List Of Places In The United States Named After People

If not cited here, the etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the place.

A

Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Levy (founder)
Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)
Abbott, Texas – Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
Abbottstown, Pennsylvania – John Abbott (founder)
Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire
Ableman, Wisconsin – S.V.R. Ableman (settler)
Ackley, Iowa – J.W. Ackley (founder)
Acworth, New Hampshire – Jacob Acworth (British naval officer)
Ada Township, Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster)
Adairville, Kentucky – John Adair (governor of Kentucky)
Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams
Adams, Nebraska – J.O. Adams (settler)
Adams, New York – John Adams
Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
Adams, Tennessee – Reuben Adams (landowner)
Adamsboro, Indiana – George E. Adams (founder)
Adamsburg, Pennsylvania – John Adams
Adams Station, California – Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
Adamstown, Pennsylvania – John Adams
Adamsville, Arizona – Charles S. Adams (original settler)
Addison, 4 places in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
Addison, West Virginia – Addison McLaughlin (local lawyer)
Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
Adrian, Michigan – Roman Emperor Hadrian
Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company)
Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer)
Aiken, South Carolina – William Aiken Jr. (governor of South Carolina)
Ainsworth, Iowa – D.H. Ainsworth (civil engineer)
Ainsworth, Washington – J.C. Ainsworth (railroader)
Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
Albany, New York – James of York and Albany
Albemarle, North Carolina – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners)^: 1387
Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons)
Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque
Alburgh, Vermont – Ira Allen (landowner)
Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler)
Alderson, West Virginia – John Alderson (settler and local minister)
Alexander, New York – Alexander Rea (settler and state senator)
Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Alexandria, Nebraska – S.J. Alexander (secretary of state)
Alexandria, New York and Alexandria Bay, New York – Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler)
Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia)
Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president)
Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler)
Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford
Alfordsville, Indiana – James Alford (settler)
Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great
Alger, Ohio – Russell A. Alger
Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
Allendale, South Carolina – Allen family (settlers)
Allenstown, New Hampshire – Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire)
Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen
Alloway Township, New Jersey – Chief Alloway
Alma, Colorado – Alma James (wife of local merchant)
Almont, Michigan – Juan Almonte
Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
Altheimer, Arkansas – Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders)
Alton, California – Alton Easton (indirectly, via Alton, Illinois)
Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)
Alva, Florida – Thomas Alva Edison (inventor)
Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
Ambler, Pennsylvania – Joseph Ambler (settler)
Amelia Court House, Virginia – Princess Amelia of Great Britain
Ames, New York – Fisher Ames
Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts and Maine)
Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
Anastasia Island, Florida – Saint Anastasia
Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson
Anderson, Kansas – Joseph C. Anderson (state legislator)
Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson
Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church
Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife)
Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives)
Annsville, New York – Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife)
Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
Anson, Wisconsin - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps
Ansted, West Virginia – David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner)
Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
Anthony, Kansas – George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas)
Applebachsville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Paul Applebach
Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)^: 444
Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
Appling, Georgia – Col. Dan Appling
Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
Archdale, North Carolina – John Archdale
Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco
Arenzville, Illinois – Francis A. Arenz (founder)
Arietta, New York – Arietta Rensselaer (wife of Rensselaer van Rensselaer)
Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)
Armourdale, Kansas – Armour brothers (founders of Armour and Company)
Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
Arnold Heights, California – General Henry H. Arnold^: 1390
Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
Asbury Park, New Jersey – Francis Asbury
Ashburnham, Massachusetts – John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham
Ashbyburg, Kentucky – Gen. Stephen Ashby
Asheboro, North Carolina – Samuel Ashe (governor of North Carolina)
Asherville, Indiana – John Asher (founder)
Ashford, Alabama – Thomas Ashford
Ashley, Michigan – H.W. Ashley (manager of the Ann Arbor Railroad)
Ashley River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor
Atchison, Kansas – David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator)
Aten, Nebraska – John Aten (state senator)
Athol, Massachusetts – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)
Atkinson, New Hampshire – Theodore Atkinson (landowner)
Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
Atwater, Minnesota – Isaac Atwater (settler of St. Paul)
Atwater Township, Ohio – Amzi Atwater (surveyor)
Atwood, Kansas – Attwood Matheny (founder's son)
Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
Audubon, Minnesota – John James Audubon
Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Augusta, Kansas – Augusta James (trader's wife)
Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)
Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
Aurelius, New York – Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)
Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)
Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin
Ave Maria, Florida – Mary, mother of Jesus
Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
Axtell, Kansas – Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway)
Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)

B

Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper)
Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge
Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works)
Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon)
Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator
Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker
Bakersfield, Vermont – Joseph Baker (landowner)
Baldwin, Georgia – Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator)
Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
Baldwin, Michigan – Governor Henry P. Baldwin
Baldwin, Chemung County, New York – Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers)
Baldwin, Wisconsin – D.A. Baldwin (settler)
Baldwin City, Kansas – John Baldwin
Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
Ballston, New York and Ballston Spa, New York – Rev. Eliphalet Ball (settler)
Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore
Banning, California – Phineas Banning, stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles.
Baraboo, Wisconsin – Jean Baribault (settler)
Baraga, Michigan – Bishop Friedrich Baraga
Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
Barboursville, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia)
Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site
Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger
Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler)
Barlow, Oregon – John L. Barlow (settler)
Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
Barnes, Kansas – A.S. Barnes (publisher)
Barnum, Denver, Colorado – P. T. Barnum (landowner)
Barnwell, South Carolina – Barnwell family
Barraque Township, Arkansas – Antoine Barraque (landowner)
Barre, Massachusetts, Barre, New York, Barre (city), Vermont and Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)
Barrington, New Hampshire and Barrington, Rhode Island – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts)
Barron, Wisconsin – Henry D. Barron (judge)
Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett
Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
Barton, Vermont – General William Barton
Bartow, Florida and Bartow, Georgia – Francis S. Bartow (Confederate general)
Bastrop, Louisiana and Bastrop, Texas – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
Batesville, Arkansas – James Woodson Bates
Batesville, Ohio – Rev. Timothy Bates
Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
Bath, New York – Henrietta Pulteney, Countess of Bath
Battleboro, North Carolina – James S. and Joseph Battle (railroaders)
Bayard, West Virginia – Thomas F. Bayard (U.S. Senator from Delaware)
Bayfield, Wisconsin – Rear Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi – Louis IX of France
Beacon, Iowa – Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconfield
Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
Beattie, Kansas – A. Beattie (mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri)
Beattyville, Kentucky – Samuel Beatty (settler)
Beaufort, North Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina – Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
Beauregard, Mississippi – P. G. T. Beauregard (Confederate general)
Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
Becker, Minnesota – George Loomis Becker (mayor of Saint Paul)
Beckley, West Virginia – Gen. Alfred Beckley (settler)
Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler
Bedford, Massachusetts – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
Bedford, New Hampshire and Bedford, Virginia – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Bedford, Tennessee – Thomas Bedford
Beebe, Arkansas – Roswell Beebe (settler)
Beecher City, Illinois – Charles A. Beecher (railroader)
Beekman, New York – Henry Beekman (landowner)
Beekmantown, New York – William Beekman (landowner)
Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas)
Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)
Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster)^: 355
Belleville, Kansas – Arabelle Tutton (landowner's wife)
Bellingham, Massachusetts – Governor Richard Bellingham
Bellingham, Washington – Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet
Bellmont, New York – William Bell (landowner)
Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
Bellwood, Nebraska – D.J. Bell (landowner)
Belmont, Missouri and Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier)
Belton, Texas – Governor Peter Hansborough Bell
Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami
Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Bemis Heights, New York – Jonathan Bemis (innkeeper)
Benedicta, Maine – Bishop Benedict Fenwick (landowner)
Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo (wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo)
Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
Bennett, Iowa – Chet Bennett (railroader)
Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont)
Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth
Benton, 7 places in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, and New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Benton, New York – Levi Benton (settler)
Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Bentonia, Mississippi – Bentonia Green (resident)
Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Benwood, West Virginia – Benjamin Latrobe II
Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia – colonial governor William Berkeley
Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
Berkley, Virginia – Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
Bermuda, 5 places in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee – Juan de Bermúdez (indirectly, after Bermuda)
Bernards Township, New Jersey – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
Berrien Township, Michigan – John M. Berrien
Berryville, Arkansas – Governor James H. Berry
Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
Bessemer, Alabama, Bessemer, Michigan, and Bessemer City, North Carolina – Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process)
Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
Beverly, West Virginia – William Beverly (landowner)
Bevier, Kentucky and Bevier, Missouri – Col. Robert Bevier
Bexar, 4 places in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas (county) – Ferdinand VI of Spain (originally the Duke of Bexar)
Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
Bienville, Louisiana – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings
Billingsport, New Jersey – Edward Byllynge (merchant and colonial governor) (note the spelling)
Biltmore Forest, North Carolina – George Washington Vanderbilt II
Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner)
Binghamton, New York – William Bingham
Birchville, California – L. Birch Adsit^: 451
Birdsall, New York – John Birdsall (judge)
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania – William Bird (landowner)
Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
Bismarck, Missouri and Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
Bladenboro, North Carolina – Martin Bladen
Blaine, Maine – James G. Blaine
Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)^: 358
Blairstown, Iowa and Blairstown, New Jersey – John Insley Blair (railroad magnate and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men)
Blairsville, Pennsylvania – John Blair (resident)
Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
Blanchard, Maine – Charles Blanchard (landowner)
Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
Blandford, Massachusetts – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (also held the title Marquess of Blandford)
Blandville, Kentucky – Capt. Bland Ballard
Bleecker, New York – Rutger Jansen Bleecker (landowner)
Blissfield, Michigan – Henry Bliss (landowner)
Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant and founder)
Bloomfield, New Jersey – Governor Joseph Bloomfield
Blossburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Bloss (settler)
Blountsville, Indiana – Andrew Blount (founder)
Blythe, California – Thomas Henry Blythe; San Francisco capitalist
Boardman, Ohio – Frederick Boardman (landowner)
Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
Boerne, Texas – Louis Boerne (German writer)
Bolivar, 4 places in Missouri, Mississippi, New York, and Tennessee – Simón Bolivar
Bolton, Massachusetts – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
Bonaparte, Iowa – Napoleon Bonaparte
Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
Bondurant, Iowa – A.C. Bondurant
Bonham, Texas – Col. J.B. Bonham
Bonner Springs, Kansas – Robert E. Bonner (editor of the New York Ledger)
Bonneville, Oregon – Benjamin Bonneville (explorer)
Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge
Boone, North Carolina, Boone Station, Kentucky, and Boonville, North Carolina – Daniel Boone
Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
Boonton, New Jersey – Thomas Boone (colonial governor)
Boonville, New York – Gerrit Boon (land agent)
Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
Borden, Texas – Gail Borden (customs official)
Bordentown, New Jersey – Joseph Borden (founder)
Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen
Bossier City, Louisiana – Pierre Bossier (general)
Bostic, North Carolina – George T. Bostic
Bottineau, North Dakota – Pierre Bottineau (settler)
Bouckville, New York – Governor William C. Bouck
Bourbon, Indiana – House of Bourbon
Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
Bowdoinham, Maine – William Bowdoin (landowner)
Bowerstown, New Jersey – Michael B. Bowers (iron foundry owner)
Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
Bowie, Texas – James Bowie
Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower)^: 453
Boyd, Kentucky – Lt. Governor Linn Boyd
Boylston, New York – Thomas Boylston (doctor)
Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
Braddock, Pennsylvania – Gen. Edward Braddock
Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
Bradford, Pennsylvania – Attorney General William Bradford
Bradfordsville, Kentucky – Peter Bradford (settler)
Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
Bradley Beach, New Jersey – James A. Bradley (landowner)
Bradshaw City, Arizona – William D. Bradshaw
Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania – Capt. Samuel Brady
Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
Brainerd, Kansas – E.B. Brainerd (landowner)
Brainerd, Minnesota – David Brainerd (missionary)
Brandon, Mississippi – Governor Gerard Brandon
Brant, New York – Joseph Brant
Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
Brasher, New York – Philip Brasher (landowner)
Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
Breckenridge - John C. Breckinridge, 4 places in

