart
- Fort Kent, Maine – Edward Kent (governor of Maine)
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Major William Lauderdale
- Fort Lee, New Jersey – Charles Lee
- Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)
- Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan
- Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
- Fort Myers Beach, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
- Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner)
- Fort Seward, California – William H. Seward
- Fort Wayne, Indiana – Anthony Wayne
- Fort Worth, Texas – William Jenkins Worth
- Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator Theodore Foster
- Foster Bar, California – William M. Foster (early settler and merchant)
- Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
- Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
- Foxborough, Massachusetts – Charles James Fox
- Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife)
- Franklin – Benjamin Franklin, 37 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 – Delaware County, New York – 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 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
- Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
- Frederick, Maryland – Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
- Fredericksburg, Virginia – Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts – John C. Frémont
- Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
- Frye Island, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
- Fryeburg, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
- Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
- Fulton, South Dakota – Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat)
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- Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale
- Gallatin, Tennessee and other Gallatins – Albert Gallatin
- Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez
- Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
- Garcia, California – Rafael Garcia (land grantee)
- Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
- Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
- Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
- Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
- Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
- Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
- Garretson, South Dakota – A.S. Garretson (banker)
- Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
- Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
- Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
- Gelatt, California – Ethel Gelatt (first postmaster) [74]
- George, Washington – George Washington
- George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
- Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
- Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
- Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
- Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
- Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
- Gertrude, California – Gertrude Haley (first postmaster)
- Gest, California – Erasmus Gest (railroad official)
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
- Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
- Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913.
- Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
- Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
- Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
- Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
- Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
- Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
- Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
- Goecken, California – Herman Bernard Goecken (local rancher)
- Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
- Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham
- Gosford, California – Earl of Gosford
- Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold
- Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
- Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
- Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
- 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)
- Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
- Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
- Greeley, Colorado – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
- Greenwich, California – Peter D. Greene (founder)
- Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
- Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
- Greenville, Alameda County, California – John Green (early merchant)
- Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
- Grestley, California – James Grestley
- Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
- Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
- Guernsey, California – James Guernsey (landowner)
- Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
- Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
- Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
- Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)
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- Haddonfield, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon (local landowner)
- Haddon Township, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon (local landowner)
- Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager
- Halifax, Vermont – Earl of Halifax
- Hall Station, California – John Hall (local landowner)
- Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)
- Hamden, Connecticut – John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
- Hamilton, Massachusetts – 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, Florida – Alexander Hamilton
- Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)
- Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
- Hampden, Maine – John Hampden (English patriot)
- Hancock, 5 places in Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/New Hampshire/Vermont – John Hancock
- Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
- Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
- Hanson, Massachusetts – Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
- Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
- Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)
- Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill)
- Harlan, Iowa – :James Harlan (United States Senator)
- Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad)
- Harriman, New York – E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad)
- Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – John Harris, Sr.
