List of places in the United States named after people

Many United States placenames are derived either from a person who may have been associated with the founding of the place, or in honor of a notable person. If there is no citation for a place on this list, its etymology is usually described and referenced in the article about the person or the place.

A Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania – Aaron Levy (founder) Abbot, Maine – John Abbot (treasurer of Bowdoin College) Abbott, Texas – Joseph "Jo" Abbott (politician) Abbottstown, Pennsylvania – John Abbott (founder) Abernathy, Texas – Monroe Abernathy (one of the developers of the town) Abington, Massachusetts – Anne Venables Bertie, Countess of Abington, Cambridgeshire Ableman, Wisconsin – S.V.R. Ableman (settler) Ackley, Iowa – J.W. Ackley (founder) Acworth, New Hampshire – Jacob Acworth (British naval officer) Ada Township, Michigan – Ada Smith (daughter of postmaster) Adairville, Kentucky – John Adair (governor of Kentucky) Adams, California – Charles Adams (landowner) Adams, Massachusetts – Samuel Adams Adams, Nebraska – J.O. Adams (settler) Adams, New York – John Adams Adams, Oregon – John F. Adams (homesteader) Adams, Tennessee – Reuben Adams (landowner) Adamsboro, Indiana – George E. Adams (founder) Adamsburg, Pennsylvania – John Adams Adams Station, California – Marie Adams Peacock (tavern owner) Adamstown, California – George Adams (founder) Adamstown, Pennsylvania – John Adams Adamsville, Arizona – Charles S. Adams (original settler) Addison, 4 places in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont – Joseph Addison (English essayist, poet, playwright and politician) Addison, West Virginia – Addison McLaughlin (local lawyer) Adin, California – Adin McDowell (founder) Adrian, Michigan – Roman Emperor Hadrian Adrian, Minnesota – Mrs. Adrian Iselin (mother of Adrian C. Iselin, a director of the Sioux City and St. Paul Railroad Company) Aguilar, Colorado – José Ramón Aguilar (cattleman and pioneer) Aiken, South Carolina – William Aiken Jr. (governor of South Carolina) Ainsworth, Iowa – D.H. Ainsworth (civil engineer) Ainsworth, Washington – J.C. Ainsworth (railroader) Albany, New Hampshire – James of York and Albany (indirectly, via Albany, New York) Albany, New York – James of York and Albany Albemarle, North Carolina – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle Alberhill, California – C.H. Albers, James and George Hill (landowners) Albert Lea, Minnesota – Albert Miller Lea (engineer, soldier, and topographer with the United States Dragoons) Alberton, Montana – Albert J. Earling (president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) Albuquerque, New Mexico – Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque Alburgh, Vermont – Ira Allen (landowner) Alcester, South Dakota – Colonel Alcester of the British army Alden, California – S.E. Alden (farmer and landowner) Alden, Iowa – Henry Alden (settler) Alderson, West Virginia – John Alderson (settler and local minister) Alexander, New York – Alexander Rea (settler and state senator) Alexander, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Alexandria, Nebraska – S.J. Alexander (secretary of state) Alexandria, New York and Alexandria Bay, New York – Alexander Le Ray (son of local settler) Alexandria, New Hampshire – John Alexander (indirectly, via Alexandria, Virginia) Alexandria, South Dakota – Alexander Mitchell (railroad president) Alexandria, Virginia – John Alexander (settler) Alford, Massachusetts – Colonel John Alford Alfordsville, Indiana – James Alford (settler) Alfred, Maine – King Alfred the Great Alger, Ohio – Russell A. Alger Alice, Texas – Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg (daughter of Richard King, who established the King Ranch) Allendale, Oakland, California – Charles E. Allen (real estate broker) Allendale, South Carolina – Allen family (settlers) Allenstown, New Hampshire – Samuel Allen (father of landowner and governor of New Hampshire) Allentown, Georgia – J.W. Allen (postmaster) Allentown, Pennsylvania – William Allen Alloway Township, New Jersey – Chief Alloway Alma, Colorado – Alma James (wife of local merchant) Almont, Michigan – Juan Almonte Alstead, New Hampshire – Johann Heinrich Alsted (compiled an early encyclopedia that was popular at Harvard College) (note spelling) Altheimer, Arkansas – Joseph and Louis Altheimer (founders) Alton, California – Alton Easton (indirectly, via Alton, Illinois) Alton, Illinois – Alton Easton (son of founder Rufus Easton) Alva, Florida – Thomas Alva Edison (inventor) Alvarado, California – Juan Alvarado (Mexican governor of California) Alvin, Texas – Alvin Morgan (settler) Alys Beach - Alys Robinson Stephens (1910-1996) Amador City, California – Jose Maria Amador (early gold prospector) Ambler, Pennsylvania – Joseph Ambler (settler) Amelia Court House, Virginia – Princess Amelia of Great Britain Ames, Iowa – Oakes Ames Ames, New York – Fisher Ames Amherst, New Hampshire -- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (also Massachusetts and Maine) Anaheim, California – Saint Anne (indirectly, via the Santa Ana River) Anastasia Island, Florida – Saint Anastasia Anderson, Indiana – Chief William Anderson Anderson, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Anderson Andersonia, California – Jeff Anderson (sawmill owner) Andrade, California – Mexican General Guillermo Andrade Angelica, New York – Angelica Schuyler Church Angels Camp, California – Henry P. Angel (early settler and merchant) Ankeny, Iowa – John Fletcher Ankeny Anna, Illinois – Anna Davis (landowner's wife) Annapolis, Maryland – Anne, Queen of Great Britain Ann Arbor, Michigan – Ann Allen and Ann Rumsey (settlers' wives) Anniston, Alabama - Annie Scott Tyler (1893–1980), daughter of railroad president Alfred L. Tyler Annsville, New York – Ann Bloomfield (settler's wife) Anson, Maine – George Anson, 1st Baron Anson Anson, Wisconsin - Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat)Callary, Edward. Place Names of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-299-30964-0. Ansonia, Connecticut – Anson Greene Phelps Ansted, West Virginia – David T. Ansted (geologist and landowner) Antis Township, Pennsylvania – Frederick Antes (colonel who fought during the Revolutionary War) (note spelling) Anthony, Kansas – George T. Anthony (7th Governor of Kansas) Applebachsville, Pennsylvania – Gen. Paul Applebach Applegate, California – Lisbon Applegate (early settler) Appleton, Maine and Appleton, Wisconsin – Samuel Appleton (father-in-law of Amos Lawrence, founder of Lawrence University) Appling, Georgia – Col. Dan Appling Arbuckle, California – Tacitus R. Arbuckle (early landowner and settler) Archdale, North Carolina – John Archdale Arco, Idaho – Georg von Arco Arenzville, Illinois – Francis A. Arenz (founder) Arietta, New York – Arietta Rensselaer (wife of Rensselaer van Rensselaer) Arlington, Texas – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (indirectly, via Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial) Armourdale, Kansas – Armour brothers (founders of Armour and Company) Arnold, California – Bob and Bernice Arnold (early local merchants) Arnold Heights, California – General Henry H. Arnold Arundel, Maine – Lord Arundel Arvada, Colorado – Hiram Arvada Haskin (brother-in-law of settler Mary Wadsworth) Arvin, California – Arvin Richardson (1883-1978), pioneer Asbury Park, New Jersey – Francis Asbury Ashburnham, Massachusetts – John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham Ashbyburg, Kentucky – Gen. Stephen Ashby Asheboro, North Carolina – Samuel Ashe (governor of North Carolina) Asherville, Indiana – John Asher (founder) Ashford, Alabama – Thomas Ashford Ashley, Michigan – H.W. Ashley (manager of the Ann Arbor Railroad) Ashley River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Astor, Florida and Astor Park, Florida – William Backhouse Astor, Sr. Astoria, Oregon – John Jacob Astor Atchison, Kansas – David Rice Atchison (Missouri