List of places named after people 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.

A

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

B

Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator^[18]
Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper)
Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge
Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works)
Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon)^[19]^[20]
Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker^[21]
Baldwin, Maine – Colonel (namesake of the Baldwin apple)
Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler)
Bale, California – Edward Turner Bale, land grantee
Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader)
Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore
Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company)
Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official)
Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site
Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton
Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling)
Barnes, California – Peter Barnes (first postmaster)
Barnes Settlement, California – Thomas Barnes (founder)
Barre, Massachusetts, Barre (city), Vermont 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)
Barrow, Alaska – Sir John Barrow
Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
Bartlett, California – Frank J. Barlett (chemical company executive)
Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett
Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett
Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner)
Barton, Vermont – General William Barton
Bastrop, Louisiana – Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (Dutch embezzler who falsely claimed to be a nobleman)
Bath, New Hampshire – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
Beals, Maine – Manwaring Beal (settler)
Bealville, California – Edward Fitzgerald Beale (landowner)
Beardstown, Illinois – Thomas Beard (settler)
Beatrice, Humboldt County, California – Beatrice White (first postmaster)
Beaumont, Texas – Jefferson Beaumont (early settler and public official)
Beckwourth, California – James Beckwourth, adventurer and early settler^[22]
Bedford, New Hampshire – Lord John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Beeville, Texas – Barnard E. Bee, Sr. (served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas) (indirectly, via Bee County, Texas)^[23]
Belchertown, Massachusetts – Jonathan Belcher (governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey)^[24]
Belden, California – Robert Belden (first postmaster)^[25]
Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner)
Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier)^[26]
Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami
Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood
Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo
Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster)
Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president)
Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont)
Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth
Benton, 4 places in Arkansas, California, Maine, and New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton^[27]^[28]^[29]
Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford
Bergman, California – Jacob Bergman (stage coach driver)^[8]
Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley^[30]
Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House)
Bernards Township – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England
Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer)
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^[31]
Bismarck, North Dakota – Otto von Bismarck
Bishop, California – Samuel Addison Bishop (settler) (indirectly, via Bishop Creek)
Blacksburg, Virginia – William Black (landowner)
Blackstone, Massachusetts – Rev. William Blaxton (settler) (spelling variant)
Blackwells Corner, California – George Blackwell (merchant)
Blair, Nebraska – John Insley Blair (official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad)
Blairsden, California – James A. Blair (financier of the Western Pacific Railroad)^[32]
Blakely, Georgia – Captain Johnston Blakeley, U.S. Navy
Blakes Landing, California – Jeremiah Blakes (owner)
Blanchard, California – Rosie M. Blanchard (first postmaster)
Blanco, Monterey County, California – Tom White (settler); "Blanco" is "White" in Spanish
Blocksburg, California – Benjamin Blockburger (merchant)
Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler)
Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector)
Bonds Corner, California – Dr. J.L. Bond (homesteader)
Bondville, California – Stephen Bond (merchant)
Booge, South Dakota – C.A. Booge
Boone, North Carolina - Daniel Boone
Boonville, California – W.W. Boone (merchant)
Borden, California – Dr. James Borden (civic leader)
Boscawen, New Hampshire – Lord Edward Boscawen^[33]
Bourne, Massachusetts – Jonathan Bourne Sr. (son of Richard Bourne, who served in the Massachusetts General Court)
Bowdoin, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
Bowdoinham, Maine – James Bowdoin (governor of Massachusetts)
Bowie, Maryland – Colonel William D. Bowie
Bowman, California – Harry Bowman (fruit grower)^[34]
Bozeman, Montana – John Bozeman
Bradford County, Florida – Capt. Richard Bradford, first Confederate officer from Florida to die in the Civil War
Bradford Siding, California – Johnnie Bradford (clay businessman)
Bradley, California – Bradley V. Sargent (landowner)
Bradley, Maine – Bradley Blackman (settler)
Bradtmoore, California – Bradley T. Moore (founder)
Brandt, South Dakota – Rev. P.O. Brandt
Branscomb, California – Benjamin Franklin Branscomb (early settler)
Brattleboro, Vermont – Colonel William Brattle, Jr. (proprietor)
Briceburg, California – William M. Brice (merchant)
Brewer, Maine – Colonel John Brewer (settler)
Brewster, Massachusetts – Elder William Brewster
Brewster, Minnesota – Elder William Brewster (indirectly, via Brewster, Massachusetts)
Brewster, New York – Walter and James Brewster (two early farmer landowners)
Briceland, California – John C. Briceland (landowner)
Bricelyn, Minnesota – John Brice (landowner)
Bridgton, Maine – Moody Bridges
Broadus, Montana – Broaddus family (early settlers) (note spelling)
Brockton, Massachusetts – Isaac Brock (British Army officer and administrator) (indirectly, after a local merchant heard of Brockville, Ontario on a trip to Niagara Falls)
Brockway, California – Nathaniel Brockway (uncle of postmaster)^[35]
Broderick, California – U.S. Senator David C. Broderick
Brooks, Maine – John Brooks (Federalist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
Brooks County, Georgia – Congressman Preston Brooks
Brooksville, Florida – Congressman Preston Brooks
Brown, California – George Brown (hotelier)
Brownfield, Maine – Captain Henry Young Brown (served in the French and Indian War)
Brownington, Vermont – Daniel and Timothy Brown (landholders)
Browns Valley, Minnesota – Joseph Brown (founder)
Brownsville, Calaveras County, California – Alfred Brown
Brownsville, Yuba County, California – I.E. Brown (sawmill owner)
Brownsville, Maryland – Tobias Brown (early settler)
Brownsville, Pennsylvania – Thomas Brown (landowner)
Brownsville, Tennessee – Jacob Jennings Brown (American army officer)
Brownsville, Texas – Major Jacob Brown^[36]
Brownville, Maine – Francis Brown (mill owner and trader)
Brunswick, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Bryan, Texas – William Joel Bryan
Bryte, California – Mike Bryte (local farmer and landowner)
Buchanan, Michigan – James Buchanan (fifteenth president)
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)^[37]

