Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology
US Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Estados Unidos de América, États-Unis d'Amérique, Stati Uniti d'America, United States of America
Region, Región, Région, Regione, Region, Bundesstaaten, States
region (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/region
A
Alleghanny-Gebirge (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
Der Name dieses Gebirges soll appalachisch "endlose Berge" bedeuten.
america-dreamz
l'Ouest Américain
(E?)(L?) http://www.america-dreamz.com/
- Visite par thèmes: •Grés rouges, canyons et routes pour 4x4 | •Côtes et régions littorales | •Désert, montagnes et grandes Plaines | •Villes, villages et quartiers | •Histoire et légende | •Le miracle économique | •Géologie | •La vie sauvage | •Equitation et chevaux | •Tourisme dans l'Ouest américain
- Qui sommes nous ? | Fonds d'écran | Diaporama | Surfer en musique | Contact | Plan du site | Informations légales
- Les parcs expliqués
- Arizona: •Antelope Canyon | •Canyon de Chelly | •Chiricahua | •Grand Canyon du Colorado | •Lees Ferry, Marble Canyon, Cliffdwellers | •Painted Desert | •Sedona | Californie | •Red Rock Canyon | •Sinkyone Wilderness
- Colorado: •Black Canyon of the Gunnison | •Colorado Nal Mnt | •Garden of the Gods
- Nevada: •Cathedral Gorge | •Red Rock Canyon | •Valley of Fire
- Texas: •Caprock Canyon | •Copper Breaks | •Palo Duro
- Utah: •Arches | •Bryce Canyon | •Burr trail | •Canyonlands | •Capitol Reef | •Cedar Breaks | •Cottonwood Canyon Road | •Grand Staircase - Escalante
- Utah: •Goblin Valley | •Hole in the Rock Road | •Kodachrome Basin | •Mexican Hat - Mokee Dugway - Muley Point | •Monument Valley | •Natural Bridges | •Old Paria | •Skutumpah Road | •Smoky Mountain Road | •Toadstool Hoodoos | •Valley of the Gods | •Wolverine Loop | •Zion
- Wyoming: •Red Desert | •Yellowstone
- •Point Reyes National Seashore (Ca) | •Torrey Pines (Ca) | •Astoria (Or) | •Newport (Or) | •Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (Tx) | •Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (Tx) | •Big Thicket (Tx) | •Galveston Island (Tx)
- Déserts | Montagnes | Grandes Plaines
- Arizona: •Joshua Tree Forest | •Organ Pipe | •Grands cactus saguaro | •Sonoran Desert Museum | •Chiricahua | •Mogollon Rim | •Mount Lemmon | •White Mountains
- Californie: •Algodones Dunes | •Anza-Borrego | •Coachella Valley | •Death Valley | •Joshua Tree | •Mojave Preserve | •Mono Lake | •Salton Sea | •Trona Pinnacles | •Ca 41 | •Ca 120 | •Ca 140 | •Goose Lake - Warner Mountains | •Sequoia - Kings Canyon | •Sinkyone Wilderness | •Yosemite
- Colorado: •Great Sand Dunes | •Black Canyon of the Gunnison | •Dinosaur | •Interstate 70 | •Mount Evans | •Pikes Peak | •Rocky Mountain | •Bent's Old Fort
- Nevada: •Black Rock Desert | •Pyramid Lake | •Sand Mountain | •US 50 | •Great Basin | •Lake Tahoe
- Nouveau-Mexique: •White Sands | •Shiprock | •Llano Estacado
- Sud Dakota: •Black Hills | •Badlands
- Texas: •Big Bend NP | •Big Bend Ranch | •Monahans Sandhills | •Big Bend NP | •Davis Mountains | •Les plaines du Texas
- Utah: •Antelope Island | •Bonneville Flats | •Coral Pink Sand Dunes | •Goosenecks | •Grand Lac Salé | •Bear Lake | •Hells Backbone Trail | •Sheep Creek | •Smoky Mountain Road
- Wyoming: •Great Divide Basin
- Villes, villages et quartiers | Musées
- Arizona: Coolidge | Casa Grande (Hohokams : préhistoire) | Flagstaff | Museum of Northern Arizona (Amérindiens, paléontologie) | Holbrook | Kingman | Phoenix | Heard (Amérindiens) | Mesa Natural History Museum (Amérindiens, paléontologie, minéralogie) | Pueblo Grande (Hohokams : préhistoire) | Second Mesa | Hopi Cultural Center (Amérindiens) | Tucson | State Museum (Histoire, ethnologie, indiens) | Yuma | Yuma Territorial Prison (local) | Tusayan Ruins (Anasazis : préhistoire) |