- 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)
- Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel John Hart
- 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)
- Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution)
- Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
- 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)
- Hearst, California – George Hearst
- Heath, Massachusetts – General William Heath
- Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president)
- Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher)
- Henderson, Nevada – U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson
- Hendry County, Florida – Major Francis A. Hendry
- Henniker, New Hampshire – John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
- Herkimer, New York – Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War)
- Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (World War II casualty)
- Hernando County, Florida – Hernando de Soto
- Hershey, California – David N. Hershey (California assembly member)
- Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn
- Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
- Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
- Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
- Hillsborough, New Hampshire – 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)
- 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)
- Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
- Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
- Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
- Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
- Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
- Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
- Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)
- Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note spelling)
- Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)
- Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet)
- Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
- 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 – early settlers with the name Hopkins
- Hornbeak, Tennessee – Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster)[75]
- Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
- Horton, California – Ben Horton (railroad official)
- Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler)
- Houston, Minnesota and Houston, Texas – Sam Houston
- 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)
- Howland, Maine – John Howland (Mayflower passenger)
- 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
- Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
- Humboldt, South Dakota – Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)
- Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
- 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)
- Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland
- Hutchins, California – T.B. Hutchins (local landowner)
- Hyannis, Massachusetts – Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
- Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)
- Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner)
- Hylandville, California – L.C. Hyland (founder)
- Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)
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- Iliff, Colorado – John Wesley Iliff (cattleman)
- Imusdale, California – Chales, Edwin, and William Imus (early settlers)
- 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)
- Irvine, California – James Irvine I [76]
- Irwin, California – W.A. Irwin (founder)
- Isabella, California – Queen Isabella of Spain
- Isle La Motte, Vermont – Captain La Motte (established Fort Sainte Anne on this island)
- Iverson, California – Charles Iverson
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- 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, 5 places in
- Alabama – Florida – Illinois – North Carolina – Oregon
- Jacobs Corner, California – Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster)
- Jaffrey, New Hampshire – George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy Portsmouth family)
- Jamesan, California – J.G. James (first postmaster)
- Jamesburg, California – John James (founder)
- Jamestown, New York – James Prendergast (settler)
- Jamestown, Rhode Island – James II of England
- Jamestown, Virginia – James I of England
- Janesville, California – Jane Bankhead (early settler)
- Janesville, Wisconsin – Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster)
- Jasper, Texas – William Jasper (American Revolution hero)
- Jay, Maine and Jay, Vermont – John Jay (the first chief justice of the Supreme Court)
- Jean, Nevada – Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle)
- Jefferson, Maine and Jefferson, New Hampshire – Thomas Jefferson
- Jefferson City, Missouri – Thomas Jefferson
- Jefferson County, Florida – Thomas Jefferson
- Jeffersonville, Georgia – Thomas Jefferson
- Jenny Lind, California – Jenny Lind
- Jesus Maria, California – Jesus Maria (local farmer)
- Jewell, California – Omar Jewell (local rancher)
- 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
- Johnson, Vermont – William Samuel Johnson
- Johnston, Rhode Island – August Johnston (colonial attorney general)
- Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer)
- Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
- Jonesboro, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
- Jonesport, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
- Jonesville, Virginia – Frederick Jones (landowner)
- Joplin, Missouri – a Methodist minister in the new city
- Jordan, Montana – Arthur Jordan (founder)
- Judsonville, California – Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine)
- Julesburg, Colorado – Jules Beni (established a trading post here)
- Juneau, Alaska – Joe Juneau (prospector)
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- Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
- Karlo, California – Frank De Carlow (early settler)
- Karnes City, Texas – Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
- Kasson, California – Amasa C. Kasson (investor in the site)
- 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)
- Keizer, Oregon – Thomas Dove Keizur
- Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector)
- Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
- Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
- Kenedy, Texas – Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
- Kensington, New Hampshire – Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
- Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent
- Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
- Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
- 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)
- Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
- King City, California – Charles King (founder)
- King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – After a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
- Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine)
- Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
- Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
- Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
- Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
- Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
- Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
- Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson
- 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
- Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
- Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox
- Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster[77]
- Knoxville, Tennessee – Henry Knox
- Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Kossuth, Mississippi – 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)
