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This is a list of places in the United States of America which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the place name.

Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)
Abbott, Texas – Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)
Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire
Acorn, Humboldt County, California – Alonzo and Elizabeth Acorn
Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams
Adams, New York – John Adams
Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
Adams Station, California – Mary Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
Addington, California – Joseph and Jess Addington (local farmers)
Addison, Maine and Addison, Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company)
Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer)
Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
Albany, New York – James of York and Albany
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
Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Alexandria, California – Alexander C. McSwain (first postmaster)
Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia)
Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president)
Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler)
Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford
Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great
Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen
Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)
Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
Anderson, Mendocino County, California – Walter Anderson (founder)
Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson
Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson
Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church
Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
Annapolis, Maryland – Anne of Great Britain
Annette, California – Annette L. Jenness (first postmaster)
Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps
Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University)
Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler)
Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco
Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial)
Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel
Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth)
Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (pioneer)
Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor
Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)
Atlanta, Georgia – Atlas (indirectly, via the Western and Atlantic Railroad and the Atlantic Ocean)
Atlanta, Texas – Atlas (indirectly, via Atlanta, Georgia)
Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)
Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)
Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin
Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)

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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 Dickinson Baker
Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker
Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore
Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site.
Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
Barnes, California – Peter Barnes (first postmaster)
Barnes Settlement, California – Thomas Barnes (founder)
Barre, Massachusetts, Barre (city), Vermont & Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician)
Barrington, New Hampshire – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts)
Barrow, Alaska – Sir John Barrow
Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
Bartlett, California – Frank J. Barlett (chemical company executive)
Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett
Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
Barton, Vermont – General William Barton
Bastrop, Louisiana – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
Bedford, New Hampshire – Lord John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas)
Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)
Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier)
Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami
Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo
Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont)
Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth
Benton, 4 places in Arkansas/California/Maine/New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley
Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
Bethel, California – James W. Bethel (local merchant)
Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings
Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner)
Binghamton, New York – William Bingham
Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
Blakes Landing, California – Jeremiah Blakes (owner)
Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant)
Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
Bondville, California – Stephen Bond (merchant)
Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge (official of the Sioux City and Northern Railroad Company)
Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen
Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
Bowdoinham, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
Bradford Siding, California – Johnnie Bradford (clay businessman)
Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster
Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges
Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario on a trip to Niagara Falls)
Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
Brownsville, Calaveras County, California – Alfred Brown
Brownsville, Yuba County, California – I.E. Brown (sawmill owner)
Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas Brown (landowner)
Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown
Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
Buck's Port, California – David A. Buck (founder)
Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)
Bucknell, California – Charles M. Bucknell (early settler)
Bucksport, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Buck (grantee)
Buels Gore, Vermont – Major Elias Buel (landholder)
Buna, Texas – Buna Corley (cousin of the Carroll family, prominent Beaumont lumbermen and industrialists)
Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist)
Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
Burkeville, California – Edwin Burke (mine owner)
Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Burlington, Wisconsin – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
Burrel, California – Cuthbert Burrel (local rancher)
Burson, California – David S. Burson (railroad man)
Bushnell, South Dakota – Frank E. Bushnell (landowner)
Byron, Maine – Lord Byron (English poet)

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Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
Cadenasso, California – Nicolo Cadenasso (early settler)
Camden, Maine – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Cameron, California – George W. Cameron (early settler)
Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)
Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster)
Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives)
Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California)
Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder)
Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder)
Campion, Colorado – John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry)
Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
Canby, California – General Edward Canby
Canfield, California – Charles W. Canfield (founder)
Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)
Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
Carey, California – George R. Carey (first postmaster)
Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
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)
Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson
Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson
Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)
Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin
Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire
Cazenovia, New York – Theophilus Cazenove
Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
Chanz, California – George A. Chanz (first postmaster)
Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
Chardon, California – Charles Langdon (early settler)
Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)
Charleston, Merced County, California – Charles Bambauer (first postmaster)
Charleston, Yolo County, California – Charles H. Gray (first postmaster)
Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)
Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England
Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)
Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy
Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England
Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)
Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton
Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
Chatham, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)
Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler)
Chester, Vermont – George IV of the United Kingdom, the Earl of Chester (eldest son of George III of the United Kingdom)
Chesterfield, Massachusetts – Earl of Chesterfield
Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester
Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
Cicero, New York – Cicero
Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)
Christiana, Delaware – Queen Christina of Sweden
Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark
Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)
Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland
Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
Clinton, 18 places in Arkansas/Connecticut/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Louisiana/Maine/Massachusetts/Lenawee County, Michigan/Macomb County, Michigan/Minnesota/Mississippi/Missouri/New Jersey/Clinton County, New York/Oneida County, New York/Ohio/Vernon County, Wisconsin – DeWitt Clinton
Clinton, Lassen County, California – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Maine, home town of its first postmaster)
Clinton, Kansas – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois)
Clinton, Montana – General Sir Henry Clinton
Clinton, Nebraska – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa)
Clinton, Dutchess County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)
Clinton, North Carolina – American Revolution General Richard Clinton
Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
Clinton, Washington – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan)
Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christoper Columbus
Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
Cordua Bar, California – Theodore Cordua (local merchant)
Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
Cortland, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt
Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
Craig, Modoc County, California – Robert A. Craig (first postmaster)
Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett
Cromwell, California – F.T Cromwell (founder)
Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy
Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel Cummings (landholder)
Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
Cuttens, California – Charles R. Cuttens (first postmaster)