- Californie: Chinatown SF | Fort Bragg | Los Angeles | Getty Center (Art) | La Brea Tar Pits (Zoologie : préhistoire) | Museum of the American West (Ouest américain) | Queen Mary (Marine) | Southwest Museum (Amérindiens) | San Diego | Birch Aquarium at Scripps (Océanographie) | Model Railroad (Train miniature) | Museum of Man (Ethnologie) | San Francisco | Cable Car Barn (Cable Car) | Legion of Honor (Art) | Sausalito | Venice | Watts LA | Yreka |
- Colorado: Colorado Springs | Pioneer Museum (Local) | Denver | Historical Society (Histoire) | Dolores | Anasazi Heritage Center (préhistoire) | Durango | Golden | Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave | Railroad Museum (Train) | Grand Junction | La Junta | Koshare Indian (Amérindiens) | Pueblo | El Pueblo (Local) | Steelworks (Local)
- Nevada: Caliente | Carson City | State Museum (Histoire, Paléontologie) | Ely | Las Vegas | Reno | W.M. Keck (Minéralogie, Géologie) | Tonopah
- Nouveau-Mexique: Albuquerque | Fort Sumner | Bosque Redondo Memorial (Navajos) | Billy the Kid (Légende) | Old Fort Sumner (Légende) | Las Cruces | Roswell | International UFO Museum (OVNIS) | Santa Fe | Silver City | Silver City Museum (Local) | Taos | Hacienda de Martinez (Local) | Kit Carson Home (Local)
- Oregon: Astoria | Columbia River Maritime Museum (Marine) | Newport
- Texas: Amarillo | Panhandle Plains Historical Museum (Paléontologie, Géologie, Histoire) | Austin | Bay City | Matagorda County Museum (Local) | Brownsville | Bracketville | Alamo Village (Cinéma) | Corpus Christi | Porte-avions Lexington (Aviation, marine) | Dallas - Fort Worth | 6th Floor (Histoire) | El Paso | Galveston | Grand Saline | Salt Museum (Mines de sel) | Houston | Houston NASA Space Center (Conquête de l'Espace) | San Jacinto Battlefield (Histoire) | Laredo | Lubbock | Lubbock Lake Landmark (Paléontologie, Préhistoire, Amérindiens) | Paris | Rockport | Texas Maritime Museum (Marine) | San Angelo | San Antonio | Mission San Jose (Histoire) | Victoria | Museum of the Coastal Bend (Local) | Waco | Washington on the Brazos | Star of the Republic (Histoire)
- Utah: Boulder | Anasazi Indian Village (Préhistoire) | Cedar City | Moab | Price | College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum (Paléontologie) | Saint George | Salt Lake City | Vernal | Dinosaur Gardens (Paléontologie, Indiens) |
- Wyoming: Casper | Fort Caspar (Cavalerie US, Amérindiens)
- Guide de la Conquête de l'Ouest
- Far West : Histoire et légende | Indiens et archéologie
- •Les Russes sur la Côte Ouest | •Les Chinois du Central Pacific | •L'épopée des Mormons | •Le territoire des Apaches
- Arizona: •La piste du Général Crook : Mogollon Rim | •Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday : Tombstone | •Mission San Xavier del Bac : Tucson | •Première capitale de l'Arizona : Prescott | •Le pénitentier : Yuma Territorial Prison | •John D Lee se cache : Lees Ferry | •Kit Carson vainc les Navaros : Canyon de Chelly | •Reddition de Geronimo : Canyon de Los Embudos | •L'observatoire hohokam : Casa Grande | •Evolution des Hohokams : Pueblo Grande | •Le pays apache de Cochise : Chiricahua | •Apaches White Mountains : Fort Apache | •Les villages perchés : Mesas des Hopis | •Hohokam puis Sinagua : Montezuma Castle & Well | •Ruine sinagua : Tuzigoot | •A portée du volcan : Wupatki | •Frontière Hopi / Zuni : Puerco Pueblo
