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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 ...
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 (*).
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.
The cities with the largest French American populations are in Maine. However, in northern Maine, they are of Acadian ancestry, and in southern Maine and northern New Hampshire, of Canadian ancestry. The cities are as follows: [1]
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]
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; List of Alaska borough ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
Name of multiple places Refugio, Texas: rə-FURE-ee-oh / r ə ˈ f jʊər i oʊ / Rensselaer: REN-sə-LEER / ˌ r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər / Name of multiple places Rhea County: RAY / r eɪ / Riga, New York: RY-gə / ˈ r aɪ ɡ ə / Rio: RY-oh / ˈ r aɪ oʊ / In Florida and Wisconsin Rio Grande, Ohio: RY-oh GRAND / ˌ r aɪ oʊ ˈ ɡ r æ n d ...