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Daby's Ferry, California – S. Daby (ferry operator)
Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade
Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)

Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas

Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)

Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)

Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family

Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)

Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)

Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)

Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French

Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)

Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport

Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)

Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)

Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)

Dayton, Maine – Thomas Day (submitted the petition for Dayton to separate from Hollis)

Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton

Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town)

Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day

Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri – Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War)

Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)

Decatur, Illinois – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)

Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)

Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)

Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)

DeHaven, California – John J. De Haven

DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)

Delano, California – Columbus Delano

Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delevan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)

Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)

Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)

Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver

DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)

Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)

Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)

DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)

Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)

Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)

Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)

Diamondville, California – James Diamond

Dickinson, California – William Legrand Dickinson

Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, a town elder)

Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)

Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)

Dixfield, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)

Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)

Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck)

Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)

Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)

Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)

Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)

Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas

Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)

Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)

Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)

Downey, California – John G. Downey

Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)

Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)

Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)

Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque

Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)

Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)

Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut

Dummer, New Hampshire – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)

Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer

Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)

Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)

Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)

Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham

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East St. Louis, Illinois – Saint Louis
Eaton, New Hampshire – Connecticut Governor Theophilus Eaton
Ebensburg, Pennsylvania – Eben Lloyd (died in childhood)
Eckley, California – Commodore John L. Eckley
Eddington, Maine – Colonel Jonathan Eddy (officer in the American Revolution)
Edgartown, Massachusetts – Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
Edgecomb, Maine – Lord Edgecomb (a supporter of the colonists)
Edison, Georgia and Edison, New Jersey – Thomas Edison
Edroy, Texas – Ed Cubage and Roy Miller (co-founders)
Edwardsville, Illinois – Ninian Edwards
Effingham, New Hampshire – Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham
El Macero, California – Bruce Mace (local landowner)
Elbridge, New York – Elbridge Gerry
Elizabeth, New Jersey – Elizabeth Carteret (wife of colonial proprietor and statesman George Carteret)
Elizabethton, Tennessee – Elizabeth MacLin Carter and Elizabeth McNabb (wives of two early settlers)
Elizabethtown, Kentucky – Elizabeth Hynes (wife of early settler Andrew Hynes)
Ellensburg, Washington – Mary Ellen Shoudy (wife of John A. Shoudy, purchaser of local trading post and founder)
Ellenville, New York – Ellen Snyder (settler)
Ellicott, New York – Joseph Ellicott (agent of the Holland Land Company)
Ellicott City, Maryland – John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott (founders)
Ellsworth, Maine and Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
Elmendorf, Texas – Henry Elmendorf (mayor of San Antonio)
Elmore, Vermont – Colonel Samuel Elmore (landowner)
Ely's, California – Benjamin Ely (first post master)
Elyria, Ohio – Heman Ely (1817)
Emery, South Dakota – S.M. Emery (landowner)
Emeryville, California – Joseph Stickney Emery (local landowner)
Emory, California – A. Emory Wishon (cement company official)
Ennis, Montana – William Ennis (settler)
Epperson, California – Brutus E Eperson (first postmaster)
Errol, New Hampshire – James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
Erving, Massachusetts – John Erving (early farmer landowner)
Estes Park, Colorado – Joel Estes (founder)
Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
Eugene, Oregon – Eugene Franklin Skinner
Eunice, Louisiana – Eunice Pharr Duson (second wife of Curley Duson, the founder of the city)
Eustis, Maine – Charles L. Eustis (early proprietor)
Evan's Ranch, California – Alvira Evans (first postmaster)
Evans, Colorado – John Evans
Evanston, Illinois – John Evans
Evansville, Indiana – Robert Morgan Evans
Evansville, Wyoming – W.T. Evans (blacksmith)
Evelyn, California – Evelyn Smith (wife of Borax company official)
Everett, Massachusetts – Edward Everett (politician and educator)
Ewing Township, New Jersey – Charles Ewing (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)