C

Cabot, Vermont – named by settler Lyman Hitchcock for his intended bride
Cadenasso, California – Nicolo Cadenasso (early settler)
Camden, Maine – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden^[38]
Cameron, California – George W. Cameron (early settler)
Cameron, Missouri – Malinda Cameron (maiden name of wife of Samuel McCorkle, who platted the town of Somerville, Missouri)
Camillus, New York – Marcus Furius Camillus (Roman military leader)^[39]
Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster)
Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives)
Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California)
Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
Campbell, California – Benjamin Campbell (founder)
Campbellsville, Kentucky – Andrew Campbell (founder)
Campion, Colorado – John F. Campion (hard rock mine owner and established the sugar beet industry)
Camptonville, California – Robert Campton (town blacksmith)
Canby, California – General Edward Canby
Canfield, California – Charles W. Canfield (founder)
Canova, South Dakota – Antonio Canova (Italian sculptor)
Canterbury, New Hampshire – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury^[40]
Cape Elizabeth, Maine – Elizabeth of Bohemia (sister of King Charles I of England)^[41]
Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Jean Baptiste de Girardot (French soldier)
Carey, California – George R. Carey (first postmaster)
Caribou, California – Johnny Caribou (early miner)^[32]
Carlotta, California – Carlotta Vance (founder's daughter)
Carolina, Rhode Island – Caroline Hazard (wife of Rowland G. Hazard, mill owner)
Carol Stream, Illinois – (named for founder's daughter)
Carr, Colorado – Robert E. Carr (managed the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad rail line through the town)
Carroll, New Hampshire – Charles Carroll (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)^[42]
Carroll Plantation, Maine – Daniel Carroll (a signer of the U.S. Constitution)
Carson City, Nevada – Kit Carson^[43]
Carson Hill, California – Sergeant James H. Carson
Caruthers, California – W.A. Caruthers (local farmer)
Carver, Massachusetts – John Carver (first Governor of Plymouth Colony)
Caspar, California – Siegfried Caspar (founder)
Casper, Wyoming – Lieutenant Caspar Collins (killed by a group of Indian warriors) (note spelling)
Castine, Maine – Baron Jean-Vincent de St. Castin^[44]
Castroville, California – Simeon Nepomuceno Castro (landowner)
Catheys Valley, California – Andrew Cathey (early settler)
Cavendish, Vermont – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire^[45]
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)^[46]
Chandler, Arizona – Dr. Alexander John Chandler
Chanz, California – George A. Chanz (first postmaster)
Chaplin, Connecticut – Deacon Benjamin Chaplin (early settler)
Chardon, California – Charles Langdon (early settler)
Charles Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington)^[47]
Charleston, Merced County, California – Charles Bambauer (first postmaster)
Charleston, Yolo County, California – Charles H. Gray (first postmaster)
Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler)
Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England
Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here)
Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy^[48]
Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England
Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance)
Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III)^[49]^[50]
Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton
Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield
Chatham, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain)^[51]
Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler)
Chester, Vermont – George IV of the United Kingdom, the Earl of Chester (eldest son of George III of the United Kingdom)
Chesterfield, Massachusetts – Earl of Chesterfield
Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield^[52]
Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester^[53]
Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor)
Christiana, Delaware – Queen Christina of Sweden
Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York)^[54]
Cicero, New York – Cicero^[55]
Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati)^[56]
Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)^[57]
Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad)^[57]
Claraville, California – Clara Munckton (first white woman there)
Clarksburg, California – Robert C. Clark (early settler)
Clarksburg, Massachusetts – Nicholas Clark (early settler)
Clarkston, Washington – Governor William Clark^[58]
Clarksville, Missouri – Governor William Clark^[59]
Clay County, Florida – Henry Clay (United States Secretary of State in the 19th century)
Clayton, California – Joel Henry Clayton (founder)
Clendenin, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin)
Cleveland, Ohio – Moses Cleaveland (note spelling)^[60]
Cleveland, Tennessee – Colonel Benjamin Cleveland^[61]
Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge)
Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin – Grover Cleveland
Clinton – DeWitt Clinton,^[62]^[63]^[64]^[65]^[66]^[67]^[68] 16 places in
- Arkansas – Connecticut – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Louisiana – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – New Jersey – New York (city and county) – Ohio – Wisconsin
Clinton, Lassen County, California – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Maine, home town of its first postmaster)
Clinton, Kansas – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Illinois)
Clinton, Montana – General Sir Henry Clinton
Clinton, Nebraska – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Iowa)
Clinton, Dutchess County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)^[69]
Clinton, Oneida County, New York – George Clinton (early governor of New York)^[70]
Clinton, North Carolina – American Revolution General Richard Clinton
Clinton, Oklahoma – Clinton Irwin (territorial judge)
Clinton, South Carolina – Henry Clinton Young (Laurens lawyer who helped lay out the first streets)
Clinton, Washington – DeWitt Clinton (indirectly, via Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan)
Clovis, California – Clovis Cole (local farmer)
Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge)
Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler)
Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester
Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator)
Colfax, California – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
Colfax, Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President)
Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier
Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling)
Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer)
Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler)
Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer)
Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army)
Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner)
Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
Cordua Bar, California – Theodore Cordua (local merchant)
Corinna, Maine – Corinna Warren (daughter of Dr. John Warren, landowner)
Corinne, Utah – Corinne Williamson (daughter of General J.A. Williamson)
Cornish, New Hampshire – Vice-Admiral Samuel Cornish of the British Royal Navy
Corpus Christi, Texas – Jesus Christ (Body of Christ)
Corrigan, Texas – Pat Corrigan (train conductor)
Cortland, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt (first Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Cortlandville, New York – Pierre Van Cortlandt
Coulterville, California – George W. Coulter (early settler)
Coutolenc, California – Eugene Coutolenc (early merchant)
Cowell, California – Joshua Cowell (landowner)
Crabtree, California – John F. Crabtree (homesteader)
Craftsbury, Vermont – Ebenezer Crafts (landholder)
Craig, Modoc County, California – Robert A. Craig (first postmaster)
Crannell, California – Levi Crannell (lumber company president)
Crawford, Maine – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Crawfordville, Georgia – William H. Crawford (U.S. Senator, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Treasury)
Cressey, California – Calvin J. Cressey (landowner)
Crockett, California – Joseph B. Crockett (California Supreme Court judge)
Crockett, Texas – Davy Crockett
Cromwell, California – F.T Cromwell (founder)
Crook, Colorado – General George Crook (officer during the Civil War and the Indian Wars)
Crosbyton, Texas – Stephen Crosby (land office commissioner)
Cudahy, California – Michael Cudahy
Cudahy, Wisconsin – Patrick Cudahy
Culpeper, Virginia – Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper
Cumberland, Rhode Island – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Cummings, Mendocino County, California – Jonathan Cummings (early settler)
Cummington, Massachusetts – Colonel Cummings (landholder)
Cupertino, California – Joseph of Cupertino
Curry Village, California – David A. Curry (founder)
Cushing, Maine – Thomas Cushing (statesman and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Cutler, Maine – Joseph Cutler (settler)
Cuttens, California – Charles R. Cuttens (first postmaster)

D

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

Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas

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

Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)

Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family

Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)

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

Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)

Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French

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

Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport

Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)

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

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

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

Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton

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

Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day

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

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

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

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

Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)

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

DeHaven, California – John J. De Haven

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

Delano, California – Columbus Delano

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

Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)

Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)

Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver

DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)

DeSoto County, Florida – Hernando de Soto

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

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

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

Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)

Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)

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

Diamondville, California – James Diamond

Dickenson, California – William Legrand Dickinson

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

Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)

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

Dixfield, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)

Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)

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

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

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

Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)^[71]

Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)

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

Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas

Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)

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

Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)

Downey, California – John G. Downey

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

Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler and lodge owner)^[72]

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

Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)

Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)

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

Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)

Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut

Dummer, New Hampshire – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)

Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer

Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)

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

Duplin County, North Carolina ] – Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin^[73]

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

Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham

Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834

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

G

Galesburg, Illinois – George Washington Gale
Gallatin, Tennessee and other Gallatins – Albert Gallatin
Galveston, Texas – Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez
Garberville, California – Jacob C. Garber (first postmaster)
Garcia, California – Rafael Garcia (land grantee)
Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician)
Gardiner, New York – Lieutenant Governor Addison Gardiner
Gardner, Massachusetts – Colonel Thomas Gardner (killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill)
Garibaldi, Oregon – Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garland, Maine – Joseph Garland (settler)
Garland, Texas – Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland
Garlock, California – Eugene Garlock (early businessman)
Garretson, South Dakota – A.S. Garretson (banker)
Gary, Indiana – Elbert Henry Gary
Gasquet, California – Horace Gasquet (first postmaster)
Geddes, New York – James Geddes (early settler)
Gelatt, California – Ethel Gelatt (first postmaster) ^[74]
George, Washington – George Washington
George West, Texas – George Washington West (founder)
Georgetown, California – George Phipps (founder)
Georgetown, Kentucky and Georgetown, Massachusetts – George Washington
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. – George II of Great Britain
Georgia (U.S. state) – King George II of Great Britain
Gerry, New York – Elbridge Gerry
Gertrude, California – Gertrude Haley (first postmaster)
Gest, California – Erasmus Gest (railroad official)
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Samuel Gettys (settler)
Gilbert, Arizona – William "Bobby" Gilbert
Gilchrist County, Florida – Albert W. Gilchrist Governor of Florida from 1909 to 1913
Gill, Massachusetts – Moses Gill (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
Gillette, Wyoming – Weston Gillette (surveyor and civil engineer)
Gilsum, New Hampshire – Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law, Thomas Sumner (proprietors)
Glen Burnie, Maryland – Elias Glenn (district attorney) and his descendants
Glennville, California – James M. Glenn (blacksmith)
Glocester, Rhode Island – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (note spelling)
Glover, Vermont – Brigadier General John Glover (proprietor)
Goecken, California – Herman Bernard Goecken (local rancher)
Goffstown, New Hampshire – Colonel John Goffe (settler) (note spelling)
Gorham, Maine and Gorham, New Hampshire – Captain John Gorham
Gosford, California – Earl of Gosford
Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold
Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)
Grafton, Massachusetts – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Grafton, New Hampshire – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (relative of colonial governor Benning Wentworth)
Granby, Massachusetts – John Manners, Marquess of Granby (hero of the Seven Years' War)
Granby, Vermont – Marquis of Granby
Granger, Washington – Walter Granger (superintendent of the Washington Irrigation Company)
Grantham, New Hampshire – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham
Gray, Maine – Thomas Gray (proprietor)
Greeley, Colorado – Horace Greeley (editor of the New York Tribune)
Greenwich, California – Peter D. Greene (founder)
Greensboro, North Carolina – Nathanael Greene
Greensboro, Vermont – Timothy Green (landowner)
Greenville, Alameda County, California – John Green (early merchant)
Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – John Greenwood (early settler)
Grestley, California – James Grestley
Gridley, California – George W. Gridley (founder)
Griswold, Connecticut – Governor Roger Griswold
Guernsey, California – James Guernsey (landowner)
Guilford, Maine – Moses Guilford Law (first white child born here)
Guilford, Vermont – Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford
Gurnee, Illinois – Walter S. Gurnee (mayor of Chicago)
Gustine, California – Augusta Miller, daughter of Henry Miller (rancher)

