This is a list of settlements in North America by founding year and present-day country.
Year | Settlement | Subdivision | Country | Notes |
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7500 BC | Tlapacoya | Ixtapaluca | Mexico | Silvia González et al. have published research claiming that "one Tlapacoya skull is the first directly dated human in Mexico with an age of 9730 ± 65 years BP" (before present).[1] |
1500 BC | Tepoztlán | Morelos | Mexico |
1500 BC | San José Mogote | Oaxaca | Mexico |
1500 BC | Chalcatzingo | Morelos | Mexico |
1500 BC | Calixtlahuaca | Mexico | Mexico |
1500 BC | Kaminaljuyu | Guatemala | Guatemala |
1400 BC | Teopantecuanitlan | Guerrero | Mexico |
1400 BC | Nakbe | Petén | Guatemala |
1200 BC | San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán | Veracruz | Mexico |
1200 BC | La Venta | Veracruz | Mexico |
1150 BC | Etlatongo | Oaxaca | Mexico |
1000 BC | Xochitecatl | Tlaxcala | Mexico |
1000 BC | Cuicuilco | Tlalpan | Mexico |
1000 BC | Tres Zapotes | Veracruz | Mexico |
950 BC | Takalik Abaj | Retalhuleu | Guatemala |
950 BC | El Mirador | Petén | Guatemala |
950 BC | Uaxactun | Petén | Guatemala |
800 BC | Zazacatla | Morelos | Mexico |
700 BC | Ticul | Yucatán | Mexico |
600 BC | Tikal | Petén | Guatemala |
500 BC | Monte Albán | Oaxaca | Mexico |
500 BC | Cholula | Puebla | Mexico | Possibly the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the Americas. |
400 BC | Tula | Hidalgo | Mexico |
300 BC | Teotihuacan | México | Mexico | In the Valley of Mexico |
200 | Mitla | Oaxaca | Mexico |
600 | Cantona | Puebla | Mexico |
650 | Cahokia | Illinois | United States |
1003? | L'Anse aux Meadows | Newfoundland & Labrador | Canada | First European settlement in the Americas. The Norse explorer Leif Ericson established a settlement at 51°N on this site in 1003. |
1050 | Motul | Yucatán | Mexico |
1054 | Antiguo Cuscatlan | La Libertad | El Salvador | Cuscatlán was founded in 1054 by Topiltzin Atzil, last king of Tula of Anahuac. It was a city inhabited by ten thousand, with an additional twelve thousand people who lived in xacal, straw huts distributed at the edge of a maar (crater) which housed the sacred lake of Cuscatlan. In the contemporary Native language, Cuscatlán means Jewel City. On Saturday June 17, 1524, led by Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish conquistadors found the doors of Cuscatlan, capital of the Lordship of Cuscatlan. |
1100 | Oraibi | Arizona | United States | [2] |
1144 | Acoma Pueblo | New Mexico | United States | Oldest continuously occupied communities in the USA. The Acoma Pueblo today is known as Sky City. |
1325 | Tenochtitlan | Distrito Federal | Mexico | Today this city is known as Mexico City |
1450 | Taos Pueblo | New Mexico | United States | One of the oldest continuously inhabited Native American settlements in the United States |
1498 | Santo Domingo | Distrito Nacional | Dominican Republic | Capital of the Dominican Republic. Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in the Americas. |
1508 | Caparra | Puerto Rico | United States |
1509 | Sevilla la Nueva | Seville, St. Ann's Bay | Jamaica | Established by Juan de Esquivel, the first Spanish Governor of Jamaica, St Ann's Bay became the third capital established by Spain in the Americas. |
1510 | Nombre de Dios | Colón | Panama | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Panama and continental America. |
1511 | Baracoa | Guantánamo | Cuba | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Cuba, former capital of Cuba. |
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1513 | Bayamo | Granma | Cuba | Former capital in Cuba in 1513. |
1514 | Santiago | Santiago | Cuba |
1515 | Havana | Havana | Cuba | Current capital of Cuba |
1519 | La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz | Veracruz | Mexico | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Mexico. |
1519 | Panama City | Panamá | Panama | First European city on the Pacific coast of the Americas[3] |
1521 | San Juan | Puerto Rico | United States | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in The United States. |
1524 | Quetzaltenango | Guatemala | Guatemala |
1525 | San Salvador | San Salvador Department | El Salvador | Diego de Holguín became the first mayor of San Salvador after the town was founded on April 1, 1525. Founded in what is now the archaeological site Ciudad Vieja, north of the present-day city, it was moved to the Valle de Las Hamacas or the Acelhuate Valley, named so due to the intense seismic activity that characterizes it. On January 2011 San Salvador was named the Iboeroamerican Capital of Culture because the first independent movements in Central America were played in San Salvador on November 5, 1811. |
1524 | Granada | Granada | Nicaragua | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Nicaragua. |
1526 | Acámbaro | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1526 | San Miguel de Gualdape | Georgia | United States | First European settlement in the continental United States. It was abandoned after only 3 months. |
1531 | Mazatlán | Sinaloa | Mexico |
1531 | Culiacán | Sinaloa | Mexico |
1532 | Oaxaca | Oaxaca | Mexico |
1534 | Villa de la Vega | Saint Catherine Parish | Jamaica | After founding Seville in 1509, Spanish settlers moved to a new, healthier site, which they named Villa de la Vega. The English later renamed it Spanish Town when they conquered the island in 1655. |
1536 | San Pedro Sula | Cortés | Honduras |
1539 | Zuni Pueblo | New Mexico | United States | [Ferguson, T.J. (1985). A Zuni Atlas. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press] |
1540 | Compostela | Nayarit | Mexico | Known as Capital de la Nueva Galicia Compostela (1548–1560) |
1540 | Childersburg | Alabama | United States | Recently claimed by the city to be the oldest city in America.[4] Established by Native Americans. |
1540 | Campeche | Campeche | Mexico |
1541 | Morelia | Michoacan | Mexico |
1541 | Charlesbourg-Royal | Quebec | Canada | First French settlement (short lived) |
1542 | Yuriria | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1542 | Mérida | Yucatán | Mexico | Founded by Francisco de Montejo over the ruins of the Maya city of T'ho. |
1542 | Guadalajara | Jalisco | Mexico |
1542 | San Miguel de Allende | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1543 | Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Antigua Guatemala) | Guatemala | Guatemala |