F

Fagan, California – Edward Fagan (local landowner)
Fairbanks, Alaska – Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Mendocino County, California – Isabel G. Fairbanks (first postmaster)
Fairfax, California – Charles S. Fairfax
Fallon, California – Luke and James Fallon (early settlers)
Fannett, Texas – B. J. Fannett (local landowner who opened a general store there in the 1890s)
Fargo, North Dakota – William Fargo
Farley, Mendocino County, California – Jackson Farley (early settler)
Farragut, Iowa and Farragut, Tennessee – David Farragut
Farwell, California – James Dumaresy Farwell (landowner)
Fayette, 12 places in Alabama/Indiana/Iowa/Maine/Michigan/Mississippi/Missouri/New York/Ohio/Utah/West Virginia/Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Fayetteville, 11 places in Arkansas/Georgia/Illinois/Indiana/New York/North Carolina/Ohio/Pennsylvania/Tennessee/Texas/West Virginia – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Fayette City, Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
Fellows, California – Charles A. Fellows (railroad contractor)
Femmon, California – Frank Femmon (apple grower)
Fenton, New York – Governor Reuben Fenton
Ferdinand, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler)
Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh
Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner)
Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler)
Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire – William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor John Wentworth)
Flandreau, South Dakota – Charles Eugene Flandrau
Fleener, California – Sam Fleener (homesteader)
Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
Florence, South Carolina – Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area)
Floresville, Texas – Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler)
Floyd, Virginia – John Floyd (Virginia politician)
Floydada, Texas – Dolphin Floyd (died while defending the Alamo) and Ada Price (wife of a local landholder) (indirectly, via Floyd County, Texas)
Fluhr, California – C.G. Fluhr (railroad official)
Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
Forsyth, Montana – General James W. Forsyth
Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins
Fort Dodge, Iowa – Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)
Fort John, California – John Stuart
Fort Kent, Maine – Edward Kent (governor of Maine)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Major William Lauderdale
Fort Lee, New Jersey – Charles Lee
Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)
Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan
Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner)
Fort Seward, California – William H. Seward
Fort Wayne, Indiana – Anthony Wayne
Fort Worth, Texas – William Jenkins Worth
Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator Theodore Foster
Foster Bar, California – William M. Foster (early settler and merchant)
Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
Foxborough, Massachusetts – Charles James Fox
Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife)
Franklin, 37 places in Alabama/Arkansas/Sacramento County, California/Connecticut/Georgia/Idaho/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Kentucky/Louisiana/Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/Minnesota/Missouri/Nebraska/New Hampshire/New Jersey/Delaware County, New York/Franklin County, New York/Macon County, North Carolina/Surry County, North Carolina/Ohio/Cambria County, Pennsylvania/Venango County, Pennsylvania/Tennessee/Texas/Vermont/Virginia/West Virginia/Jackson County, Wisconsin/Kewaunee County, Wisconsin/Manitowoc County, Wisconsin/Milwaukee County, Wisconsin/Sauk County, Wisconsin/Vernon County, Wisconsin – Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Park, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
Franklin Township, 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 – Benjamin Franklin
Franklinton, Louisiana and Franklinton, North Carolina – Benjamin Franklin
Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
Frederick, Maryland – Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Fredericksburg, Virginia – Frederick, Prince of Wales
Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts – John C. Frémont
Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
Frye Island, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
Fryeburg, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
Fulton, South Dakota – Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat)

G

Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale
Gallatin, Tennessee and other Gallatins – Albert Gallatin
Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez
Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
Garcia, California – Rafael Garcia (land grantee)
Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
Garretson, South Dakota – A.S. Garretson (banker)
Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
George, Washington – George Washington
George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
Gertrude, California – Gertrude Haley (first postmaster)
Gest, California – Erasmus Gest (railroad official)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
Goecken, California – Herman Bernard Goecken (local rancher)
Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham
Gosford, California – Earl of Gosford
Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold
Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years War)
Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby
Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
Greeley, Colorado – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
Greenwich, California – Peter D. Greene (founder)
Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
Greenville, Alameda County, California – John Green (early merchant)
Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
Grestley, California – James Grestley
Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
Guernsey, California – James Guernsey (landowner)
Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)