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- Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
- La Fayette, Alabama and La Fayette, Illinois – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- LaFayette/Lafayette – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 14 places in
- Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
- Lafayette County, Florida – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- Lafayette Township – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 16 places in
- Coles County, Illinois – Ogle County, Illinois – Allen County, Indiana – Floyd County, Indiana – Madison County, Indiana – Owen County, Indiana – Allamakee County, Iowa – Bremer County, Iowa – Story County, Iowa – Chautauqua County, Kansas – Michigan – Minnesota – New Jersey – Coshocton County, Ohio – Medina County, Ohio – Pennsylvania
- Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
- Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
- Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
- Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
- Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
- Land, California – A.H. Land (local lumber company president)
- Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
- Lanesborough, Massachusetts – Countess of Lanesborough
- Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon
- Langhorne, Pennsylvania – Jeremiah Langhorne Pennsylvania jurist
- Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
- Largo, California – Lemuel F. Long (early settler; Largo is Spanish for Long)
- Larkin's Landing, California – Stephen Larkin (early settler)
- Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
- Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
- Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder)[78]
- Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
- Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder)
- Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
- 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)
- Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
- Lebec, California – Peter Lebecque or Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
- Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
- Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
- Lee, Massachusetts and Lee, New Hampshire – General Charles Lee
- Lee County, Florida – Confederate General Robert E. Lee
- Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
- Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
- 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)
- Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
- Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
- Levittown, 2 places in New York/Pennsylvania &ndash William Levitt
- Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
- Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
- Lewistown, Pennsylvania – William Lewis
- Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
- Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
- Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
- 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)[79]
- 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)
- Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
- Lippitt, California – Col. Francis J. Lippitt (founder)
- Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
- Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
- 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
- Lockwood, 3 places in California/New York/West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
- Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole)
- Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak)
- Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner)[80]
- Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)[81]
- Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
- Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
- Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
- Louisiana – Louis XIV (King of France) [82]
- Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
- Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
- 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, Massachusetts – Francis Cabot Lowell
- Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
- Lucia, California – Lucia Dani (first postmaster)
- Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
- 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)
- Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
- 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)
- Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader)
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- Machin, California – Tim N. Machin
- Macon, 3 places in Georgia/Missouri/North Carolina – Nathaniel Macon
- Madelia, Minnesota – Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn)
- Madison, Maine and Madison, Wisconsin – James Madison
- Madison, South Dakota – James Madison (indirectly, via Madison, Wisconsin)
- Madison County, Florida – James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America
- Manchester, Vermont – Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
- Mandala, California – Mandala Kneeland (early settler)
- Mansfield, Massachusetts – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
- Mansfield, Ohio – Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General)
- Mansfield, Texas – R.S. Man and Julian Feild (settlers) (note spelling)
- Mariaville, Maine – Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham)
- 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, a 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, Florida – General Francis Marion of South Carolina, a guerilla fighter and hero of the American Revolutionary War.
- Marsh Creek Springs, California – John Marsh
- Marshall, Texas – John Marshall
- 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)
- Martendale, California – Harry J. Marten (founder)
- Martin County, Florida – John W. Martin 24th Governor of Florida
- Martinez, California – Don Ygnacio Martínez
- Martins Ferry, California – John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator)
- Martinus Corner, California – Jan Henry Martinus (landowner)
- 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)
- Maryville, Missouri – Mary Graham (wife of Amos Graham, county clerk)
- Masaryktown, Florida – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czechoslovak President)[83]
- Mason, New Hampshire – Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
- Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
- Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
- Mattos, California – John Garcia Mattos, Sr. (early settler)
- 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)
- Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner)
- McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler)
- McCann, California – William O. McCann (lumber mill operator)
- McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder)
- McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw
- McHenry, Illinois – William McHenry
- McKinleyville, California – President William McKinley
- McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
- McMinnville, Tennessee – Joseph McMinn
- Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
- Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
- Mercer, Maine – 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Miles City, Montana – General Nelson A. Miles
- Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
- Millbrae, California – Darius Ogden Mills
- Miller, California – James Miller (early settler)
- Millerton, Marin County, California – James Miller (wharf owner)
- Millerton, New York – Sidney Miller (railroad contractor)
- Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official)
- Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
- Millsaps, California – George W. Millsaps (early settler)