1550 | Acapulco | Guerrero | Mexico | Discovered by Cortés in 1531; settlement founded in 1550.[5] |
1559 | Pensacola | Florida | United States | Spanish explorer Tristán de Luna founded a short-lived settlement in 1559. |
1560 | Port of Spain | Port of Spain | Trinidad And Tobago | In 1560, a Spanish garrison was posted near the foot of the Laventille Hills, which today form the city's eastern boundary. |
1563 | Cartago | Cartago | Costa Rica | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement Costa Rica. |
1564 | Fort Caroline | Florida | United States | Permanent settlement of 200 soldiers and artisans began in 1564, led by Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere, who had accompanied Ribault on the previous expedition. With help from the Timucua Indians, the colonists began building a village and fort on the river’s south bank, naming the area La Caroline after their king, Charles IX. |
1564 | Villa Hermosa de San Juan Bautista | Tabasco | México | The city was founded on June 24, 1564 (day of San Juan Bautista, hence its original name) by the Spanish Don Diego de Quijada |
1565 | Saint Augustine | Florida | United States | The oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the Continental United States. |
1573 | San Germán | Puerto Rico | United States |
1575 | Saltillo | Coahuila | Mexico | Oldest post-conquest settlement in northern Mexico.[6] |
1575 | Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes | Mexico |
1576 | León | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1583 | St. John's[7] | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | Oldest English-founded city in North America.[8] |
1583 | Harbour Grace[9] | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada |
1585 | Roanoke Colony | North Carolina | United States | date=April 2018}}{{clarify|date=April 2018}}[10] |
1596 | Monterrey | Nuevo León | Mexico |
1597 | Portobelo | Colón | Panama |
1598 | Parras | Coahuila | Mexico |
1598 | Española | New Mexico | United States | Along with San Juan de los Caballeros, the first European-founded capital of the "New World" located within the boundaries of the United States; established by Juan de Oñate |
1598 | San Juan de los Caballeros | New Mexico | United States | Along with Española, the oldest European-founded settlement in the Southwestern United States |
1599 | Tadoussac | Quebec | Canada | Oldest continuously inhabited French established settlement in the Americas, oldest European established settlement in Quebec. |
1603 | Salamanca | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1604 | Canso | Nova Scotia | Canada | Founded in 1604, setting began in 1518 by European Fur Traders and Fisherman. Canso and the surrounding Islands were involved in the French and English struggles to gain control of the area. |
1604 | L'Ile-aux-Marins | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | France |
1604 | Saint Croix Island | Maine | United States | Established in the summer of 1604 by a French expedition led by Pierre Dugua that included Samuel de Champlain. After the winter of 1604–1605 the survivors relocated and founded Port Royal, Nova Scotia.[11] |
1605 | Port Royal | Nova Scotia | Canada | Established in the summer of 1605 by French colonizing explorers Pierre du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain who, in 1608, would establish Quebec City. |
1607 | Jamestown | Virginia | United States | Oldest settlement in the original thirteen colonies comprising the United States of America |
1607 | Popham Colony | Maine | United States | Short lived settlement; project of the Plymouth Company |
1607 | Santa Fe | New Mexico | United States | Oldest continuously inhabited state capital in the US. |
1608 | Québec | Quebec | Canada | Original settlement on this site was established by Jacques Cartier in 1535 but abandoned in 1536. He returned in 1541 but abandoned the site again. Samuel de Champlain established a permanent settlement on July 3–4, 1608. Only completely garrison-walled city north of Mexico. |
1610 | Cupids | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada | Oldest continuously occupied English settlement in Canada. |
1610 | Hampton | Virginia | United States | Oldest continuously occupied English settlement in the United States. |
1610 | Kecoughtan | Virginia | United States |
1611 | Henricus | Virginia | United States |
1612 | St. George's | St. George | Bermuda | Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Bermuda. |
1613 | Newport News, Virginia | Virginia | United States |
1614 | Albany, New York | New York | United States | Oldest European settlement in New York State, founded as Fort Nassau, 1614, Fort Orange 1623. First Dutch settlement in North America. |
1615 | Taos, New Mexico | New Mexico | United States |
1620 | Plymouth | Massachusetts | United States | The oldest town in New England and Massachusetts. Settled by pilgrims of The Mayflower |
1622 | Weymouth | Massachusetts | United States | As Wessagussett, resettled and renamed in 1623 |
1623 | South Berwick | Maine | United States | Settled by men whom landed at the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Great Works Rivers on the ship Pied Cow |
1623 | Dover | New Hampshire | United States | oldest settlement in New Hampshire |
1623 | Gloucester | Massachusetts | United States | Abandoned in 1629 but quickly resettled |
1624 | Burlington | New Jersey | United States |
1624 | New Amsterdam | New York | United States | Now New York City. Was settled 1624 on Governors Island, moved to Manhattan 1625. |
1625 | Merrymount | Massachusetts | United States | Now Quincy, Massachusetts |
1626 | Salem | Massachusetts | United States |
1626 | Socorro | New Mexico | United States | Originally founded as Nuestra Señora de Perpetuo Socorro in 1626; abandoned in 1680 following the Pueblo Revolt; resettled in 1815 |
1627 | Scituate | Massachusetts | United States | Scituate, Massachusetts |
1627 | Basseterre | Saint Kitts | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
1628 | Bridgetown | Saint Michael | Barbados |
1629 | Marblehead | Massachusetts | United States | Founded as first naval stronghold for the colonies. |
1629 | Lynn | Massachusetts | United States | Founded as Saugus, different from town today known as Saugus. |