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)
Heyburn, Idaho – Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn
Hildreth, California – Tom Hildreth (founder and merchant)
Hill, New Hampshire – Isaac Hill (governor of New Hampshire)
Hillrose, Colorado – Rose Hill Emerson (daughter of early landholder)
Hillsborough, New Hampshire – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Hillsborough County, Florida – Sir Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire and 1st Earl of Hillsborough
Hinesburg, Vermont – Abel Hine (town clerk)
Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Rev. Theodore Hinsdale (woolen mill owner)
Hinsdale, New Hampshire – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale
Hinsdale, New York – Colonel Ebenezer Hinsdale (indirectly, via Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
Hiram, Maine – Hiram I (biblical king of Tyre)
Hobergs, California – Gustave Hoberg (founder, resort owner)
Hodson, California – J.J. Hodson (copper mining financier)
Hoffman Estates, Illinois – Sam and Jack Hoffman (builders)
Holbrook, Massachusetts – Elisha N. Holbrook (benefactor)
Holderness, New Hampshire – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Holland, Massachusetts – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (English statesman)
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania – Adam and William Holliday (founders)
Hollis, New Hampshire – John Holles, Earl of Clare (ancestor of colonial governor Benning Wentworth) (note spelling)
Holliston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hollis, Esq. of London, England (a benefactor of Harvard College)
Homer, New York – Homer (Greek poet)
Hookton, California – John Hookton (founder)
Hopkinsville, Kentucky – General Samuel Hopkins
Hopkinton, Massachusetts – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University)
Hopkinton, New Hampshire – Edward Hopkins (benefactor of Harvard University) (indirectly, via Hopkinton, Massachusetts)
Hopkinton, New York – early settlers with the name Hopkins
Hornbeak, Tennessee – Frank Hornbeak (store owner, postmaster)^[75]
Horstville, California – E. Clemons Horst (rancher)
Horton, California – Ben Horton (railroad official)
Houlton, Maine – Joseph Houlton (settler)
Houston, Minnesota and Houston, Texas – Sam Houston
Howard, Brown County, Wisconsin and Howard, Chippewa County, Wisconsin – Brigadier General Benjamin Howard (officer in the War of 1812)
Howard Springs, California – C.W. Howard (resort owner)
Howards Grove, Wisconsin – H.B. Howard (hotelier and postmaster)
Howland, Maine – John Howland (Mayflower passenger)
Hubbardston, Massachusetts – Thomas Hubbard (Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives and landowner)
Hubbardton, Vermont – Thomas Hubbard (landholder)
Hudson, Maine – Charles Hudson (indirectly, via Hudson, Massachusetts)
Hudson, Massachusetts – Charles Hudson (United States Representative)
Hudson, New York – Henry Hudson
Humble, Texas – Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble (postmaster)
Humboldt, South Dakota – Alexander von Humboldt (German scientist, explorer and diplomat)
Humphreys Station, California – John W. Humphreys (pioneer)
Huntington, Vermont – Josiah, Charles and Marmaduke Hunt (landholders)
Huntington, West Virginia – Collis P. Huntington
Huntington Beach, California – Henry E. Huntington
Huntley, Montana – S.O. Huntley (partner in the stagecoach firm of Clark & Huntley)
Huntsville, Alabama – John Hunt (settler)
Hurley, New York – Francis Lovelace, Baron Hurley of Ireland
Hutchins, California – T.B. Hutchins (local landowner)
Hyannis, Massachusetts – Iyannough (sachem of the Cummaquid Native American tribe)
Hyde Park, Vermont – Captain Jedediah Hyde (landowner)
Hydesville, California – John Hyde (local landowner)
Hylandville, California – L.C. Hyland (founder)
Hysham, Montana – Charlie J. Hysham (cattleman)

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 ^[76]
Irwin, California – W.A. Irwin (founder)
Isabella, California – Queen Isabella of Spain
Isle La Motte, Vermont – Captain La Motte (established Fort Sainte Anne on this island)
Iverson, California – Charles Iverson

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)
Johnstonville, California – Robert Johnston (town developer)
Johnstown, Colorado – John Parish (father of Harvey J. Parish, who platted the town)
Jonesboro, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
Jonesport, Maine – John Coffin Jones (landholder)
Jonesville, Virginia – Frederick Jones (landowner)
Joplin, Missouri – a Methodist minister in the new city
Jordan, Montana – Arthur Jordan (founder)
Judsonville, California – Egbert Judson (part owner of local mine)
Julesburg, Colorado – Jules Beni (established a trading post here)
Juneau, Alaska – Joe Juneau (prospector)

K

Kanawyers, California – Peter Apoleon Kanawyer (founder)
Karlo, California – Frank De Carlow (early settler)
Karnes City, Texas – Henry Karnes (Texas patriot)
Kasson, California – Amasa C. Kasson (investor in the site)
Keene, California – James R. Keene (financier)
Keene, New Hampshire – Sir Benjamin Keene (English minister to Spain and West Indies trader)
Keenesburg, Colorado – Les Keene (settler)
Keizer, Oregon – Thomas Dove Keizur
Kellogg, Idaho – Noah Kellogg (prospector)
Kelsey, California – Benjamin Kelsey (founder)
Kelso, California – Napoleon B. Kelso (first postmaster)
Kenedy, Texas – Mifflin Kenedy (rancher, steamboat owner and railroad investor)
Kensington, New Hampshire – Baron Kensington (owner of Kensington Palace in London)
Kent, Ohio – Marvin Kent
Kentfield, California – Albert Emmet Kent (landowner)
Keough Hot Springs, California – Philip P. Keough (resort owner)
Kerman, California – W.G. Kerckhoff and Jacob Mansar (promoters)
Kettleman City, California – Dave Kettleman (early rancher)
Keyesville, California – Richard M. Keyes (gold discoverer in Kern County)
Kiester, Minnesota – Jacob Kiester (county historian)
Kimball, South Dakota – J.W. Kimball (surveyor)
King City, California – Charles King (founder)
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania – after a local tavern named after Frederick II of Prussia
Kingfield, Maine – William King (future governor of Maine)
Kingsbury Plantation, Maine – Judge Sanford Kingsbury (landowner)
Kingsville, Texas – Captain Richard King (owner of the King Ranch)
Kirbyville, Texas – John Henry Kirby (lumber businessman)
Kirkwood, California – Zack Kirkwood (rancher and early settler)
Kirtland, Ohio – Turhand Kirtland (principal of the Connecticut Land Company)
Kiryas Joel, New York – Joel Teitelbaum (rabbi of Satmar)
Kit Carson, California and Kit Carson, Colorado – Kit Carson
Kneeland, California – John A. and Tom Kneeland (first settlers)
Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler)
Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen
Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner)
Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox
Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster^[77]
Knoxville, Tennessee – Henry Knox
Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko
Kossuth, Mississippi – Lajos Kossuth
Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue
Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad)
Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers)
Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder)

