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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 ...
There are currently 253 cities and 673 villages in Ohio, for a total of 926 municipalities. Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville in Gallia County and a city of Centerville in Montgomery County; there is also a city of Oakwood in Montgomery County as well as the villages of Oakwood in Cuyahoga County and Oakwood ...
Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York. Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries.
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
The main article for this category is List of municipalities in Ohio; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Ohio; See also Ohio and categories Ohio counties, Townships in Ohio, Villages in Ohio, Census-designated places in Ohio, Unincorporated communities in Ohio
This is a list of U.S. cities (or census-designated areas) named for the state in which they are located. Locations which are no longer functioning cities (including former cities and present ghost towns) are marked with an asterisk (*). Alabama City, Alabama* (Now part of Gadsden, AL zip code) Arizona City, Arizona; Arkansas City, Arkansas
Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville and a city of Centerville; also a city of Oakwood and two similarly named villages: Oakwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and Oakwood, Paulding County, Ohio. The 1802 and 1851 constitutions classified municipalities as towns and cities, as opposed to villages and cities.
Hippie City; Youngstown. The City of You; Crimetown, USA [76] Murdertown, USA [77] [78] The Steel Valley [citation needed] Steeltown, U.S.A. [79] The 330; The Three Three Yo (Combination of the city’s area code, 330, with the first two letters of its name) Poster Child for Deindustrialization [80] Yompton (In reference to Compton, California ...