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  2. B

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  4. D

  5. E

  6. F

  7. G

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  9. I

  10. J

  11. K

  12. L

  13. M

  14. N

  15. O

  16. P

  17. Q

  18. R

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  24. Y

  25. Z

  26. Former names

  27. See also

  28. References

{{Distinguish|List of places named after places in the United States}}

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

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A

  • Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College)
  • Abbott, Texas – Joseph Abbott (Texas politician)[1]
  • Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town)
  • Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire[2]
  • Ackerman, California – John Q. Ackerman (first postmaster)[3]
  • Acorn, Humboldt County, California – Alonzo and Elizabeth Acorn
  • Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner)
  • Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams[4]
  • Adams, New York – John Adams[5]
  • Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader)
  • Adams Station, California – Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner)
  • Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder)
  • Adamsville, Arizona - Charles S. Adams (original settler)
  • Addington, California – Joseph and Jess Addington (local farmers)
  • Addison, Maine and Addison, Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician)
  • Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder)
  • Adrian, Michigan – Roman Emperor Hadrian[6]
  • Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company)
  • Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer)
  • Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York)
  • Albany, New York – James of York and Albany[7]
  • Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners)[8]{{rp|1387}}
  • Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons)
  • Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque[9]
  • Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army
  • Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner)
  • Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
  • Alexandria, California – Alexander C. McSwain (first postmaster)
  • Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia)
  • Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president)
  • Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler)
  • Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford
  • Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great
  • Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch)
  • Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker)
  • Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster)
  • Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen
  • Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling)
  • Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton)
  • Alva, Florida - Thomas Alva Edison (inventor)
  • Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California)
  • Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler)
  • Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector)
  • Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts)
  • Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River)
  • Anderson, Mendocino County, California – Walter Anderson (founder)
  • Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson
  • Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson
  • Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner)
  • Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade
  • Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church
  • Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant)
  • Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny
  • Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain[10]
  • Annette, California – Annette L. Jenness (first postmaster)
  • Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
  • Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps
  • Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling)
  • Anthony, Kansas – George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas)[11]
  • Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)[12]
  • 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)[13]
  • Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants)
  • Arnold Heights, California – General Henry H. Arnold[14]
  • 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[15]
  • Atchison, Kansas – David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator)[16]
  • Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder)
  • Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner)
  • Auberry, California – Al Yarborough
  • Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha[17]
  • Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn)
  • Auld, California – George Auld (first postmaster)[18]
  • Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner)
  • Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler)
  • Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin[19]
  • Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder)
  • Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster)
  • Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper)
  • Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)

B

  • Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator[20]
  • Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper)
  • Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge
  • Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works)
  • Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
  • Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon)[21][22]
  • Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker[23]
  • Baldwin, Maine – Colonel (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
  • Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
  • Bale, California – Edward Turner Bale, land grantee
  • Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
  • Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore
  • Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
  • Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
  • Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
  • Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site
  • Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
  • Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
  • Barnes, California – Peter Barnes (first postmaster)
  • Barnes Settlement, California – Thomas Barnes (founder)
  • Barre, Massachusetts, Barre (city), Vermont and 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)
  • Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
  • Bartlett, California – Frank J. Barlett (chemical company executive)
  • Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
  • Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett
  • Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
  • Barton, Vermont – General William Barton
  • Bastrop, Louisiana – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
  • Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
  • Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
  • Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
  • Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
  • Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
  • Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
  • Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler[24]
  • Bedford, New Hampshire – Lord John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
  • Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas)[25]
  • Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)[26]
  • Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster)[27]
  • Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
  • Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier)[28]
  • 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, and New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton[29][30][31]
  • Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
  • Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
  • Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
  • Bergman, California – Jacob Bergman (stage coach driver)[8]
  • Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley[32]
  • Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
  • Bernards Township, New Jersey – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
  • Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
  • Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
  • Bessemer, Alabama - Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process)
  • Bethel, California – James W. Bethel (local merchant)
  • Beveridge, California – John Beveridge
  • Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster)
  • Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings
  • Bingham, Maine – William Bingham (landowner)
  • Binghamton, New York – William Bingham
  • Birchville, California – L. Birch Adsit[33]
  • Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
  • Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
  • Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
  • Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
  • Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
  • Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
  • Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)[8]{{rp|358}}
  • 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
  • Boone, North Carolina - Daniel Boone
  • Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
  • Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
  • Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen[34]
  • Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
  • Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
  • Bowdoinham, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
  • Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
  • Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower)[35]
  • Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
  • Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
  • Bradford Siding, California – Johnnie Bradford (clay businessman)
  • Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
  • Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
  • Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
  • Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
  • Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
  • Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
  • Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
  • Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
  • Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster
  • Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
  • Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
  • Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
  • Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
  • Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges
  • Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
  • Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario on a trip to Niagara Falls)
  • Brockway, California – Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)[36]
  • Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
  • Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
  • Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman Preston Brooks
  • Brooksville, Florida – Congressman Preston Brooks
  • Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
  • Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
  • Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
  • Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
  • Brownsville, Calaveras County, California – Alfred Brown
  • Brownsville, Yuba County, California – I.E. Brown (sawmill owner)
  • Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
  • Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas Brown (landowner)
  • Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
  • Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown[37]
  • Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
  • Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
  • Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
  • Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
  • Buchanan, Michigan – James Buchanan (fifteenth president)
  • Buckfield, Maine – Abijah Buck (settler)
  • Bucknell, California – Charles M. Bucknell (early settler)
  • Bucksport, California – David A. Buck (founder)
  • 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)
  • Buntingville, California – A.J. Bunting (merchant)
  • Burbank, California – David Burbank (dentist)
  • Burdell, California – Dr. Galen Burdell (dentist, landowner)
  • Burkeville, California – Edwin Burke (mine owner)
  • Burrillville, Rhode Island – James Burrill, Jr. (state attorney general and U.S. senator)
  • 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)[38]

C

  • Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
  • Cadenasso, California – Nicolo Cadenasso (early settler)
  • Camden, Maine – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden[39]
  • 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)[40]
  • 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[41]
  • Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)[42]
  • Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
  • Captain Cook, Hawaii - Captain James Cook (English explorer)
  • Carey, California – George R. Carey (first postmaster)
  • Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner)[8]{{rp|362}}
  • Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
  • Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
  • Carol Stream, Illinois – (named for founder's daughter)
  • Carr, Colorado – Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
  • Carroll, New Hampshire – Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)[43]
  • Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
  • Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson[44]
  • 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[45]
  • Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
  • Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
  • Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire[46]
  • Cazenovia, New York – Theophilus Cazenove
  • Chalfant Valley, California – Arthur Chalfant (newspaper publisher)
  • Chamberlain, South Dakota – Selah Chamberlain (railroad director)
  • Chambers Lodge, California – David H. Chambers (lodge builder)[47]
  • 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)[48]
  • 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[49]
  • 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)[50][51]
  • Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton
  • Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
  • Chatham, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)[52]
  • 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[53]
  • Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester[54]
  • Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
  • Christiana, Delaware – Queen Christina of Sweden
  • Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)[55]
  • Cicero, New York – Cicero[56]
  • Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)[57]
  • Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)[58]
  • Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad{{Which|date=May 2012}})[58]
  • Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
  • Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
  • Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
  • Clarkston, Washington – Governor William Clark[59]
  • Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark[60]
  • Clay County, Florida – Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century)
  • Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
  • Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
  • Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)[61]
  • Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland[62]
  • Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
  • Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
  • Clinton – DeWitt Clinton,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69] 16 places in
    • Arkansas – Connecticut – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Jersey – New York (city and county) – Ohio – Wisconsin
  • Clinton, Lassen County, California – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Maine, home town of its first postmaster)
  • Clinton, Kansas – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois)
  • Clinton, Montana – General Sir Henry Clinton
  • Clinton, Nebraska – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa)
  • Clinton, Dutchess County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)[70]
  • Clinton, Oneida County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)[71]
  • Clinton, North Carolina – American Revolution General Richard Clinton
  • Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
  • Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
  • Clinton, Washington – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan)
  • Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
  • Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
  • Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
  • Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
  • Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
  • Colfax, California – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
  • Colfax, Louisiana - Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President; Colfax is seat of Grant Parish, named after Ulysses S. Grant, the President under whom Colfax served)
  • Colfax, Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
  • Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier
  • Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
  • Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
  • Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
  • Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
  • Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
  • Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
  • Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
  • Cordua Bar, California – Theodore Cordua (local merchant)
  • Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
  • Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
  • Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
  • Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
  • Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
  • Cortland, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
  • Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt
  • Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
  • Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
  • Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
  • Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
  • Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
  • Craig, Modoc County, California – Robert A. Craig (first postmaster)
  • Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
  • Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
  • Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
  • Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
  • Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
  • Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett
  • Cromwell, California – F.T Cromwell (founder)
  • Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
  • Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
  • Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
  • Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy
  • Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
  • Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
  • Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
  • Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel Cummings (landholder)
  • Cupertino, California – Joseph of Cupertino
  • Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
  • Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
  • Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
  • Cuttens, California – Charles R. Cuttens (first postmaster)