1629 | Charlestown | Massachusetts | United States | Now a neighborhood in Boston |
1630 | Portsmouth | New Hampshire | United States | First known as Strawbery Banke. |
1630 | Jersey City | New Jersey | United States | Pavonia, first Dutch settlement in New Jersey |
1630 | Medford | Massachusetts | United States | Settled on the "Ford" by Meadow |
1630 | Boston | Massachusetts | United States | Founded by John Winthrop and his fleet, as Trimountaine |
1630 | Dorchester | Massachusetts | United States | Now a neighborhood in Boston |
1630 | Boston | Massachusetts | United States | Now a neighborhood in Boston |
1631 | Saco | Maine | United States | Settled as Winter Harbor. |
1631 | Lewes | Delaware | United States | Purchased in 1629 and settled as a short-lived Dutch colony named Zwaanendael in 1631. Because Lewes was the earliest town founded in the state, and because Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution, the town refers to itself as "The first town in the first state." |
1631 | Cambridge | Massachusetts | United States | last=Drake|first=Samuel Adams|title=History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts|publisher=Estes and Lauriat|location=Boston|year=1880|volume=1|pages=305–16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGolOAyd9RMC&pg=PA316&lpg=PA305&dq=newetowne&source=bl&ots=bWCYe4Smmz&sig=SqBiih-2JOSzUBFnLaYU72oUmBI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA305,M1|accessdate=December 26, 2008}} |
1632 | Williamsburg | Virginia | United States |
1633 | Ipswich | Massachusetts | United States |
1632 | St. John's | Antigua | Antigua and Barbuda |
1633 | Hartford | Connecticut | United States Founded as Fort Hoop by the Dutch, renamed by English in 1637, by Thomas Hooker |
1633 | Windsor | Connecticut | United States | First English settlement in Connecticut.[12] Founded as Dorchester, renamed in 1637 |
1634 | Beauport | Quebec | Canada | [13] Became a borough of Québec in January, 2002. |
1634 | Wethersfield | Connecticut | United States | Founded as Watertown, renamed in 1637. |
1634 | Green Bay | Wisconsin | United States |
1634 | St. Mary's City | Maryland | United States |
1634 | Trois-Rivières | Quebec | Canada |
1634 | Willemstad | Curaçao | Kingdom of the Netherlands | Formerly Part of the now dissolved Netherlands Antilles, now autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Not to be confused with one of its constituent countries, the Netherlands) |
1635 | Concord | Massachusetts | United States |
1635 | Newbury | Massachusetts | United States |
1636 | Springfield | Massachusetts | United States | The Massachusetts Bay Colony's first Connecticut River port – and, by far, its westernmost settlement, sitting 85 miles west of the colonial capital at Boston.[14] Founded as Agawam Plantation by William Pynchon. |
1636 | Providence | Rhode Island | United States | Oldest settlement in Rhode Island, founded by Roger Williams. |
1637 | Taunton | Massachusetts | United States [15] |
1637 | Sandwich | Massachusetts | United States | Oldest town on Cape Cod[16] |
1638 | Rowley | Massachusetts | United States [17] |
1638 | Portsmouth | Rhode Island | United States | Founded by Anne Hutchinson |
1638 | Exeter | New Hampshire | United States | One of the four original towns of New Hampshire. Revolutionary War Capital of New Hampshire and site of the ratification of the first state constitution in the North American colonies in January 1776. |
1638 | Hampton | New Hampshire | United States | Founded by Stephen Bachiler. First known as Winnicunnet. |
1638 | Sillery | Quebec | Canada | [18] Now part of Québec |
1638 | Swedesboro | New Jersey | United States | Nucleus of the New Sweden colony that spread along the Delaware River into Pennsylvania and Delaware. |
1638 | New Haven | Connecticut | United States [19] |
1638 | Sainte-Foy | Quebec | Canada | [13] Merged with the City of Québec in 2002. |
1638 | Wilmington | Delaware | United States | Grew from Fort Christina, part of the New Sweden colony. Originally called Willington. |
1639 (prior to) | St. Marks | Florida | United States | [20] |
1639 | Stratford | Connecticut | United States | [21] |
1639 | Newport | Rhode Island | United States |
1639 | Sudbury | Massachusetts | United States |
1640 | Farmington | Connecticut | United States | Founded as Tunxis. |
1640 | Braintree | Massachusetts | United States | Land first settled in 1625 as Merrymount, resettled and incorporated in 1640 [22] |
1640 | Woburn | Massachusetts | United States | First settled in 1640, incorporated in 1642 [23] |
1641 | Haverhill | Massachusetts | United States | First settled in 1640, incorporated 1641 |
1642 | Maspeth | New York | United States |
1642 | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | Founded in 1642 and incorporated later on. |
1642 | Lexington | Massachusetts | United States | [24] |
1642 | Sorel | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Now known as Sorel-Tracy. |
1642 | Warwick | Rhode Island | United States |
1643 | Basse-Terre | Guadeloupe | France | Territorial capital. |
1643 | Dolores Hidalgo | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1643 | Guilford | Connecticut | United States | [21] |
1643 | Rehoboth | Massachusetts | United States | Settled 1636. Incorporated 1643. |
1644 | Longmeadow | Massachusetts | United States | Settled in 1644. Incorporated October 17, 1783. |
1644 | Branford | Connecticut | United States | Known as Brentford at first. |
1644 | Salvatierra | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1645 | Vlissingen | New York | United States | Now Flushing, New York. |
1646 | Andover | Massachusetts | United States | The original Andover, founded by Simon and Anne Bradstreet along with the Barker, Osgood, Stevens, Woodbridge and other families, broke into two separate towns April 7, 1855. |
1646 | Château-Richer | Quebec | Canada | [25] |
1646 | New London | Connecticut | United States | Founded as Faire Harbour |
1647 | Kittery | Maine | United States | Oldest incorporated town in Maine.[26] |
1647 | La Prairie | Quebec | Canada | [13] La Prairie was established as a mission by the Jesuits in 1647. The first parish was founded in 1667. |
1647 | Spanish Wells | Eleuthera | Bahamas |
1649 | Annapolis | Maryland | United States |
1650 | Saint-Ours | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1650 | Kingston | New York | United States | Settled by the Dutch as Esopus, renamed in 1664 by the English |