- Californie: •Pourquoi "Vallée de la Mort" : Lewis Manly | •Les colonisateurs russes : Fort Ross | •Fondation de SF : Presidio , Mission Dolores | •Hippies : Haight Ashbury | •L'or de la Sierra : Malakoff Diggins | •Origine de la ruée vers l'or : Marshall Gold | •Grand Canal, jolies maisons : Venice | •Déportation des Japonais : Little Tokyo | •Fondation de LA : El Pueblo | •Les premiers jeans : Levi Strauss | •La prison d'Al Capone : Alcatraz | •Wyatt Earp à San Diego : Gaslamp District | •Défaite de Captain Jack : Guerre des Modocs | •Construction navale : Chumash de la Côte | •Concrétions de tuf, mouches d'alcali : Mono Lake | •Commerce entre tribus : Carrizo Plain | •Franciscains et indiens : La Purisima Mission | •La christianisation des Ohlones : Mission Dolores
- Colorado: •La piste de Santa Fe : Bent's Old Fort | •Or des Montagnes Rocheuses : Denver | •Escalante et Dominguez : Canyon Pintado | •Tombe de Buffalo Bill : Golden | •Maisons troglodytes des Anasazis : Mesa Verde | •Peintures utes et fremont : Canyon Pintado
- Nevada: •Mines d'argent de Virginia City | •Histoire de Las Vegas | •Hippies contemporains : Burning Man | •Gravures rupestres : Grimes Point, Hickison Petroglyphs, Valley of Fire
- Nouveau-Mexique: •Tunstall, Murphy, Dolan, Chisum : Lincoln | •Billy the Kid : Las Cruces, Silver City, Fort Sumner | •Extraterrestres et télévision : Roswell | •Colonisation espagnole : Salinas Pueblos, Taos, El Morro | •Plus vieille capitale des Etats Unis : Santa Fe | •Kit Carson, agent indien : Taos | •Gravures rupestres : 3 Rivers Petroglyphs, Albuquerque | •Ruines anasazies : Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, Chaco Culture | •Gravures rupestres et ancêtres des Zunis : El Morro | •Déportation des Navajos : Bosque Redondo | •Mogollons troglodytes : Gila Cliff Dwellings | •Tompiros du Rio Grande : Salinas Pueblos | •Légende navajo : Shiprock | •Pueblo tiwa : Taos
- Oregon: •Trappeurs sur la Columbia : Astoria |
- Sud Dakota: •Montagne au 4 présidents : Mont Rushmore | •La statue géante du Crazy Horse Memorial | •Les Sioux du Dakota : Badlands NP
- Texas: •Mort de Davy Crockett, William Barrett Travis et Jim Bowie : bataille de Fort Alamo | •Alsaciens de Medina County : Castroville | •Assassinat de J.F. Kennedy : Dallas | •Bonnie and Clyde, les stockyards : Fort Worth | •Jean Laffitte, Pirate : Galveston | •Santa Anna massacre les Texans : San Antonio, Goliad | •Roy Bean et le Jersey Lily : Langtry | •Colonisation espagnole : Missions de San Antonio | •Cavelier de La Salle : naufrage de La Belle, Navasota | •Indépendance des Texans : Washington on the Brazos | •Tombe de John Simpson Chisum : Paris | •Sam Houston capture Santa Anna : San Jacinto | •Plantation de canne à sucre : Varner Hogg | •Fort Concho : San Angelo | •Carrière de silex : Alibates Flint Quarry | •Karankawas : Cavelier, la Belle, Fort Saint Louis | •Terre comanche, Cynthia Ann Parker : Copper Breaks | •Rocs médecine des Tonkawas : Enchanted Rock | •Les Comanches attaquent : Fort Parker | •McKenzie triomphe des Comanches : Palo Duro | •Peintures rupestres : Seminole Canyon | •Missions des indiens Tiguas : El Paso
- Utah: •Rendez-vous des trappeurs : Bear Lake | •Repaire de Butch Cassidy : Canyonlands | •Le train transcontinental : Golden Spike | •Temple et grandes orgues : Salt Lake City | •L'aciérie des Mormons : Cedar City | •Frontière Fremonts / Anasazis : Anasazi State Park | •Gravures rupestres des Fremont : Dinosaur | •Visiter avec des guides Navajos : Monument Valley | •Culture Fremont : Price | •3 cultures amérindiennes : Sego Canyon