D

  • Daby's Ferry, California – S. Daby (ferry operator)
  • Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
  • Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade
  • Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
  • Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas
  • Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
  • Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
  • Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family
  • Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)
  • Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)
  • Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
  • Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)
  • Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French
  • Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
  • Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport
  • Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
  • Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
  • Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
  • Dayton, Maine – Thomas Day (submitted the petition for Dayton to separate from Hollis)
  • Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton
  • Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town)
  • Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day
  • Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri – Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War)
  • Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)
  • Decatur, Illinois – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)
  • Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
  • Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
  • Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)
  • DeHaven, California – John J. De Haven
  • DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)
  • Delano, California – Columbus Delano
  • Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delavan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)
  • Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)
  • Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
  • Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver
  • DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
  • DeSoto County, Florida – Hernando de Soto
  • Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
  • Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
  • DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
  • Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
  • Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
  • Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
  • Diamondville, California – James Diamond
  • Dickenson, California – William Legrand Dickinson
  • Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder)
  • Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
  • Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
  • Dixfield, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
  • Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
  • Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck)
  • Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
  • Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
  • Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)[72]
  • Doral, Florida - Alfred Kaskel and his wife Doris Bernstein (1906 - 1988)
  • Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
  • Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
  • Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas
  • Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
  • Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
  • Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
  • Downey, California – John G. Downey
  • Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
  • Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)[73]
  • Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
  • Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)
  • Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)
  • Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
  • Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
  • Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
  • Dummer, New Hampshire – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)
  • Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer
  • Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
  • Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
  • Duplin County, North Carolina ] – Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin[74]
  • Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
  • Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham
  • Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834

E

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

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, and Wisconsin – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
  • Fayetteville, 11 places in Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
  • Fayette City, Pennsylvania – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
  • 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
  • Fernandina Beach, Florida - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
  • Fields Landing, California – Waterman Field (early settler)
  • Finley, California – Samuel Finley Sylar (early settler)
  • Firebaugh, California – Andrew D. Firebaugh
  • Firestone, Colorado – Jacob Firestone (landowner)
  • Fitchburg, Massachusetts – John Fitch (settler)
  • Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire – William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (cousin of Governor John Wentworth)
  • Flagler County, Florida – Henry Flagler, built the Florida East Coast Railway
  • Flandreau, South Dakota – Charles Eugene Flandrau
  • Fleener, California – Sam Fleener (homesteader)
  • Florence, Kentucky – Florence Conner (wife of early settler)
  • Florence, South Carolina – Florence Hartlee (daughter of a railroad president who lived in the area)
  • Floresville, Texas – Don Francisco Flores de Abrego (early settler)
  • Floyd, Virginia – John Floyd (Virginia politician)
  • Floydada, Texas – Dolphin Floyd (died while defending the Alamo) and Ada Price (wife of a local landholder) (indirectly, via Floyd County, Texas)
  • Fluhr, California – C.G. Fluhr (railroad official)
  • Forbestown, California – B.F. Forbes (local store owner)
  • Forsyth, Montana – General James W. Forsyth
  • Fort Collins, Colorado – Colonel William O. Collins
  • Fort Dodge, Iowa – Henry Dodge (U.S. senator from Wisconsin) (indirectly, after the fort named after him)
  • Fort John, California – John Stuart
  • Fort Johnston, North Carolina – Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina
  • Fort Kent, Maine – Edward Kent (governor of Maine)
  • Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Major William Lauderdale
  • Fort Lee, New Jersey – Charles Lee
  • Fort Lupton, Colorado – Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton (built a trading post here)
  • Fort Morgan, Colorado – Colonel Christopher A. Morgan
  • Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
  • Fort Myers Beach, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
  • Fort Romie, California – Charles Romie (landowner)
  • Fort Seward, California – William H. Seward
  • Fort Wayne, Indiana – Anthony Wayne
  • Fort Worth, Texas – William Jenkins Worth
  • Foster, Rhode Island – U.S. Senator Theodore Foster
  • Foster Bar, California – William M. Foster (early settler and merchant)
  • Fouts Springs, California – John F. Fouts (discoverer of the springs)
  • Fowler, California – Thomas Fowler (California State Senator)
  • Foxborough, Massachusetts – Charles James Fox
  • Francestown, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (Governor John Wentworth's wife)
  • Franklin – Benjamin Franklin, 37 places in
    • Alabama – Arkansas – Sacramento County, California – Connecticut – Georgia – Idaho – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kentucky – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Missouri – Nebraska – New Hampshire – New Jersey – Delaware County, New York – Franklin County, New York – Macon County, North Carolina – Surry County, North Carolina – Ohio – Cambria County, Pennsylvania – Venango County, Pennsylvania – Tennessee – Texas – Vermont – Virginia – West Virginia – Jackson County, Wisconsin – Kewaunee County, Wisconsin – Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Milwaukee County, Wisconsin – Sauk County, Wisconsin – Vernon County, Wisconsin
  • Franklin Lakes, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
  • Franklin Park, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
  • Franklin Township – Benjamin Franklin, 77 places in
    • DeKalb County, Illinois – DeKalb County, Indiana – Floyd County, Indiana – Grant County, Indiana – Harrison County, Indiana – Hendricks County, Indiana – Henry County, Indiana – Johnson County, Indiana – Kosciusko County, Indiana – Marion County, Indiana – Montgomery County, Indiana – Owen County, Indiana – Pulaski County, Indiana – Putnam County, Indiana – Randolph County, Indiana – Ripley County, Indiana – Washington County, Indiana – Wayne County, Indiana – Allamakee County, Iowa – Appanoose County, Iowa – Bremer County, Iowa – Cass County, Iowa – Clarke County, Iowa – Decatur County, Iowa – Story County, Iowa – Bourbon County, Kansas – Edwards County, Kansas – Franklin County, Kansas – Jackson County, Kansas – Clare County, Michigan – Houghton County, Michigan – Lenawee County, Michigan – Wright County, Minnesota – Bergen County, New Jersey – Gloucester County, New Jersey – Hunterdon County, New Jersey – Somerset County, New Jersey – Warren County, New Jersey – Rowan County, North Carolina – Surry County, North Carolina – Adams County, Ohio – Brown County, Ohio – Clermont County, Ohio – Columbiana County, Ohio – Coshocton County, Ohio – Darke County, Ohio – Franklin County, Ohio – Fulton County, Ohio – Harrison County, Ohio – Jackson County, Ohio – Licking County, Ohio – Mercer County, Ohio – Monroe County, Ohio – Morrow County, Ohio – Portage County, Ohio – Richland County, Ohio – Ross County, Ohio – Shelby County, Ohio – Tuscarawas County, Ohio – Warren County, Ohio – Wayne County, Ohio – Adams County, Pennsylvania – Beaver County, Pennsylvania – Bradford County, Pennsylvania – Butler County, Pennsylvania – Carbon County, Pennsylvania – Chester County, Pennsylvania – Columbia County, Pennsylvania – Erie County, Pennsylvania – Fayette County, Pennsylvania – Greene County, Pennsylvania – Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania – Luzerne County, Pennsylvania – Lycoming County, Pennsylvania – Snyder County, Pennsylvania – Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania – York County, Pennsylvania
  • Franklinton, Louisiana and Franklinton, North Carolina – Benjamin Franklin
  • Frederick, Colorado – Frederick A. Clark (landholder)
  • Frederick, Maryland – Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
  • Fredericksburg, Virginia – Frederick, Prince of Wales
  • Fremont, California, and numerous other Fremonts – John C. Frémont
  • Friant, California – Thomas Friant (lumber company executive)
  • Frye Island, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
  • Fryeburg, Maine – Captain Joseph Frye
  • Fullerton, California – George H. Fullerton (president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company)
  • Fulton, South Dakota – Robert Fulton (inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat)