H

Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager
Halifax, Vermont – Earl of Halifax
Hall Station, California – John Hall (local landowner)
Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)
Hamden, Connecticut – John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
Hamilton, Massachusetts – Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton, Montana – J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad)
Hamilton City, California – J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president)
Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)
Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
Hampden, Maine – John Hampden (English patriot)
Hancock, 5 places in Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/New Hampshire/Vermont – John Hancock
Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
Hanson, Massachusetts – Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)
Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill)
Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad)
Harriman, New York – E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad)
Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – John Harris, Sr.
Harrison, Maine – Harrison Gray Otis (landowner)
Harrison, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
Harrison, New York – John Harrison (Quaker leader)
Harrison Township, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
Harrisonburg, Virginia – Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community)
Harrisville, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel John Hart
Hathaway Pines, California – Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster)
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy)
Haugan, Montana – H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution)
Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
Hayward, California – William Hayward (early settler)
Hayward, Minnesota – David Hayward (settler)
Hazard, Kentucky – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
Hazardville, Connecticut – Colonel Augustus George Hazard (gunpowder manufacturer)
Hazelton, California – Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman)
Hearst, California – George Hearst
Heath, Massachusetts – General William Heath
Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president)
Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher)
Henderson, Nevada – U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson
Henniker, New Hampshire – John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
Herkimer, New York – Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War)
Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (WWII casualty)
Hershey, California – David N. Hershey (California assembly member)
Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon B. Heyburn
Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
Hillsborough, New Hampshire – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk)
Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)
Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
Hiram, Maine – Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre)
Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)
Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note spelling)
Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)
Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet)
Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General Samuel Hopkins
Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University)
Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
Hopkinton, New York – early settlers with the name Hopkins
Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
Horton, California – Ben Horton (railroad official)
Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler)
Houston, Minnesota and Houston, Texas – Sam Houston
Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin and Howard, Chippewa County, Wisconsin – Brigadier General Benjamin Howard (officer in the War of 1812)
Howard Springs, California – C.W. Howard (resort owner)
Howards Grove, Wisconsin – H.B. Howard (hotelier and postmaster)
Howland, Maine – John Howland (Mayflower passenger)
Hubbardston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner)
Hubbardton, Vermont – Thomas Hubbard (landholder)
Hudson, Maine – Charles Hudson (indirectly, via Hudson, Massachusetts)
Hudson, Massachusetts – Charles Hudson (United States Representative)
Hudson, New York – Henry Hudson
Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
Humboldt, South Dakota – Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)
Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
Huntington, Vermont – Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders)
Huntington, West Virginia – Collis P. Huntington
Huntington Beach, California – Henry E. Huntington
Huntley, Montana – S.O. Huntley (partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley)
Huntsville, Alabama – John Hunt (settler)
Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland
Hutchins, California – T.B. Hutchins (local landowner)
Hyannis, Massachusetts – Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)
Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner)
Hylandville, California – L.C. Hyland (founder)
Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)

I

Iliff, Colorado – John Wesley Iliff (cattleman)
Imusdale, California – Chales, Edwin, and William Imus (early settlers)
Ira, Vermont – Ira Allen (one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen)
Irasburg, Vermont – Ira Allen (landholder, one of the Green Mountain Boys and brother of Ethan Allen)
Irwin, California – W.A. Irwin (founder)
Isabella, California – Queen Isabella of Spain
Isle La Motte, Vermont – Captain La Motte (established Fort Sainte Anne on this island)
Iverson, California – Charles Iverson

J

Jackson, California – Colonel Alden Jackson
Jackson, Maine – General Henry Jackson
Jackson, Burnett County, Wisconsin – Stonewall Jackson
Jackson, Wyoming – Davey Jackson
Jackson, 14 places in Alabama/Georgia/Kentucky/Louisiana/Michigan/Minnesota/Mississippi/Missouri/New Hampshire/New Jersey/New York/Ohio/Tennessee/Washington County, Wisconsin – Andrew Jackson
Jacksonville, Arkansas – Nicholas and Elizabeth Jackson (landowners)
Jacksonville, Texas – Jackson Smith (soldier)
Jacksonville, 5 places in Alabama/Florida/Illinois/North Carolina/Oregon – Andrew Jackson
Jacobs Corner, California – Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster)
Jaffrey, New Hampshire – George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy Portsmouth family)
Jamesan, California – J.G. James (first postmaster)
Jamesburg, California – John James (founder)
Jamestown, New York – James Prendergast (settler)
Jamestown, Rhode Island – James II of England
Jamestown, Virginia – James I of England
Janesville, California – Jane Bankhead (early settler)
Janesville, Wisconsin – Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster)
Jasper, Texas – William Jasper (American Revolution hero)
Jay, Maine and Jay, Vermont – John Jay (the first chief justice of the Supreme Court)
Jean, Nevada – Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle)
Jefferson, Maine and Jefferson, New Hampshire – Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson City, Missouri – Thomas Jefferson
Jeffersonville, Georgia – Thomas Jefferson
Jenny Lind, California – Jenny Lind
Jesus Maria, California – Jesus Maria (local farmer)
Jewell, California – Omar Jewell (local rancher)
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania – Jim Thorpe
Joaquin, Texas – Joaquin Morris (grandson of Benjamin Franklin Morris, who donated the land for the site)
Joe, Montana – Joe Montana
Joe Walker Town, California – Joe Walker
Johnson, Vermont – William Samuel Johnson
Johnston, Rhode Island – August Johnston (colonial attorney general)
Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer)
Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
Jonesboro, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
Jonesport, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
Jonesville, Virginia – Frederick Jones (landowner)
Joplin, Missouri – a Methodist minister in the new city
Jordan, Montana – Arthur Jordan (founder)
Judsonville, California – Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine)
Julesburg, Colorado – Jules Beni (established a trading post here)
Juneau, Alaska – Joe Juneau (prospector)