1651 | Cap-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Canada [18] Became a borough of Trois-Rivières in January, 2002. |
1651 | Medfield | Massachusetts | United States | http://www.town.medfield.net/index.cfm?pid=12391 |
1651 | New Castle | Delaware | United States | On the site of a former aboriginal village, "Tomakonck", settled by the Dutch as Fort Casimir, in 1654 renamed New Amstel |
1651 | Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1652 | Natick | Massachusetts | United States | Founded by John Eliot: Natick comes from the language of the Massachusett Native American tribe and is commonly considered to mean place of hills |
1653 | Lancaster | Massachusetts | United States |
1654 | Northampton | Massachusetts | United States | Founded by a group led by William Houlton and John King. |
1654 | Pelham | New York | United States | Founded by Thomas Pell who purchased 9000 acres from Siwanoy Indians and received a land grant from the English Crown |
1655 | Cap-Saint-Ignace | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1655 | Chelmsford | Massachusetts | United States | Founded by settlers from Concord. The area currently encompassed by Chelmsford, Lowell, Westford, Carlisle and to a certain extent Dracut, were all originally part of Chelmsford. Westford seceded in 1729. Carlisle fully became a part of Concord in 1780, seceding from that town in 1805. Lowell would be formed under extraordinary circumstances when the Boston Associates purchased East Chelmsford to serve as a planned factory town, incorporated as Lowell in 1826. Dracut's relationship to Chelmsford is less clear cut, however the relationship of the two towns in the 17th century resembles a slightly imperial one as Dracut, while a separate entity, was largely dependent on Chelmsford, particularly the West Dracut area, near the old boundary of East Chelmsford. |
1655 | Groton | Massachusetts | United States |
1655 | Billerica | Massachusetts | United States |
1657 | Longueuil | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1658 | Harlem | New York | United States |
1659 | Assonet | Massachusetts | United States | Settled 1659. Incorporated 1683. |
1659 | Hadley | Massachusetts | United States | Founded by a group led by John Russell and Nathaniel Dickinson. |
1659 | Ciudad Juárez | Chihuahua | Mexico |
1659 | Jamestown | Saint Helena | United Kingdom |
1660 | Placentia | Newfoundland | Canada | French Capital until 1713, originally called Plaisance |
1660 | Rye | New York | United States |
1661 | Schenectady | New York | United States |
1662 | Uxbridge | Massachusetts | United States |
1664 | L'Ange-Gardien | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1664 | Woodbridge | New Jersey | United States | Oldest original township in New Jersey |
1665 | Chambly | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1665 | Port-de-Paix | Nord-Ouest | Haiti |
1666 | Charlesbourg | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Became a borough within the City of Québec in 2002. |
1666 | Newark | New Jersey | United States |
1666 | Piscatawaytown | New Jersey | United States | One of the first five New Jersey settlements. Now part of Edison, NJ |
1666 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Grew from Fort Saint-Jean. |
1667 | Boucherville | Quebec | Canada [18] |
1667 | Mendon | Massachusetts | United States | Netmocke Plantation 1662 |
1668 | Amesbury | Massachusetts | United States |
1668 | Saint-Nicolas | Quebec | Canada | [13] Merged with the City of Lévis, Quebec in 2002. |
1668 | Sault Ste. Marie | Michigan | United States | [27] Oldest city in Michigan. |
1669 | Neuville | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1669 | Westfield | Massachusetts | United States | [28] |
1669 | Middleborough | Massachusetts | United States | [29] |
1670 | Charleston | South Carolina | United States |
1670 | Repentigny | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1670 | Wallingford | Connecticut | United States | [30] |
1670 | Hatfield | Massachusetts | United States |
1672 | Varennes | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1672 | Verchères | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1673 | Kingston | Ontario | Canada | Grew from Fort Frontenac. |
1673 | L'Ancienne-Lorette | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1673 | Worcester, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | United States | Incorporated as city in 1848. |
1674 | Pointe-aux-Trembles | Quebec | Canada | [18] Now part of Montréal, Québec. |
1674 | Waterbury | Connecticut | United States |
1674 | Deerfield | Massachusetts | United States |
1675 | Lachine | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Lachine was merged into the City of Montreal in 2002. |
1675 | Lavaltrie | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1676 | Contrecoeur | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1676 | Loretteville | Quebec | Canada | [13] Loretteville merged with the city of Québec in 2002. |
1677 | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1677 | Crosswicks | New Jersey | United States | Settled by Quakers |
1678 | La Pocatière | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1678 | Montmagny | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1679 | Lévis | Quebec | Canada | [18] The first settlement was formerly known as Lauzon, which merged with Lévis in 1989. |
1679 | L'Islet | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1679 | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1680 | Ysleta | Texas | United States |
1680 | South Orange | New Jersey | United States | Grew from Newark (later Orange) |
1680 | Creve Coeur | Illinois | United States | [31] Originally Fort Crevecoeur, later Fort Clark (1813).[32] |
1681 | Baie-Saint-Paul | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1681 | Berthierville | Quebec | Canada [18] |
1681 | Cockburn Town | Turks and Caicos Islands | United Kingdom |
1681 | Bridgewater Township | New Jersey | United States |
1681 | Saint-François (Laval) | Quebec | Canada | [18] Integrated to the City of Laval, Quebec in 1965. |
1682 | Moorestown | New Jersey | United States |
1682 | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States |
1682 | Norfolk | Virginia | United States |
1683 | Dover | Delaware | United States |