- Millsholm, California – Edgar Mills (landowner)
- Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
- Milo, Maine – Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece)
- Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
- Minear, California – John J. Minear (first postmaster)
- Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
- Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
- Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
- Mitchell, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
- Modesto, California – William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man
- Monroe – James Monroe, 11 places in
- Connecticut – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – Utah – Washington
- Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder)
- Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
- Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts)
- Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson
- Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama/Massachusetts/Minnesota/New York – General Richard Montgomery
- Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
- Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post & hotel establisher)[32]
- Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
- Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler))[32]
- Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
- Morgan, California – Charles Morgan (early settler)
- Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
- Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
- Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas)
- Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan
- Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
- 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)
- Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
- Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
- Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
- 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
- Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
- Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
- Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington
- Mower, California – Lloyd W. Mower (first postmaster)
- Mullan, Idaho – John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route)
- Murdo, South Dakota – Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman)
- Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) – Muroc is Corum spelled backwards
- 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)
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- Naperville, Illinois – Joseph Naper
- Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster)
- Nashville, Tennessee – Francis Nash
- Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder)
- Nelson, California – A.D. Nelson (early settler)
- Nelson, New Hampshire – Viscount Horatio Nelson (British admiral and naval hero)
- 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, New York – James of York and Albany
- Newbert, California – Leander Newbert (first postmaster)
- Newcastle, Maine – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Newell, California – Frederick Haynes Newell
- Newellton, Louisiana – Edward D. Newell
- Newfane, Vermont – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
- Newport, New Hampshire – Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman)
- Newton, Texas – John Newton (soldier of the American Revolutionary War)
- Nichols, California – William H. Nichols (landowner)
- Nick's Cove, California – Nick Kojich (restaurateur)
- Nickerson, Kansas – Thomas Nickerson (ATSF president)
- Nielsburg, California – Arthur C. Neill (first postmaster)[32]
- Niles, Fremont, California – Addison Niles
- Norden, California – Charles Van Norden (water company official)[32]
- Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
- Norristown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Norris (Mayor of Philadelphia in 1724)
- North Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
- North Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles) [84]
- North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
- North Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
- 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
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- O'Fallon, Missouri – John O. Fallon
- O'Neals, California – Charles O'Neal (merchant and first postmaster)
- Ockenden, California – Thomas J. Ockenden (first postmaster)
- Odem, Texas – David Odem (San Patricio County sheriff)
- Odenton, Maryland – Oden Bowie (Governor of Maryland)
- Ogden, Utah – Peter Skene Ogden
- Ogilby, California – E.R. Ogilby (mine promoter)
- 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)
- Orange, 4 places in Connecticut/Massachusetts/New Jersey/Virginia – William, Prince of Orange
- Orange, Ohio – William, Prince of Orange (indirectly, via Orange, Connecticut)
- Ordbend, California – Edward Ord
- 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
- Orloff, California – Orloff Miller (early settler)
- Ornbaun, California – John S. Ornbaumn (early settler and rancher)
- Orono, Maine – Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation
- Orrs Springs, California – Samuel Orr (early settler)
- Orwood, California – Orville Y. Woodward (promoter)
- Osburn, Idaho – Bill Osborne (trading post establisher) (note spelling)
- Osceola County, Florida – Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry"
- Otis, Massachusetts – Harrison Gray Otis
- Otisfield, Maine – James Otis, Jr. (grantee)
- Ovid, Colorado – Newton Ovid (local resident)
- Owensboro, Kentucky – Abraham Owen
- Oxnard, California – Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard
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- Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco
- Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke
- Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler)
- Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
- Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
- Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
- 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)
- 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)
- Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman)
- Peabody, Massachusetts – George Peabody (philanthropist)
- 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, Oregon – George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign)
- Pennsylvania – William Penn (Penn's Woods)
- Pentz, California – Manoah Pence (founder, first postmaster)
- Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir William Pepperrell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg)
- Perkins Township, Maine – Thomas Handasyd Perkins
- Perris, California – Fred T. Perris
- 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, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
- Perth Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
- Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
- Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant)
- Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant)
- Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler)
- Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
- Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
- Philipsburg, Montana – Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
- Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers)
- Phillipston, Massachusetts – William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
- Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler)
- Phippsburg, Maine – Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling)
- Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler)
- Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
- Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief)
- Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders)