K

Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
Karlo, California – Frank De Carlow (early settler)
Karnes City, Texas – Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
Kasson, California – Amasa C. Kasson (investor in the site)
Keene, California – James R. Keene (financier)
Keene, New Hampshire – Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and West Indies trader)
Keenesburg, Colorado – Les Keene (settler)
Keizer, Oregon – Thomas Dove Keizur
Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector)
Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
Kenedy, Texas – Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
Kensington, New Hampshire – Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent
Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
Kerman, California – W.G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar (promoters)
Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian)
Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
King City, California – Charles King (founder)
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – After a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine)
Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson
Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler)
Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen
Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox
Knoxville, Tennessee – Henry Knox
Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
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)

R

Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
Raleigh, North Carolina – Sir Walter Raleigh
Rallsville, California – George W. Ralls (first postmaster)
Randolph, Maine – Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
Randolph, Massachusetts – Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
Randolph, New Hampshire – John Randolph (Virginia congressman and senator)
Randolph, New York – Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Vermont)
Randolph, Vermont – Edmund Randolph
Rangeley, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Rangeley Plantation, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
Raymond, California – T. Raymond (travel official)
Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond
Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
Redwine, California – Ida Redwine (first postmaster)
Reed, California – John Reed (landowner)
Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler)
Reidsville, Georgia – Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida)
Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster)
Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno
Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere
Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
Rienzi, Mississippi – Nicola Gabrina Rienzi
Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
Ripley, Maine – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812)
Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler)
Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner)
Rochester, New Hampshire – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to James II of England)
Rochester, Minnesota – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via Rochester, New York)
Rochester, New York – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester
Rockingham, Vermont – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
Rockwood, California – Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter)
Rogersville, California – Lovely Rogers (local gold discoverer)
Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder)
Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire)
Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder)
Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)

S

Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
St. George, Vermont – Saint George
St. Johnsbury, Vermont – Dr. Jonathan Arnold (member of the Continental Congress)
St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
St. Louis, Missouri – Saint Louis
St. Nazianz, Wisconsin – Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Paul, Minnesota – Saint Paul
St. Pete Beach, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
St. Petersburg, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
Salsig, California – Edgar Budd Salsig (lumber company owner)
San Andreas, California – Saint Andrew
San Antonio, Florida and San Antonio, Texas – Saint Anthony of Padua
San Bernardino, California – Saint Bernardine of Siena
San Bruno, California – Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the San Bruno Creek)
San Diego, California – Saint Didacus
San Francisco, California – Saint Francis
San Jose, California – Saint Joseph
San Juan Capistrano, California – Saint John Capistrano
San Leandro, California – Saint Leander of Seville
San Lorenzo, California – Saint Lawrence
San Lucas, California – Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant)
San Luis Obispo, California – Saint Louis of Toulouse
San Mateo, California – Saint Matthew
San Pablo, California – Saint Paul
Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee)
Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
Sanford, Maine – Loleg Sanford
Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
Sangerville, Maine – Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner)
Santa Ana, California and Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico – Saint Anne
Santa Barbara, California – Saint Barbara
Santa Clara, California – Saint Clare of Assisi
Santa Monica, California – Saint Monica
Saranap, California – Sara Napthaly (mother of a railroad man)
Sawyers, California – Marvin L. Sawyer (first postmaster)
Scarface, California – Scarface Charlie (a Native American warrior in the Modoc War)
Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
Schwaub, California – Charles M. Schwab
Scott, New York – General Winfield Scott
Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)
Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
Scottsdale, Arizona – George Washington Scott
Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
Scribner, California – Leila M. Scribner (first postmaster)
Searsmont, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
Searsport, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
Seattle, Washington – Chief Seattle
Sedgwick, Arkansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Colorado – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick)
Sedgwick, Kansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Sedgwick County)
Sedgwick, Maine – Major Robert Sedgwick
Sedona, Arizona – Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster)
Seeley, California – Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County)
Seigler Springs, California – Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs)
Selby, California – Prentiss Selby (first postmaster)
Selma, California – Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee)
Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant Charles Floyd
Seward, Alaska – William H. Seward
Seymour, Connecticut – Governor Thomas H. Seymour
Shafter, California – Gen. William Rufus Shafter
Shaftsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier)
Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
Shaver Lake Heights, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Vermont – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
Sheridan, Wyoming – General Philip Sheridan (Union cavalry leader in the American Civil War)
Shirley, Maine – William Shirley (indirectly, via Shirley, Massachusetts)
Shirley, Massachusetts – William Shirley (governor of Massachusetts)
Shrewsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shrewsbury
Shumway, California – Susie Shumway (first postmaster)
Shutesbury, Massachusetts – Samuel Shute (governor of Massachusetts)
Sicard Flat, California – Theodore Sicard (early settler)
Sidney, Iowa – Sir Phillip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio)
Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio – Sir Philip Sidney (English author)
Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
Sinton, Texas – David Sinton
Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official)
Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodder (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
Solon, Maine and Solon, New York – Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
Sorenson, California – Harold Sorensen (early settler)
South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
South Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
South Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler)
South Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine)
Spafford, New York – Horatio Spafford
Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks
Spence, California – David Spence (landowner)
Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
Sprague, Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon
Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish
Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield
Stanfield Hill, California – William Stanfield (founder)
Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard
Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois)
Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die")
Starks, Maine – General John Stark
Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark
Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark
Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriot) (note spelling)
Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
Steuben, Maine – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner)
Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
Stockton, California – Robert F. Stockton
Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling)
Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
Sullivan, New Hampshire – General John Sullivan
Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Sunol, California – Antonio Sunol (landowner)
Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop)
Sutter, California – John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter
Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter
Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator)
Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser)