Colorado - Minnesota - Missouri - Texas (all spelling variants)

Breedsville, Michigan – Silas Breed (settler)
Breese, Illinois – Lt. Governor Sidney Breese
Brevard County, Florida and Brevard, North Carolina – Ephraim J. Brevard (possible author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence)
Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster
Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
Bridger, Montana – Jim Bridger (frontiersman)
Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges (settler)
Briensburg, Kentucky – James Brien (state legislator)
Brigham City, Utah – Brigham Young
Briscoe, Texas – Andrew Briscoe (Texian patriot)
Bristol (village), Wisconsin – Rev. Ira Bristol (settler)
Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
Brockport, New York – Hiel Brockway (settler)
Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario, on a trip to Niagara Falls)
Brockway, California – Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)^: 454
Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
Bronson, Kansas – Ira D. Bronson (prominent resident of Fort Scott)
the Bronx, New York City – Jonas Bronck (settler)
Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman Preston Brooks
Brooksville, Florida – Congressman Preston Brooks
Brookville, Indiana – Jesse Brook Thomas (proprietor)
Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
Brownstown, Indiana, Brownsville, Kentucky, and Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas and Basil Brown (landowners)
Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown
Browntown, Wisconsin – William G. Brown (settler)
Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
Brownville, Nebraska – Richard Brown (settler)
Brownville, New York – John Brown (settler and father of General Jacob Jennings Brown)
Brownwood, Texas – Henry S. Brown (settler)
Bruceville, Indiana – William Bruce (landowner)
Brunswick, Maine – House of Brunswick
Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Brushton, New York – Henry N. Brush (landowner)
Brutus, 4 places in Kentucky, Michigan, New York, and Virginia – Marcus Junius Brutus
Bryan, Ohio – John A. Bryan (state auditor)
Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
Bryson City, North Carolina – T.D. Bryson (state legislator and landowner)
Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
Buchanan, Michigan – James Buchanan
Buchanan, Virginia – John Buchanan (settler)
Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)
Buckner, Missouri – Senator Alexander Buckner or Real Estate operator Simon Buckner or namesake is Thomas W. Buckner, an original owner of the site.
Bucks Bridge, New York – Isaac Buck (settler)
Buckskin Joe, Park County, Colorado – Joseph Higginbotham (frontiersman nicknamed "Buckskin Joe")
Bucksport, California – David A. Buck (founder)
Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)
Bucoda, Washington – J.M. Buckley, Samuel Coulter, and John B. David (businessmen)
Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder)
Bullittsville, Kentucky – Alexander Scott Bullitt
Bullochville, Georgia – Archibald Bulloch
Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
Bunceton, Missouri – Harvey Bunce (resident)
Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist)
Burden, Kansas – Robert F. Burden (landowner)
Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
Bureau County, Illinois and Bureau Junction, Illinois – Pierre de Buero (trader) (note the spelling)
Burgaw, North Carolina – Burgaw family (residents)
Burke (town), New York and Burke, Vermont – Edmund Burke
Burleson, Texas – Edward Burleson (Texian patriot)
Burlingame, California - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
Burlingame, Kansas – Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)
Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one).
Burnet, Texas – Governor David G. Burnet
Burnsville, Indiana – Brice Bruns (founder)
Burnsville, North Carolina – Otway Burns (boat captain)
Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
Burrton, Kansas – I.T. Burr (Vice President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man)
Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
Busti, New York – Paolo Busti (landowner)
Butler, Missouri – General William O. Butler
Buxton, Oregon – Henry Buxton (settler)
Byers, Colorado – W.N. Byers (Denver resident)
Bynumville, Missouri – Dr. Joseph Bynum (settler)
Byron, 3 places in Georgia, Maine, and New York – Lord Byron (English poet)

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Cable, Illinois – Ransom R. Cable (railroader)
Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
Cadillac, Michigan – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Cadott, Wisconsin – Baptiste Cadotte (resident) (note the spelling)
Caldwell, Kansas – Alexander Caldwell (U.S. Senator)
Caldwell, New Jersey – Rev. James Caldwell
Caldwell, Ohio – Joseph and Samuel Caldwell (landowners)
Caldwell, Texas – Mathew Caldwell (Texian patriot)
Calhoun, Kentucky – John Calhoun (judge)
Callaway, Missouri – Capt. James Callaway
Callensburg, Pennsylvania – Hugh Callen (founder)
Calvert, Maryland – Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Camano Island, Washington – Jacinto Caamaño (explorer) (note the spelling)
Camden, 4 places in Maine, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Cameron, 3 places in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia – Simon Cameron
Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
Cameron, New York – Dugald Cameron (land agent)
Cameron, South Carolina – J. Donald Cameron (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania)
Cameron, Texas – Ewen Cameron (Texian patriot)
Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)
Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster)
Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives)
Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California)
Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder)
Campbell, New York – Campbell family (settlers)
Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder)
Campion, Colorado – John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry)
Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
Canal Lewisville, Ohio – T.B. Lewis (founder)
Canby, California^{[citation needed]} and Canby, Oregon – General Edward Canby
Canfield, Ohio – Jonathan Canfield (proprietor)
Cannonsburg, Michigan – Le Grand Cannon (resident of Troy, New York)
Cannonsville, New York – Benjamin Cannon (landowner)
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania – John Cannon (founder) (note the spelling)
Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
Capac, Michigan – Manco Cápac (Incan emperor)
Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)
Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
Cape May, New Jersey – Cornelius Jacobsen May (explorer)
Cape Vincent, New York – Vincent, son of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont
Captain Cook, Hawaii – Captain James Cook (English explorer)
Cardwell, Missouri – Frank Cardwell (resident of Paragould, Arkansas)
Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner)^: 362
Carlinville, Illinois – Governor Thomas Carlin
Carlisle, Massachusetts – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
Carnegie, Pennsylvania – Andrew Carnegie
Carnesville, Georgia – Col. T.P. Carnes
Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri – Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet
Carol Stream, Illinois – (named for founder's daughter)
Carr, Colorado – Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
Carroll, New Hampshire – Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
Carrollton, New York – G. Carroll (landowner)
Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson
Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson
Carter, Kentucky – William G. Carter (state senator)
Carter, Tennessee – Gen. Landon Carter
Carteret, New Jersey – George Carteret (proprietor of New Jersey) and Philip Carteret (first royal governor of New Jersey)
Cartersville, Georgia – Col. F. Carter
Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
Caruthersville, Missouri – Samuel Caruthers
Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)
Carver, Minnesota – Capt. Jonathan Carver (explorer)
Cary, North Carolina – Samuel Fenton Cary (Prohibition advocate)
Caseyville, Kentucky – Col. William Casey
Cashion, Oklahoma – Roy Cashion (member of the Rough Riders)
Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
Casselton, North Dakota – Gen. George W. Cass (director of the Union Pacific Railroad)
Cassville, Wisconsin – Lewis Cass
Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin
Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
Castroville, Texas – Henri Castro (settler)
Catharine, New York – Catherine Montour (note the spelling)
Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
Cato (town), New York – either Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger
Cavalier, North Dakota – Charles Cavalier (settler)
Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
Cawker City, Kansas – E.H. Cawker
Cazenovia, 4 places in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin – Theophilus Cazenove (land agent) (The New York town is the original, and the others were named for it).
Cecilton, Maryland - Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Center Harbor, New Hampshire – Col. Joseph Senter (settler) (note the spelling)
Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania – Francis Chadsey (proprietor)
Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Chambers (founder)
Chambers Lodge, California – David H. Chambers (lodge builder)^: 464
Champion, New York – Gen. Henry Champion (settler)
Champlain, New York – Samuel de Champlain
Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
Chandlerville, Illinois – Dr. Charles Chandler (founder)
Chandler's Purchase, New Hampshire – Jeremiah Chanler (landowner) (note the spelling)
Chanute, Kansas – O. Chanute (engineer with the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad)
Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
Chapman, Pennsylvania – William Chapman (slate mine owner)
Chardon, Ohio – Peter Chardon Brooks (proprietor)
Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)
Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)
Charleston, Mississippi – King Charles II of England (indirectly, via Charleston, South Carolina)
Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England
Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)
Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy
Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England
Charlevoix, Michigan – Francis X. Charlevoix (missionary)
Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
Charlotte, New York and Charlottesville, Virginia – Princess Charlotte of Wales
Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)
Charlotte Amalie – Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet
Chartiers Township, Pennsylvania – Peter Chartier (trader)
Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
Chatham, 4 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)
Chaumont, New York – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (proprietor)
Cheney, Kansas – P.B. Cheney (stockholder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
Cheney, Washington – Benjamin P. Cheney (founder of the Northern Pacific Railway)
Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler)
Chester, Vermont – George IV of the United Kingdom, the Earl of Chester (eldest son of George III of the United Kingdom)
Chesterfield, Massachusetts and Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester
Childress, Texas – George Childress (Texian patriot)
Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
Chivington, Colorado – John Chivington (soldier and perpetrator of the Sand Creek massacre)
Choteau, Montana – Auguste and Pierre Chouteau (founders of St. Louis, Missouri) (note the spelling)
Christiana, Delaware and Christiana, Pennsylvania – Queen Christina of Sweden
Christiansted – Christian VI of Denmark
Churchville, New York – Samuel Church (settler)
Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)
Cicero, New York – Cicero
Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)
Cincinnatus, New York – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)^: 466
Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad^[which?])^: 466
Clanton, Alabama – James Holt Clanton (Confederate general)
Clapper, Missouri – Henry Clapper (railroader)
Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
Clarence, Missouri – Clarence Duff (son of John Duff, settler)
Clark Fork, Idaho – Governor William Clark
Clarkia, Idaho – Governor William Clark
Clarks, Nebraska – S.H.H. Clark (superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad)
Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
Clarksburg, West Virginia – Gen. George Rogers Clark
Clarkston, Washington – Governor William Clark
Clarkesville, Georgia – Governor John Clarke
Clarksville, Indiana – Gen. George Rogers Clark
Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark
Clarksville, New Hampshire – Benjamin Clark
Clarkton, Missouri – Henry E. Clark (contractor)
Clay, 4 places in Florida (county), Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky – Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century)
Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
Clayton, Delaware – Thomas Clayton (U.S. senator)
Clayton, Georgia – Augustin Smith Clayton (U.S. congressman)
Clayton, Missouri – Ralph Clayton
Clayton, New York and Clayton, North Carolina – John M. Clayton (U.S. Senator from Delaware)
Cleburne, Texas – Patrick Cleburne (Confederate general)
Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
Cleveland, North Carolina and Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)
Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
Clifford, Michigan – Clifford Lyman (first child born there)
Clinton – DeWitt Clinton, 16 places in
- Arkansas – Connecticut – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Jersey – New York (city and county) – Ohio – Wisconsin
Clinton, Kansas – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois)
Clinton, Montana – General Sir Henry Clinton
Clinton, Nebraska – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa)
Clinton, Dutchess County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)
Clinton, Oneida County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)
Clinton, North Carolina – American Revolution General Richard Clinton
Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
Clinton, Washington – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan)
Clockville, New York – John Klock (landowner) (note the spelling)
Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
Clymers, Indiana – George Clymer (founder)
Clymer, New York – George Clymer (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Coatesville, Pennsylvania – Moses Coates (settler)
Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
Coeymans, New York – Barent Peterse Coeymans (landowner)
Coffeeville, Mississippi – Gen. John Coffee
Coffeyville, Kansas – A.M. Coffey (state legislator)
Cokesbury, South Carolina – Bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
Colby, Kansas – J.R. Colby (settler)
Colby, Wisconsin – Charles Colby (president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad)
Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
Colden, New York – Cadwallader D. Colden (state legislator)
Colebrook, New Hampshire – Sir George Colebrooke (landowner) (note the spelling)
Coleman, Texas – R.M. Coleman (Texas Ranger)
Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
Colesville, New York – Nathaniel Cole (settler)
Colfax, 5 places in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
Collettsville, North Carolina – Colletts family (residents)
Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier
Collinsville, Illinois – Collins brothers (founders)
Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
Colquitt, Georgia and Colquitt County, Georgia – U.S. Senator Walter T. Colquitt
Colton, New York – Jesse Colton Higley (settler)
Columbia, South Carolina – Christopher Columbus
Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
Communipaw, New Jersey – Michael Reyniersz Pauw (director of the Dutch West India Company) (note the spelling)
Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
Conklin, New York – Judge John Conklin
Connellsville, Pennsylvania – Zachariah Connell (founder)
Connersville, Indiana – John Conner (founder)
Connersville, Kentucky – Lewis Conner
Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
Constable, New York and Constableville, New York – William Constable (proprietor)
Conway, Arkansas – Henry Wharton Conway (territorial delegate to Congress)
Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
Conway, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Conway (resident)
Cooksburg, New York – Thomas B. Cook (landowner)
Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President
Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
Cooperstown, Pennsylvania – William Cooper (founder)
Coopersville, Clinton County, New York – Ebenezer Cooper (mill owner)
Cope, Colorado – Jonathan Cope (founder)
Cope, South Carolina – J. Martin Cope (founder)
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Cora Watson (wife of landowner)
Corbett, Oregon – U.S. Senator Henry W. Corbett
Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
Cornelius, Oregon – Col. Thomas R. Cornelius
Cornettsville, Indiana – Myer and Samuel Cornett (founders)
Corning (city), New York and Corning, Kansas – Erastus Corning (politician)
Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
Cornplanter Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania – Cornplanter (Native American chief)
Coronado, California and Coronado, Kansas – Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (explorer)
Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
Corry, Pennsylvania – Hiram Corry (landowner)
Corsicana, Texas – Corcisana Navarro (wife of landowner)
Cortland, New York, Cortlandt, New York, and Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Corwin, Ohio – Thomas Corwin (Governor and U.S. Senator)
Cottleville, Missouri – Lorenzo Cottle (settler)
Cottrell Key, Florida – Jeremiah Cottrell (lighthouse keeper)
Coulter, Pennsylvania – Eli Coulter (settler)
Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
Coupeville, Washington – Captain Thomas Coupe (founder)
Courtland, Kansas – Pierre Van Cortlandt (indirectly, via Cortland, New York) (note the spelling)
Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
Covington, 3 places in Georgia, Kentucky, and New York – Gen. Leonard Covington
Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
Cowles, Nebraska – W.D. Cowles (railroader)
Cozad, Nebraska – John J. Cozad (landowner)
Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
Crabtree, Oregon – John J. Crabtree (settler)
Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
Craig, Colorado – Rev. Bayard Craig
Cranesville, Pennsylvania – Fowler Crane (founder)
Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
Cranston, Rhode Island – Gov. Samuel Cranston
Crawford, Georgia and Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Crawford's Purchase, New Hampshire – Ethan A. Crawford (landowner)
Crawfordsville, Indiana – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Crawfordsville, Oregon – George F. Crawford (settler)
Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Cresson, Pennsylvania and Cressona, Pennsylvania – Elliott Cresson (Philadelphia merchant)
Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
Creswell, North Carolina – Postmaster General John Creswell
Crittenden, Kentucky – U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden
Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett
Croghan (town), New York – Col. George Croghan
Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
Croswell, Michigan – Gov. Charles Croswell
Crowley, Polk County, Oregon – Solomon K. Crowley (settler)
Crugers, New York – Col. John P. Cruger
Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy (meatpacker)
Cullman, Alabama – Gen. John G. Cullmann (note the spelling)
Culloden, Georgia – William Culloden (settler)
Cullom, Illinois – Shelby Moore Cullom (U.S. Senator)
Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper (note the spelling)
Cumberland, Maryland and Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Cumming, Georgia – Col. William Cumming
Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel John Cummings (landholder)
Cumminsville, Nebraska – J.F. Cummings (county clerk) (note the spelling)
Cumminsville, Ohio – David Cummins (settler)
Cupertino, California – Joseph of Cupertino
Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
Curryville, Missouri – Perry Curry (founder)
Curwensville, Pennsylvania – John Curwen
Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Custer, 5 places in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and South Dakota – Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Cuthbert, Georgia – Col. John Alfred Cuthbert (congressman)
Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
Cynthiana, Kentucky – Cynthia and Anna Harris (daughters of landowner)