- Wyoming: •Le rodéo à 1 million de dollars : Cheyenne Frontier Days | •Gravures rupestres des indiens des Plaines : Red Desert | •La guerre de Red Cloud : Fort Caspar
- Or, argent, mines et richesses de la Terre | Trains touristiques, vapeur, ouvrages d'art | Cinéma, télé, studios, décors naturels
- •Les outils du chercheur d'or
- Arizona: •Jerome | •Mine de cuivre Morenci | •Tombstone | •Vulture Mine | •Grand Canyon Railway | •Old Tucson | •Rintintin et Rusty à Fort Apache
- Californie: •Death Valley | •Malakoff diggins | •Marshall Gold Discovery | •Yreka | •Cable Car de San Francisco | •Golden Gate Bridge | •Model Railroad | •Skunk Train | •Yreka Western | •Bagdad Cafe | •Hollywood Boulevard | •Hôtel Del Coronado | •Studios de Hollywood | •Red Rock Canyon
- Colorado: •Denver | •Cumbres and Toltec | •Durango-Silverton | •Golden Railroad Museum | •Pikes Peak COG Railway | •Colorado Springs : Dr Quinn
- Nevada: •Elko | •US 50 | •Virginia City | •Carson City | •Northern Nevada Railway | •Virginia & Truckee | •Reno : The Misfits
- Nouveau-Mexique: •Silver City | •Cumbres and Toltec | •El Rancho Hotel
- Sud Dakota: •Mount Rushmore
- Texas: •Grand Saline | •Le vif-argent de Terlingua | •Dallas | •Fort Worth Tarentula | •Alamo Village
- Utah: •Golden Spike | •Moab | •Monument Valley | •Old Paria | •Skutumpah Road | •Smoky Mountain Road
- Reliefs | Hydrographie | Volcanique, tellurique, cataclysmique
- •Basin and Range | •La région des plateaux | •Le Grand Bassin | •Rift
- Arizona: •Montagnes et plaines | •Rivières et lacs | •Meteor Crater | Montezuma Well | Sunset Crater
- Californie: •Montagnes et plaines | •Carrizo Plain | •Devils Postpile | •Faille de San Andreas | •Lava Beds | •Pinnacles NM | •The Geysers
- Colorado: •Montagnes et plaines | •Rivières et lacs
- Nevada: •Montagnes et plaines | •Rivières et lacs
- Nouveau-Mexique: •Montagnes et plaines | •Rivières et lacs | •Capulin Volcano | •Carlsbad Caverns | •El Malpais | •Shiprock
- Texas: •Montagnes et plaines | •Rivières et lacs | •Aquarena Springs | •Caverns of Sonora
- Utah: •Montagnes et plaines | •Rivières et lacs
- Wyoming: •Yellowstone
- Vie sauvage | Dinosaures et fossiles
- Arizona: •Sonoran Desert Museum | •Arbres fossilisés de Petrified Forest
- Californie: •Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach | •Baleines grises du Pacifique | •Hippocampes du Birch Aquarium | •Marine Mammal Refuge, Sausalito | •Phoques et otaries de Pier 39 | •La Brea Tar Pits
- Oregon: •Saumons, truites, esturgeons : Bonneville Dam | •Faune de la Côte Ouest : Oregon Coast Aquarium
- Sud Dakota: •Les bisons des Badlands | •Trafic de fossiles
- Texas: •Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge | •Les grues blanches d'Aransas | •Alligators à Brazos Bend | •Les biches d'Enchanted Rock | •250 000 grues cendrées à Muleshoe | •Freshwater Fisheries Center | •Dinosaur Valley
- Utah: •Arbres pétrifiés d'Escalante State Park | •Cimetière de dinosaures
- Wyoming: •Les chevaux sauvages du Great Divide Basin
- Equitation et chevaux
- Quelques races de chevaux de cow-boys | Appaloosa | Quarter Horse | Rocky Mountain | Spectacle équestre : | Le rodéo et ses épreuves | Apprendre l'équitation western : | Puech-Maynade : ranch et école certifiée en France
- Tourisme dans l'Ouest américain
- Récits et photos
- Axel | mars-avril 2008 | mars 2009 | Stéphanie | août 2005 | juillet 2008 | Claude | juillet 2000 (en Harley) | été 2005 | Louis et Nathalie | avril 2005 | avril 2007 | Véronique et Martine, août 2008 | Marie, Gaëlle et Christian, juin 2007 | Domy et Véro, août 2007 | Jean-Louis et Anne-Marie, janvier 2005 | Isabelle et Olivier, janvier 2005 | Patricia et Edouard, février 2004 | La famille Ruffray, Noêl 2003 | La famille Froissard, octobre 2003