T

Taft, California – William Howard Taft
Taliaferro County, Georgia – Benjamin Taliaferro (Continental Army Captain and U.S. Congressman)
Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee
Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
Toombs County, Georgia – Robert Augustus Toombs (U.S. Senator and C.S.A. Secretary of State)
Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)

U

Underhill, Wisconsin – William Underhill (settler from Vermont)
Urban, California – Eva L. Urban (first postmaster)
Uvalde, Texas – Juan de Ugalde (Spanish governor of Coahuila) (indirectly, via Uvalde County, Texas)
Uxbridge, Massachusetts – Earl of Uxbridge

V

Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca
Vade, California – Sieera Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
Vaughn, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
Virginia – Virgin Queen
Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)

W

Waddington, California – Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
Wade, California – Pinkston Wade (first postmaster)
Wadsworth, Ohio – General Elijah Wadsworth
Waite, Maine – Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
Waitsfield, Vermont – General Benjamin Wait (founder)
Wakefield, Massachusetts – Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
Waldo, Maine – General Samuel Waldo (proprietor)
Waldo, Wisconsin – O.H. Waldo (railroad company president)
Waldo Junction, California – William Waldo (early settler)
Waldoboro, Maine – General Samuel Waldo
Wales, Massachusetts – James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
Wallace, California – John Wallace (surveyor)
Wallace, Idaho – Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
Walong, California – W.A. Long (railroad official)
Walpole, Massachusetts and Walpole, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Walsenburg, Colorado – Fred Walsen (store owner)
Wardner, Idaho – James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
Wardsboro, Vermont – William Ward (grantee)
Warner, New Hampshire – Jonathan Warner (leading Portsmouth citizen)
Warren, 6 places in Connecticut/Maine/Massachusetts/New York/Pennsylvania/Vermont – Major General Joseph Warren
Warren, New Hampshire and Warren, Rhode Island – Admiral Sir Peter Warren (British naval hero)
Warren, Ohio – Moses Warren (surveyor)
Warrenville, Illinois – Julius Warren (settler)
Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Washington (U.S. state) and Washington, D.C. – George Washington
Washington, 14 places in Georgia/Illinois/Indiana/Iowa/Kansas/Maine/Massachusetts/Michigan/Missouri/New Jersey/New Hampshire/New York/North Carolina/Pennsylvania – George Washington
Washington Court House, Ohio – George Washington
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania – George Washington
Washington Terrace, Utah – George Washington
Washingtonville, New York and Washingtonville, Pennsylvania – George Washington
Waterboro, Maine – Colonel Joshua Waters (proprietor)
Wayland, Massachusetts – Dr. Francis Wayland (president of Brown University)
Wayne, Maine – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
Weare, New Hampshire – Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
Webster, Massachusetts and Webster, New Hampshire – Daniel Webster
Welcome, Minnesota – Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
Weld, Maine – Benjamin Weld (proprietor)
Weldon, California – William B. Weldon (rancher)
Wellington, Colorado – C. L. Wellington (employee of the Colorado and Southern Railway)
Wellington, Maine – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor Benning Wentworth
Wesley, Maine – John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
West Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician) (indirectly, via Gardiner, Maine)
West Lafayette, Indiana and West Lafayette, Ohio – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
West Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via Richland, Washington)
West Virginia – Virgin Queen
West Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via Warwick, Rhode Island)
Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