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Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade
Dadeville, Alabama – Major Francis L. Dade
Daggett, Indiana – Charles Daggett (resident)
Dagsboro, Delaware – Sir John Dagworthy
Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
Dallas, North Carolina and Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas
Dallas Center, Iowa – George M. Dallas
Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
Dalton, Missouri – William Dalton
Dandridge, Tennessee – Martha Washington (née Dandridge)
Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
Danielsville, Georgia – Gen. Allen Daniel Jr.
Dansville, Michigan – Daniel L. Crossman (resident)
Dansville, Livingston County, New York and Dansville, Steuben County, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (founder)
Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family
Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)
Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)
Danville, Indiana – Daniel Bales (proprietor)
Danville, Kentucky – Walker Daniel (founder)
Danville, Missouri – Daniel M. Boone (landowner and son of Daniel Boone)
Danville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Daniel Montgomery Jr.
Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Darkesville, West Virginia – Gen. William Darke
Darlington, Pennsylvania – S.P. Darlington (Pittsburgh merchant)
Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)
Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French
Darwin, Illinois – Charles Darwin
Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport
Davenport, Nebraska – Colonel George Davenport (indirectly, via Davenport, Iowa)
Davenport, New York – John Davenport (settler)
Davidson, North Carolina – Gen. William Lee Davidson
Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
Davis, West Virginia – Henry Gassaway Davis (U.S. Senator)
Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
Dawson, Nebraska – Joshua Dawson (settler)
Dawsonville, Georgia – William Crosby Dawson (U.S. Senator)
Dayton, Maine and Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton
Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town)
Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day
Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri – Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War)
Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)
Decatur, 4 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, and New York – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)
Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
Decorah, Iowa – Decorie (Native American chief)
Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)
Delancey, New York – James De Lancey (landowner)
DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)
Delano, California – Columbus Delano
Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delavan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)
Delaware – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (note the spelling)
De Leon, Texas and DeLeon Springs, Florida – Juan Ponce de León
Denison, Iowa – J.W. Denison (founder)
Denison, Texas – Rev. C.W. Denison (abolitionist)
Denmark, South Carolina – B.A. Denmark (railroader)
Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)
Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
Dennison, Ohio – Gov. William Dennison Jr.
Denton, Maryland – Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (colonial governor) (According to Gannett (1902, p. 92), Denton is a short version of the town's original name, Eden Town).
Denton, Texas – Capt. John B. Denton
Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver
Depauville, New York – Francis Depau (proprietor)
Depew, New York – Chauncey Depew
De Peyster, New York – Frederic de Peyster
DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
De Smet, Idaho and De Smet, South Dakota – Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary)
DeSoto, 4 places in Florida (county), Georgia, Louisiana (parish), and Mississippi (county) – Hernando de Soto
Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
Devine, Texas – Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of San Antonio)
Dewees, Texas – Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen
Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
DeWitt, Illinois and De Witt, Missouri – DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York)
DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
Dexter, Michigan – Samuel W. Dexter (settler)
Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
Dexter, New York – S. Newton Dexter (businessman from Whitesboro, New York)
D'Hanis, Texas – William D'Hanis (land agent for Henri Castro)
Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
Diamondville, California – James Diamond
Dickey, North Dakota – George H. Dickey (state legislator)
Dickinson, North Dakota – W.S. Dickinson (founder)
Dickson, Tennessee – William Dickson
Dighton, Kansas – Francis Deighton (surveyor) (note the spelling)
Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder)
Diller, Nebraska – H.H. Diller (settler)
Dillon, Montana – Sidney Dillon (railroader)
Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
Dillsboro, Indiana – Gen. James Dill (settler)
Dillsboro, North Carolina – George W. Dill (settler)
Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
Dinwiddie, Virginia – Robert Dinwiddie (colonial governor)
District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus
Dixfield, Maine and Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck)
Dixon, Illinois – John Dixon (founder)
Dixon, Kentucky – Archibald Dixon
Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
Dobson, North Carolina – W.P. Dobson (state legislator)
Dodge Center, Minnesota and Dodgeville, Wisconsin – Gov. Henry Dodge
Dolph, Oregon – Joseph N. Dolph (U.S. Senator)
Donaldsonville, Louisiana – William Donaldson
Doniphan, 3 places in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska – Col. Alexander William Doniphan
Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)^: 477
Doral, Florida – Alfred Kaskel and his wife Doris Bernstein (1906–1988)
Dormansville, New York – Daniel Dorman (innkeeper)
Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
Douglass, Kansas – Joseph Douglass (founder)
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
Downey, California – John G. Downey
Downingtown, Pennsylvania – Thomas Downing
Downs, Kansas – William F. Downs (Atchison resident)
Downsville, New York – Abel Downs (tanner)
Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
Doylestown, Ohio – William Doyle
Doylestown, Pennsylvania – William Doyle (settler)
Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)^: 373
Drakesville, Iowa – John A. Drake (founder)
Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia – Maj. Augustus Drewry
Dryden, New York – John Dryden
Duane, New York and Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)
DuBois, Pennsylvania – John Dubois (founder)
Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)
Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
Duluth, Georgia – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (indirectly, via Duluth, Minnesota)
Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
Dummer, New Hampshire and Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)
Dumont, Colorado – John M. Dumont (mine operator)
Dunbar, Nebraska – John Dunbar (landowner)
Duncombe, Iowa – J.F. Duncombe
Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
Dunlap, Kansas – Joseph Dunlap (trader and founder)
Dunlapsville, Indiana – John Dunlap (settler)
Dunmore, West Virginia – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (colonial governor)
Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
Dunnsville, New York – Christopher Dunn (landowner)
Duplin County, North Carolina – Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
Duquesne, Pennsylvania – Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville (indirectly, via Fort Duquesne)
Durand, Michigan – George H. Durand (U.S. Representative)
Durand, Wisconsin – Miles Durand Prindle (settler)
Durant, Iowa – Thomas Durant
Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham (landowner)
Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834
Dycusburg, Kentucky – William E. Dycus (founder)
Dyersburg, Tennessee – Col. Henry Dyer
Dyersville, Iowa – James Dyer (landowner)