L

Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder)
La Fayette, Alabama and La Fayette, Illinois – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
LaFayette/Lafayette – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 14 places in
- California – Georgia – Indiana – Kentucky – Louisiana – Minnesota – New York – Allen County, Ohio – Madison County, Ohio – Oregon – Tennessee – Chippewa County, Wisconsin – Monroe County, Wisconsin – Walworth County, Wisconsin
Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town)
Lafayette County, Florida – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette Township – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, 16 places in
- Coles County, Illinois – Ogle County, Illinois – Allen County, Indiana – Floyd County, Indiana – Madison County, Indiana – Owen County, Indiana – Allamakee County, Iowa – Bremer County, Iowa – Story County, Iowa – Chautauqua County, Kansas – Michigan – Minnesota – New Jersey – Coshocton County, Ohio – Medina County, Ohio – Pennsylvania
Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers)
Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier
Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner)
Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner)
Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer)
Land, California – A.H. Land (local lumber company president)
Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter)
Lanesborough, Massachusetts – Countess of Lanesborough
Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon
Langhorne, Pennsylvania – Jeremiah Langhorne Pennsylvania jurist
Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader)
Largo, California – Lemuel F. Long (early settler; Largo is Spanish for Long)
Larkin's Landing, California – Stephen Larkin (early settler)
Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II
Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner)
Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder)^[78]
Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder)
Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder)
Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder)
Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson
Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion)
Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster)
Lebec, California – Peter Lebecque or Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837)
Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site)
Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler)
Lee, Massachusetts and Lee, New Hampshire – General Charles Lee
Lee County, Florida – Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder)
Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner)
Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler)
Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England
Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official)
Letcher, California – F.F. Letcher (county supervisor)
Leverett, Massachusetts – John Leverett (twentieth governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
Levittown, 2 places in New York 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)^[79]
Lincoln, Illinois, Lincoln, Nebraska and Lincoln, Rhode Island – Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Maine – Enoch Lincoln (Maine's sixth governor)
Lincoln, New Hampshire – Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, 9th Earl of Lincoln
Lincoln Center, Kansas – Abraham Lincoln (indirectly, via Lincoln County, Kansas)
Lincolnville, Maine – Major General Benjamin Lincoln (landowner)
Lippitt, California – Col. Francis J. Lippitt (founder)
Litchfield, California – Thomas Litch (pioneer)
Litchfield, New Hampshire – George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield
Livermore, California – Robert Livermore
Livermore, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
Livermore Falls, Maine – Deacon Elijah Livermore (early settler)
Livingston, California – Charles C. Livingston (railroad official)
Livingston, Montana – Johnston Livingston (Northern Pacific Railway stockholder and director)
Livingston, New Jersey – William Livingston
Lockwood, 3 places in California, New York, 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)^[80]
Loomis, California – Jim Loomis (railroad agent, postmaster)^[81]
Lorenzo, Texas – Lorenzo Dow
Los Angeles – Our Lady the Queen of the Angels
Loudon, New Hampshire – John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (note spelling)
Louisiana – Louis XIV (King of France) ^[82]
Louisiana, Missouri – Louisiana Basye (daughter of local settlers)
Louisville, Kentucky – Louis XVI of France
Loveland, Colorado – William A.H. Loveland (president of the Colorado Central Railroad)
Lovell, Maine – Captain John Lovewell (note spelling)
Lovelock, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
Lowell, Massachusetts – Francis Cabot Lowell
Lubbock, Texas – Thomas Saltus Lubbock
Lucia, California – Lucia Dani (first postmaster)
Lufkin, Texas – Abraham P. Lufkin (cotton merchant and Galveston city councilman)
Lundy, California – W.J. Lundy (sawmill owner)
Lunenburg, Massachusetts – from one of the titles of King George II of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Lunenburg, Vermont – from one of the titles for Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lunenburg
Lusk, Wyoming – Frank S. Lusk (rancher and Wyoming Central Railway stockholder)
Lutherville, Maryland – Martin Luther (16th century German reformer)
Lyman, Maine – Theodore Lyman (merchant)
Lyman, New Hampshire – General Phineas Lyman (commander in the French and Indian War)
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire – Benjamin Lynde (Chief Justice of Massachusetts after town was named)
Lyndon, Vermont – Josias Lyndon (governor of Rhode Island)
Lyons, Colorado – Edward S. Lyon (founder)
Lysander, New York – Lysander (Spartan military leader)

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)^[83]
Mason, New Hampshire – Captain John Mason (New Hampshire's founder)
Masonville, New York – Rev. John M. Mason (landholder)
Mathis, Texas – Thomas Henry Mathis (proprietor)
Mattos, California – John Garcia Mattos, Sr. (early settler)
Maupin, Oregon – Howard Maupin (settler who established a farm and ferry here)
Mauriceville, Texas – Maurice Miller (son of the first president of the Orange and Northwestern Railway)
Mauston, Wisconsin – Milton M. Maughs (founder)
Maynard, Massachusetts – Amory Maynard (mill owner)
McAllen, Texas – John McAllen (settler)
McCann, California – William O. McCann (lumber mill operator)
McFarland, California – J.B. McFarland (founder)
McGraw, New York – Samuel McGraw
McHenry, Illinois – William McHenry
McKinleyville, California – President William McKinley
McKittrick, California – Capt. William McKittrick (local landowner and rancher)
McMinnville, Tennessee – Joseph McMinn
Mead, Colorado – Dr. Martin Luther Mead (landowner)
Mendenhall Springs, California – William M. Mendenhall (health spa proprietor)
Mercer, Maine – Brigadier General Hugh Mercer (Revolutionary War hero)
Mercey Hot Springs, California – J.N. Mercy (early settler)
Meredith, New Hampshire – Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet (member of British Parliament)
Merritt, California – Hiram P. Merritt (early settler)
Methuen, Massachusetts – Sir Paul Methuen (British diplomat)
Mettler, California – W.H. Mettler (local agriculturalist)
Metz, California – W.H.H. Metz (first postmaster)
Meyers, California – George Henry Dudley Meyers (early landowner)
Micanopy, Florida – Micanopy, leading chief of Seminoles, led the tribe during the Second Seminole War
Middleton, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
Milan, New Hampshire – Milan Harris (mill owner)
Milbank, South Dakota – Jeremiah Milbank (railroad director)
Miles City, Montana – General Nelson A. Miles
Miley, California – Julian J. Miley (first postmaster)
Millbrae, California – Darius Ogden Mills
Miller, California – James Miller (early settler)
Millerton, Marin County, California – James Miller (wharf owner)
Millerton, New York – Sidney Miller (railroad contractor)
Milliken, Colorado – John D. Milliken (railroad official)
Millis, Massachusetts – Lansing Millis (railroad executive)
Millsaps, California – George W. Millsaps (early settler)
Millsholm, California – Edgar Mills (landowner)
Millspaugh, California – Almon N. Millspaugh (first postmaster)
Milo, Maine – Milo of Croton (famous athlete from Ancient Greece)
Milton, California – Milton Latham (railroad engineer)
Minear, California – John J. Minear (first postmaster)
Minkler, California – Charles O. Minkler (local farmer)
Minot, Maine – Judge Minot of the General Court (aided in the town's incorporation)
Minturn, California – Jonas and Thomas Minturn (local farmers)
Mitchell, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad)
Modesto, California – William Chapman Ralston, reputed for being a modest man
Monroe – James Monroe, 11 places in
- Connecticut – Maine – Massachusetts – Michigan – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New York – North Carolina – Ohio – Utah – Washington
Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder)
Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster)
Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts)
Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson
Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York – General Richard Montgomery
Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher)
Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher)^[32]
Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler)
Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler)^[32]
Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner)
Morgan, California – Charles Morgan (early settler)
Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder)
Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas)
Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan
Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine)
Morris, Connecticut – James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier)
Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Morris Plains, New Jersey – Lewis Morris (the first royal governor of New Jersey)
Morris Township, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
Morristown, New Jersey – Lewis Morris
Morton Grove, Illinois – Levi P. Morton
Moses Lake, Washington – Chief Moses (Native American chief of the Sinkiuse-Columbia)
Moss, Monterey County, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
Moss Landing, California – Charles Moss (wharf owner)
Moultonborough, New Hampshire – Colonel Jonathan Moulton and others in his family
Mount Bullion, Mariposa County, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton (nicknamed "Old Bullion")
Mount Pulaski, Illinois – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
Mount Washington, Kentucky and Mount Washington, Massachusetts – George Washington
Mower, California – Lloyd W. Mower (first postmaster)
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)^[32]
Niles, Fremont, California – Addison Niles
Norden, California – Charles Van Norden (water company official)^[32]
Norman, Oklahoma – Abner E. Norman (surveyor)
Norristown, Pennsylvania – Isaac Norris (Mayor of Philadelphia in 1724)
North Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams (indirectly, via Adams, Massachusetts)
North Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles) ^[84]
North Cleveland, Texas – Charles Lander Cleveland (local judge) (indirectly, via Cleveland, Texas)
North Fort Myers, Florida – Col. Abraham C. Myers
Nortonville, California – Noah Norton (founder)
Norwell, Massachusetts – Henry Norwell (dry goods merchant)
Notleys Landing, California – Godfrey Notley (founder)
Nottingham, New Hampshire – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

