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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 ...
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.
These are lists of North American place name etymologies: Mexican state name etymologies; Canadian provincial name etymologies; Origins of names of cities in Canada; List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places; U.S. state name etymologies. Lists of U.S. county name etymologies. List of Alabama county name etymologies
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
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 ...
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 ...