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, Kansas - Henry Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts
  • Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
  • Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
  • Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
  • Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
  • Garretson, South Dakota – A.S. Garretson (banker)
  • Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
  • Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
  • Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
  • Gelatt, California – Ethel Gelatt (first postmaster) [75]
  • George, Washington – George Washington
  • George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
  • Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
  • Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
  • Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
  • Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
  • Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
  • Gertrude, California – Gertrude Haley (first postmaster)
  • Gest, California – Erasmus Gest (railroad official)
  • Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
  • Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
  • Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913
  • Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
  • Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
  • Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
  • Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
  • Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
  • Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
  • Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
  • Goecken, California – Herman Bernard Goecken (local rancher)
  • Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
  • Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham
  • Gosford, California – Earl of Gosford
  • Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold
  • Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
  • Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
  • Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
  • Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years' War)
  • Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby
  • Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
  • Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
  • Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
  • Greeley, Colorado – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
  • Greenwich, California – Peter D. Greene (founder)
  • Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
  • Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
  • Greenville, Alameda County, California – John Green (early merchant)
  • Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
  • Grestley, California – James Grestley
  • Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
  • Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
  • Guernsey, California – James Guernsey (landowner)
  • Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
  • Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
  • Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
  • Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)

H

  • Haddonfield, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon (local landowner)
  • Haddon Township, New Jersey – Elizabeth Haddon (local landowner)
  • Hagerstown, Maryland – Jonathan Hager
  • Halifax, Vermont – Earl of Halifax
  • Hall Station, California – John Hall (local landowner)
  • Hallowell, Maine – Benjamin Hallowell (landowner)
  • Hamden, Connecticut – John Hampden (English statesman) (note spelling)
  • Hamilton, Massachusetts – Alexander Hamilton
  • Hamilton, Montana – J.W. Hamilton (provided the right-of-way to the railroad)
  • Hamilton City, California – J.G. Hamilton (sugar company president)
  • Hamilton County, Florida – Alexander Hamilton
  • Hamilton County, Ohio - Alexander Hamilton
  • Hamilton, Ohio - Alexander Hamilton
  • Hammond, Indiana – George H. Hammond (Detroit butcher who founded a meat-packing plant here)
  • Hammonton, California – W.P. Hammond (gold mine official)
  • Hampden, Maine – John Hampden (English patriot)
  • Hancock, 5 places in Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Vermont – John Hancock
  • Hanford, California – James Madison Hanford (railroad executive)
  • Hankamer, Texas – I. A. Hankamer (early settler)
  • Hanson, Massachusetts – Alexander C. Hanson (Maryland newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator)
  • Harbin Springs, California – James M. Harbin (discoverer of the springs)
  • Hardenburgh, New York – Johannes Hardenburgh (landowner)
  • Hardin, Montana – Samuel Hardin (friend of developer Charles Henry Morrill)
  • Harlan, Iowa – :James Harlan (United States Senator)
  • Harlowton, Montana – Richard A. Harlow (president of the Montana Railroad)
  • Harriman, New York – E. H. Harriman (president of the Union Pacific Railroad)
  • Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris (gold discoverer)
  • Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – John Harris, Sr.
  • Harrison, Maine – Harrison Gray Otis (landowner)
  • Harrison, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
  • Harrison, New York – John Harrison (Quaker leader)
  • Harrison Township, New Jersey – William Henry Harrison
  • Harrisonburg, Virginia – Thomas Harrison (early settler who founded the community)
  • Harrisville, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
  • Hart's Location, New Hampshire – Colonel John Hart
  • Hathaway Pines, California – Robert B. Hathaway (first postmaster)
  • Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Hattie Hardy (wife of pioneer lumberman and civil engineer William H. Hardy)
  • Haugan, Montana – H. G. Haugan (land commissioner of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
  • Hawley, Massachusetts – Joseph Hawley (local leader in the American Revolution)
  • Hayes, California – William J. Hayes (first postmaster)
  • Hayward, California – William Dutton Hayward (early settler)
  • Hayward, Minnesota – David Hayward (settler)
  • Hazard, Kentucky – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
  • Hazardville, Connecticut – Colonel Augustus George Hazard (gunpowder manufacturer)
  • Hazelton, California – Hazelton Blodget (son of Hugh A. Blodget, oilman)
  • Hearst, California – George Hearst
  • Heath, Massachusetts – General William Heath
  • Heber, California – A.H. Heber (development company president)
  • Helm, California – William Helm (early rancher)
  • Henderson, Nevada – U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson
  • Hendry County, Florida – Major Francis A. Hendry
  • Henniker, New Hampshire – John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker
  • Herkimer, New York – Nicholas Herkimer (militia general in the American Revolutionary War)
  • Herlong, California – Capt. Henry W. Herlong (World War II casualty)
  • Hernando County, Florida – Hernando de Soto
  • Hershey, California – David N. Hershey (California assembly member)
  • Hershey, Pennsylvania - Milton S. Hershey (Chocolatier)
  • Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn
  • Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
  • Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
  • Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
  • Hillsborough, New Hampshire – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
  • Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
  • Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk)
  • Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)
  • Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
  • Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
  • Hiram, Maine – Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre)
  • Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
  • Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
  • Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
  • Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
  • Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
  • Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
  • Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)
  • Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note spelling)
  • Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)
  • Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet)
  • Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
  • Hoover, Alabama - William H. Hoover (1890 - 1979), a local insurance of Alabama
  • Hoover Town, West Virginia - Herbert Hoover
  • Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General Samuel Hopkins
  • Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University)
  • Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
  • Hopkinton, New York – early settlers with the name Hopkins
  • Hornbeak, Tennessee – Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster)[76]
  • 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)
  • Irvine, California – James Irvine I [77]
  • 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 – Andrew Jackson, 14 places in
    • Alabama – Georgia – Kentucky – Louisiana – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – Ohio – Tennessee – Washington County, Wisconsin
  • Jacksonville, Arkansas – Nicholas and Elizabeth Jackson (landowners)
  • Jacksonville, Texas – Jackson Smith (soldier)
  • Jacksonville – Andrew Jackson, 5 places in
    • Alabama – Florida – Illinois – North Carolina – Oregon
  • Jacobs Corner, California – Mattie Jacobs (first postmaster)
  • Jaffrey, New Hampshire – George Jaffrey (member of a wealthy Portsmouth family)
  • Jamesan, California – J.G. James (first postmaster)
  • Jamesburg, California – John James (founder)
  • Jamestown, New York – James Prendergast (settler)
  • Jamestown, Rhode Island – James II of England
  • Jamestown, Virginia – James I of England
  • Janesville, California – Jane Bankhead (early settler)
  • Janesville, Wisconsin – Henry Janes (early settler and first postmaster)
  • Jasper, Texas – William Jasper (American Revolution hero)
  • Jay, Maine and Jay, Vermont – John Jay (the first chief justice of the Supreme Court)
  • Jean, Nevada – Jean Fayle (wife of postmaster George Fayle)
  • Jefferson, Maine and Jefferson, New Hampshire – Thomas Jefferson
  • Jefferson City, Missouri – Thomas Jefferson
  • Jefferson County, Florida – Thomas Jefferson
  • Jeffersonville, Georgia – Thomas Jefferson
  • Jenny Lind, California – Jenny Lind
  • Jesus Maria, California – Jesus Maria (local farmer)
  • Jewell, California – Omar Jewell (local rancher)
  • Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania – Jim Thorpe
  • Joaquin, Texas – Joaquin Morris (grandson of Benjamin Franklin Morris, who donated the land for the site)
  • Joe, Montana – Joe Montana
  • Joe Walker Town, California – Joe Walker
  • Johnson, Vermont – William Samuel Johnson
  • Johnston, Rhode Island – August Johnston (colonial attorney general)
  • Johnston County, North Carolina – Gabriel Johnston, 6th Governor of North Carolina
  • Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer)
  • Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
  • 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)
  • Kennedy Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania – John F.Kennedy
  • Kensington, New Hampshire – Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
  • Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent
  • Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
  • Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
  • Kerman, California – W.G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar (promoters)
  • Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
  • Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
  • Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian)
  • Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
  • King City, California – Charles King (founder)
  • King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – after a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
  • Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine)
  • Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
  • Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
  • Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
  • Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
  • Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
  • Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
  • Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson
  • Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
  • Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler)
  • Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen
  • Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
  • Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox
  • Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster[78]
  • Knoxville, Tennessee – Henry Knox
  • Kokomo, Indiana – Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo(Miami tribal chief)
  • Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
  • Kossuth, Mississippi – Lajos Kossuth
  • Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue
  • Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
  • Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
  • Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)