- Pikesville, Maryland – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
- Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
- Pittsburg, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsfield, 4 places in Maine/Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
- Pittsford, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont)
- Pittsford, Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
- Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (settler)
- Plant City, Florida – Henry B. Plant
- Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York – Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
- Pleasanton, California – Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
- Pocatello, Idaho – Chief Pocatello
- Poland, Maine – Chief Poland
- Polk County, Florida – 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk
- Pomfret, Vermont – Earl of Pomfret
- Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
- Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan – Chief Pontiac
- Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
- Pope Valley, California – William Pope (land grantee)[85]
- Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
- Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
- Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
- Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
- Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
- Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
- Portola, California – Gaspar de Portolà
- Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà
- Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
- Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
- Potter, California – Richard R. Potter (first postmaster)
- Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
- Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
- Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
- Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
- Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
- Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
- Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
- Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright)
- Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
- Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince
- Proctor, Minnesota – J. Proctor Knott
- Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor
- Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
- Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost
- Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia/Illinois/New York/Tennessee/Virginia/Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
- Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
- Pullman, 3 places in Michigan/Washington/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
- Purser, California – Edward T. Purser (rancher)
- Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam
- Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society
- Pylema, California – Mary R. Pyle (early settler and postmaster)
- Prince's Lakes, Indiana Howard Prince Founder
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- Quanah, Texas – Quanah Parker (the last Comanche chief)
- Quincy, Illinois – John Quincy Adams
- Quincy, Massachusetts – Colonel John Quincy
- Quincy, Washington – John Quincy Adams (indirectly, via Quincy, Illinois)
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- Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
- Raleigh, North Carolina – Sir Walter Raleigh
- Rallsville, California – George W. Ralls (first postmaster)
- Ralston, California – William C. Ralston (mine owner)[86]
- Randolph, Maine – Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
- Randolph, Massachusetts – Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
- 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)
- Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
- Raymond, California – T. Raymond (travel official)
- Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond
- Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
- Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
- Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
- Redwine, California – Ida Redwine (first postmaster)
- Reed, California – John Reed (landowner)
- Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
- Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler)
- Reidsville, Georgia – Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida)
- Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster)
- Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno
- Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer[87]
- Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere
- Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
- Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
- Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
- 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
- Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
- Rienzi, Mississippi – Cola di Rienzo[88]
- Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
- Ripley, Maine – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812)
- Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler)
- Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner)
- Rochester, New Hampshire – 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)
- Rogersville, California – Lovely Rogers (local gold discoverer)
- Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder)
- Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire)
- Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
- Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
- Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder)
- Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
- Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
- Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
- Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
- Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
- Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
- Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
- Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
S
- Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
- St. Augustine, Florida – Saint Augustine[89]
- St. Augustine, Maryland – Augustine Herman (explorer)
- St. George, Vermont – Saint George
- Saint James, Indiana – Saint James
- St. James, Maryland – Saint James
- St. James, Minnesota – Saint James
- St. James, Missouri – Saint James
- St. James, New York – Saint James
- St. James, North Carolina – Saint James
- St. Johnsbury, Vermont – Dr. Jonathan Arnold (member of the Continental Congress)
- St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
- St. Louis, Missouri – Saint Louis
- St. Nazianz, Wisconsin – Gregory of Nazianzus
- St. Paul, Minnesota – Saint Paul
- St. Pete Beach, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
- St. Petersburg, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
- Salsig, California – Edgar Budd Salsig (lumber company owner)
- 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 Mateo, California – Saint Matthew
- San Pablo, California – Saint Paul
- Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee)
- Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
- Sanford, Maine – Loleg Sanford
- Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
- 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
- Saranap, California – Sara Napthaly (mother of a railroad man)
- Sawyers, California – Marvin L. Sawyer (first postmaster)
- Scarface, California – Scarface Charlie (a Native American warrior in the Modoc War)
- Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
- Schwaub, California – Charles M. Schwab
- Scott, New York – General Winfield Scott
- Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)
- Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
