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The list of places named after places in the United States identifies namesake places and the eponymic United States place for which they are named.

References

1. Gannett 1902, p. 17.
2. Gannett 1902, p. 18.
3. Gannett 1902, p. 20.
4. Bright 1998, p. 12.
5. Gannett 1902, p. 23.
6. Gannett 1902, p. 24.
7. "Preservation plan" (PDF). arlingtontx.gov. 2014.
8. Hanna, Jennifer (2001). Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial: Cultural Landscape Report (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 6.
9. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 29.
10. Gard 2015, p. 13.
11. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 35.
12. Gard 2015, p. 20.
13. Hamilton 1978, p. 83.
14. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 40.
15. Gard 2015, p. 26.
16. Hamilton 1978, p. 132.
17. Overman 1951, p. 5.
18. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 50.
19. Lueders, Jeffrey R. (2006). Hamilton County's Green Township. Arcadia Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 9780738541174. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
20. ^ Overman 1951, p. 6.
21. Nancy Capace (1 January 2001). Encyclopedia of Mississippi. Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 446. ISBN 978-0-403-09603-9.
22. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 52.
23. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 55.
24. Hamilton 1978, p. 134.
25. Gannett 1902, p. 59.
26. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 63.
27. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 66.
28. Gannett 1902, p. 68.
29. Hamilton 1978, p. 237.
30. Rowland 1907, p. 397.
31. Hamilton 1978, p. 135.
32. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 78.
33. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 79.
34. Gannett 1902, p. 80.
35. Hamilton 1978, p. 169.
36. Gannett 1902, p. 83.
37. Gannett 1902, p. 86.
38. Hamilton 1978, p. 239.
39. ^ Hamilton 1978, p. 29.
40. Hamilton 1978, p. 172.
41. ^ Hamilton 1978, p. 90.
42. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 131.
43. Overman 1951, p. 18.
44. LONDBERG, MAX (June 13, 2017). "Why isn't Kansas City named Missouri City? A history teacher explains". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
45. Rowland 1907, p. 1003.
46. Baca 2007, p. 49.
47. ^ Hamilton 1978, p. 92.
48. Hamilton 1978, p. 93.
49. Ramsay, Robert L. (1973). Our storehouse of Missouri place names. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-0586-0. OCLC 3518606.
50. Hamilton 1978, p. 141.
51. Hamilton 1978, p. 302.
52. Hamilton 1978, p. 328.
53. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 279.
54. Overman 1951, p. 30.
55. Hamilton 1978, p. 190.
56. Hamilton 1978, p. 56.
57. ^ Overman 1951, p. 31.
58. Hamilton 1978, p. 193.
59. Baca 2007, p. 77.
60. Tarpley, Fred (1980). 1001 Texas Place Names. University of Texas Press. p. 156. ISBN 0292760159.
61. "Port Royal - Lost "Seat of Justice" of Coahoma County". My Southern Life. 12 June 2020.
62. ^ Bright 1998, p. 140.
63. ^ Callary 2009, p. 312.
64. Hamilton 1978, p. 306.
65. "Texas – town in Goondiwindi Region (entry 33782)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
66. Hamilton 1978, p. 207.
67. ^ Hamilton 1978, p. 307.
68. Hamilton 1978, p. 151.
69. Hamilton 1978, p. 152.
70. Ehrensperger 1940, vol. 1, p. 69.
71. ^ Gannett 1902, p. 278.
72. Stewart, George R. (2008). Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States. New York: New York Review Books. pp. 310–312. ISBN 978-1-59017-273-5. OCLC 176952635.
73. Hamilton 1978, p. 213.
74. Hamilton 1978, p. 153.

• Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.
• Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names : Their Origin and Meaning. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520212718.
• Callary, Edward (2009). Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033568.
• Ehrensperger, E.C. (1940). South Dakota place-names, compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of South Dakota. American guide series. Vermillion: University of South Dakota – via HathiTrust.
• Gannett, Henry (1902). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (PDF). Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
• Gard, Robert E. (2015) . The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780870207075.
• Hamilton, William B. (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. ISBN 9780770515249.
• Overman, W.D. (1951). Ohio Place Names: The Origin of the Names of Over 500 Cities, Towns, and Villages. Akron, Ohio – via HathiTrust.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association.

Notes

1. Technically Arlington, Texas is named not for Arlington County, Virginia, but for Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's mansion, which is also Arlington County, Virginia's namesake.
2. Via Arlington House
3. Possibly also for Bath, England
4. Named for the Battle of Bunker Hill
5. Named for the Battle of Concord
6. Gannett 1902, p. 93 suggests both towns are named for Derby, England.
7. Was founded in the Republic of Texas, Now located in the United States
8. Possibly for Lincoln, England
9. Gannett 1902, p. 213 suggests both towns are named for Portland, England.
10. "Influenced" by Saybrook, Ohio

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