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)^[85]
Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
Portola, California – Gaspar de Portolà
Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà
Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
Potter, California – Richard R. Potter (first postmaster)
Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright)
Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales
Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince
Proctor, Minnesota – J. Proctor Knott
Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor
Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost
Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, 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)^[86]
Randolph, Maine – Peyton Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Massachusetts)
Randolph, Massachusetts – Peyton Randolph (first president of the Continental Congress)
Randolph, New Hampshire – John Randolph (Virginia congressman and senator)
Randolph, New York – Edmund Randolph (indirectly, via Randolph, Vermont)
Randolph, Vermont – Edmund Randolph
Rangeley, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Rangeley Plantation, Maine – Squire James Rangeley, Jr. (proprietor)
Rayl, California – David Rayl (hotelier and merchant)
Raymond, California – T. Raymond (travel official)
Raymond, Maine – Captain William Raymond
Readsboro, Vermont – John Reade (landholder) (note spelling)
Redding, Connecticut – John Read (landholder) (the spelling was changed to better reflect its pronunciation)
Redmond, Oregon – Frank and Josephine Redmond (homesteaders)
Redwine, California – Ida Redwine (first postmaster)
Reed, California – John Reed (landowner)
Reedley, California – Thomas Law Reed (founder and landowner)
Reedsburg, Wisconsin – David C. Reed (settler)
Reidsville, Georgia – Robert R. Reid (territorial governor of Florida)
Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster)
Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno
Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer^[87]
Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere
Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer)
Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen
Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers)
Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer)
Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator)
Rienzi, Mississippi – Cola di Rienzo^[88]
Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders)
Ripley, Maine – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812)
Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler)
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)
Ross, California – James Ross (early settler)
Ross Corner, California – W.C. Ross (early settler and merchant)
Roswell, Georgia – Roswell King (founder)
Rowe, Massachusetts – John Rowe (Boston merchant)
Royalston, Massachusetts – Isaac Royal (landowner)
Rumney, New Hampshire – Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney (note spelling)
Rumsey, California – Capt. D.C. Rumsey (early settler)
Rushmore, Minnesota – S.M. Rushmore (pioneer)
Rusk, Texas – Thomas Jefferson Rusk (signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence)
Russell City, California – Frederick James Russell (town planner)
Ryan, California – John Ryan (borax company official)

S

Sabattus, Maine – Sabattus (Anasagunticook Indian chief)
St. Augustine, Florida – Saint Augustine^[89]
St. Augustine, Maryland – Augustine Herman (explorer)
St. George, Vermont – Saint George
Saint James, Indiana – Saint James
St. James, Maryland – Saint James
St. James, Minnesota – Saint James
St. James, Missouri – Saint James
St. James, New York – Saint James
St. James, North Carolina – Saint James
St. Johnsbury, Vermont – Dr. Jonathan Arnold (member of the Continental Congress)
St. Joseph, Michigan – Saint Joseph (indirectly, via the St. Joseph River)
St. 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)
Shrewsbury, Vermont – Earl of Shrewsbury
Shumway, California – Susie Shumway (first postmaster)
Shutesbury, Massachusetts – Samuel Shute (governor of Massachusetts)
Sicard Flat, California – Theodore Sicard (early settler)
Sidney, Iowa – Sir Phillip Sidney (English author) (indirectly, after Sidney, Ohio)
Sidney, Maine and Sidney, Ohio – Sir Philip Sidney (English author)
Sidney, Montana – Sidney Walters (son of settlers)
Sidney, Nebraska – Sidney Dillon (railroad attorney)
Sidney, New York – Admiral Sir Sidney Smith
Sikeston, Missouri – John Sikes (founder)
Silsbee, California – Thomas Silsbee (local rancher)
Silsbee, Texas – Nathaniel D. Silsbee (railroad investor)
Sinton, Texas – David Sinton
Slates Hot Springs, California – Thomas B. Slate (owner, founder)
Slayton, Minnesota – Charles Slayton (founder)
Sloan, Iowa – Samuel Sloan (railroad official)^[90]
Sloat, California – John D. Sloat (Naval commodore who claimed California for the United States)^[91]
Sly Park, California – James Sly (pioneer)
Smartsville, California – Jim Smart (Gold Rush settler and merchant)
Smith's Ferry, California – James Smith (founder)
Smithfield, Maine – Rev. Henry Smith (settler)
Smithflat, California – Jeb Smith (pioneer rancher)
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee – William Sodder (trading post proprietor) and Daisy Parks (daughter of a coal company manager)
Solon, Maine and Solon, New York – Solon (statesman and poet of Ancient Greece)
Somers, Connecticut – Lord John Somers of England
Somersville, California – Francis Somers (coal mine founder)
Soperton, Georgia – Benjamin Franklin Soper (railroad engineer)
Sorenson, California – Harold Sorensen (early settler)
South Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
South Burlington, Vermont – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (indirectly, via Burlington, Vermont)
South Carolina – Charles I of England (King of Great Britain, Carolinus is Latin for Charles) ^[92]
South Euclid, Ohio – Euclid (Greek mathematician)
South Padre Island, Texas – José Nicolás Ballí (Padre Ballí) (Catholic priest and settler)
South Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas (indirectly, via Thomaston, Maine)
Spafford, New York – Horatio Spafford
Spalding Tract, California – John S. Spalding (founder)
Sparks, Nevada – John Sparks
Spence, California – David Spence (landowner)
Spencer, Massachusetts – Spencer Phips (acting governor of Massachusetts)
Sprague, Washington – General John W. Sprague (railroad executive)
Spreckels, California – Claus Spreckels (sugar magnate)
Stacy, California – Stacy Spoon
Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Judge Cyrus G. Stafford
Standish, California and Standish, Maine – Myles Standish
Stanfield, Oregon – Senator Robert N. Stanfield
Stanfield Hill, California – William Stanfield (founder)
Stannard, Vermont – George J. Stannard
Stark, Kansas – General John Stark (indirectly, via Stark County, Illinois)
Stark, New Hampshire and Stark, New York – General John Stark (author of New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die")
Starks, Maine – General John Stark
Starksboro, Vermont – General John Stark
Starkville, Colorado – Albert G. Stark (coal mine owner)
Starkville, Mississippi – General John Stark
Stege, California – Richard Stege (founder and landowner)
Stephentown, New York – Stephen Van Rensselaer (Lieutenant Governor of New York)
Sterling, Massachusetts – General William "Lord Stirling" Alexander (Scottish expatriate) (note spelling)
Stetson, Maine – Amasa Stetson (landowner)
Steuben, Maine – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Stevensville, Montana – Isaac Stevens(1st governor of Washington Territory)
Stevinson, California – James J. Stevinson (landowner)
Stewartstown, New Hampshire – Sir John Stuart (the town was incorporated following the Scottish spelling of the name)
Stewartville, California – William Stewart (local coal mine owner)
Stickney, South Dakota – J.B. Stickney (railroad official)
Stinson Beach, California – Nathan H. Stinson (landowner)
Stockton, California – Robert F. Stockton
Stoddard, New Hampshire – Colonel Sampson Stoddard (grantee of territory)
Stokes Landing, California – James Johnstone Stokes (founder)
Stonehill, California – Frances Stone (first postmaster)^[3]
Stoughton, Massachusetts – William Stoughton (first chief justice of Colonial Courts)
Stoughton, Wisconsin – Luke Stoughton (Englishman from Vermont)
Strafford, New Hampshire and Strafford, Vermont – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
Stratham, New Hampshire – Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, Baron Howland of Streatham (note spelling)
Strong, Maine – Caleb Strong (governor of Massachusetts)
Strong City, Kansas – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president)
Sturgis, Michigan – Judge John Sturgis (settler)
Suffern, New York – John Suffern (first Rockland County judge)
Sullivan, Maine – Daniel Sullivan (settler)
Sullivan, New Hampshire – General John Sullivan
Sumner, Maine – Increase Sumner (governor of Massachusetts)
Sunderland, Massachusetts – Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Sunol, California – Antonio Sunol (landowner)
Surry, New Hampshire – Charles Howard, Earl of Surrey
Susanville, California – Susan Roop (daughter of Isaac Roop)
Sutter, California – John A. Sutter (pioneer of the California Gold Rush)
Sutter Creek, California – John A. Sutter
Sutter Hill, California – John A. Sutter
Swainsboro, Georgia – Stephen Swain (state senator)
Swan's Island, Maine – Colonel James Swan of Fife, Scotland (land purchaser)
Sweetland, California – Sweetland brothers (early settlers)^[93]