- Scottsdale, Arizona – Chaplain Winfield Scott
- Scottdale, Georgia – George Washington Scott
- Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
- Scribner, California – Leila M. Scribner (first postmaster)
- 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)
- Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant Charles Floyd
- Seward, Alaska – William H. Seward
- Seward, Nebraska – William H. Seward
- Seymour, Connecticut – Governor Thomas H. Seymour
- Shafter, California – Gen. William Rufus Shafter
- Shaftsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
- Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
- Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier)
- Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
- Shaver Lake Heights, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
- Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Vermont – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
- Sheridan, Wyoming – General Philip Sheridan (Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War)
- Shirley, Maine – William Shirley (indirectly, via Shirley, Massachusetts)
- Shirley, Massachusetts – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
- Shrewsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shrewsbury
- Shumway, California – Susie Shumway (first postmaster)
- 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
- Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
- Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
- Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
- Sinton, Texas – David Sinton
- Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
- Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
- Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official)[90]
- Sloat, California – John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)[91]
- Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
- Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
- Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
- Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
- Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
- 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
- Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
- Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
- Sorenson, California – Harold Sorensen (early settler)
- South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
- 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) [92]
- 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 Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
- Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks
- Spence, California – David Spence (landowner)
- Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
- 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
- Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish
- Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield
- Stanfield Hill, California – William Stanfield (founder)
- Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard
- 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")
- 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)
- Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
- Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling)
- Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
- Steuben, Maine – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
- 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)
- Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
- Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
- Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
- Stockton, California – Robert F. Stockton
- Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
- Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
- Stonehill, California – Frances Stone (first postmaster)[3]
- Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
- Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
- 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)
- Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
- Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
- Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
- Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
- Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
- Sullivan, New Hampshire – General John Sullivan
- Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
- Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
- Sunol, California – Antonio Sunol (landowner)
- Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
- 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)[93]
T
- Taft, California – William Howard Taft
- 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
- Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
- Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
- Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
- Taylor County, Florida – Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America
- Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
- Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
- Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
- Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
- Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
- Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
- Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
- Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
- Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
- Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
- Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
- Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
- Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
- Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)[32]
- Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
- Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
- Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
- Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)[32]
- 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)
- Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
- Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
- 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
- Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
- Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
- Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
- Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
- Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
- Tyringham, Massachusetts Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard – only town in Massachusetts named after a woman. Sir Francis Bernard inherited Nether Winchendon House, Bucks., England from her.
U
- 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 – Earl of Uxbridge
V
- Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca
- Vade, California – Sieera Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
- Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
- Valdosta, Georgia – Augustus (indirectly, via Aosta, Italy)[94]
- Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
- Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
- Van Nuys, California – Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
- Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
- Vaughn, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
- Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
- Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
- Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
- Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
- Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
- Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
- Vinton, California – Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)[95]
- Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
- Virgilia, California – Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive Virgil Bogue)[95]
- Virginia – Virgin Queen
- Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)