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

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

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Gadsden, Alabama – James Gadsden
Gagetown, Michigan – James Gage (settler)
Gaines, New York – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
Gainesboro, Tennessee – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
Gainesville, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, New York, and Texas – Gen. Edmund P. Gaines
Galen, New York – Galen
Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale (founder)
Galesville, Wisconsin – George Gale (founder)
Gallatin River – Albert Gallatin
Gallatin, New York and Gallatin, Tennessee – Albert Gallatin
Gallaway, Tennessee – J.M. Gallaway (mill owner)
Gallitzin, Pennsylvania – Pierre Gallitzin (founder)
Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora, Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo
Gambier, Ohio – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (benefactor of Kenyon College)
Gansevoort, New York – Col. Peter Gansevoort (resident)
Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
Gardiners Island, New York – Lion Gardiner (settler)
Gardner, Kansas – Henry Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts
Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
Garfield, 6 places in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, Mahoning County, Ohio, and Oregon – James A. Garfield
Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
Garnett, Kansas – W.A. Garnett (resident of Louisville, Kentucky)
Garrett, Indiana and Garrett, Pennsylvania – John W. Garrett (president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Garretson, South Dakota – A. S. Garretson (banker)
Garrison, Texas – Z.B. Garrison (settler)
Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
Garysburg, North Carolina – Roderick B. Gary
Gastonia, North Carolina – William Gaston (judge)
Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
Gates, New York and Gatesville, North Carolina – Gen. Horatio Gates
Gaylesville, Alabama – George W. Gayle
Gaylord, Kansas – C.E. Gaylord (resident of Marshall County)
Gayoso, Missouri – Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (colonial governor)
Geary, Kansas – Gov. John W. Geary
Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
Gentry, Missouri – Col. Richard Gentry
George, Washington – George Washington
George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
Georgetown, Colorado – George Griffith (clerk of court)
Georgetown, Delaware – George Mitchell (resident)
Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
Georgetown, Maine and Georgetown, South Carolina – George I of Great Britain
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
German, New York – Gen. Obadiah German (landowner)
Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
Gervais, Oregon – Joseph Gervais (pioneer)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
Gibbon River – Gen. John Gibbon
Gibbon, Oregon – Gen. John Gibbon
Gibbonsville, Idaho – Gen. John Gibbon
Gibson, Tennessee – Col. Thomas Gibson
Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
Gilberton, Pennsylvania – John Gilbert (mine owner)
Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913
Gilford, New Hampshire – S.S. Gillman (settler)
Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
Gilman, Colorado – H.H. Gilman (resident)
Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
Girard, Pennsylvania – Stephen Girard
Girardville, Pennsylvania – Stephen Girard
Gladstone, Michigan and Gladstone, North Dakota – William Ewart Gladstone
Gladwin, Michigan – Maj. Henry Gladwin
Glen, New York – Jacob Glen (resident)
Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
Glens Falls, New York – John Glenn (discoverer)
Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
Goddard, Kansas – J.F. Goddard (manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway)
Godfrey, Illinois – Capt. Benjamin Godfrey
Goff, Kansas – Edward H. Goff
Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
Goldsboro, North Carolina – M.T. Goldsboro
Goodhue, Minnesota – James M. Goodhue (journalist)
Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham (The town in New Hampshire was named for the one in Maine).
Gorham, New York – Nathaniel Gorham
Gorman Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota – Gov. Willis A. Gorman
Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold (settler)
Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
Gouverneur, New York – Gouverneur Morris
Gove City, Kansas – Capt. Grenville L. Gove
Governors Island (Massachusetts) – Gov. John Winthrop (landowner)
Governors Island (New York) – Gov. Wouter van Twiller (landowner)
Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
Graham, North Carolina – William Alexander Graham (U.S. Senator)
Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years' War)
Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby
Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
Grant, 4 places in Humboldt County, California, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska – Ulysses S. Grant
Grantsville, West Virginia – Ulysses S. Grant
Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
Gratiot, Wisconsin – Col. Henry Gratiot
Grattan Township, Michigan – Henry Grattan
Gravette, Arkansas – E.T. Gravette
Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
Grays Harbor, Washington – Capt. Robert Gray (explorer)
Grayson, Kentucky – Col. Robert Grayson
Graysville, Indiana – Joe Gray (founder)
Great Barrington, Massachusetts – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Greeley, Colorado and Greeley, Kansas – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
Greeley Center, Nebraska – Peter Greeley
Greene, Iowa – George Green (judge) (note the spelling)
Greene, Maine and Greene, New York – Nathanael Greene
Greeneville, Tennessee – Nathanael Greene
Greenleaf, Kansas – A.W. Greenleaf (treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad)
Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
Greensburg, Kansas – Col. D.R. Green
Greenup, Kentucky – Gov. Christopher Greenup
Greenville, Kentucky and Greenville, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
Greenville, Michigan – John Green (settler)
Greenwood, Arkansas – Moses Greenwood (merchant)
Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
Greenwood, Mississippi – Greenwood LeFlore (Choctaw chief)
Greenwood, Nebraska – J.S. Green (settler)
Greig, New York – John Greig (U.S. representative)
Grestley, California – James Grestley
Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
Gridley, Illinois – Asahel Gridley
Griffin, Georgia – Gen. Lewis Lawrence Griffin (president of the Macon and Western Railroad)
Grimes, Iowa – James W. Grimes (U.S. Senator)
Grimesland, North Carolina – Gen. Bryan Grimes
Grinnell, Iowa – W.H. Grinnell (resident)
Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
Grover, North Carolina and Grover, South Carolina – Grover Cleveland
Grundy Center, Iowa – Felix Grundy (U.S. Senator from Tennessee)
Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
Gunnison, Colorado – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
Gunnison Island, Utah – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
Gunnison River – Capt. John Williams Gunnison (explorer)
Guntown, Mississippi – James G. Gunn (early settler)
Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)
Guthrie Center, Iowa – Capt. Edwin B. Guthrie
Guttenberg, Iowa and Guttenberg, New Jersey – Johannes Gutenberg (note the spelling)

H

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

I

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

J

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

K

Kamrar, Iowa – J.L. Kamrar (judge)
Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
Kaneville, Illinois – Gen. Thomas L. Kane
Karnes City, Texas – Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
Kaufman, Texas – David S. Kaufman (U.S. representative)
Kearney, Missouri – Charles E. Kearney, the president of the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad
Kearney, Nebraska – Gen. Philip Kearny (note the spelling)
Kearny, New Jersey – Gen. Philip Kearny
Keene, California – James R. Keene (financier)
Keene, New Hampshire – Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and West Indies trader)
Keenesburg, Colorado – Les Keene (settler)
Keeseville, New York – Richard Keese (founder)
Keizer, Oregon – Thomas Dove Keizur
Kelleys Island, Ohio – Datus and Irad Kelly (landowners) (note the spelling)
Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector)
Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
Kenansville, North Carolina – James Kenan (U.S. representative)
Kendall, New York – Postmaster General Amos Kendall
Kennard, Nebraska – Thomas P. Kennard (secretary of state of Nebraska)
Kenedy, Texas – Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
Kenner, Louisiana – Duncan F. Kenner (lawyer)
Kensington, New Hampshire – Edward Rich, 8th Earl of Warwick and Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent
Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
Kenton, Ohio – Gen. Simon Kenton
Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
Keokuk, Iowa – Keokuk (Sauk leader)
Kerman, California – W.G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar (promoters)
Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian)
Kilbourn City, Wisconsin – Byron Kilbourn (pioneer)
Kilbuck Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – chieftain of the Lenape
Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
Kincaid, Kansas – Robert Kincaid (resident of Mound City)
King City, California – Charles King (founder)
King County, Washington - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (originally for Vice President William R. King)
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – after a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine)
Kingman, Kansas – Samuel Austin Kingman (judge)
Kingman, Maine – R.S. Kingman
Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
Kingsley, Michigan – Judson Kingsley (landowner)
Kingston, Georgia – J.P. King (resident of Augusta)
Kingston, Massachusetts – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
Kingston, Missouri – Gov. Austin Augustus King
Kingsville, Missouri – Gen. William M. King (resident)
Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
Kinman Pond, California – Seth Kinman (settler)
Kinsley, Kansas – W.E.W. Kinsley (resident of Boston, Massachusetts)
Kinston, North Carolina – George III
Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
Kirkland, New York – Rev. Samuel Kirkland
Kirklin, Indiana – Nathan Kirk (founder)
Kirksville, Missouri – Jesse Kirk
Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
Kirkwood, Delaware and Kirkwood, Ohio – Maj. Robert Kirkwood (officer in the American Revolutionary War)
Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
Kirwin, Kansas – Col. John Kirwin
Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson
Klej Grange, Maryland – Katherine (1866-1918), Lucy (1867-1943), Elizabeth (1868-1944), and Josephine Drexel (1878-1966) (daughters of Joseph William Drexel)
Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler)
Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen
Knightsville, Indiana – A.W. Knight (founder)
Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox
Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster^: 649
Knoxville, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Albany County, New York, and Tennessee – Henry Knox
Knoxville, Pennsylvania – John C. Knox (judge)
Kokomo, Indiana – Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo (Miami tribal chief)
Kortright, New York – Lawrence Kortright (patentee)
Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
Kossuth, Mississippi and Kossuth, Ohio – Lajos Kossuth
Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue
Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)

L

Laceyville, Ohio – Maj. John S. Lacey
Laclede, Missouri – Pierre Laclède (founder of St. Louis)
La Conner, Washington – J.J. Connor (settler) (note the spelling)
Laddonia, Missouri – Amos Ladd (settler)
Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
Lairdsville, New York – Samuel Laird (settler)
Lake Ann, Michigan – Ann Wheelock (settler's wife)
Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
Lake Helen, Florida – Helen DeLand (founder's daughter)
Lake Lanier (Georgia) – Sidney Lanier (poet)
Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
Lakin, Kansas – David L. Lakin (resident of Topeka)
Missouri - Mirabeau B. Lamar
Lamar, 3 places in Colorado and Mississippi – L.Q.C. Lamar
Lamar River (Wyoming) – L.Q.C. Lamar
Lamartine, Wisconsin – Alphonse de Lamartine (French historian)
Lambertville, New Jersey – John Lambert (settler)
Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
Lamy, New Mexico – Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy
Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
Landisburg, Pennsylvania – James Landis (founder)
Lanesborough, Massachusetts – James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough
Lanesboro, Pennsylvania – Martin Lane (settler)
Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon
Langhorne, Pennsylvania – Jeremiah Langhorne (jurist)
Lanier, Georgia – Clement Lanier
Lansingburgh, New York – Abraham Lansing (founder)
Laramie River (Ohio) – Pierre-Louis de Lorimier (French fur trader)
Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
Larned, Kansas – Gen. B.F. Larned
Larrabee, Iowa – Gov. William Larrabee
LaSalle, Illinois – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (explorer)
Lassen Peak (California) – Peter Lassen (explorer)
Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
Latty, Ohio – A.S. Latty (settler)
Lauderdale, Mississippi – Col. James Lauderdale
Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder)
Laurens, South Carolina – Henry Laurens
Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
Lawrence, Kansas – Amos Lawrence
Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder)
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee – Capt. James Lawrence
Lawrenceville, Georgia – Capt. James Lawrence
Lawson, Colorado – Alexander Lawson (innkeeper)
Lawton, Michigan – Nathaniel Lawton (landowner)
Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
Le Claire, Iowa – Antoine Le Claire (founder of Davenport)
Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson
Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
Le Ray, New York – Le Ray Chaumont
Le Raysville, Pennsylvania – Vincent le Ray (landowner's son)
Leakesville, Mississippi – Gov. Walter Leake
Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen. Henry Leavenworth (indirectly, via Fort Leavenworth)
Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
Lebec, California – Peter Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
Lecompton, Kansas – Judge D.S. Lecompte
Ledyard, Connecticut – Col. William Ledyard (state militiaman)
Ledyard, New York – Benjamin Ledyard (land agent)
Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
Lee, Massachusetts, Lee, New Hampshire, and Lee, New York – General Charles Lee
Leechburg, Pennsylvania – David Leech
Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
Leicester, Massachusetts – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Leitchfield, Kentucky – Maj. David Leitch
Leland, Illinois – Edwin S. Leland
Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official)
Lenoir, North Carolina – Gen. William Lenoir
Lenora, Kansas – Lenora Hauser
Lenox, Massachusetts – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (note the spelling)
Leon, Iowa – David Camden de Leon
Leon, Kansas – Juan Ponce de León^{[dubious – discuss]} or after the Iowan town
Leonard, Michigan – Leonard Rowland
Leonardville, Kansas – Leonard T. Smith (railroader)
Leopold, Indiana – Leopold I of Belgium
Le Roy, New York – Herman Le Roy (landowner)
Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Levittown, 2 places in New York and Pennsylvania – William Levitt
Lewis and Clark River (Oregon) – Capt. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (explorers)
Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
Lewisboro, New York – John Lewis (resident)
Lewisburg, West Virginia – Samuel Lewis
Lewiston, Idaho – Meriwether Lewis
Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
Lewiston (town), New York – Gov. Morgan Lewis
Lewistown, Ohio – Capt. John Lewis (Shawnee chief)
Lewistown, Pennsylvania – William Lewis
Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
Ligonier, Pennsylvania – John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
Lillington, North Carolina – Col. Alexander Lillington
Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
Lincklaen, New York – John Lincklaen (landowner)
Lincoln, Alabama and Lincoln, Vermont – Major General Benjamin Lincoln
Lincoln, California – Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the California Central Railroad)^: 512
Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
Lincoln Center, Kansas – Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas)
Lincolnton, Georgia and Lincolnton, North Carolina – Major General Benjamin Lincoln
Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
Lincolnville, South Carolina – Abraham Lincoln
Lindley, New York – Col. Eleazar Lindley
Linn, Missouri – Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator)
Linneus, Missouri – Lewis F. Linn (U.S. Senator)
Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
Littleton, Colorado – Richard S. Little
Littleton, Massachusetts – George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (note the spelling)
Littleton, New Hampshire – Col. Moses Little
Livermore, California – Robert Livermore
Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
Livingston, New Jersey – William Livingston
Locke, New York – John Locke
Lockwood, 3 places in California, New York, and West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
Logan Creek Dredge (Nebraska) – Logan Fontenelle (Omaha chief)
Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole)
Logansport, Indiana – Captain Logan (Native American chief)
Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak)
Longs Peak (Colorado) – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer)
Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner)^: 396
Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)^: 516
Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
Louisa, Virginia – Princess Louisa of Great Britain
Louisiana – Louis XIV (King of France)
Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
Louisville, Kansas – Louis Wilson (landowner's son)
Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
Louisville, Mississippi – Col. Louis Wiston (settler)
Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
Lowell, Maine – Lowell Hayden (first person born in the town)
Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell, Michigan, and Lowell, North Carolina – Francis Cabot Lowell
Lowville, New York – Nicholas Low
Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
Lucas, Iowa – Robert Lucas (territorial governor)
Ludington, Michigan – James Ludington (businessman)
Ludlow, Kentucky – Israel Ludlow (pioneer)
Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
Lumpkin, Georgia – Gov. Wilson Lumpkin
Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
Lutesville, Missouri – Eli Lutes (founder)
Luther, Michigan – B.T. Luther (sawmill owner)
Luthersburg, Pennsylvania – W.H. Luther (resident)
Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
Lykens, Pennsylvania – Andrew Lycan (note the spelling)
Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island)
Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder)
Lyons, Kansas – Truman J. Lyon (landowner)
Lyons, Nebraska – Waldo Lyon (resident)
Lyonsdale, New York – Calen Lyon (settler)
Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader)

