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This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. Many originate from the Dutch colony of New Netherland .
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. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country ...
Named San Angela by founder Bartholomew DeWitt after an unknown woman named Angela, possibly a nun sister-in-law or a wife Carolina Angela. Emended to San Angelo after the postal service complained of the ungrammatical construction. San Antonio: Bexar: Named for the San Antonio River, discovered on the Catholic Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua ...
Places named after the Channel Islands; List of Chicago placename etymologies; List of Missouri places named after non-U.S. places; List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places; List of places named after James Cook
This is a partial list of Texas towns named for faraway places. Dozens more await glory in future columns, including at least one that will be devoted specifically to Spanish-language place names.
Texas: Lone Star State [32] [102] (used on license plates) U.S. Virgin Islands [a] America's Caribbean (used on U.S. Virgin Islands license plates until 2015) [103] American Paradise [104] Utah: Beehive State; Crossroads of the West [105] [106] – Location the Golden Spike was driven into the railroad, the joining point of the First ...
Vatnshlíðarvatn, Iceland (Lake-slope-lake – The farm Vatnshlíð ('Lake-slope') named after the lake, which in turn is named after the farm.) Vatnvatnet, Norway ('Lakelake' – Norwegian), a lake in Bodø Municipality; Wast Water, England – 'water's valley water' from Old Norse vatns dalr (= Wasdale) and Old English wæter