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  • Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
  • Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
  • Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
  • Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
  • Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
  • Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
  • Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
  • Land, California – A.H. Land (local lumber company president)
  • Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
  • Lanesborough, Massachusetts – Countess of Lanesborough
  • Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon
  • Langhorne, Pennsylvania – Jeremiah Langhorne Pennsylvania jurist
  • Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
  • Largo, California – Lemuel F. Long (early settler; Largo is Spanish for Long)
  • Larkin's Landing, California – Stephen Larkin (early settler)
  • Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
  • Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
  • Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder)[79]
  • Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
  • Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder)
  • Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
  • Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson
  • Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
  • Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
  • Lebec, California – Peter Lebecque or Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
  • Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
  • Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
  • Lee, Massachusetts and Lee, New Hampshire – General Charles Lee
  • Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
  • Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
  • Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
  • Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
  • Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official)
  • Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
  • Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
  • Levittown, 2 places in New York and Pennsylvania – William Levitt
  • Lewis, Vermont – Nathan, Sevignior and Timothy Lewis (landholders)
  • Lewiston, Minnesota – Johnathan Smith Lewis (settler)
  • Lewistown, Pennsylvania – William Lewis
  • Lila C, California – Lila C. Coleman (mine owner's daughter)
  • Lillis, California – Simon C. Lillis (ranch superintendent)
  • Limon, Colorado – John Limon (or Lymon) (railroad construction supervisor)
  • Lincoln, Alabama and Lincoln, Vermont – Major General Benjamin Lincoln
  • Lincoln, California – Charles Lincoln Wilson (one of the organizers and directors of the California Central Railroad)[80]
  • Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
  • Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
  • Lincoln Center, Kansas – Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas)
  • Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
  • Lippitt, California – Col. Francis J. Lippitt (founder)
  • Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
  • Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
  • Livermore, California – Robert Livermore
  • Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
  • Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
  • Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
  • Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
  • Livingston, New Jersey – William Livingston
  • Lockwood, 3 places in California, New York, and West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
  • Logan, Montana – Captain William Logan (died in the Battle of the Big Hole)
  • Longmont, Colorado – Stephen Harriman Long (explorer) (indirectly, via Longs Peak)
  • Longville, California – W.B. Long (early hotel and saw mill owner)[81]
  • Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)[82]
  • Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
  • Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
  • Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
  • Louisiana – Louis XIV (King of France) [83]
  • Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
  • Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
  • Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
  • Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
  • Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
  • Lowell, Massachusetts – Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
  • Lucia, California – Lucia Dani (first postmaster)
  • Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
  • Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
  • Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  • Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
  • Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
  • Luther, Michigan - Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
  • Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
  • Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
  • Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
  • Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
  • Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island)
  • Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder)
  • Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader)

M

  • Machin, California – Tim N. Machin
  • Macon, 3 places in Georgia, Missouri, and North Carolina – Nathaniel Macon
  • Madelia, Minnesota – Madelia Hartshorn (deceased daughter of founder Philander Hartshorn)
  • Madison, Maine and Madison, Wisconsin – James Madison
  • Madison, South Dakota – James Madison (indirectly, via Madison, Wisconsin)
  • Madison County, Florida – James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America
  • Manchester, Vermont – Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
  • Mandala, California – Mandala Kneeland (early settler)
  • Mansfield, Massachusetts – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  • Mansfield, Ohio – Jared Mansfield (U.S. Surveyor General)
  • Mansfield, Texas – R.S. Man and Julian Feild (settlers) (note spelling)
  • Mariaville, Maine – Maria Matilda (daughter of landholder William Bingham)
  • Marinette, Wisconsin – Marie Antoinette Chevalier (common-law wife of an early fur trader)
  • Marion – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero), 14 places in
    • Alabama – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kansas – Kentucky – Louisiana – Massachusetts – Mississippi – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – South Carolina – Virginia
  • Marion, North Dakota – Marion Mellen (daughter of Charles Sanger Mellen)
  • Marion, Oregon – Francis Marion (Revolutionary War hero) (indirectly, via Marion County, Oregon)
  • Marion, South Dakota – Marion Merrill (daughter of S.S. Merrill, railroad official)
  • Marion, Texas – Marion Dove (granddaughter of Joshua W. Young, owner of a plantation that the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway passed through)
  • Marion County, Florida – General Francis Marion of South Carolina, guerilla fighter and hero of the American Revolutionary War
  • Marsh Creek Springs, California – John Marsh
  • Marshall, Texas – John Marshall
  • Marklee Village, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
  • Markleeville, California – Jacob Marklee (early settler)
  • Marlboro, Vermont – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
  • Marlborough, Massachusetts and Marlborough, New York – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
  • Marlborough, New Hampshire – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
  • Martendale, California – Harry J. Marten (founder)
  • Martin County, Florida – John W. Martin 24th Governor of Florida
  • Martinez, California – Don Ygnacio Martínez
  • Martins Ferry, California – John F. Martin (first postmaster and ferry operator)
  • Martinus Corner, California – Jan Henry Martinus (landowner)
  • Maryland – Queen Henrietta Maria of France
  • Maryland, New York – Queen Henrietta Maria of France (indirectly, via the state of Maryland)
  • Marysville, California – Mary Murphy Covillaud (Donner Party survivor)
  • Maryville, Missouri – Mary Graham (wife of Amos Graham, county clerk)
  • Masaryktown, Florida – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (Czechoslovak President)[84]
  • Mason, New Hampshire – Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
  • Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
  • Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
  • Mattos, California – John Garcia Mattos, Sr. (early settler)
  • Maupin, Oregon – Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here)
  • Mauriceville, Texas – Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway)
  • Mauston, Wisconsin – Milton M. Maughs (founder)
  • Mayer, Arizona - Joe Mayer (founder)
  • Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner)
  • McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler)
  • McCann, California – William O. McCann (lumber mill operator)
  • McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder)
  • McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw
  • McHenry, Illinois – William McHenry
  • McKinleyville, California – President William McKinley
  • McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
  • McMinnville, Tennessee – Joseph McMinn
  • Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
  • Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
  • Mercer, Maine – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
  • Mercey Hot Springs, California – J.N. Mercy (early settler)
  • Meredith, New Hampshire – Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of British Parliament)
  • Merritt, California – Hiram P. Merritt (early settler)
  • Methuen, Massachusetts – Sir Paul Methuen (British diplomat)
  • Mettler, California – W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist)
  • Metz, California – W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster)
  • Meyers, California – George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner)
  • Micanopy, Florida – Micanopy, leading chief of Seminoles, led the tribe during the Second Seminole War
  • Middleton, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
  • Milan, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
  • Milbank, South Dakota – Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director)
  • Miles City, Montana – General Nelson A. Miles
  • Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
  • Millbrae, California – Darius Ogden Mills
  • Miller, California – James Miller (early settler)
  • Millerton, Marin County, California – James Miller (wharf owner)
  • Millerton, New York – Sidney Miller (railroad contractor)
  • Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official)
  • Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
  • Millsaps, California – George W. Millsaps (early settler)
  • Millsholm, California – Edgar Mills (landowner)
  • Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
  • Milo, Maine – Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece)
  • Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
  • Minear, California – John J. Minear (first postmaster)
  • Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
  • Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
  • Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
  • Mitchell, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
  • Modesto, California – William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man
  • Monroe – James Monroe, 11 places in
    • Connecticut – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – Utah – Washington
  • Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder)
  • Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
  • Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts)
  • Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson
  • Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York – General Richard Montgomery
  • Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
  • Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher)[8]{{rp|525}}
  • Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
  • Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler)[8]
  • Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
  • Morgan, California – Charles Morgan (early settler)
  • Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
  • Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
  • Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas)
  • Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan
  • Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
  • Morris, Connecticut – James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier)
  • Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
  • Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
  • Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
  • Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
  • Morton Grove, Illinois – Levi P. Morton
  • Moses Lake, Washington – Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia)
  • Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
  • Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
  • Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
  • Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
  • Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
  • Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington
  • Mower, California – Lloyd W. Mower (first postmaster)
  • Muldrow, Oklahoma – Henry L. Muldrow (U.S. Representative)
  • Mullan, Idaho – John Mullan (builder of Mullan Road, a wagon route)
  • Murdo, South Dakota – Murdo MacKenzie (Texas cattleman)
  • Muroc, California – Ralph and Clifford Corum (early settlers) – Muroc is Corum spelled backwards
  • Murphys, California – Daniel and John Murphy (early miners and settlers)
  • Murray, California – David Murray (olive industry figure)
  • Murray, Kentucky – John L. Murray (former Congressman from the area who had died two years before the city's incorporation in 1844)
  • Murray, Utah – Eli Murray (territorial governor of Utah)

