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This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name.
Vaseline (/ ˈ v æ s ə l iː n /) [1] [2] [note 1] is an American brand of petroleum jelly-based products owned by British multinational company Unilever. [3] Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps , lotions , cleansers, and deodorants .
Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries. Battle sites are also a source for foreign names. The Mexican–American War is the most common source, but other wars such as the Napoleonic Wars and World War I are also represented. There is a small number of names whose origins do not fall ...
When Coral Ridge Properties asked for names for its new city in 1962, company co-founder Joseph Taravella offered Pompano Springs, because of its proximity to Pompano Beach. Trouble was, Taravella ...
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
Kansas City: Kansas United States Kansas City: Missouri [44] Knoxville: Mississippi United States Knoxville: Tennessee [45] Kokomo: Mississippi United States Kokomo: Indiana [46] Lamoille: Nevada United States: Lamoille County: Vermont Lancaster: New Brunswick Canada Lancaster: Massachusetts [47] Lincoln: New Brunswick Canada Lincoln ...
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...