T

Taft, California – William Howard Taft
Talmadge, Maine – Benjamin Talmadge (landowner)
Talmage, California – Junius Talmage (early settler)
Tamworth, New Hampshire – British Admiral Washington Shirley, Viscount Tamworth
Tancred, California – Tancred, Prince of Galilee
Tarkington Prairie, Texas – Burton Tarkington (early settler)
Tarpey, California – Arthur B. Tarpey
Taylor, New York – Zachary Taylor
Taylor County, Florida – Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States of America
Taylorville, California – Samuel P. Taylor (paper mill owner)
Tecopa, California – Chief Tecopa (Paiute chief)
Temple, New Hampshire – John Temple (lieutenant governor to colonial governor John Wentworth)
Temple, Texas – Bernard Moore Temple (civil engineer)
Terry, Montana – General Alfred Howe Terry
Thetford, Vermont – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington and 4th Viscount Thetford
Thomaston, Connecticut – Seth Thomas (clockmaker)
Thomaston, Maine – General John Thomas of the Continental Army
Thompson, Connecticut – Sir Robert Thompson (English landholder)
Thorndike, Maine – Israel Thorndike (landowner)
Thornton, Colorado – Governor Dan Thornton
Thornton, New Hampshire – Dr. Matthew Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Tilton, New Hampshire – Nathaniel Tilton (iron foundry owner and hotelier)
Tinley Park, Illinois – Samuel Tinley, Sr. (railroad station agent)
Todd Valley, California – Dr. F. Walton Todd (store owner)^[32]
Toms Place, California – Tom Yernby (resort owner)
Tormey, California – Patrick Tormey (landowner)
Torrance, California – Jared Sidney Torrance
Towle, California – George and Allen Towle (local lumbermen)^[32]
Townsend, Massachusetts – Charles Townshend (British cabinet minister) (note spelling)
Townshend, Vermont – the Townshend family (powerful figures in British politics)
Towson, Maryland – Ezekial Towson (hotelier)
Trenton, New Jersey – William Trent (landholder)
Trumbull, Connecticut – Jonathan Trumbull (governor of Connecticut)
Truxton, New York – Commodore Thomas Truxton (naval officer of the American Revolution)
Tuftonboro, New Hampshire – John Tufton Mason (owner of the town)
Tully, New York – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tunbridge, Vermont – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, Baron Enfield and Colchester
Tupman, California – H.V. Tupman (landowner)
Turner, Maine – Reverend Charles Turner (agent, later became minister of the town)
Turners Falls, Massachusetts – Captain William Turner
Tustin, California – Columbus Tustin
Tuttle, California – R.H. Tuttle (railroad executive)
Twain Harte, California – Mark Twain and Bret Harte
Tyler, Texas – John Tyler
Tyngsborough, Massachusetts – Colonel Jonathan Tyng (landowner)
Tyringham, Massachusetts – Jane Tyringham (married name Beresford) cousin of Sir Francis Bernard; 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)^[94]
Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
Van Nuys, California – Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
Vaughn, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
Vinton, California – Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)^[95]
Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
Virgilia, California – Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive Virgil Bogue)^[95]
Virginia – Virgin Queen
Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)