1683 | Lachenaie | Quebec | Canada | [13] In 2001, the town of Lachenaie merged with the neighbouring city of Terrebonne. |
1682 | Rivière-du-Loup | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1684 | Bécancour | Quebec | Canada [18] |
1685 | Prairie du Chien | Wisconsin | United States |
1686 | Arkansas Post | Arkansas | United States |
1687 | New Britain | Connecticut | United States |
1687 | Rivière-des-Prairies | Quebec | Canada | [18] Rivière-des-Prairies is now part of the Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough of the City of Montreal. |
1690 | Oka | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1693 | Glastonbury | Connecticut | United States | Settled 1636, Incorporated 1693 (as Glassenbury. Known as Glastenbury from about 1785 until 1870.)[33] |
1693 | Kingston | Kingston | Jamaica |
1694 | Newark | Delaware | United States |
1694 | Santa Cruz | New Mexico | United States |
1695 | Nassau | New Providence | Bahamas |
1696 | Rimouski | Quebec | Canada |
1696 | Sault-au-Récollet | Quebec | Canada | [13] Sault-au-Récollet is now part of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough of the City of Montreal |
1698 | Pensacola | Florida | United States | First established by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano in 1559; abandoned in 1561. Permanently established in 1698 . |
1699 | Biloxi | Mississippi | United States |
1700 | Mascouche | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1701 | Detroit | Michigan | United States | 1701 | Dracut,Massachusetts | United States |
1701 | Nicolet | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1702 | Le Moyne | Alabama | United States | Founded as Fort Louis de la Louisiane by France; abandoned in 1711 |
1703 | Amherst | Massachusetts | United States |
1703 | Kaskaskia | Illinois | United States |
1703 | Saint-Sulpice | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1705 | Bath | North Carolina | United States | Oldest incorporated town in North Carolina. |
1706 | Albuquerque | New Mexico | United States |
1709 | Chihuahua | Chihuahua | Mexico |
1710 | Chatham | New Jersey | United States | On land purchased in 1680. |
1710 | New Bern | North Carolina | United States | Settled initially by German-Swiss immigrants. |
1711 | Mobile | Alabama | United States | Year of the relocation of the settlement of Le Moyne to Mobile |
1711 | Needham | Massachusetts | United States |
1711 | Pointe-Claire | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1711 | Beaufort | South Carolina | United States |
1714 | Natchitoches | Louisiana | United States | Oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase |
1714 | Freehold | New Jersey | United States | Originally called Monmouth Courthouse, the site of the Battle of Monmouth |
1715 (prior to) | Kekionga | Indiana | United States | Capital of the Miami tribe. |
1715 | Les Cèdres | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1716 | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Homeland of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680). |
1716 | Nacogdoches | Texas | United States | Spanish mission established about 1716 in a much older Caddo village.[34] |
1716 | Natchez | Mississippi | United States | Dates to the founding of Fort Rosalie by the French.:[35] |
1716 | Georgetown | Maine | United States | Originally included the modern towns of West Bath, Bath, Phippsburg, Arrowsic, and part of Woolwich as well as current-day Georgetown.[36] |
1717 | L'Assomption | Quebec | Canada | [13] The territory was settled from 1647. |
1717 | Ouiatenon | Indiana | United States |
1718 | New Orleans | Louisiana | United States |
1718 | San Antonio | Texas | United States |
1719 | Longue-Pointe | Quebec | Canada | [13] Now part of Montreal. |
1719 | Trenton | New Jersey | United States |
1719 | Baton Rouge | Louisiana | United States |
1720 | Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] The City of Saint-Laurent merged with Montreal in 2002. |
1720 | Saint-Martinville | Louisiana | United States | Source: "The Attakapas Country: A History of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana", by Harry Lewis Griffin |
1721 | Cortazar | Guanajuato | Mexico |
1721 | Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1722 | Prairie Du Rocher | Illinois | United States |
1722 | Louiseville | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1723 | Beaufort | North Carolina | United States |
1723 | Terrebonne | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1725 | Concord | New Hampshire | United States |
1728 | Fredericksburg | Virginia | United States |
1728 | Nuuk | Sermersooq | Greenland |
1729 | Baltimore | Maryland | United States |
1729 | Pabos | Quebec | Canada | [13] Now part of Chandler, Quebec. |
1729 | Lancaster | Pennsylvania | United States |
1730 | New Brunswick | New Jersey | United States |
1732 | Lanoraie | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1732 | Vincennes | Indiana | United States |
1733 | Richmond | Virginia | United States | [37] |
1733 | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval) | Quebec | Canada | [18] Integrated to the City of Laval in 1965. |
1733 | Savannah | Georgia | United States |
1735 | Ste. Genevieve | Missouri | United States | French-Colonial settlement. Oldest continually-inhabited settlement in Missouri. |
1736 | Châteauguay | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1736 | Gorham | Maine | United States |
1736 | Augusta | Georgia | United States | [38][39] |
1733 | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada | Formerly known as Fort Rouge. |
1738 | Pointe-du-Lac | Quebec | Canada | [18] Merged with the City of Trois-Rivières in 2002. |
1738 | Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1739 | Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1739 | Memphis | Tennessee | United States | Grew from the 1739 French Fort de l'Assomption. |
1740 | Belén | New Mexico | United States |
1740 | L'Île-Perrot and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1741 | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania | United States |
1741 | Sainte-Geneviève and Pierrrefonds | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Those cities merged with Montreal in 2002. |
1742 | Les Écureuils | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] Now Donnacona, Quebec |