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Mabbettsville, New York – James Mabbett (landowner)
Macclenny, Florida – H.C. Macclenny (founder)
Macksville, Kansas – George Mack (postmaster)
Macomb, New York – Gen. Alexander Macomb
Macon, 5 places in Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina – Nathaniel Macon
Madelia, Minnesota – Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn)
Madison, 5 places in Georgia, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire and Wisconsin – James Madison
Madison, South Dakota – James Madison (indirectly, via Madison, Wisconsin)
Madison County – James Madison, 18 places in
- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia
Mahomet, Illinois – Muhammad (antiquated spelling)
Mahon, Mississippi – John Mahon
Mamajuda Island, Michigan – Mamajuda (Native American woman)
Mamakating, New York – Mamakating (Native American chief)
Mamaroneck, New York – Mamaroneck (Native American chief)
Mancelona, Michigan – Mancelona Andrews (settler's daughter)
Manchester, Vermont – Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
Mandeville, Louisiana – Antoine James de Marigny de Mandeville
Manlius, New York – Manlius (Roman general)
Manly, North Carolina – Gov. Charles Manly
Mannsville, New York – Col. H.B. Mann
Mansfield, Connecticut – Moses Mansfield (mayor of New Haven)
Mansfield, Massachusetts – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Mansfield, Ohio – Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General)
Mansfield, Pennsylvania – Asa Mann (landowner) (note the spelling)
Mansfield, Texas – R.S. Man and Julian Feild (settlers) (note spelling)
Manteo, North Carolina – Manteo (Native American chief)
Manton, Michigan – George Manton (settler)
Manuelito, New Mexico – Manuelito (Navajo chief)
Marcellus, Michigan and Marcellus, New York – Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania – Maarte (Native American chief)
Marcy, New York – Gov. William L. Marcy
Margarettsville, North Carolina – Margaret Ridley
Margaretville, New York – Margaret Lewis (landowner)
Marias River (Montana) – Maria Wood
Mariaville, Maine – Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham)
Mariaville Lake, New York – Maria Duane (daughter of James Duane)
Marietta, Ohio – Marie Antoinette
Marilla, New York – Marilla Rogers
Marinette, Wisconsin – Marie Antoinette Chevalier (common-law wife of an early fur trader)
Marion – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero), 14 places in
- Alabama – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kansas – Kentucky – Louisiana – Massachusetts – Mississippi – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – South Carolina – Virginia
Marion, North Dakota – Marion Mellen (daughter of Charles Sanger Mellen)
Marion, Oregon – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero) (indirectly, via Marion County, Oregon)
Marion, South Dakota – Marion Merrill (daughter of S.S. Merrill, railroad official)
Marion, Texas – Marion Dove (granddaughter of Joshua W. Young, owner of a plantation that the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway passed through)
Marion County – General Francis Marion of South Carolina, guerilla fighter and hero of the American Revolutionary War, 17 places in
- Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia
Marionville, Missouri – Gen. Francis Marion
Marklee Village, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
Markleeville, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
Marlboro, Vermont – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Marlborough, Massachusetts and Marlborough, New York – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Marlborough, New Hampshire – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
Marquam, Oregon – Philip Augustus Marquam (resident of Portland)
Marquette – Jacques Marquette (French missionary and explorer), 8 places in 7 states:
- Marquette Heights, Illinois - Marquette, Iowa - Marquette, Kansas - Marquette, Michigan - Marquette County, Michigan - Marquette Island, an island in Michigan - Pere Marquette River, a river in Michigan - Lake Marquette, a lake in Minnesota - Marquette, Nebraska - Marquette (town), Wisconsin - Marquette County, Wisconsin
Marsh Creek Springs, California – John Marsh
Marshall, Colorado – Joseph M. Marshall (coal miner)
Marshall, Minnesota – Gov. William Rainey Marshall
Marshall, Texas – John Marshall
Marshallton, Delaware – John Marshall (mill owner)
Marshfield, Vermont – Capt. Isaac Marsh (landowner)
Martensdale, California – Harry J. Marten (founder)
Martin County, Florida – John W. Martin 24th Governor of Florida
Martinez, California – Don Ygnacio Martínez
Martinsburg, Nebraska – Jonathan Martin (settler)
Martinsburg, West Virginia – Col. Thomas Bryan Martin (landowner)
Martins Ferry, California – John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator)
Martin's Location, New Hampshire – Thomas Martin (grantee)
Martinsville, Indiana – John Martin (commissioner)
Maryland – Queen Henrietta Maria of France
Maryland, New York – Queen Henrietta Maria of France (indirectly, via the state of Maryland)
Marysville, California – Mary Murphy Covillaud (Donner Party survivor)
Marysville, Kansas – Mary Marshall (wife of Francis J. Marshall, namesake of Marshall County)
Maryville, Missouri – Mary Graham (wife of Amos Graham, county clerk)
Masaryktown, Florida – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czechoslovak President)
Mason, Illinois – Roswell B. Mason (railroader)
Mason, New Hampshire – Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
Massena, New York – André Masséna (French military officer)
Massillon, Ohio – Jean Baptiste Massillon (French cleric)
Matoaca, Virginia – Pocahontas (Matoaca was her name in her native language).
Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
Matteson, Illinois – George Joel Aldrich Mattison (note the spelling)
Mattoon, Illinois – William Mattoon
Maupin, Oregon – Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here)
Mauriceville, Texas – Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway)
Mauston, Wisconsin – Milton M. Maughs (founder) (note the spelling)
Mayer, Arizona – Joe Mayer (founder)
Mayersville, Mississippi – David Meyers (landowner) (note the spelling)
Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner)
Mays Landing, New Jersey – Cornelius Jacobsen May
Maysville, Kentucky – John May (landowner)
McAdenville, North Carolina – R.Y. McAden (state legislator)
McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler)
McArthur, Ohio – Gen. Duncan McArthur
McClellandville, Delaware – William McClelland (settler)
McColl, South Carolina – D.D. McColl (businessman)
McConnelsville, Ohio – Robert McConnel
McCool, Mississippi – James F. McCool
McCracken, Kansas – William McCracken (railroader)
McCune, Kansas – Isaac McCune (founder)
McDonough, 3 places in Delaware, Georgia, and New York – Thomas Macdonough (naval officer) (note the spelling)
McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder)
McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw
McGregor, Iowa – Alexander McGregor (landowner)
McHenry, Illinois – William McHenry
McKee, Kentucky – George R. McKee (judge)
McKeesport, Pennsylvania – David McKee (ferry owner)
McKinleyville, California – President William McKinley
McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
McMechen, West Virginia - the McMechen family (pioneers)
McMinnville, Tennessee –Gov. Joseph McMinn
McPherson, Kansas – Major Gen. James B. McPherson
Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
Meade, Kansas – Gen. George Meade
Meadville, Mississippi – Cowles Mead (territorial official)
Meadville, Pennsylvania – Gen. David Mead (founder)
Mebane, North Carolina – Gen. Alexander Mebane
Medary, South Dakota – Samuel Medary (territorial governor of Kansas)
Meeker, Colorado – Nathan Meeker (journalist)
Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
Mendoza, Texas – Antonio de Mendoza (colonial governor)
Menifee, California – Luther Menifee Wilson (gold miner)
Mercer, Maine – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
Mercey Hot Springs, California – J.N. Mercy (early settler)
Meredith, New Hampshire – Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of British Parliament)
Meredith, New York – Samuel Meredith (merchant)
Merrill, Wisconsin – S.S. Merrill (railroader)
Merritt, California – Hiram P. Merritt (early settler)
Methuen, Massachusetts – Sir Paul Methuen (British diplomat)
Mettler, California – W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist)
Metz, California – W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster)
Meyers, California – George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner)
Mianus, Connecticut – Mayanno (Native American chief)
Micanopy, Florida – Micanopy, leading chief of Seminoles, led the tribe during the Second Seminole War
Middleton, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
Milan, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
Milbank, South Dakota – Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director)
Milburn, Kentucky – William Milburn
Milesburg, Pennsylvania – Col. Samuel Miles (founder)
Miles City, Montana – General Nelson A. Miles
Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
Millard, Omaha, Nebraska – Ezra Millard (founder)
Millbrae, California – Darius Ogden Mills
Milledgeville, Georgia – Gov. John Milledge
Miller, Nebraska – Capt. J.M. Miller (settler)
Miller Place, New York – Andrew Miller (pioneer)
Millersburg, Missouri – Thomas Miller (settler)
Millersburg, Ohio – Charles Miller (founder)
Millersburg, Pennsylvania – Daniel Miller (founder)
Millerton, New York – Samuel G. Miller (railroad contractor)
Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official)
Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
Millsfield, New Hampshire – Sir Thomas Mills
Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
Milo, Maine – Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece)
Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
Milton, 4 places in Ulster County, New York, North Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia – John Milton
Miltonvale, Kansas – Milton Tootle (landowner)
Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
Minor Creek (California) – Isaac Minor
Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
Mitchell, Colorado – George R. Mitchell
Mitchell, Iowa – John Mitchel (Irish patriot) (note the spelling)
Mitchell, Oregon – U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell
Mitchell, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
Mitchellville, Iowa – Thomas Mitchell
Moberly, Missouri – Col. William E. Moberly
Modesto, California – William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man
Moffat, Colorado – David Moffat (president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad)
Moira, New York – Earl of Moira
Monroe – James Monroe, 12 places in
- Connecticut – Georgia – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – Utah – Washington
Monroe City, Indiana – Monroe Alton (founder)
Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder)
Monroeville, New Jersey – Rev. S.T. Monroe
Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts)
Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson
Montague, Massachusetts – Capt. William Montague
Monterey, California – Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (colonial governor)
Monterey, Massachusetts – Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (indirectly, via Monterrey, Mexico) (The town was named during the Mexican War to commemorate the battle fought there).
Montezuma, Colorado – Moctezuma I (note the spelling)
Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York – General Richard Montgomery
Montgomery, Indiana – Valentine B. Montgomery (founder)
Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
Montrose, Pennsylvania – Dr. Robert H. Rose
Mooers, New York – Gen. Benjamin Mooers
Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher)^: 525
Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
Moorefield, West Virginia – Conrad Moore
Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler)^{[page needed]}
Mooresville, Indiana – Samuel Moore (founder)
Mooresville, Missouri – W.B. Moore (founder)
Moorhead, Minnesota – Gen. James K. Moorhead
Moorhead, Montana – W.G. Moorehead (railroader) (note the spelling)
Moosup, Connecticut and Moosup River (Connecticut) – Moosup (Native American chief)
Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
Moran, Kansas – Daniel Moran (businessman)
Moreau, New York – Jean Victor Marie Moreau (French general)
Morehead, Kentucky – Gov. James Turner Morehead
Morehead City, North Carolina – Gov. John Motley Morehead
Moreno Valley, California – Frank E Brown (Moreno is Spanish for brown); Land developer
Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
Morganfield, Kentucky – Gen. Daniel Morgan
Morganton, North Carolina – Gen. Daniel Morgan
Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas)
Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan (landowner)
Morganville, Kansas – Ebenezer Morgan (founder)
Morrill, Kansas – Gov. Edmund Needham Morrill
Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
Morrilton, Arkansas – E.J. and George H. Morrill (settlers) (note the spelling)
Morris, Connecticut – James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier)
Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Morrisania, New York, New York – Lewis Morris (statesman)
Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania – Robert Morris (financier)
Morrow, Ohio – Gov. Jeremiah Morrow
Morton Grove, Illinois – Levi P. Morton
Moses Lake, Washington – Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia)
Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
Moultrie, Georgia – Gen. William Moultrie
Moultrieville, South Carolina – Gen. William Moultrie
Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
Mount Madison (New Hampshire) – James Madison
Mount Marcy (New York) – Gov. William L. Marcy
Mount Mitchell (North Carolina) – Elisha Mitchell (surveyor)
Mount Monroe (New Hampshire) – James Monroe
Mount Moran (Wyoming) – Thomas Moran (artist)
Mount Morris, New York – Thomas Morris (resident of Philadelphia)
Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
Mount Vernon, Missouri – Admiral Edward Vernon (indirectly, via Mount Vernon)
Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington
Muir, Michigan – W.K. Muir (railroader)
Muldrow, Oklahoma – Henry L. Muldrow (politician)
Mullan, Idaho – John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route)
Mulvane, Kansas – John R. Mulvane (resident of Topeka)
Mundy Township, Michigan – Lt. Gov. Edward Mundy
Munfordville, Kentucky – Richard I. Munford (landowner)
Munnsville, New York – Asa Munn (storekeeper)
Murdo, South Dakota – Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman)
Murfreesboro, North Carolina and Murfreesboro, Tennessee – Col. Hardy Murfree
Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) – Muroc is Corum spelled backwards
Murphy, North Carolina – A.D. Murphy (judge)
Murphys, California – Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers)
Murray, California – David Murray (olive industry figure)
Murray, Kentucky – John L. Murray (former Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844)
Murray, Utah – Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah)
Murrieta, California – Juan Murrieta (Rancher)
Myerstown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Myers (founder)