Senator) Aten, Nebraska – John Aten (state senator) Athol, Massachusetts – James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl Atkinson, Maine – Judge Atkinson (landholder) Atkinson, New Hampshire – Theodore Atkinson (landowner) Atwater, California – Marshall D. Atwater (farmer, landowner) Atwater, Minnesota – Isaac Atwater (settler of St. Paul) Atwater Township, Ohio – Amzi Atwater (surveyor) Atwood, Kansas – Attwood Matheny (founder's son) Auberry, California – Al Yarborough Audubon, Minnesota – John James Audubon Augusta, Georgia – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha Augusta, Kansas – Augusta James (trader's wife) Augusta, Maine – Augusta Dearborn (daughter of Henry Dearborn) Ault, Colorado – Alexander Ault (flour mill owner) Aurelius, New York – Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor) Austin, Minnesota – Austin Nichols (settler) Austin, Texas – Stephen F. Austin Ave Maria, Florida – Mary, mother of Jesus Averill, Vermont – Samuel Averill (landholder) Avery, California – George J. Avery (first postmaster) Averys Gore, Vermont – Samuel Avery (Westminster deputy sheriff and jailkeeper) Axtell, Kansas – Dr. Jesse Axtell (officer of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway) Ayer, Massachusetts – Dr. James Cook Ayer (patent-medicine manufacturer)

B Bagby, California – Benjamin A. Bagby (merchant, hotelier, innkeeper) Bainbridge, New York – Commodore William Bainbridge Baird, Texas – Matthew Baird (president of Baldwin Locomotive Works) Baker, Montana – A.G. Baker (engineer with the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) Baker City, Oregon – Senator Edward D. Baker (indirectly via Baker County, Oregon) Baker County, Florida – James McNair Baker, judge and Confederate Senator Bakersfield, California – Colonel Thomas Baker Bakersfield, Vermont – Joseph Baker (landowner) Baldwin, Georgia – Abraham Baldwin (U.S. Senator) Baldwin, Maine – Colonel Loammi Baldwin (namesake of the Baldwin apple) Baldwin, Michigan – Governor Henry P. Baldwin Baldwin, Chemung County, New York – Isaac, Thomas, and Walter Baldwin (settlers) Baldwin, Wisconsin – D.A. Baldwin (settler) Baldwin City, Kansas – John Baldwin Baldwinsville, New York – Dr. Jonas Baldwin (settler) Ballantine, Montana – E.P. Ballantine (homesteader) Ballston, New York and Ballston Spa, New York – Rev. Eliphalet Ball (settler) Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore Banning, California – Phineas Banning, stagecoach line owner and Father of the Port of Los Angeles. Bar Nunn, Wyoming - Romie Nunn (1903-1988) Baraboo, Wisconsin – Jean Baribault (settler) Baraga, Michigan – Bishop Friedrich Baraga Barber, California – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company) Barberton, Ohio – O. C. Barber (president of the Diamond Match Company) Barboursville, West Virginia – Philip P. Barbour (governor of Virginia) Bard, California – Thomas R. Bard (irrigation district official) Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler) Barlow, Oregon – John L. Barlow (settler) Barnard, Vermont – Sir Francis Bernard (landholder) (note spelling) Barnard, Missouri – railroad superintendent J. F. Barnard (or possibly B. F. Barnard)

Barnes, Kansas – A.S. Barnes (publisher) Barnum, Denver, Colorado – P. T. Barnum (landowner) Barnwell, South Carolina – Barnwell family Barraque Township, Arkansas – Antoine Barraqué (landowner) Barre, Massachusetts, Barre, New York, Barre (city), Vermont and Barre (town), Vermont – Isaac Barré (Irish soldier and politician) Barrington, New Hampshire and Barrington, Rhode Island – John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (brother of Samuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts) Barron, Wisconsin – Henry D. Barron (judge) Barstow, California – William Barstow Strong (ATSF president) Bartlett, Illinois – Luther Bartlett Bartlett, New Hampshire – Dr. Josiah Bartlett Bartlett Springs, California – Green Bartlett (resort owner) Barton, Vermont – General William Barton