N

  • Naperville, Illinois – Joseph Naper
  • Nashmead, California – J. Nash (first postmaster)
  • Nashville, Tennessee – Francis Nash
  • Neals Diggins, California – Sam Neal (founder)
  • Nelson, California – A.D. Nelson (early settler)
  • Nelson, New Hampshire – Viscount Horatio Nelson (British admiral and naval hero)
  • New Franklin, Missouri and New Franklin, Ohio – Benjamin Franklin
  • New Marlborough, Massachusetts – John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (indirectly, via Marlborough, Massachusetts)
  • New Orleans, Louisiana – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
  • New Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
  • New York City, New York – James of York and Albany
  • Newbert, California – Leander Newbert (first postmaster)
  • Newcastle, Maine – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Newell, California – Frederick Haynes Newell
  • Newellton, Louisiana – Edward D. Newell
  • Newfane, Vermont – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
  • Newport, New Hampshire – Henry Newport (English soldier and statesman)
  • Newton, Texas – John Newton (soldier of the American Revolutionary War)
  • Nichols, California – William H. Nichols (landowner)
  • Nick's Cove, California – Nick Kojich (restaurateur)
  • Nickerson, Kansas – Thomas Nickerson (ATSF president)
  • Nielsburg, California – Arthur C. Neill (first postmaster)[8]
  • Niles, Fremont, California – Addison Niles
  • Norden, California – Charles Van Norden (water company official)[8]{{rp|530}}
  • Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
  • Norristown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Norris (Mayor of Philadelphia in 1724)
  • North Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
  • North Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles) [85]
  • North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
  • North Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
  • Nortonville, California – Noah Norton (founder)
  • Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (dry goods merchant)
  • Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder)
  • Nottingham, New Hampshire – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

O

  • O'Fallon, Missouri – John O. Fallon
  • O'Neals, California – Charles O'Neal (merchant and first postmaster)
  • Ockenden, California – Thomas J. Ockenden (first postmaster)
  • Odem, Texas – David Odem (San Patricio County sheriff)
  • Odenton, Maryland – Oden Bowie (Governor of Maryland)
  • Ogden, Utah – Peter Skene Ogden
  • Ogilby, California – E.R. Ogilby (mine promoter)
  • Old Ornbaun Hot Springs, California – John S. Ornbaun (early settler and rancher)
  • Olean, New York – Olean Shephard (the first white child born here)
  • Oleander, California – William Oleander Johnson (first postmaster)
  • Orange, 4 places in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia – William, Prince of Orange
  • Orange, Ohio – William, Prince of Orange (indirectly, via Orange, Connecticut)
  • Ordbend, California – Edward Ord
  • Orem, Utah – Walter C. Orem (President of the Salt Lake and Utah Electric Urban Railroad)
  • Orford, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
  • Orinda, California – Katherine Philips (a poet whose nickname was "Matchless Orinda")
  • Orlando, Florida – Orlando Reeves
  • Orleans, Massachusetts – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
  • Orloff, California – Orloff Miller (early settler)
  • Ornbaun, California – John S. Ornbaumn (early settler and rancher)
  • Orono, Maine – Chief Joseph Orono of the Penobscot Nation
  • Orrs Springs, California – Samuel Orr (early settler)
  • Orwood, California – Orville Y. Woodward (promoter)
  • Osburn, Idaho – Bill Osborne (trading post establisher) (note spelling)
  • Osceola County, Florida – Indian leader Osceola, whose name means "Black Drink Cry"
  • Otis, Massachusetts – Harrison Gray Otis
  • Otisfield, Maine – James Otis, Jr. (grantee)
  • Ovid, Colorado – Newton Ovid (local resident)
  • Owensboro, Kentucky – Abraham Owen
  • Oxnard, California – Henry, Ben, James and Robert Oxnard

P

  • Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco
  • Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke
  • Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler)
  • Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
  • Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
  • Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
  • Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor)
  • Pasco County, Florida – Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida
  • Paterson, New Jersey – William Paterson
  • Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler)
  • Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling)
  • Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner)
  • Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler)
  • Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck)
  • Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman)
  • Peabody, Massachusetts – George Peabody (philanthropist)
  • Pelham, Massachusetts – Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
  • Pelham, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
  • Pelham, New York – Pelham Burton (tutor of Thomas Pell)
  • Pembroke, Georgia – Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident)
  • Pembroke, New Hampshire – Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke
  • Pendleton, Oregon – George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign)
  • Pennsylvania – William Penn (Penn's Woods)
  • Pentz, California – Manoah Pence (founder, first postmaster)
  • Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir William Pepperrell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg)
  • Perkins Township, Maine – Thomas Handasyd Perkins
  • Perris, California – Fred T. Perris
  • Perry, Maine, Perry, New York and Perry, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
  • Perry, Florida – Madison Stark Perry, fourth Governor of the State of Florida, Confederate States Army colonel
  • Perrysburg, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
  • Perth Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
  • Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
  • Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant)
  • Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant)
  • Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler)
  • Phil Campbell, Alabama - Phil Campbell (Railroad engineer)
  • Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
  • Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
  • Philipsburg, Montana – Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
  • Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers)
  • Phillipston, Massachusetts – William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
  • Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler)
  • Phippsburg, Maine – Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling)
  • Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler)
  • Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
  • Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief)
  • Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders)
  • Pikesville, Maryland – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
  • Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
  • Pittsburg, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Pittsfield, 4 places in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
  • Pittsford, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont)
  • Pittsford, Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (settler)
  • Plant City, Florida – Henry B. Plant
  • Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York – Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
  • Pleasanton, California – Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
  • Pocatello, Idaho – Chief Pocatello
  • Poland, Maine – Chief Poland
  • Polk County, Florida – 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk
  • Pomfret, Vermont – Earl of Pomfret
  • Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
  • Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan – Chief Pontiac
  • Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
  • Pope Valley, California – William Pope (land grantee)[86]
  • Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
  • Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
  • Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
  • Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
  • Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
  • Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
  • Portola, California – Gaspar de Portolà
  • Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà
  • Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
  • Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
  • Potter, California – Richard R. Potter (first postmaster)
  • Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
  • Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
  • Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
  • Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
  • Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
  • Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
  • Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
  • Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright)
  • Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales
  • Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
  • Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince
  • Proctor, Minnesota – J. Proctor Knott
  • Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor
  • Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
  • Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost
  • Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, and Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
  • Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
  • Pullman, 3 places in Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia – George Pullman
  • Pullman, Chicago – George Pullman and Solon S. Beman
  • Pulteney, New York and Pultneyville, New York (note spelling) – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, British land speculator
  • Purser, California – Edward T. Purser (rancher)
  • Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam
  • Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society
  • Pylema, California – Mary R. Pyle (early settler and postmaster)
  • Prince's Lakes, Indiana Howard Prince Founder