W

Waddington, California – Alexander Waddington (local merchant)
Wade, California – Pinkston Wade (first postmaster)
Wadsworth, Ohio – General Elijah Wadsworth
Waite, Maine – Benjamin Waite (lumberman)
Waitsfield, Vermont – General Benjamin Wait (founder)
Wakefield, Massachusetts – Cyrus Wakefield (wicker furniture manufacturer)
Waldo, Maine – General Samuel Waldo (proprietor)
Waldo, Wisconsin – O.H. Waldo (railroad company president)
Waldo Junction, California – William Waldo (early settler)
Waldoboro, Maine – General Samuel Waldo
Wales, Massachusetts – James Lawrence Wales (benefactor)
Wallace, California – John Wallace (surveyor)
Wallace, Idaho – Colonel W.R. Wallace (landowner)
Walong, California – W.A. Long (railroad official)
Walpole, Massachusetts and Walpole, New Hampshire – Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Walsenburg, Colorado – Fred Walsen (store owner)
Wardner, Idaho – James Wardner (promoter of a local mine)
Wardsboro, Vermont – William Ward (grantee)
Warner, New Hampshire – Jonathan Warner (leading Portsmouth citizen)
Warren, 6 places in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 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)
Wayland, Massachusetts – Dr. Francis Wayland (president of Brown University)
Wayne, Maine – Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne
Weare, New Hampshire – Meshech Weare (the town's first clerk)
Webster, Massachusetts and Webster, New Hampshire – Daniel Webster
Weimar, California – a local Maidu chief^[3]
Welcome, Minnesota – Alfred M. Welcome (homesteader)
Weld, Maine – Benjamin Weld (proprietor)
Weldon, California – William B. Weldon (rancher)
Wellington, Colorado – C. L. Wellington (employee of the Colorado and Southern Railway)
Wellington, Maine – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Wells, Minnesota – the wife of Clark W. Thompson
Wendell, Massachusetts – Judge Oliver Wendell of Boston
Wentworth, New Hampshire – Governor Benning Wentworth
Wesley, Maine – John Wesley (founder of the English Methodist movement)
West Gardiner, Maine – Dr. Sylvester Gardiner (Boston physician) (indirectly, via Gardiner, Maine)
West Lafayette, Indiana and West Lafayette, Ohio – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
West Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) (indirectly, via Richland, Washington)
West Virginia – Virgin Queen
West Warwick, Rhode Island – Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (indirectly, via Warwick, Rhode Island)
Westbrook, Maine – Colonel Thomas Westbrook (early settler)
Westmoreland, New Hampshire – John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland
Westville, California – George C. West (first postmaster)^[3]
Whately, Massachusetts – Thomas Whately (Member of Parliament)
Wheelock, Vermont – Eleazar Wheelock (founder of Dartmouth College)
White, South Dakota – W.H. White (settler)
Whitefield, Maine and Whitefield, New Hampshire – George Whitefield (English evangelist)
Whiting, Maine – Timothy Whiting (settler)
Whiting, Vermont – John Whiting (landholder)
Whitingham, Vermont – Nathan Whiting (landholder)
Whitinsville, Massachusetts – Paul C. Whitin (cotton mill owner)
Whitlow, California – Albert Whitlow (first postmaster)
Whitman, Massachusetts – Augustus Whitman (landowner)
Whitney, California – Joel Parker Whitney (rancher)^[96]
Whitneyville, Maine – Colonel Joseph Whitney (mill owner)
Whittier, Alaska – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
Whittier, California – John Greenleaf Whittier (Poet)
Wibaux, Montana – Pierre Wibaux (cattle rancher)
Wible Orchard, California – Simon William Wible (early settler)
Wickenburg, Arizona – Henry Wickenburg (discoverer of the Vulture Mine)
Wicks Corner, California – Moses Wick (first postmaster)
Wiest, California – Daniel W. Wiest (early settler)
Wiggins, Colorado – Oliver P. Wiggins (frontiersman)
Wilkes County, Georgia – John Wilkes
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – John Wilkes and Isaac Barre
Willet, New York – Colonel Marinus Willet
Williams, California – W.H. Williams (planner of the townsite)
Williams Bay, Wisconsin – Captain Israel Williams (settler who fought in the War of 1812)
Williamsburg, Virginia – William III of England
Williamstown, Massachusetts – Ephraim Williams
Williston, Vermont – Samuel Willis (landholder)
Willits, California – Hiram Willits (landowner, early settler)
Willoughby, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr. (U.S. Representative from New York)
Willoughby Hills, Ohio – Dr. Westel Willoughby, Jr.
Wilmette, Illinois – Antoine Ouilmette (French-Canadian fur trader)
Wilmington, 3 places in Delaware, North Carolina, 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)
Wilton, New Hampshire – Sir Joseph Wilton (English sculptor)
Winchester, Massachusetts – Colonel William P. Winchester
Winchendon, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, his family seat was Nether Winchendon House, Buckinghamshire, England
Winchester, New Hampshire – Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton, 8th Marquess of Winchester, and constable of the Tower of London
Windham, New Hampshire – Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (note spelling)
Windom, Minnesota – Senator William Windom
Windsor, Colorado – Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor
Winfield, Kansas – Chaplain Winfield Scott
Winn, Maine – John M. Winn (landholder)
Winnie, Texas – Fox Winnie (railroad contractor)
Winslow, Maine – General John Winslow
Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Joseph Winston
Winters, California – Theodore W. Winters (landowner)
Winthrop, Maine – John Winthrop (first Governor of Massachusetts)
Winthrop, Massachusetts – Deane Winthrop (son of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts)
Wofford Heights, California – I.L. Wofford (founder)
Wolcott, Vermont – General Oliver Wolcott (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire – English General James Wolfe
Woodfords, California – Daniel Woodford (early settler)
Woodleaf, California – James Wood (property owner)
Woodville, Texas – George Tyler Wood (governor of Texas)
Woody, California – Dr. Sparrell Walter Woody (local rancher)
Worthington, Minnesota – the maiden name of the wife of A.P. Miller (founder)
Wurtsboro, New York – Maurice and William Wurts (builders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
Wyandanch, New York – Wyandanch (sachem of the Montaukett Native American tribe in the mid 17th century)
Wytheville, Virginia – George Wythe (a signer of the Declaration of Independence)

Y

Yankee Jims, California – a criminal with that nickname^[97]
Ybor City, Tampa, Florida – Vicente Martinez Ybor
Yonkers, New York – Adriaen van der Donck (landowner who known locally as the Jonkheer)
Yorba Linda, California – Bernardo Yorba (built Yorba Hacienda near here)
Yorkville, California – R.H. York (Founder)
Youngs, California – Morgan W. Youngs (first postmaster)
Youngs Hill, California – William Young and his brother (discoverers of gold at the place)
Youngstown, Ohio – John Young (Founder)
Ypsilanti, Michigan – Demetrius Ypsilanti (hero in the Greek War of Independence)