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Naperville, Illinois – Joseph Naper
Napoleon, Michigan – Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon, Missouri – Napoleon Bonaparte
Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster)
Nashville, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee – Gen. Francis Nash
Nashville, Ohio – Simon Nash (judge)
Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder)
Neligh, Nebraska – John Neligh
Nelson, California – A.D. Nelson (early settler)
Nelson, Nebraska – C. Nelson Wheeler (landowner)
Nelson, New Hampshire – Viscount Horatio Nelson (British admiral and naval hero)
Nelsonville, New York – Elisha Nelson (settler)
New Brunswick, New Jersey – George II of Great Britain (also Duke of Brunswick)
New Florence, Missouri – Florence Lewis (settler's daughter)
New Franklin, Missouri and New Franklin, Ohio – Benjamin Franklin
New Marlborough, Massachusetts – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
New Orleans, Louisiana – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
New Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
New York City and New York (state) – James of York and Albany
Newberry, Michigan – John A. Newberry (railroader)
Newcastle, Maine – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
New Coeln, Milwaukee - Christopher Columbus
Newell, California – Frederick Haynes Newell
Newellton, Louisiana – Edward D. Newell
Newfane, Vermont – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
Newnan, Georgia – Gen. Daniel Newnan
Newnansville, Florida – Gen. Daniel Newnan
Newport, New Hampshire – Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman)
Newport News, Virginia – Christopher Newport and William Newce (sea captains) (note the spelling for the latter)
Newton, Georgia and Newton, Texas – John Newton (soldier of the American Revolutionary War)
Nicholasville, Kentucky – Col. George Nicholas
Nichols, California – William H. Nichols (landowner)
Nick's Cove, California – Nick Kojich (restaurateur)
Nickerson, Kansas – Thomas Nickerson (ATSF president)
Nicollet, Minnesota – Joseph Nicollet (explorer)
Nielsburg, California – Arthur C. Neill (first postmaster)^{[page needed]}
Niles, Fremont, California – Addison Niles
Nobleboro, Maine – James Noble (settler)
Noblesville, Indiana – Gov. Noah Noble
Norden, California – Charles Van Norden (water company official)^: 530
Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
Normans Kill (New York) – Albert de Norman (settler)
Norristown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Norris (Mayor of Philadelphia in 1724)
North, South Carolina – John F. North (founder)
North Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
North Anna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
North Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
North Dansville, New York – Daniel P. Faulkner (settler)
North Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
North Webster, Indiana – Daniel Webster
Norton, Kansas – Capt. Orloff Norton
Norton Sound (Alaska) – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
Nortonville, California – Noah Norton (founder)
Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (dry goods merchant)
Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder)
Nottingham, New Hampshire – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
Novato, California – a local Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Saint Novatus at his baptism

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

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Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco
Paddock, Holt County, Nebraska – Algernon Paddock (U.S. Senator)
Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke
Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler)
Palmer, Massachusetts – Thomas Palmer (judge)
Palmer, Michigan – Waterman Palmer (founder)
Palmer Lake, Colorado – Gen. William Jackson Palmer
Pamelia, New York – Pamelia Brown (wife of Gen. Jacob Brown)
Papinville, Missouri – Pierre Papin
Paragould, Arkansas – W.J. Paramore and Jay Gould (railroaders)
Pardeeville, Wisconsin – John S. Pardee (founder)
Paris, New York – Isaac Paris (merchant)
Parish, New York – David Parish (landowner)
Parishville, New York – David Parish (landowner)
Parker, Kansas – J.W. Parker (landowner)
Parkersburg, West Virginia – Alexander Parker
Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
Parkman, Wyoming – Francis Parkman (historian)
Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
Parkville, Missouri – George S. Park (founder)
Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
Parry Peak (Colorado) – Charles Christopher Parry (botanist)
Parsons, Kansas – Levi Parsons (judge and railroader)
Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor)
Pasco County, Florida – Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida
Paterson, New Jersey – William Paterson
Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler)
Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling)
Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner)
Paulding, Mississippi and Paulding, Ohio – John Paulding (Revolutionary War soldier)
Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler)
Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck)
Paxton, Massachusetts – Charles Paxton
Paxton, Nebraska – W.A. Paxton
Payne, Ohio – Henry B. Payne (U.S. Senator)
Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman)
Peabody, Kansas – F.H. Peabody
Peabody, Massachusetts – George Peabody (philanthropist)
Peekskill, New York – Jan Peek (mariner)
Pelham, Massachusetts – Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Pelham, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Pelham, New York – Pelham Burton (tutor of Thomas Pell)
Pembroke, Georgia – Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident)
Pembroke, New Hampshire – Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke
Pendleton, Indiana – Thomas M. Pendleton (landowner)
Pendleton, New York – Sylvester Pendleton Clark
Pendleton, Oregon – George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign)
Pendleton, South Carolina – Henry Pendleton (judge)
Penfield, Georgia – Josiah Penfield
Penfield, New York – Daniel Penfield (settler)
Pennsylvania – William Penn (Penn's Woods)
Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir William Pepperrell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg)
Perham, Maine – Gov. Sidney Perham
Perham, Minnesota – Josiah Perham (officer of the Northern Pacific Railway)
Perinton, New York – Glover Perrin (settler) (note the spelling)
Perkins Township, Maine – Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Perris, California – Frederick Thomas Perris (chief engineer of the California Southern Railroad)
Perry, Kansas – John D. Perry (railroader)
Perry, Maine, Perry, New York and Perry, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
Perry, Florida – Madison Stark Perry, fourth Governor of the State of Florida, Confederate States Army colonel
Perrysburg (town), New York and Perrysburg, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Perryville, Missouri and Perryville, New Jersey – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Perth Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
Peterboro, New York – Peter Smith
Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant)
Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant)
Petersburg, Delaware – Peter Fowler
Petersburg, Indiana – Peter Brenton (settler)
Petersburg, Pennsylvania – Peter Fleck (settler)
Petersburg, Virginia – Peter Jones (co-founder)
Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler)
Petersham, Massachusetts – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, Viscount Petersham
Petersville, Indiana – Peter T. Blessing (founder)
Peytona, West Virginia – William M. Peyton
Pheba, Mississippi – Pheba Robinson
Phelps, Missouri – Gov. John S. Phelps
Phelps, New York – Oliver Phelps (proprietor)
Pharr, Texas - Henry Newton Pharr (1872-1966)
Phil Campbell, Alabama – Phil Campbell (Railroad engineer)
Philippi, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (judge)
Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
Phillips, Wisconsin – Elijah B. Phillips (railroader)
Philipsburg, Montana – Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers)
Phillipston, Massachusetts – William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Philipstown, New York – Adolphus Philipse (patentee)
Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler)
Phippsburg, Maine – Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling)
Phoenix, New York – Alexander Phoenix
Pickens, Mississippi – James Pickens (landowner)
Pickens, South Carolina – Gen. Andrew Pickens
Pickensville, Alabama – Gen. Andrew Pickens
Pierce, Texas – Thomas W. Pierce (railroader)
Pierceton, Indiana – Franklin Pierce
Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler)
Pierre's Hole (Idaho) – Pierre (Iroquois chief)
Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
Pierrepont, New York – Hezekiah Pierrepont (proprietor)
Pierrepont Manor, New York – William C. Pierrepont (resident)
Pierson, Michigan – O.A. Pierson (settler)
Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief)
Piffard, New York – David Piffard (settler)
Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders)
Pike, New York – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
Pikes Peak (Colorado) – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
Pikesville, Maryland – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
Pillsbury, Minnesota – Gov. John S. Pillsbury (businessman)
Pinckney, New York – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
Pinkham's Grant, New Hampshire – Daniel Pinkham (grantee)
Pishelville, Nebraska – Anton Pishel (postmaster)
Pitcairn, New York – Joseph Pitcairn (proprietor)
Pitcher, New York – Lt. Gov. Nathaniel Pitcher
Pitkin, Colorado – Gov. Frederick Walker Pitkin
Pittsboro, North Carolina – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsburg, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsfield, Maine – William Pitts (proprietor)
Pittsfield, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
Pittsford, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont)
Pittsford, Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (judge)
Plant City, Florida – Henry B. Plant
Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York – Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
Pleasanton, California and Pleasanton, Kansas – Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
Pocahontas, Illinois and Pocahontas, Missouri – Pocahontas
Pocatello, Idaho – Chief Pocatello
Pokagon Township, Michigan – Chief Pokagon (Pottawattomie leader)
Poland, Maine – Chief Poland
Poland, Ohio – George Poland (proprietor)
Polk County – James K. Polk, 11 places:
- Arkansas – Florida – Georgia – Iowa – Minnesota – Missouri – Nebraska – Oregon – Tennessee – Texas – Wisconsin
Polkton, North Carolina – Bishop Leonidas Polk
Polo, Illinois – Marco Polo
Pomeroy, Ohio – Samuel Wyllis Pomeroy (proprietor)
Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
Pompey, New York – Pompey (Roman general)
Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan – Chief Pontiac
Pontotoc, Mississippi – Pontotoc (Chickasaw chief)
Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
Pope Valley, California – William Pope (land grantee)^: 684
Poplarville, Mississippi – "Poplar" Jim Smith (storekeeper)
Port Alsworth, Alaska - Leon "Babe" Alsworth (1909-2004), and Mary Alsworth (1923-1996)
Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
Port Clinton, Ohio – DeWitt Clinton (father of the Erie Canal)
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania – DeWitt Clinton (father of the Erie Canal)
Port Colden, New Jersey – Cadwallader D. Colden (president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company)
Port Dickinson, New York – Daniel S. Dickinson (U.S. Senator)
Port Gibson, Mississippi – David Gibson (landowner)
Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
Port Morris, Bronx, New York – Gouverneur Morris
Port Murray, New Jersey – James Boyles Murray (third president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company)
Port Orford, Oregon – George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
Port Penn, Delaware – William Penn
Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
Port Townsend, Washington – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
Portola, California – Gaspar de Portolà
Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà
Poseyville, Indiana – Gen. Thomas Posey (governor)
Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
Potter, New York – Arnold Potter (proprietor)
Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania – Gen. James Potter
Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
Pottersville, Michigan – George N. Potter
Potts Camp, Mississippi – Col. E.F. Potts
Pottstown, Pennsylvania – John Potts (landowner)
Pottsville, Pennsylvania – John Potts (landowner) (This is the same John Potts as Pottstown).
Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
Powhattan, Kansas – Chief Powhatan (note the spelling)
Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
Poynette, Wisconsin – Peter Paquette (The present name arose from a clerical error).
Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
Pratt, Kansas – Caleb S. Pratt (Civil War soldier)
Prattsburgh, New York – Capt. Joel Pratt (settler)
Prattsville (town), New York – Zadock Pratt
Preble, New York – Commodore Edward Preble
Prentice, Wisconsin – Alexander Prentice (postmaster)
Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
Prescott, Arizona – William H. Prescott (historian)
Prescott, Kansas – C.H. Prescott (railroader)
Prescott, Massachusetts – Col. William Prescott (Revolutionary War officer)
Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright)
Preston Township, Pennsylvania – Samuel Preston (judge and settler)
Prestonsburg, Kentucky – James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia)
Prestonville, Kentucky – James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia)
Preston-Potter Hollow, New York – Preston family and Samuel Potter
Pribilof Islands (Alaska) – Gavriil Pribylov (navigator)
Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales
Prince's Lakes, Indiana – Howard Prince (founder)
Princeton, Indiana – William Prince
Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince
Princetown, New York – John Prince (politician)
Proctor, Kentucky – Rev. Joseph Proctor
Proctor, Minnesota – J. Proctor Knott
Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor
Prophetstown, Illinois – Tenskwatawa Native American leader ("the Shawnee Prophet")
Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost
Puget Sound (Washington) – Peter Puget (explorer)
Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, and Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
Pullman, 3 places in Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia – George Pullman
Pullman, Chicago – George Pullman and Solon S. Beman
Pulteney, New York and Pultneyville, New York (note spelling) – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, British land speculator
Pushmataha County, Oklahoma – Chief Pushmataha (Choctaw leader during the War of 1812)
Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam
Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society