Q

  • Quanah, Texas – Quanah Parker (the last Comanche chief)
  • Quincy, Illinois – John Quincy Adams
  • Quincy, Massachusetts – Colonel John Quincy
  • Quincy, Washington – John Quincy Adams (indirectly, via Quincy, Illinois)

R

  • Rackerby, California – William M. Rackerby (first postmaster)
  • Raleigh, North Carolina – Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Rallsville, California – George W. Ralls (first postmaster)
  • Ralston, California – William C. Ralston (mine owner)[87]
  • 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)
  • Redfield, Arkansas – Jared Edgar Redfield (president of the Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Railway)[88][89]
  • 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[90]
  • Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere
  • Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
  • Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
  • Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
  • Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
  • Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
  • Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
  • Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
  • Rienzi, Mississippi – Cola di Rienzo[91]
  • 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)
  • Robert Lee, Texas – Robert E. Lee (US Civil War General)
  • 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)
  • Roosevelt, New Jersey – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
  • Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
  • Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder)
  • Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
  • Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
  • Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
  • Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
  • Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
  • Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
  • Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
  • Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)

S

  • Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
  • St. Augustine, Florida – Saint Augustine[92]
  • St. Augustine, Maryland – Augustine Herman (explorer)
  • St. George, Vermont – Saint George
  • Saint James, Indiana – Saint James
  • St. James, Maryland – Saint James
  • St. James, Minnesota – Saint James
  • St. James, Missouri – Saint James
  • St. James, New York – Saint James
  • St. James, North Carolina – Saint James
  • St. Johnsbury, Vermont – Dr. Jonathan Arnold (member of the Continental Congress)
  • St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
  • St. Joseph, Missouri – Saint Joseph
  • St. Louis, Missouri – Saint Louis
  • St. Nazianz, Wisconsin – Gregory of Nazianzus
  • St. Paul, Minnesota – Saint Paul
  • St. Pete Beach, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • St. Petersburg, Florida – Saint Peter (indirectly, via St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • Salamanca (city), New York and Salamanca (town), New York – Don José de Salamanca y Mayol, Marquis of Salamanca
  • Salsig, California – Edgar Budd Salsig (lumber company owner)
  • San Andreas, California – Saint Andrew
  • San Angelo, Texas – Carolina Angela DeWitt (wife of the city's founder Bartholomew J. DeWitt)
  • San Antonio, Florida and San Antonio, Texas – Saint Anthony of Padua
  • San Bernardino, California – Saint Bernardine of Siena
  • San Bruno, California – Saint Bruno of Cologne (indirectly, via the San Bruno Creek)
  • San Diego, California – Saint Didacus
  • San Francisco, California – Saint Francis
  • San Jose, California – Saint Joseph
  • San Juan Capistrano, California – Saint John Capistrano
  • San Leandro, California – Saint Leander of Seville
  • San Lorenzo, California – Saint Lawrence
  • San Lucas, California – Luke the Evangelist (indirectly, from the Spanish land grant)
  • San Luis Obispo, California – Saint Louis of Toulouse
  • San Mateo, California – Saint Matthew
  • San Pablo, California – Saint Paul
  • Sanbornton, New Hampshire – John Sanborn (grantee)
  • Sanders, California – Charlotte E. Sanders (first postmaster)
  • Sanford, Maine – Loleg Sanford
  • Sanger, California – Joseph Sanger Jr. (Railroad Yardmaster Association secretary-treasurer)
  • Sangerville, Maine – Colonel Calvin Sanger (landowner)
  • Santa Ana, California and Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico – Saint Anne
  • Santa Barbara, California – Saint Barbara
  • Santa Clara, California – Saint Clare of Assisi
  • Santa Monica, California – Saint Monica
  • Saranap, California – Sara Napthaly (mother of a railroad man)
  • Sawyers, California – Marvin L. Sawyer (first postmaster)
  • Scarface, California – Scarface Charlie (a Native American warrior in the Modoc War)
  • Schererville, Indiana – Nicholas Scherer (German settler)
  • Schwaub, California – Charles M. Schwab
  • Scott, New York – General Winfield Scott
  • Scotts, California – Charles A. Scott (first postmaster)
  • Scotts Corner, California – Thomas Scott, Sr. (local merchant)
  • Scottsdale, Arizona – Chaplain Winfield Scott
  • Scottdale, Georgia – George Washington Scott
  • Scranton, Pennsylvania – Selden T. and George W. Scranton (founders of the Lackawanna Steel Company and, later, the city)
  • Scribner, California – Leila M. Scribner (first postmaster)
  • Searsmont, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
  • Searsport, Maine – David Sears (proprietor)
  • Seattle, Washington – Chief Seattle
  • Sedgwick, Arkansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick
  • Sedgwick, Colorado – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Fort Sedgwick)
  • Sedgwick, Kansas – Union Major General John Sedgwick (indirectly, via Sedgwick County)
  • Sedgwick, Maine – Major Robert Sedgwick
  • Sedona, Arizona – Sedona Miller Schnebly (wife of the city's first postmaster)
  • Seeley, California – Henry Seeley (developer of Imperial County)
  • Seguin, Texas – Juan Seguin (Texas political figure and Texas Revolution patriot)
  • Seigler Springs, California – Thomas Seigler (discoverer of the springs)
  • Selby, California – Prentiss Selby (first postmaster)
  • Selma, California – Selma Michelsen (wife of railroad employee)
  • Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – Sergeant Charles Floyd
  • Seward, Alaska – William H. Seward
  • Seward, Nebraska – William H. Seward
  • Seymour, Connecticut – Governor Thomas H. Seymour
  • Shafter, California – Gen. William Rufus Shafter
  • Shaftsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shaftesbury (note spelling)
  • Shapleigh, Maine – Major Nicholas Shapleigh (proprietor)
  • Sharon, California – William Sharon (financier)
  • Shaver Lake, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
  • Shaver Lake Heights, California – C.B. Shaver (irrigation company founder)
  • Shelburne, 3 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and 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)
  • Shreveport, Louisiana - Captain Henry Shreve, who opened the Red River, which runs through Shreveport, to marine navigation
  • 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)[93]
  • Sloat, California – John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)[94]
  • Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
  • Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
  • Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
  • Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
  • Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
  • Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodder (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
  • Solon, Maine and Solon, New York – Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
  • Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
  • Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
  • Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
  • Sorenson, California – Harold Sorensen (early settler)
  • South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
  • South Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
  • South Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles) [95]
  • South Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
  • South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler)
  • South Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine)
  • Spafford, New York – Horatio Spafford
  • Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
  • Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks
  • Spence, California – David Spence (landowner)
  • Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
  • Sprague, Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
  • Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
  • Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon
  • Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
  • Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish
  • Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield
  • Stanfield Hill, California – William Stanfield (founder)
  • Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard
  • Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois)
  • Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die")
  • Starks, Maine – General John Stark
  • Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark
  • Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
  • Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark
  • Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
  • Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
  • Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling)
  • Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
  • Steuben, Maine – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
  • Stevensville, Montana – Isaac Stevens(1st governor of Washington Territory)
  • Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner)
  • Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
  • Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
  • Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
  • Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
  • Stockton, California – Robert F. Stockton
  • Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
  • Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
  • Stonehill, California – Frances Stone (first postmaster)[3]
  • Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
  • Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
  • Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
  • Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling)
  • Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
  • Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
  • Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
  • Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
  • Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
  • Sullivan, New Hampshire – General John Sullivan
  • Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
  • Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
  • Sunol, California – Antonio Sunol (landowner)
  • Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
  • Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop)
  • Sutter, California – John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
  • Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter
  • Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter
  • Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator)
  • Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser)
  • Sweetland, California – Sweetland brothers (early settlers)[96]