Z

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

Former names

Adams was the name of Corte Madera, California – Jerry Adams (first postmaster)
Adele was the name of Fields Landing, California – Adele Haughwout (first European child born there)
Alexander's Corner was the name of Weedpatch, California – Cal Alexander (early resident)
Allen's Camp was the name of Caliente, California – Gabriel Allen (early settler)
Arp's' was the name of Riverview, Kern County, California – James H. Arp (real estate developer)
Barker House was the name of Woodleaf, California – Charles Barker (early settler)
Barrons Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Richard Barron (landowner)
Beal's Landing was the name of Westport, California – Samuel Beal (early settler)
Bells Harbor was the name of Little River, California – Lloyd and Samuel Bell (early settlers)
Benton Mills was the name of Ridleys Ferry, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton
Biddle's Camp and Biddleville were names of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – William C. Biddle (early settler)
Black's was the name of Zamora, California – J.J. Black (early settler)
Boust City was the name of Taft Heights, California – E.J. Boust (oilman, town founder)
Bowman's Point was the name of West End, Alameda, California – Charles C. Bowman (early settler)
Brannan Springs was the name of Woodfords, California – Samuel Brannan (Gold Rush figure)
Brown's was the name of North Fork, California – Milton Brown (early settler)
Brown's Mill was the name of Stafford, Humboldt County, California – Percy Brown (lumber mill owner)
Brownsville was the name of Samoa, California – James D.H. Brown (dairy farmer)
Brownsville was the name of Tecopa, California – William D. and Robert D. Brown (founders)
Buckingham was the name of Unity, New Hampshire – John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire
Bucktooth was the name of Salamanca (town), New York – Bucktooth (notable Native American who lived in the area)
Bulwinkle was the name of Crannell, California – Conrad Bullwinkle (landowner)
Burns' Camp and Burns' Ranch were names of Quartzburg, Mariposa County, California – Robert and John Burns (founders)
Burrville was the name of Clinton, Tennessee – Aaron Burr
Cabarker was the name of El Centro, California – C.A. Barker (landowner's friend)
Cantu was the name of Andrade, California – Col. Esteban Cantu (Mexican regional governor)
Cardigan was the name of Orange, New Hampshire – George Brudenell, fourth Earl of Cardigan
Carson's Creek was the name of Angels Camp, California – Kit Carson
Charley's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)^[98]
Clark's Station and Clark's Ranch were names of Wawona, California – Galen Clark (founder)
Clifton was the name of Del Rey, California – Clift Wilkinson (town founder)
Cochran's Crossing was the name of Yolo, California – Thomas Cochran (early settler)
Cockermouth was the name of Groton, New Hampshire – Charles Wyndham, Baron Cockermouth and Earl of Egremont
Collis was the name of Kerman, California – Collis Potter Huntington
Converse Ferry was the name of Friant, California – Charles Converse (ferryman)
Cowan Station was the name of Dunmovin, California – James Cowan (homesteader)
Crabtown was the name of Helena, Montana – John Crab (early gold prospector)
Crumville was the name of Ridgecrest, California – James and Robert Crum (local dairymen)
Dewey and Deweyville were names of Wasco, California – Adm. George Dewey
Dorris Bridge was the name of Alturas, California – Pressley and James Dorris (early settlers)
Dow's Prairie was the name of McKinleyville, California – Joe Dow (founder)
Drapersville was the name of Kingsburg, California – Josiah Draper (founder)
Dupplin was the name of Lempster, New Hampshire – Scottish lord Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin
Durkee's Ferry was the name of Weitchpec, California – Clark W. Durkee (ferry operator)
Dutch Charlie's Flat was the name of Dutch Flat, California – Charles Dornbach (founder)^[98]
Dykesboro was the name of Cochran, Georgia – B. B. Dykes (settler)
Eastland was the name of Mill Valley, California – Joseph G. Eastland (developer)
Enfield was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Robert Field (early settler)
Etter was the name of Ettersburg, California – Albert F. Etter (homesteader)
Fassking's Station was the name of Encinal, Alameda, California – Frederick Louis Fassking (pioneer)
Fletcher was the name of Aurora, Colorado – Donald Fletcher (businessman)
Foremans was the name of Fourth Crossing, California – David Foreman (town founder)
Franklin Township was the name of Nutley, New Jersey – Benjamin Franklin
Greenwich was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich
Grenville was the name of Newport, New Hampshire – George Grenville (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
Hamilton's was the name of Buck Meadows, California – Alva Hamilton (founder)
Hamptonville was the name of Friant, California – William R. Hampton (first postmaster)
Hans Lof's was the name of Toms Place, California – Hans Lof (resort owner)
Hansen was the name of Alton, California – Mads P. Hansen (first postmaster)
Harrisberry was the name of Harrisburg, Inyo County, California – Shorty Harris and Pete Auguerreberry (gold discoverers)
Harrisburgh was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – Abram Harris (early settler)
Haydenville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – David, Charles, and William Hayden (gold miners)
Hearst was the name of Hacienda, California – Phoebe Hearst
Hearst was the name of Vista Robles, California – George Hearst (early settler)
Hopkins and Hopkins Springs was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – Mark Hopkins (railroad baron who built a resort there)^[99]
Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp were names of Whitney Portal, California – William L. Hunter (pioneer)
Hupp and Hupps Mill were names of DeSabla, California – John Hupp (early sawmill owner)
Hutton's Ranch was the name of Yolo, California – James A. Hutton (early hotel owner)
Jacksonville was the name of Floyd, Virginia – President Andrew Jackson
Jeram was the name of Carey, California – Father Jeram (community leader)
Jewetta' was the name of Saco, California – Solomon and Philo D. Jewett (pioneers)
Joe was the name of Ismay, Montana – Joe Montana, (American Football player)
Johnson's Diggings was the name of Birchville, California – David Johnson (first prospector at the site)^[31]
Johnsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – John F. Johnson (early settler)
Jones Ferry was the name of Friant, California – J.R. Jones (early merchant)
Kellyvale was the name of Lowell, Vermont – John Kelley (grantee)
Kendall's City was the name of Boonville, California – Alonzo Kendall (early hotelier)
Kents Landing was the name of Little River, California – W.H. Kent (early settler, landowner)
Kenyon was the name of Pineridge, California – Silas W. Kenyon (first postmaster)
Kunze was the name of Greenwater, California – Arthur Kunze (founder)
Langville was the name of Capay, California – John Arnold Lang (early settler)
Laphams was the name of Stateline, California – William W. Lapham (hotel owner)
Levittown and Levittown Township were names of Willingboro Township, New Jersey (from 1958 to 1963) – William Levitt
Lewisville was the name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California – Lewis B. Meyer (early settler)
Lisbon was the name of Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler)^[11]
Maltermoro was the name of Sunnyside, Fresno County, California – George H. Malter (postmaster)
Marthasville was the name of Atlanta, Georgia – Martha Lumpkin (daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin)^[100]
Marsh was the name of Avon, Contra Costa County, California – John Marsh
Marshall was the name of Lotus, California – James W. Marshall
Marshs Landing was the name of Antioch, California – John Marsh
Maxwell's Creek was the name of Coulterville, California – George Maxwell (early settler)
McKinney was the name of Chambers Lodge, California – John McKinney (early settler)^[46]
Meiggstown was the name of Mendocino, California – Henry Meiggs
Michaels was the name of Coarsegold, California – Charles Michaels (merchant)
Mingusville was the name of Wibaux, Montana – Minnie and Gus Grisy (postmasters)
Minorsville was the name of McKinleyville, California – Isaac Minor (founder)
Moores was the name of Riverton, California – John M. Moore (operator of a local toll road)
Moores Station was the name of Honcut, California – John C. Moore (first postmaster)
Norris was the name of Lake Delton, Wisconsin – Edward Norris (surveyor)
Old Lovelock was the name of Coutolenc, California – George Lovelock (early merchant)
Partridgefield was the name of Hinsdale, Massachusetts – Oliver Partridge (one of the purchasers of the town)
Peacock's was the name of Warm Springs, Fremont, California – George W. Peacock (first postmaster)
Peterman's Landing was the name of Eden Landing, California – Henry Louis and Mary F. Peterman (salt company officials)
Phillipsburg was the name of Hollis, Maine – Major William Phillips (proprietor)
Phipps-Canada was the name of Jay, Maine – Captain Joseph Phipps
Pollasky was the name of Friant, California – Marcus Pollasky (railroad official)
Portersville was the name of Valparaiso, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
Powellville was the name of Blocksburg, California – Joseph James Powell (first settler)
Prescott was the name of a Massachusetts town that was disincorporated on April 28, 1938 as part of the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir – Colonel William Prescott
Putnam's was the name of Independence, California – Charles Putnam (early merchant)
Ralston City was the name of Shakespeare, New Mexico – William Chapman Ralston
Ralston Point was the name of Arvada, Colorado – Lewis Ralston (prospector from Georgia)
Randall was the name of White Hall, California – Albert B. Randall (first postmaster)
Reed was the name of Ostrom, California – Henry Reed (early settler)
Rolph was the name of Fairhaven, California – James Rolph (governor of California)
Rooptown was the name of Susanville, California – Isaac Roop (settler)
Ross Landing was the name of Kentfield, California – James Ross (founder)
Ross's Camp was the name of Melbourne Camp, California – William Ross (operator)
Rust was the name of El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California – William R. Rust (first postmaster)
Ryan was the name of Lila C, California – John Ryan (borax company official)
Scodie was the name of Onyx, California – William Scodie (early merchant)
Sherburne was the name of Killington, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Sherburne (landholder)
Simpsonville was the name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California – Robert Simpson (local merchant)
Smith's Landing was the name of Antioch, California – William and Joseph Smith (early settlers)
Smithville was the name of Loomis, California – L.G. Smith (store owner)^[81]
Sotoville was the name of Santa Rita, Monterey County, California – Jose Manuel Soto (landowner, founder)
Spoonville was the name of Edgemont, Lassen County, California – Lorella A. Spoon
Stantonville was the name of Chilton, Wisconsin – Moses and Catherine Stanton (early residents)
Stratton was the name of Stratford, California – William Stratton (developer)
Stubbs was the name of Clearlake Oaks, California – Charles Stubbs (landowner)
Surrattsville was the name of Clinton, Maryland – Surratt family (18th century settlers)
Swauger was the name of Loleta, California – Samuel A. Swauger (landowner)
Taylors Landing was the name of Bijou, California – Almon M. Taylor (founder)
Tinkers Station was the name of Soda Springs, Nevada County, California – J.A. Tinker (local freight hauler)^[99]
Townsend was the name of Boothbay, Maine and Southport, Maine – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (note spelling)
Trecothick was the name of Ellsworth, New Hampshire – Barlow Trecothick (Alderman, Member of Parliament and a Lord Mayor of the City of London)
Turner was the name of Harriman, New York – Peter Turner (early restaurateur)
Vaughn was the name of Bodfish, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
Villa de San Agustin de Laredo was the name of Laredo, Texas – Saint Augustine
Warnersville was the name of Trinidad, California – R.V. Warner (early settler)
Wells was the name of Keene, California – Madison P. Wells (early rancher)
Wendell was the name of Sunapee, New Hampshire – John Wendell (proprietor)
Weringdale was the name of Woody, California – Joseph Weringer (town planner)
Wheelersborough was the name of Hampden, Maine – Benjamin Wheeler (settler)
Whitley's Ford was the name of Lookout, California – James W. Whitley (early hotelier)
Williamsburg was the name of Old Town, Kern County, California – James E. Williams (businessman)
Woods Dry Diggings was the name of Auburn, California – John S. Wood^[11]
Yanks was the name of Meyers, California – Ephraim "Yank" Clement (early landowner)

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