1745 | Sainte-Marie | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1745 | Sainte-Rose (Laval) | Quebec | Canada | [18] Integrated to the City of Laval, Quebec in 1965. |
1746 | Saint-Henri | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1746 | Merrimack | New Hampshire | United States |
1749 | Alexandria | Virginia | United States |
1749 | Port-au-Prince | Ouest | Haiti |
1749 | Halifax | Nova Scotia | Canada |
1749 | Windsor | Ontario | Canada | Oldest continually-inhabited settlement in Canada west of Montreal |
1750 | Erie | Pennsylvania | United States | Grew from the French Fort Presque Isle. |
1750 | Rock Island | Illinois | United States | Originally a Native American settlement named Saukenuk[40] |
1751 | Carlisle | Pennsylvania | United States |
1751 | Georgetown | Maryland | United States | Originally in Maryland; became part of the District of Columbia when the District was organized in 1801. Georgetown and its government were incorporated into the District government in 1871. |
1751 | Las Trampas | New Mexico | United States |
1752 | Akwesasne | New York, Ontario, Quebec | Canada, United States | [13] First known as Saint-Régis. |
1752 | Saint-Constant | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1753 | Saint-Philippe | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1754 | Augusta | Maine | United States |
1754 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | United States | Grew from the French Fort Duquesne, replaced by the British Fort Pitt in 1758 |
1755 | Charlotte | North Carolina | United States |
1757 | Saint-Hyacinthe | Quebec | Canada | [13] |
1761 | Charlottesville | Virginia | United States |
1762 | Shepherdstown | West Virginia | United States | Originally known as Mecklenburg. |
1762 | Allentown | Pennsylvania | United States | Incorporated as Northamptontown. |
1763 | St. Louis | Missouri | United States |
1763 | Burlington | Vermont | United States |
1764 | Amherst | Nova Scotia | Canada | [41] |
1764 | Charlottetown | Prince Edward Island | Canada |
1765 | St. Charles | Missouri | United States | [42] |
1766 | Moncton | New Brunswick | Canada |
1766 | Vergennes | Vermont | United States |
1768 | Beloeil | Quebec | Canada | [18] |
1768 | L'Acadie | Quebec | Canada | [13] In 2001, the town of L'Acadie merged with the neighbouring city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. |
1768 | New Smyrna Beach | Florida | United States | Scottish entrepreneur Dr. Turnbull established a colony of 1,225 immigrants at New Smyrna which was the largest colonization attempt in the US.[43] |
1768 | Saint-Eustache | Quebec | Canada | [13][18] |
1769 | Santa Cruz | California | United States |
1769 | San Diego | California | United States | Grew from Presidio of San Diego. |
1770 | Monterey | California | United States | Grew from Presidio of Monterey. Original capital of California[44] |
1770 | San Blas | Nayarit | Mexico | Spanish Naval Department headquarters established at San Blas.[45] |
1771 | Greenville | North Carolina | United States | Settled and founded as Martinsborough. Renamed to Greenville in 1786. |
1772 | Ellicott City | Maryland | United States |
1772 | Morgantown | West Virginia | United States |
1773 | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Guatemala |
1774 | Unalaska | Alaska | United States | Oldest Russian settlement of Aleutian Islands, dating to the 1760s.[46] Permanent trading post established in 1774.[47] |
1774 | Orizaba | Veracruz | Mexico | In 1774, Charles IV grants the title of Villa, but the city was already a Spanish settlement since times of Cortez |
1775 | Tucson | Arizona | United States | The town of Tucson had existed for over 2000 years at this point but this is the date the Spanish built a presidio and formally recognized the town |
1775 | Lexington | Kentucky | United States |
1775 | Boonesborough | Kentucky | United States | Grew from Fort Boonesborough, built by pioneer Daniel Boone. |
1776 | San Francisco | California | United States |
1777 | San Jose | California | United States | Originally known as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, which later became Alta California. |
1778 | Louisville | Kentucky | United States | Grew from Fort Nelson, established by explorer George Rogers Clark. |
1778 | West Point | New York | United States | Grew from Fort Clinton |
1779 | Jonesborough | Tennessee | United States | Later organized as the lost State of Franklin with Jonesborough as capital 1784.[48] |
1779 | Nashville | Tennessee | United States | Grew from Fort Nashborough |
1781 | Montpelier | Vermont | United States |
1781 | Los Angeles | California | United States |
1783 | Clarksville | Indiana | United States |
1784 | Cornwall | Ontario | Canada | Founded on June 6, 1784 by a group of United Empire Loyalists led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet.[49] |
1784 | Frenchtown | Michigan | United States | Third French settlement in Michigan |
1785 | Harrisburg | Pennsylvania | United States |
1785 | Asheville | North Carolina | United States |
1785 | Dubuque | Iowa | United States | Oldest city in Iowa, among oldest European settlements west of the Mississippi River.[50] |
1785 | Fredericton | New Brunswick | Canada |
1785 | Sydney | Nova Scotia | Canada | Former capital of Cape Breton Island Colony until 1820. |
1786 | Columbia | South Carolina | United States |
1786 | Florissant | Missouri | United States | Originally known as St. Ferdinand. |
1786 | Frankfort | Kentucky | United States |
1786 | Portland | Maine | United States |
1786 | Steubenville | Ohio | United States |
1788 | Marietta | Ohio | United States | First permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory |
1788 | Cincinnati | Ohio | United States |
1788 | Charleston | West Virginia | United States | Grew from Fort Lee[51] |
1789 | Buffalo | New York | United States |
1789 | Santa Cruz de Nuca | British Columbia | Canada | First European settlement in British Columbia, only Spanish settlement in what is today Canada |
1790 | Hamilton | Bermuda | United Kingdom |
1790 | Washington | District of Columbia | United States |
1790 | Vicksburg | Mississippi | United States | Grew from Fort Nogales established by Spain in 1790. |
1791 | Georgetown | Delaware | United States |
1791 | Monroe | Louisiana | United States | Originally known as Fort Miro[52] |
1791 | Kenai | Alaska | United States | Grew from Fort St. Nicholas of the Russian-American Company.[53] |