W
- Waddington, California – Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
- Wade, California – Pinkston Wade (first postmaster)
- Wadsworth, Ohio – General Elijah Wadsworth
- Waite, Maine – Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
- Waitsfield, Vermont – General Benjamin Wait (founder)
- Wakefield, Massachusetts – Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
- 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
- Wales, Massachusetts – James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
- Wallace, California – John Wallace (surveyor)
- Wallace, Idaho – Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
- Walong, California – W.A. Long (railroad official)
- Walpole, Massachusetts and Walpole, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
- Walsenburg, Colorado – Fred Walsen (store owner)
- Wardner, Idaho – James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
- Wardsboro, Vermont – William Ward (grantee)
- Warner, New Hampshire – Jonathan Warner (leading Portsmouth citizen)
- Warren, 6 places in Connecticut/Maine/Massachusetts/New York/Pennsylvania/Vermont – Major General Joseph Warren
- Warren, New Hampshire and Warren, Rhode Island – Admiral Sir Peter Warren (British naval hero)
- Warren, Ohio – Moses Warren (surveyor)
- Warrenville, Illinois – Julius Warren (settler)
- Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
- 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/Pennsylvania – George Washington
- Washington Court House, Ohio – George Washington
- Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania – George Washington
- Washington Terrace, Utah – George Washington
- Washingtonville, New York and Washingtonville, Pennsylvania – George Washington
- Waterboro, Maine – Colonel Joshua Waters (proprietor)
- Wayland, Massachusetts – Dr. Francis Wayland (president of Brown University)
- Wayne, Maine – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
- Weare, New Hampshire – Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
- Webster, Massachusetts and Webster, New Hampshire – Daniel Webster
- Weimar, California – a local Maidu chief[3]
- 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, Maine – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
- Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
- Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor Benning Wentworth
- Wesley, Maine – John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
- 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)
- Westmoreland, New Hampshire – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
- Westville, California – George C. West (first postmaster)[3]
- Whately, Massachusetts – Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
- Wheelock, Vermont – Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
- White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
- Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire – George Whitefield (English evangelist)
- Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
- Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
- Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
- Whitinsville, Massachusetts – Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
- Whitlow, California – Albert Whitlow (first postmaster)
- Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
- Whitney, California – Joel Parker Whitney (rancher)[96]
- 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)
- Wible Orchard, California – Simon William Wible (early settler)
- Wickenburg, Arizona – Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
- Wicks Corner, California – Moses Wick (first postmaster)
- Wiest, California – Daniel W. Wiest (early settler)
- Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
- Wilkes County, Georgia – John Wilkes
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – John Wilkes and Isaac Barre
- 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, Virginia – William III of England
- Williamstown, Massachusetts – Ephraim Williams
- 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, 3 places in Delaware/North Carolina/Vermont – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
- Wilmot, New Hampshire – Dr. James Wilmot (English clergyman)
- Wilseyville, California – Lawrence A. Wilsey (corporate executive)
- Wilsie, California – W.E. Wilsie (early farmer)
- Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
- Winchester, Massachusetts – Colonel William P. Winchester
- Winchendon, Massachusetts Sir Francis Bernard, his family seat was Nether Winchendon House, Buckinghamshire, England
- 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, Minnesota – Senator William Windom
- Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
- Winfield, Kansas – Chaplain Winfield Scott
- Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
- Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
- 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, Vermont – General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
- Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General James Wolfe
- Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
- Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
- Woodville, Texas – George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
- Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
- Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
- 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[97]
- Ybor City, Tampa, Florida – Vicente Martinez Ybor
- Yonkers, New York – Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
- Yorba Linda, California – Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
- Yorkville, California – R.H. York (Founder)
- Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
- Youngs Hill, California – William Young and his brother (discoverers of gold at the place)
- 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
- Zapata, Texas – Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata
- Zavalla, Texas – Lorenzo de Zavala (note spelling)
- Zillah, Washington – Miss Zillah Oakes (daughter of Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of the Northern Pacific Railway)
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)
- 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)[98]
- 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)[98]
- 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
- Hearst was the name of Vista Robles, California – George Hearst (early settler)
- Hopkins and Hopkins Springs was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – Mark Hopkins (railroad baron who built a resort there)[99]
- 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
- Jeram was the name of Carey, California – Father Jeram (community leader)
- 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)[31]
- 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)[11]
- 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)[100]
- 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)[46]
- 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)
- Reed was the name of Ostrom, California – Henry Reed (early settler)
- 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 of Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
- Smithville was the name of Loomis, California – L.G. Smith (store owner)[81]
- 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)[99]
- 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 the City of London)
- 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)
- 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[11]
- Yanks was the name of Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)
See also
- List of places named after people
- Buildings and structures named after people
- Lists of places by eponym
- List of eponyms
- Lists of etymologies
References
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