Westmoreland, New Hampshire – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
Whately, Massachusetts – Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
Wheelock, Vermont – Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire – George Whitefield (English evangelist)
Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
Whitinsville, Massachusetts – Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
Whitlow, California – Albert Whitlow (first postmaster)
Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
Whitneyville, Maine – Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
Wibaux, Montana – Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
Wible Orchard, California – Simon William Wible (early settler)
Wickenburg, Arizona – Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
Wicks Corner, California – Moses Wick (first postmaster)
Wiest, California – Daniel W. Wiest (early settler)
Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
Wilkes County, Georgia – John Wilkes
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – John Wilkes and Isaac Barre
Willet, New York – Colonel Marinus Willet
Williams, California – W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
Williams Bay, Wisconsin – Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the War of 1812)
Williamsburg, Virginia – William III of England
Williamstown, Massachusetts – Ephraim Williams
Williston, Vermont – Samuel Willis (landholder)
Willits, California – Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
Willoughby, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr. (U.S. Representative from New York)
Willoughby Hills, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr.
Wilmette, Illinois – Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
Wilmington, 3 places in Delaware/North Carolina/Vermont – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Wilmot, New Hampshire – Dr. James Wilmot (English clergyman)
Wilseyville, California – Lawrence A. Wilsey (corporate executive)
Wilsie, California – W.E. Wilsie (early farmer)
Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
Winchester, Massachusetts – Colonel William P. Winchester
Winchester, New Hampshire – Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London
Windham, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
Windom, Minnesota – Senator William Windom
Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
Winslow, Maine – General John Winslow
Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Joseph Winston
Winters, California – Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
Winthrop, Maine – John Winthrop (first Governor of Massachusetts)
Winthrop, Massachusetts – Deane Winthrop (son of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts)
Wofford Heights, California – I.L. Wofford (founder)
Wolcott, Vermont – General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General James Wolfe
Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
Woodville, Texas – George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
Wurtsboro, New York – Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
Wyandanch, New York – Wyandanch (sachem of the Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
Wytheville, Virginia – George Wythe (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)

X

Y

Ybor City, Tampa, Florida – Vicente Martinez Ybor
Yonkers, New York – Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
Yorba Linda, California – Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
Yorkville, California – R.H. York (founder)
Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
Youngs Hill, California – William Young and his brother (discoverers of gold at the place)
Youngstown, Ohio – John Young (early settler)
Ypsilanti, Michigan – Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the Greek War of Independence)

Z

Zanesfield, Ohio – Isaac Zane (younger brother of Ebenezer Zane)
Zanesville, Ohio – Ebenezer Zane
Zapata, Texas – Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata
Zavalla, Texas – Lorenzo de Zavala (note spelling)
Zillah, Washington – Miss Zillah Oakes (daughter of Thomas Fletcher Oakes, president of the Northern Pacific Railway)