Q

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

R

Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
Radford, Virginia – William Radford
Rahway, New Jersey – Rahway (Native American chief)
Rainier, Oregon – Peter Rainier (British admiral)
Rainsville, Indiana – Isaac Rains (proprietor)
Raleigh, 3 places in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee – Sir Walter Raleigh
Ralston, California – William C. Ralston (mine owner)^: 543
Ralston, Pennsylvania – Matthew C. Ralston
Ramseur, North Carolina – Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Randalls and Wards Islands (New York) – Jonathan Randall (owner)
Randolph, Maine – Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
Randolph, Massachusetts – Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
Randolph, Nebraska – Jasper Randolph (postman)
Randolph, New Hampshire – John Randolph (Virginia congressman and senator)
Randolph, New York – Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Vermont)
Randolph, Vermont – Edmund Randolph
Rangeley, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Rangeley Plantation, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Ransom Township, Michigan – Gov. Epaphroditus Ransom
Ransomville, New York – Clark Ransom (settler)
Rapidan River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (The name is a conjunction of the phrase "Rapid Anne").
Rathbone, New York – Gen. Ransom Rathbone (settler)
Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
Raymond, California – Raymond Whitcomb (travel official)
Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond
Raymond, New Hampshire – John Raymond (grantee)
Raymondville, New York – Benjamin Raymond (land agent)
Raysville, Indiana – Gov. James B. Ray
Readington Township, New Jersey – John Reading (governor of the Province of New Jersey)
Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
Rector, Arkansas – Wharton or Elias W. Rector (politicians)
Red Cloud, Nebraska – Red Cloud (Lakota chief)
Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
Redfield, Arkansas – Jared E. Redfield (railroad executive)
Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
Red Wing, Minnesota – Red Wing (Native American chief)
Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler)
Reeseville, Wisconsin – Samuel Reese (settler)
Reidsville, Georgia – Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida)
Reidsville, North Carolina – Gov. David Settle Reid
Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster)
Remsen, New York – Henry Remsen (patentee)
Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno
Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere
Revillagigedo Islands (Alaska) – Count of Revilla Gigedo (Viceroy of New Spain)
Reynoldsburg, Ohio – Jeremiah N. Reynolds (author and newspaper editor)
Rhinebeck (village), New York – William Beekman (founder) (also named for Rhineland, Germany (Beekman's home))
Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
Richburg, New York – Alvan Richardson (settler)
Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Richmond, Rhode Island – Edward Richmond (colonial attorney general)
Richville, New York – Salmon Rich (settler)
Ridgway, Pennsylvania – John Jacob Ridgway (landowner)
Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
Rienzi, Mississippi – Cola di Rienzo
Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
Ripley, Maine and Ripley, New York – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812)
Rippey, Iowa – C.M. Rippey (settler)
Rising City, Nebraska – A.W. and S.W. Rising (landowners)
Rivanna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler)
Robbinston, Maine – Edward H. and Nathaniel J. Robbins (landowners)
Robert Lee, Texas – Robert E. Lee (US Civil War General)
Robidoux Pass (Nebraska) – Antoine Robidoux (trader)
Robinson, Kansas – Gov. Charles L. Robinson
Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner)
Rochester, New Hampshire and Rochester, Ulster County, New York – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to James II of England)
Rochester, Minnesota – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via Rochester, New York)
Rochester, New York – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
Rockingham, Vermont – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Rockwood, California – Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter)
Rodman, New York – Daniel Rodman
Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder)
Rolfe, Iowa – John Rolfe (settler of Virginia)
Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire)
Rollinsville, Colorado – John Q.A. Rollins
Romulus, Michigan and Romulus, New York – Romulus
Roodhouse, Illinois – John Roodhouse (founder)
Roosevelt, New Jersey – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Root, New York – Erastus Root (politician)
Rose, New York – Robert L. Rose (congressman)
Roseboom, New York – Abraham Roseboom (settler)
Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
Rossie, New York – Rossie Parish (proprietor's sister)
Rossville, Kansas – W.W. Ross (Indian agent)
Rossville, Tennessee – John Ross (Cherokee chief)
Roswell, Colorado – Roswell P. Flower (governor of New York)
Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder)
Rothville, Missouri – John Roth (settler)
Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
Rowesville, South Carolina – Gen. William Rowe
Rowletts, Kentucky – John P. Rowlett
Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
Ruckersville, Virginia - John Rucker (founder)
Rulo, Nebraska – Charles Rouleau (note the spelling)
Rumford, Maine – Benjamin Thompson (also known as Count Rumford)
Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
Rumsey, Kentucky – Edward Rumsey
Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
Rushville, Indiana and Rushville, Illinois – Dr. Benjamin Rush (Founding Father)
Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
Russell, Kansas – Capt. Avra Russell
Russell, New York – Russell Atwater (proprietor)
Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
Rutherford, New Jersey – John Rutherford (landowner)
Rutherfordton, North Carolina – Gen. Griffith Rutherford
Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)