1791 | Knoxville | Tennessee | United States |
1791 | Bangor | Maine | United States |
1792 | Kodiak | Alaska | United States | Founded in 1792 by Alexander Baranov as the new site for at Three Saints Bay, founded in 1784.[54] |
1792 | Raleigh | North Carolina | United States |
1793 | York | Ontario | Canada | First established as Fort Rouillé; now Toronto. |
1793 | Ancaster | Ontario | Canada |
1794 | Fort Wayne | Indiana | United States |
1795 | Edmonton | Alberta | Canada | Grew from Fort Edmonton. |
1796 | Cleveland | Ohio | United States |
1796 | Dayton | Ohio | United States |
1796 | Youngstown | Ohio | United States |
1797 | Athens, Ohio | Ohio | United States |
1797 | Franklinton | Ohio | United States | Eventually absorbed by Columbus, Ohio. |
1797 | Mentor | Ohio | United States |
1797 | Zanesville | Ohio | United States |
1798 | Bowling Green | Kentucky | United States |
1798 | Shepherdstown | West Virginia | United States | Formerly known as Mecklenburg. |
1798 | Warren | Ohio | United States |
1798 | Bethel, Ohio | Ohio | United States | Formerly known as Denham Town, founded by Obed Denham |
1799 | Hudson | Ohio | United States |
1799 | Potosi | Missouri | United States | Town was founded by Moses Austin and was the sight of many small battles during the American Civil War. |
1799 | Ravenna | Ohio | United States |
1799 | Aurora | Ohio | United States |
1799 | Sitka | Alaska | United States | Original capital of Alaska, founded by the Russian-American Company in 1799, destroyed in 1802, reestablished in 1804.[55] |
1800 | Buffalo | New York | United States | "In 1800, it was a town of four log cabins.".[56] |
1800 | Hull | Quebec | Canada | Formerly known as Wright's Town |
1801 | Athens | Georgia | United States | Named after Athens, Greece. |
1803 | Ashtabula | Ohio | United States |
1803 | Chicago | Illinois | United States | Grew from Fort Dearborn. |
1796 | Chillicothe | Ohio | United States |
1804 | Stow | Ohio | United States |
1805 | Huntsville | Alabama | United States |
1807 | Prince George | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from fur trading post of Fort George, established in 1807 by the North West Company.[57] |
1810 | Manchester | New Hampshire | United States |
1810 | San Bernardino | California | United States |
1811 | Astoria | Oregon | United States | Grew from Fort Astoria, founded by the Pacific Fur Company in 1811.[58] |
1811 | Murfreesboro | Tennessee | United States | Originally named Cannonsburgh. State capital from 1818 until 1826. |
1812 | Columbus | Ohio | United States |
1812 | Kamloops | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from fur trading posts of Fort Cumcloups (Fort Kamloops) and Fort She-whaps (Shuswap), founded by the Pacific Fur Company and North West Company, both in 1812.[59] |
1815 | Hamilton | Ontario | Canada |
1815 | Pickerington | Ohio | United States |
1815 | Jonesboro | Arkansas | United States |
1816 | Chattanooga | Tennessee | United States | Originally named Ross's Landing. |
1816 | Cambridge | Ontario | Canada | Original settlement in 1816 named Shades Mill, ON, renamed Galt, ON in 1827. City of Galt amalgamated with the towns of Preston and Hespeler, village of Blair and parts of Waterloo township to form City of Cambridge in 1973. Oldest settled area of Regional Municipality of Waterloo. |
1816 | Saginaw | Michigan | United States |
1817 | Fort Smith | Arkansas | United States |
1817 | Milan | Ohio | United States |
1818 | Pontiac | Michigan | United States | The first settlers arrived in what is now the City of Pontiac in 1818. Two years later there were enough people there to form a village named after the famous Indian Chief Chief Pontiac. Pontiac was Michigan's first inland settlement.The village was officially recognized by the state legislature in 1837 and it incorporated as a city in 1861. |
1818 | Medina | Ohio | United States |
1818 | Columbia | Missouri | United States |
1818 | Jim Thorpe | Pennsylvania | United States | Formally known as Mauch Chunk also known as the burial place of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe. |
1819 | Chapel Hill | North Carolina | United States |
1819 | Montgomery | Alabama | United States | State capital, grew from the 1540 French settlement Fort Toulouse. |
1819 | Springfield | Illinois | United States |
1819 | Tuscaloosa | Alabama | United States |
1820 | South Bend | Indiana | United States | Formerly named Big St. Joseph Station. |
1820 | Oliver's Grove | Minnesota | United States | Near the confluence of the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Vermillion Rivers. In 1820, Oliver's Grove was established as a Trading Post community and a military detachment sent from Fort Snelling. However, until the Treaty of Mendota (1851), the community could not officially be noted for white settlement. In 1857, a year before Minnesota's admission to the union, the area was surveyed and incorporated as the city of Hastings and named the county seat of Dakota County. |
1821 | Alexandria | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from fur trading posts of Fort Alexandria, founded by the North West Company in 1821.[60] |
1821 | Bridgeport | Connecticut | United States |
1821 | Little Rock | Arkansas | United States |
1821 | Indianapolis | Indiana | United States |
1822 | Jacksonville | Florida | United States |
1822 | Jackson | Mississippi | United States |
1823 | Peoria | Illinois | United States | [61]Founded as Peoria in 1823.[62] |
1823 | Tampa | Florida | United States | Grew from earlier military post Fort Brooke. |
1824 | Ann Arbor | Michigan | United States |
1824 | Tallahassee | Florida | United States |
1825 | Akron | Ohio | United States |
1825 | Vancouver | Washington | United States | Grew from Fort Vancouver.[63] |
1825 | Grand Rapids | Michigan | United States |
1825 | Irapuato | Guanajuato | Mexico | Becomes villa in 1825 and ciudad in 1893. |
1826 | London | Ontario | Canada |
1826 | Wabasha | Minnesota | United States | Oldest city in Minnesota |
1827 | Mineral Point | Wisconsin | United States | 3rd oldest city in Wisconsin |
1827 | Guelph | Ontario | Canada |
1827 | St. Andrews | Florida | United States | Now part of Panama City |
1827 | Langley | British Columbia | Canada |
1828 | Key West | Florida | United States |
1829 | Oregon City | Oregon | United States |
1829 | Bainbridge | Georgia | United States |