Former names

Adams was the name of Corte Madera, California – Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
Adele was the name of Fields Landing, California – Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
Alexander's Corner was the name of Weedpatch, California – Cal Alexander (early resident)
Allen's Camp was the name of Caliente, California – Gabriel Allen (early settler)
Arp's' was the name of Riverview, Kern County, California – James H. Arp (real estate developer)
Barker House was the name of Woodleaf, California – Charles Barker (early settler)
Barrons Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Richard Barron (landowner)
Beal's Landing was the name of Westport, California – Samuel Beal (early settler)
Bells Harbor was the name of Little River, California – Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
Benton Mills was the name of Ridleys Ferry, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – William C. Biddle (early settler)
Black's was the name of Zamora, California – J.J. Black (early settler)
Boust City was the name of Taft Heights, California – E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
Bowman's Point was the name of West End, Alameda, California – Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
Brannan Springs was the name of Woodfords, California – Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
Brown's was the name of North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler)
Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
Brownsville was the name of Samoa, California – James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
Brownsville was the name of Tecopa, California – William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
Buckingham was the name of Unity, New Hampshire – John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
Bucktooth was the name of Salamanca (town), New York – Bucktooth (notable Native American who lived in the area)
Bulwinkle was the name of Crannell, California – Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California – Robert and John Burns (founders)
Burrville was the name of Clinton, Tennessee – Aaron Burr
Cabarker was the name of El Centro, California – C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
Cantu was the name of Andrade, California – Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
Cardigan was the name of Orange, New Hampshire – George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
Carson's Creek was the name of Angels Camp, California – Kit Carson
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 – Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
Durkee's Ferry was the name of Weitchpec, California – Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
Dykesboro was the name of Cochran, Georgia – B. B. Dykes (settler)
Eastland was the name of Mill Valley, California – Joseph G. Eastland (developer)
Enfield was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Robert Field (early settler)
Etter was the name of Ettersburg, California – Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
Fassking's Station was the name of Encinal, Alameda, California – Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
Fletcher was the name of Aurora, Colorado – Donald Fletcher (businessman)
Foremans was the name of Fourth Crossing, California – David Foreman (town founder)
Franklin Township was the name of Nutley, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
Greenwich was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
Grenville was the name of Newport, New Hampshire – George Grenville (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Hamilton's was the name of Buck Meadows, California – Alva Hamilton (founder)
Hamptonville was the name of Friant, California – William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
Hans Lof's was the name of Toms Place, California – Hans Lof (resort owner)
Hansen was the name of Alton, California – Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
Harrisberry was the name of Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
Harrisburgh was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – Abram Harris (early settler)
Haydenville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
Hearst was the name of Hacienda, California – Phoebe Hearst
Hearst was the name of Vista Robles, California – George Hearst (early settler)
Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of Whitney Portal, California – William L. Hunter (pioneer)
Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of DeSabla, California – John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
Hutton's Ranch was the name of Yolo, California – James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
Jacksonville was the name of Floyd, Virginia – President Andrew Jackson
Jeram was the name of Carey, California – Father Jeram (community leader)
Jewetta' was the name of Saco, California – Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
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)
Maltermoro was the name of Sunnyside, Fresno County, California – George H. Malter (postmaster)
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)
Meiggstown was the name of Mendocino, California – Henry Meiggs
Michaels was the name of Coarsegold, California – Charles Michaels (merchant)
Mingusville was the name of Wibaux, Montana – Minnie and Gus Grisy (postmasters)
Minorsville was the name of McKinleyville, California – Isaac Minor (founder)
Moores was the name of Riverton, California – John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
Moores Station was the name of Honcut, California – John C. Moore (first postmaster)
Norris was the name of Lake Delton, Wisconsin – Edward Norris (surveyor)
Old Lovelock was the name of Coutolenc, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
Partridgefield was the name of Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
Peacock's was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
Peterman's Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
Phillipsburg was the name of Hollis, Maine – Major William Phillips (proprietor)
Phipps-Canada was the name of Jay, Maine – Captain Joseph Phipps
Pollasky was the name of Friant, California – Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
Portersville was the name of Valparaiso, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
Powellville was the name of Blocksburg, California – Joseph James Powell (first settler)
Prescott was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Colonel William Prescott
Putnam's was the name of Independence, California – Charles Putnam (early merchant)
Ralston City was the name of Shakespeare, New Mexico – William Chapman Ralston
Ralston Point was the name of Arvada, Colorado – Lewis Ralston (prospector from Georgia)
Randall was the name of White Hall, California – Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
Reed was the name of Ostrom, California – Henry Reed (early settler)
Rolph was the name of Fairhaven, California – James Rolph (governor of California)
Rooptown was the name of Susanville, California – Isaac Roop (settler)
Ross Landing was the name of Kentfield, California – James Ross (founder)
Ross's Camp was the name of Melborne Camp, California – William Ross (operator)
Rust was the name of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California – William R. Rust (first postmaster)
Ryan was the name of Lila C, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
Scodie was the name of Onyx, California – William Scodie (early merchant)
Sherburne was the name of Killington, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
Simpsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – Robert Simpson (local merchant)
Smith's Landing was the of Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
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)
Townsend was the name of Boothbay, Maine and Southport, Maine – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
Trecothick was the name of Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Barlow Trecothick (Alderman, Member of Parliament and a Lord Mayor of the City of London)
Turner was the name of Harriman, New York – Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
Vaughn was the name of Bodfish, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of Laredo, Texas – Saint Augustine
Warnersville was the name of Trinidad, California – R.V. Warner (early settler)
Wells was the name of Keene, California – Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
Wendell was the name of Sunapee, New Hampshire – John Wendell (proprietor)
Weringdale was the name of Woody, California – Joseph Weringer (town planner)
Wheelersborough was the name of Hampden, Maine – Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
Whitley's Ford was the name of Lookout, California – James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
Williamsburg was the name of Old Town, Kern County, California – James E. Williams (businessman)
Yanks was the name of Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)

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