T

  • Taft, California – William Howard Taft
  • Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
  • Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
  • Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
  • Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee
  • Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
  • Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
  • Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
  • Taylor County, Florida – Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America
  • Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
  • Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
  • Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
  • Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
  • Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
  • Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
  • Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
  • Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
  • Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
  • Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
  • Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
  • Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
  • Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
  • Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
  • Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)[8]
  • Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
  • Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
  • Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
  • Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)[8]{{rp|569}}
  • Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
  • Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
  • Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
  • Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
  • Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
  • Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
  • Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
  • Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
  • Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
  • Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
  • Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
  • Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
  • Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
  • Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
  • Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
  • Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
  • Tyringham, Massachusetts – Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard; the only town in Massachusetts named after a woman; Sir Francis Bernard inherited Nether Winchendon House, Bucks., England from her

U

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

V

  • Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca
  • Vade, California – Sieera Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
  • Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
  • Valdosta, Georgia – Augustus (indirectly, via Aosta, Italy)[97]
  • Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
  • Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
  • Van Nuys, California – Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
  • Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
  • Vaughn, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
  • Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
  • Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
  • Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
  • Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
  • Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
  • Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
  • Vinton, California – Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)[98]
  • Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
  • Virgilia, California – Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive Virgil Bogue)[98]
  • 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, and Vermont – Major General Joseph Warren
  • Warren, New Hampshire and Warren, Rhode Island – Admiral Sir Peter Warren (British naval hero)
  • Warren, Ohio – Moses Warren (surveyor)
  • Warrenville, Illinois – Julius Warren (settler)
  • Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
  • Washington (state) and Washington, D.C. – George Washington
  • Washington, 14 places in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and 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)
  • Watkins Glen, New York – Dr. Samuel Watkins (founder)
  • 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
  • Weedville, Arizona - Ora Rush Weed (founder)
  • Weimar, California – a local Maidu chief[3]
  • Welcome, Minnesota – Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
  • Weld, Maine – Benjamin Weld (proprietor)
  • Weldon, California – William B. Weldon (rancher)
  • Wellington, Colorado – C. L. Wellington (employee of the Colorado and Southern Railway)
  • Wellington, Maine – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
  • Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
  • Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
  • Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor Benning Wentworth
  • Wesley, Maine – John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
  • West Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician) (indirectly, via Gardiner, Maine)
  • West Lafayette, Indiana and West Lafayette, Ohio – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
  • West Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via Richland, Washington)
  • West Virginia – Virgin Queen
  • West Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via Warwick, Rhode Island)
  • Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
  • Westmoreland, New Hampshire – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
  • Westville, California – George C. West (first postmaster)[3]
  • Whately, Massachusetts – Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
  • Wheelock, Vermont – Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
  • White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
  • Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire – George Whitefield (English evangelist)
  • Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
  • Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
  • Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
  • Whitinsville, Massachusetts – Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
  • Whitlow, California – Albert Whitlow (first postmaster)
  • Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
  • Whitney, California – Joel Parker Whitney (rancher)[99]
  • Whitneyville, Maine – Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
  • Whittier, Alaska – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
  • Whittier, California – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
  • Wibaux, Montana – Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
  • Wible Orchard, California – Simon William Wible (early settler)
  • Wickenburg, Arizona – Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
  • Wicks Corner, California – Moses Wick (first postmaster)
  • Wiest, California – Daniel W. Wiest (early settler)
  • Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
  • Wilkes County, Georgia – John Wilkes
  • Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – John Wilkes and Isaac Barre
  • Willet, New York – Colonel Marinus Willet
  • Williams, California – W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
  • Williams Bay, Wisconsin – Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the War of 1812)
  • Williamsburg, Virginia – William III of England
  • Williamstown, Massachusetts – Ephraim Williams
  • Williston, Vermont – Samuel Willis (landholder)
  • Willits, California – Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
  • Willoughby, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr. (U.S. Representative from New York)
  • Willoughby Hills, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr.
  • Wilmette, Illinois – Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
  • Wilmington, 3 places in Delaware, North Carolina, and 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)
  • Wilson and Wilson County, North Carolina – Colonel Louis D. Wilson
  • Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
  • Winchester, Massachusetts – Colonel William P. Winchester
  • Winchendon, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, his family seat was Nether Winchendon House, Buckinghamshire, England
  • Winchester, New Hampshire – Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London
  • Windham, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
  • Windom, Minnesota – Senator William Windom
  • Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
  • Winfield, Kansas – Chaplain Winfield Scott
  • Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
  • Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
  • Winslow, Maine – General John Winslow
  • Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Joseph Winston
  • Winters, California – Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
  • Winthrop, Maine – John Winthrop (first Governor of Massachusetts)
  • Winthrop, Massachusetts – Deane Winthrop (son of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts)
  • Wofford Heights, California – I.L. Wofford (founder)
  • Wolcott, Vermont – General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
  • Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General James Wolfe
  • Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
  • Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
  • Woodville, Texas – George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
  • Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
  • Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
  • Wurtsboro, New York – Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
  • Wyandanch, New York – Wyandanch (sachem of the Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
  • Wytheville, Virginia – George Wythe (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)

Y

  • Yankee Jims, California – a criminal with that nickname[100]
  • Ybor City, Tampa, Florida – Vicente Martinez Ybor
  • Yonkers, New York – Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
  • Yorba Linda, California – Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
  • Yorkville, California – R.H. York (Founder)
  • Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
  • Youngs Hill, California – William Young and his brother (discoverers of gold at the place)
  • Youngstown, Ohio – John Young (Founder)
  • Ypsilanti, Michigan – Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the Greek War of Independence)

