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  2. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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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. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  3. List of place names of Dutch origin in the United States

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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 .

  4. Category : Lists of United States placename etymology

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    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

  5. Toponymy - Wikipedia

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    Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.

  6. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of Texas county seat name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    The name "United States Minor Outlying Islands" started to be used in 1986. [124] Previously, some of the islands were included in a group called "United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands". Baker Island was named for Michael Baker in 1832. [125] Howland Island was named after a whaling vessel in 1842. [126]

  9. List of geographic anagrams and anadromes - Wikipedia

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    An animation illustrating the anagrammatical origin of the name of the Florida town El Jobean. These are geographic anagrams and anadromes. Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but ...