1833 | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | United States |
1833 | Kitchener | Ontario | Canada | Formerly Berlin, ON, renamed Kitchener, ON in 1916. |
1835 | Austin | Texas | United States |
1835 | Kenosha | Wisconsin | United States | Originally named Southport, renamed Kenosha in 1850. |
1836 | Shreveport | Louisiana | United States |
1836 | Madison | Wisconsin | United States |
1837 | Lansing | Michigan | United States |
1837 | Houston | Texas | United States |
1837 | Oxford | Mississippi | United States |
1837 | Toledo | Ohio | United States |
1839 | Sacramento | California | United States |
1841 | Dallas | Texas | United States |
1841 | Racine | Wisconsin | United States |
1843 | Atlanta | Georgia | United States | first known as "Terminus", and for a short time was renamed "Marthasville" to honor Governor Lumpkin's daughter. |
1843 | Des Moines | Iowa | United States |
1843 | Victoria | British Columbia | Canada | Fort Victoria established in 1843; Victoria incorporated in 1862. |
1844 | Chagrin Falls | Ohio | United States |
1845 | Portland | Oregon | United States |
1847 | Brantford | Ontario | Canada | Originally known as Brant's ford. |
1847 | Salt Lake City | Utah | United States | Originally known as Great Salt Lake City. |
1847 | Harrisburg | Illinois | United States |
1848 | Mesilla | New Mexico | United States |
1849 | Las Cruces | New Mexico | United States |
1849 | Provo | Utah | United States | Grew from Fort Utah. |
1850 | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | Originally known as Bytown. |
1850 | Kansas City | Missouri | United States | Originally named Kansas. |
1850 | Phoenix | Oregon | United States |
1851 | La Crosse | Wisconsin | United States | [64] |
1851 | Seattle | Washington | United States | [65] |
1852 | Oakland | California | United States |
1854 | Gainesville | Florida | United States |
1854 | Omaha | Nebraska | United States |
1854 | Saint Paul | Minnesota | United States |
1854 | Topeka | Kansas | United States |
1854 | Versailles | Missouri | United States |
1855 | Champaign | Illinois | United States | Originally named West Urbana. |
1856 | College Park | Maryland | United States |
1856 | Lincoln | Nebraska | United States | Originally named Lancaster. |
1856 | O'Fallon | Missouri | United States |
1857 | Appleton | Wisconsin | United States |
1858 | Carson City | Nevada | United States |
1858 | Denver | Colorado | United States |
1858 | New Westminster | British Columbia | Canada |
1859 | Olympia | Washington | United States |
1862 | Boise | Idaho | United States |
1862 | Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | Canada | Originally called Isbister's Settlement. |
1864 | Salinas | California | United States | [66] |
1865 | Sioux Falls | South Dakota | United States | Grew from Fort Dakota. |
1867 | Cheyenne | Wyoming | United States |
1867 | Minneapolis | Minnesota | United States |
1868 | Phoenix | Arizona | United States |
1869 | Lethbridge | Alberta | Canada | Grew from Fort Whoop-Up. |
1870 | Wichita | Kansas | United States |
1871 | Birmingham | Alabama | United States |
1871 | Colorado Springs | Colorado | United States | Originally named Fountain Colony. |
1871 | Fargo | North Dakota | United States | Originally named Centralia. |
1872 | Anniston | Alabama | United States |
1874 | Pasadena | California | United States |
1875 | Orlando | Florida | United States |
1875 | Calgary | Alberta | Canada | Grew from Fort Calgary |
1877 | Billings | Montana | United States |
1881 | Brandon | Manitoba | Canada |
1882 | Regina | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1882 | Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1882 | Yorkton | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1883 | Saskatoon | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1883 | Swift Current | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1885 | Ruston | Louisiana | United States |
1886 | Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada | Named after English explorer George Vancouver |
1886 | Nelson | British Columbia | Canada |
1886 | Takoma Park | Maryland | United States |
1887 | Gulfport | Mississippi | United States | [67] |
1889 | Clemson | South Carolina | United States | Originally known as Calhoun. |
1889 | Norman | Oklahoma | United States |
1889 | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | United States |
1889 | Tijuana | Baja California | Mexico | Tijuana derives from the Kumeyaay word Tiwan, meaning by-the-sea. |
1892 | Estevan | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1892 | Grottoes | Virginia | United States |
1893 | Kamloops | British Columbia | Canada | From the Shuswap language "Tk'emlups" meaning meeting of the waters. |
1894 | Palo Alto | California | United States |
1894 | Tempe | Arizona | United States |
1896 | Dawson City | Yukon | Canada | Capital of Yukon Territory until 1952. |
1896 | Miami | Florida | United States |
1896 | State College | Pennsylvania | United States |
1905 | Cranbrook | British Columbia | Canada |
1903 | North Battleford | Saskatchewan | Canada |
1905 | Las Vegas | Nevada | United States |
1906 | Virginia Beach | Virginia | United States |
1911 | The Pas | Manitoba | Canada | Grew from Fort Paskoyac |
1914 | Anchorage | Alaska | United States |
1915 | Prince George | British Columbia | Canada | Grew from Fort George |
1916 | Truth Or Consequences | New Mexico | United States | Originally named Hot Springs, the city changed its name to "Truth or Consequences", the title of a popular NBC Radio program. In March 1950, Ralph Edwards, the host of the radio quiz show Truth or Consequences, announced that he would air the program on its 10th anniversary from the first town that renamed itself after the show; Hot Springs won the honor, officially changing its name on March 31, 1950 (the program broadcast from there the following evening, April 1). |
1934 | Yellowknife | Northwest Territories | Canada |
1942 | Iqaluit | Nunavut | Canada |
1950 | Alert | Nunavut | Canada | Northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world |
1956 | Corner Brook | Newfoundland and Labrador | Canada |
1970 | Cancún | Quintana Roo | Mexico | Planned tourist balneario resort city |
2002 | Gatineau | Quebec | Canada | Formed by the merging of five cities, including Hull, above. |
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