Z

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

Former names

  • Adams was the name of Corte Madera, California – Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
  • Adele was the name of Fields Landing, California – Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
  • Alexander's Corner was the name of Weedpatch, California – Cal Alexander (early resident)
  • Allen's Camp was the name of Caliente, California – Gabriel Allen (early settler)
  • Arp's was the name of Riverview, Kern County, California – James H. Arp (real estate developer)
  • Barker House was the name of Woodleaf, California – Charles Barker (early settler)
  • Barrons Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Richard Barron (landowner)
  • Barrow was the name of Utqiagvik, Alaska – Sir John Barrow
  • Beal's Landing was the name of Westport, California – Samuel Beal (early settler)
  • Bells Harbor was the name of Little River, California – Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
  • Benton Mills was the name of Ridleys Ferry, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
  • Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – William C. Biddle (early settler)
  • Black's was the name of Zamora, California – J.J. Black (early settler)
  • Boust City was the name of Taft Heights, California – E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
  • Bowman's Point was the name of West End, Alameda, California – Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
  • Brannan Springs was the name of Woodfords, California – Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
  • Brown's was the name of North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler)
  • Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
  • Brownsville was the name of Samoa, California – James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
  • Brownsville was the name of Tecopa, California – William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
  • Buckingham was the name of Unity, New Hampshire – John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
  • Bucktooth was the name of Salamanca (town), New York – Bucktooth (notable Native American who lived in the area)
  • Bulwinkle was the name of Crannell, California – Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
  • Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California – Robert and John Burns (founders)
  • Burrville was the name of Clinton, Tennessee – Aaron Burr
  • Cabarker was the name of El Centro, California – C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
  • Cantu was the name of Andrade, California – Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
  • Cardigan was the name of Orange, New Hampshire – George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
  • Carson's Creek was the name of Angels Camp, California – Kit Carson
  • Charley's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)[101]
  • Clark's Station and Clark's Ranch were names of Wawona, California – Galen Clark (founder)
  • Clifton was the name of Del Rey, California – Clift Wilkinson (town founder)
  • Cochran's Crossing was the name of Yolo, California – Thomas Cochran (early settler)
  • Cockermouth was the name of Groton, New Hampshire – Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont
  • Collis was the name of Kerman, California – Collis Potter Huntington
  • Converse Ferry was the name of Friant, California – Charles Converse (ferryman)
  • Cowan Station was the name of Dunmovin, California – James Cowan (homesteader)
  • Crabtown was the name of Helena, Montana – John Crab (early gold prospector)
  • Crumville was the name of Ridgecrest, California – James and Robert Crum (local dairymen)
  • Dewey and Deweyville were names of Wasco, California – Adm. George Dewey
  • Dorris Bridge was the name of Alturas, California – Pressley and James Dorris (early settlers)
  • Dow's Prairie was the name of McKinleyville, California – Joe Dow (founder)
  • Drapersville was the name of Kingsburg, California – Josiah Draper (founder)
  • Dupplin was the name of Lempster, New Hampshire – Scottish lord Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
  • Durkee's Ferry was the name of Weitchpec, California – Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
  • Dutch Charlie's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)[101]
  • Dykesboro was the name of Cochran, Georgia – B. B. Dykes (settler)
  • Eastland was the name of Mill Valley, California – Joseph G. Eastland (developer)
  • Enfield was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Robert Field (early settler)
  • Etter was the name of Ettersburg, California – Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
  • Fassking's Station was the name of Encinal, Alameda, California – Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
  • Fletcher was the name of Aurora, Colorado – Donald Fletcher (businessman)
  • Foremans was the name of Fourth Crossing, California – David Foreman (town founder)
  • Franklin Township was the name of Nutley, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
  • Greenwich was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
  • Grenville was the name of Newport, New Hampshire – George Grenville (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
  • Hamilton's was the name of Buck Meadows, California – Alva Hamilton (founder)
  • Hamptonville was the name of Friant, California – William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
  • Hans Lof's was the name of Toms Place, California – Hans Lof (resort owner)
  • Hansen was the name of Alton, California – Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
  • Harrisberry was the name of Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
  • Harrisburgh was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – Abram Harris (early settler)
  • Haydenville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
  • Hearst was the name of Hacienda, California – Phoebe Hearst
  • Hearst was the name of Vista Robles, California – George Hearst (early settler)
  • Hopkins and Hopkins Springs was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – Mark Hopkins (railroad baron who built a resort there)[102]
  • Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of Whitney Portal, California – William L. Hunter (pioneer)
  • Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of DeSabla, California – John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
  • Hutton's Ranch was the name of Yolo, California – James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
  • Jacksonville was the name of Floyd, Virginia – President Andrew Jackson
  • Jeram was the name of Carey, California – Father Jeram (community leader)
  • Jewetta was the name of Saco, California – Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
  • Joe was the name of Ismay, Montana – Joe Montana, (American Football player)
  • Johnson's Diggings was the name of Birchville, California – David Johnson (first prospector at the site)[33]
  • Johnsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – John F. Johnson (early settler)
  • Jones Ferry was the name of Friant, California – J.R. Jones (early merchant)
  • Kellyvale was the name of Lowell, Vermont – John Kelley (grantee)
  • Kendall's City was the name of Boonville, California – Alonzo Kendall (early hotelier)
  • Kents Landing was the name of Little River, California – W.H. Kent (early settler, landowner)
  • Kenyon was the name of Pineridge, California – Silas W. Kenyon (first postmaster)
  • Kunze was the name of Greenwater, California – Arthur Kunze (founder)
  • Langville was the name of Capay, California – John Arnold Lang (early settler)
  • Laphams was the name of Stateline, California – William W. Lapham (hotel owner)
  • Levittown and Levittown Township were names of Willingboro Township, New Jersey (from 1958 to 1963) – William Levitt
  • Lewisville was the name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – Lewis B. Meyer (early settler)
  • Lisbon was the name of Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)[12]
  • Maltermoro was the name of Sunnyside, Fresno County, California – George H. Malter (postmaster)
  • Marthasville was the name of Atlanta, Georgia – Martha Lumpkin (daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin)[103]
  • Marsh was the name of Avon, Contra Costa County, California – John Marsh
  • Marshall was the name of Lotus, California – James W. Marshall
  • Marshs Landing was the name of Antioch, California – John Marsh
  • Maxwell's Creek was the name of Coulterville, California – George Maxwell (early settler)
  • McKinney was the name of Chambers Lodge, California – John McKinney (early settler)[47]
  • Meiggstown was the name of Mendocino, California – Henry Meiggs
  • Michaels was the name of Coarsegold, California – Charles Michaels (merchant)
  • Mingusville was the name of Wibaux, Montana – Minnie and Gus Grisy (postmasters)
  • Minorsville was the name of McKinleyville, California – Isaac Minor (founder)
  • Moores was the name of Riverton, California – John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
  • Moores Station was the name of Honcut, California – John C. Moore (first postmaster)
  • Norris was the name of Lake Delton, Wisconsin – Edward Norris (surveyor)
  • Old Lovelock was the name of Coutolenc, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
  • Partridgefield was the name of Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
  • Peacock's was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
  • Peterman's Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
  • Phillipsburg was the name of Hollis, Maine – Major William Phillips (proprietor)
  • Phipps-Canada was the name of Jay, Maine – Captain Joseph Phipps
  • Pollasky was the name of Friant, California – Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
  • Portersville was the name of Valparaiso, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
  • Powellville was the name of Blocksburg, California – Joseph James Powell (first settler)
  • Prescott was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Colonel William Prescott
  • Putnam's was the name of Independence, California – Charles Putnam (early merchant)
  • Ralston City was the name of Shakespeare, New Mexico – William Chapman Ralston
  • Ralston Point was the name of Arvada, Colorado – Lewis Ralston (prospector from Georgia)
  • Randall was the name of White Hall, California – Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
  • Reed was the name of Ostrom, California – Henry Reed (early settler)
  • Rolph was the name of Fairhaven, California – James Rolph (governor of California)
  • Rooptown was the name of Susanville, California – Isaac Roop (settler)
  • Ross Landing was the name of Kentfield, California – James Ross (founder)
  • Ross's Camp was the name of Melbourne Camp, California – William Ross (operator)
  • Rust was the name of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California – William R. Rust (first postmaster)
  • Ryan was the name of Lila C, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
  • Scodie was the name of Onyx, California – William Scodie (early merchant)
  • Sherburne was the name of Killington, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
  • Simpsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – Robert Simpson (local merchant)
  • Smith's Landing was the name of Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
  • Smithville was the name of Loomis, California – L.G. Smith (store owner)[82]
  • Sotoville was the name of Santa Rita, Monterey County, California – Jose Manuel Soto (landowner, founder)
  • Spoonville was the name of Edgemont, Lassen County, California – Lorella A. Spoon
  • Stantonville was the name of Chilton, Wisconsin – Moses and Catherine Stanton (early residents)
  • Stratton was the name of Stratford, California – William Stratton (developer)
  • Stubbs was the name of Clearlake Oaks, California – Charles Stubbs (landowner)
  • Surrattsville was the name of Clinton, Maryland – Surratt family (18th century settlers)
  • Swauger was the name of Loleta, California – Samuel A. Swauger (landowner)
  • Taylors Landing was the name of Bijou, California – Almon M. Taylor (founder)
  • Tinkers Station was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – J.A. Tinker (local freight hauler)[102]
  • Townsend was the name of Boothbay, Maine and Southport, Maine – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
  • Trecothick was the name of Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Barlow Trecothick (Alderman, Member of Parliament and a Lord Mayor of the City of London)
  • Turner was the name of Harriman, New York – Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
  • Vaughn was the name of Bodfish, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
  • Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of Laredo, Texas – Saint Augustine
  • Warnersville was the name of Trinidad, California – R.V. Warner (early settler)
  • Wells was the name of Keene, California – Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
  • Wendell was the name of Sunapee, New Hampshire – John Wendell (proprietor)
  • Weringdale was the name of Woody, California – Joseph Weringer (town planner)
  • Wheelersborough was the name of Hampden, Maine – Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
  • Whitley's Ford was the name of Lookout, California – James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
  • Williamsburg was the name of Old Town, Kern County, California – James E. Williams (businessman)
  • Woods Dry Diggings was the name of Auburn, California – John S. Wood[12]
  • Yanks was the name of Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)

See also

  • List of places named after people
    • List of country subdivisions named after people
    • List of lakes named after people
    • List of islands named after people
  • Buildings and structures named after people
    • List of educational institutions named after U.S. presidents
    • List of eponyms of airports
    • List of convention centers named after people
    • List of railway stations named after people
  • Lists of places by eponym
  • List of non-US places that have a US place named after them
  • List of eponyms
  • Lists of etymologies

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