S

Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
Sackets Harbor, New York – Augustus Sacketts (settler) (note the spelling)
Safford, Arizona – Anson P. K. Safford (territorial governor)
Sageville, Iowa – Hezekiah Sage
St. Anthony, Minnesota – Anthony of Padua (indirectly, via Saint Anthony Falls)
Saint Anthony Falls (Minnesota) – Anthony of Padua
St. Augustine, Florida – Saint Augustine
St. Augustine, Maryland – Augustine Herman (explorer)
St. Clair, Michigan – Clare of Assisi (note the spelling)
St. Clair, Pennsylvania – Gen. Arthur St. Clair
St. Clairsville, Ohio – Gen. Arthur St. Clair
St. Clement, Missouri – Clement Grote (settler)
St. Deroin, Nebraska – Joseph Deroin (Otoe chief)
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri – Genevieve
St. George, Maine – Saint George
St. George, Vermont – George III of Great Britain
St. George, West Virginia – St. George Tucker (state legislator)
Saint James, Indiana – Saint James
St. James, 5 places in Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, and North Carolina – Saint James
St. John, Kansas – Gov. John St. John
St. Johns, Michigan – John Swegles Jr. (founder)
St. Johnsbury, Vermont – J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (diplomat)
St. Johns River (Florida) – John the Baptist
St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
St. Joseph, Missouri – Joseph Robidoux IV (founder)
St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan) – Saint Joseph
St. Lawrence River – Saint Lawrence
St. Louis, Missouri – Saint Louis
St. Nazianz, Wisconsin – Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Paul, Minnesota – Saint Paul
St. Paul, Nebraska – J.N. and N.J. Paul (settlers)
St. Pete Beach, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
St. Petersburg, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) – Mary, mother of Jesus
St. Vrain Creek (Colorado) – Ceran St. Vrain (fur trader)
Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
Salisbury, Missouri – Lucius Salisbury (resident)
Sallis, Mississippi – Dr. James Sallis (landowner)
Salyersville, Kentucky – Samuel Salyer (state legislator)
Samsonville, New York – Gen. Henry A. Sampson (note the spelling)
San Andreas, California – Saint Andrew
San Angelo, Texas – Carolina Angela DeWitt (wife of the city's founder Bartholomew J. DeWitt)
San Antonio, Florida and San Antonio, Texas – Saint Anthony of Padua
San Bernardino, California – Saint Bernardine of Siena
San Bruno, California – Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the San Bruno Creek)
San Diego, California – Saint Didacus
San Francisco, California – Saint Francis
San Jose, California – Saint Joseph
San Juan Capistrano, California – Saint John Capistrano
San Leandro, California – Saint Leander of Seville
San Lorenzo, California – Saint Lawrence
San Lucas, California – Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant)
San Luis Obispo, California – Saint Louis of Toulouse
San Luis Rey, California – Saint Louis
San Mateo, California – Saint Matthew
San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California – Saint Michael
San Pablo, California – Saint Paul
Sanborn, Iowa – George W. Sanborn (railroader)
Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee)
Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
Sandisfield, Massachusetts – Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (note the spelling)
Sanford, Florida – Henry Shelton Sanford (diplomat and founder)
Sanford, Maine – Peleg Sanford (proprietor)
Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
Sangerfield, New York – Jedediah Sanger (judge)
Sangerville, Maine – Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner)
Santa Ana, California and Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico – Saint Anne
Santa Barbara, California – Saint Barbara
Santa Clara, California – Saint Clare of Assisi
Santa Monica, California – Saint Monica
Santa Ynez, California – Saint Agnes
Sapinero, Colorado – Sapinero (Native American chief)
Saranap, California – Sara Napthaly (mother of a railroad man)
Sarcoxie, Missouri – Sarcoxie (Native American chief)
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan – Mary, mother of Jesus (indirectly, after the St. Marys River)
Sauvie Island (Oregon) – Jean Baptiste Sauve (dairy owner)
Sayre, Pennsylvania – R.S. Sayre (railroader)
Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
Schoolcraft, Michigan – Henry Schoolcraft (anthropologist)
Schroeppel, New York – Henry W. Schroeppel (resident)
Schuyler, Nebraska – Vice President Schuyler Colfax
Schuylerville, New York – Gen. Philip Schuyler
Schwaub, California – Charles M. Schwab (note the spelling)
Scipio, New York – Scipio Africanus (Roman general)
Scott, New York – General Winfield Scott
Scottdale, Georgia – George Washington Scott
Scottdale, Pennsylvania – Thomas A. Scott (railroader)
Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)^{[citation needed]}
Scottsboro, Georgia – Gen. John Scott
Scottsburg, New York – Matthew and William Scott (settlers)
Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
Scottsdale, Arizona – Chaplain Winfield Scott
Scottsville, Kentucky – Gen. Charles Scott (also served as governor of Kentucky)
Scottsville, New York – Isaac Scott (settler)
Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
Scriba, New York – George Scriba (proprietor)
Searsmont, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
Searsport, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
Seattle, Washington – Chief Seattle
Sedgwick, Arkansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Colorado – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick)
Sedgwick, Kansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Sedgwick County)
Sedgwick, Maine – Major Robert Sedgwick
Sedona, Arizona – Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster)
Seeley, California – Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County)
Seguin, Texas – Juan Seguin (Texas political figure and Texas Revolution patriot)
Seigler Springs, California – Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs)
Selby, California – Prentiss Selby (first postmaster)
Selma, California – Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee)
Sempronius, New York – Tiberius and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Roman tribunes and agrarian reformers)
Senath, Missouri – Senath Douglass (settler's wife)
Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant Charles Floyd
Seward, Alaska, Seward, Nebraska, and Seward, New York – William H. Seward
Seymour, Connecticut – Governor Thomas H. Seymour
Shafter, California – Gen. William Rufus Shafter
Shaftsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
Shakopee, Minnesota – Shakopee (Native American chief)
Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier)
Sharpsburg, Kentucky – Moses Sharp
Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania – James Sharp (proprietor)
Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
Shaver Lake Heights, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
Sheffield, Iowa – James Sheffield (railroad contractor)
Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Shelby, New York – Gen. Isaac Shelby
Shelbyville, 3 places in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri – Gen. Isaac Shelby
Shepherd, Michigan – I.N. Shepherd (founder)
Shepherdstown, West Virginia – Capt. Thomas Shepherd
Sheridan, Montana and Sheridan, Wyoming – General Philip Sheridan (Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War)
Sherman, Michigan – Gen. William T. Sherman
Sherman, New York – Roger Sherman (Founding Father)
Sherman, Texas – Sidney Sherman (Texian patriot)
Shirley, Maine – William Shirley (indirectly, via Shirley, Massachusetts)
Shirley, Massachusetts – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
Shoup, Idaho – George L. Shoup (U.S. Senator)
Shreveport, Louisiana – Captain Henry Shreve, who opened the Red River, which runs through Shreveport, to marine navigation
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shrewsbury
Shullsburg, Wisconsin – Jesse W. Shull (settler)
Shutesbury, Massachusetts – Samuel Shute (governor of Massachusetts)
Sicard Flat, California – Theodore Sicard (early settler)
Sidney, Iowa – Sir Phillip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio)
Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio – Sir Philip Sidney (English author)
Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
Sigel, Illinois – Gen. Franz Sigel
Sigourney, Iowa – Lydia Sigourney (poet)
Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
Simpsonville, Kentucky – John Simpson (U.S. representative)
Sinclairville, New York – Samuel Sinclair (settler)
Sinton, Texas – David Sinton
Skilesville, Kentucky – James R. Skiles
Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
Slatersville, Rhode Island – Samuel Slater (founder)
Slaughters, Kentucky – G.G. Slaughter (settler)
Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota – Ishanumbak (Native American chief whose eyes were said "to have the appearance of sleep.")
Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official)
Sloansville, New York – John R. Sloan (settler)
Sloat, California – John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)^: 418
Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
Smethport, Pennsylvania – Theodore Smeth (friend of proprietor)
Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
Smith Center, Kansas – J. Nelson Smith (soldier) (indirectly, via Smith County)
Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
Smithfield, New York – Peter Smith
Smithfield, North Carolina – John Smith (state legislator)
Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
Smith River (Montana) – Robert Smith (Secretary of State)
Smithtown, New York – Richard Smith (proprietor)
Smithville, Missouri – Humphrey Smith (settler)
Smithville, New York – Jesse Smith (lumber dealer)
Snydertown, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania – Gov. Simon Snyder
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodder (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
Solon, Maine and Solon, New York – Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
Somers, New York – Capt. Richard Somers
Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
Somerville, Massachusetts – Capt. Richard Somers
Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
South Anna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain
South Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
South Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles)
South Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler)
South Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine)
Spafford, New York – Horatio Spafford
Spalding, Missouri – Robert Marion Spalding owner of Spalding Springs
Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks
Spearville, Kansas – Alden Speare (resident of Boston)
Spencer, Indiana – Capt. Spier Spencer
Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
Spencerport, New York – William H. Spencer (settler)
Spivey, Kansas – R.M. Spivey (landowner)
Sprague, Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon
Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
Stafford, Kansas – Lewis Stafford (soldier)
Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish
Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield
Stanley, North Carolina – Elwood Stanley (U.S. representative)
Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard
Stanton, Michigan – Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War)
Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois)
Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die")
Starkey, New York – John Starkey (settler)
Starks, Maine – General John Stark
Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark
Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark
Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
Stephenson, Michigan – Robert Stephenson
Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Sterling, Kansas – Sterling Rosan (settlers' father)
Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling)
Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
Steuben, Maine and Steuben, New York – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Steubenville, Ohio – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Stevens Point, Wisconsin – J.D. Stevens (missionary)
Stevensville, Michigan – Thomas L. Stevens (founder)
Stevensville, Montana – Isaac Stevens (1st governor of Washington Territory)
Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner)
Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
Stewartsville, Missouri – Gov. Robert Marcellus Stewart
Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
Stilesville, Indiana – Jeremiah Stiles (proprietor)
Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
Stockton, 3 places in California, Missouri, and New York – Robert F. Stockton
Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
Stonewall, North Carolina – Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general)
Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
Stoutsville, Missouri – Robert P. Stout
Stoystown, Pennsylvania – John Stoy (settler)
Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling)
Stratton, Vermont – Samuel Stratton (settler)
Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
Strother, Missouri – French Strother (professor)
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania – Col. Jacob Stroud (settler)
Struthers, Ohio – Captain John Struthers (founder)
Stuart, Nebraska – Peter Stuart (settler)
Sturgeon, Missouri – Isaac Sturgeon (resident of St. Louis)
Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
Stuyvesant, New York – Peter Stuyvesant (colonial governor)
Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
Sullivan, Indiana – Daniel Sullivan (soldier)
Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
Sullivan, Missouri – General John Sullivan (indirectly, via Sullivan County, Tennessee)
Sullivan, New Hampshire and Sullivan, New York – General John Sullivan
Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
Sumter, South Carolina – Gen. Thomas Sumter
Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Sunol, California – Antonio Suñol (Californio ranchero)
Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
Sutro, Nevada – Adolph Sutro
Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop)
Sutter, California – John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter
Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter
Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator)
Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser)
Sweetland, California – Sweetland brothers (early settlers)^: 565
Swepsonville, North Carolina – George William Swepson (capitalist)
Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio – John Cleves Symmes (judge)

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Taft, California – William Howard Taft
Talbott, Tennessee – Col. John Talbott
Talbotton, Georgia – Gov. Matthew Talbot
Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee
Taopi, Minnesota – Taopi (Native American chief)
Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
Tatamy, Pennsylvania – Tatamy (Native American chief)
Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
Taylor County, 4 places in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and Kentucky – Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America
Taylor Ridge (Georgia) – Richard Taylor (Cherokee chief)
Taylorsville, Indiana – Zachary Taylor
Taylorsville, Kentucky – Richard Taylor (proprietor)
Taylorsville, North Carolina – John Louis Taylor (judge)
Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
Tazewell, Georgia and Tazewell, Virginia – Henry Tazewell (U.S. Senator from Virginia)
Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
Tecumseh, 3 places in Michigan, Nebraska, and Oklahoma – Tecumseh (Native American leader)
Tekonsha, Michigan – Tekonsha (Native American chief)
Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
Templeton, Massachusetts – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
Terry, Mississippi – Bill Terry (resident)
Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
Thacher Island (Massachusetts) – Anthony Thacher (sailor shipwrecked there)
Thayer, Kansas – Nathaniel Thayer
Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
Thibodaux, Louisiana – Gov. Henry S. Thibodaux
Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
Thomaston, Georgia – Gen. Jett Thomas
Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
Thomasville, Georgia – Gen. Jett Thomas
Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
Thornton, Mississippi – Dr. C.C. Thornton (landowner)
Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (grantee and signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Throggs Neck, Bronx, New York – John Throckmorton (patentee)
Throop, New York – Gov. Enos T. Throop
Thurman, New York – John Thurman
Thurston, New York – William R. Thurston (landowner)
Tiffin, Ohio – Gov. Edward Tiffin
Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
Tipton, Indiana – John Tipton (U.S. Senator)
Titusville, Pennsylvania – Jonathan Titus (landowner)
Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)^{[page needed]}
Tomah, Wisconsin – Tomah (Menominee chief)
Tome, New Mexico – Saint Thomas
Tompkins, New York – Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York)
Tompkinsville, Kentucky and Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York – Daniel D. Tompkins (Vice President and governor of New York)
Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
Toms River, New Jersey – Capt. William Tom (settler)
Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
Torrey, New York – Henry Torrey
Tower City, North Dakota and Tower City, Pennsylvania – Charlemagne Tower
Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)^: 569
Townsend, Delaware – Samuel Townsend (landowner)
Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
Trexlertown, Pennsylvania – John Trexler
Troy, North Carolina – Matthew Troy (lawyer)
Truesdale, Missouri – William Truesdale (landowner)
Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
Tryon, North Carolina – William Tryon (colonial governor)
Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
Tuscola, Illinois – Tusco (Native American chief)
Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
Tusten, New York – Col. Benjamin Tusten
Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
Tygart Valley River (West Virginia) – David Tygart (settler)
Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
Tyringham, Massachusetts – Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard; the only town in Massachusetts named after a woman; Sir Francis Bernard inherited Nether Winchendon House, Bucks., England from her

U

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

V

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

W

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

Y

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

Z

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

Former names

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

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