- Hébergement à Death Valley | Ouest | Est | Hôtels de la baie de San Francisco | Nord | Ouest | Sud | Est | Réserver une chambre en ligne | Echange de maisons pour les vacances | Conseils pratiques | Hôtels et motels | Réserver une voiture, 4x4 ou camping car en ligne | Conseils pratiques | Conduire aux USA | Prix de l'essence | Assurances auto de location et sécurité sociale | Acheter ses billets d'avion en ligne (avec une carte des grands aéroports) | Conseils pratiques | Passeport | Formalités | Résister au jet-lag | Avant de partir | Courant électrique | Téléphone | Sur place | Acheter | Manger | Payer | Décalage horaire | Unités américaines
- Cartes | Guides | Livres | Histoire | Récits | Indiens | Romans | Beaux livres | Géographie - Géologie | Bande dessinée | Films du Far West | Westerns | Autres | Musique | Traditionelle | Indiens | Country | Films | Pop-rock | Crooners
- Faites lui (vous?) plaisir | Bijoux amérindiens | Fétiches zunis | Ceinturons
Erstellt: 2011-07
aol - US State Names
(E?)(L?) http://members.aol.com/mat/articles/states.pdf
Hier findet man kurze Hinweise zu folgenden Staaten-Namen:
Alabama - Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Connecticut - Delaware - Georgia - Hawaii - Idaho - Illinois - Iowa - Kansas - Kentucky - Louisiana - Maine - Maryland - Massachusetts - Michigan - Minnesota - Mississippi - Missouri - Montana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Hampshire - New Jersey - New Mexico - New York - North Carolina - Ohio - Oklahoma - Oregon - Pennsylvania - South Carolina - Tennessee - Texas - Utah - Vermont - Virginia - Washington - West Virginia - Wisconsin - Wyoming
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C
California (W3)
span. "Califa" = "Siren" of an Andalusian legend.
Canal Zone (W3)
Colorado (W3)
span. colorado = red/colorful rocks
Connecticut (W3)
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Delaware (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
Destrict of Columbia (W3)
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epodunk - County Profiles (US)
(E2)(L1) http://www.epodunk.com/
Meine Stichproben ergaben, dass es zur überwiegenden Anzahl der Informationen zu US-amerikanischen Verwaltungsbezirken auch Hinweise zur Namensgebung gibt, die meist mit der Formel "The county was named ..." eingeleitet werden.
Dies rechtfertigt die Aufnahme im Etymologie-Portal.
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Georgia (W3)
"Georgia" is named after "King George II".
Georgia is also called "the Cracker State".
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
(E?)(L?) http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/g.htm
Guam (W3)
s.a. "GU Guam"
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Hawaii (W3)
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Idaho (W3)
Illinois (W3)
infoplease - American Indian Place Names
(E?)(L?) http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmnames1.html
Hier findet man einige Hinweise zur Herkunft US-amerikanischer Bundesstaaten (jeweils mit Links versehen):
Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Chesapeake (bay) | Connecticut | Illinois | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi (state and river) | Malibu (California) | Milwaukee (Wisconsin) | Missouri | Nebraska | Niagara (falls) | Ohio | Oklahoma | oanoke (Virginia) | Saratoga (New York) | Sunapee (lake in New Hampshire) | Tahoe (lake in California/Nevada) | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Wisconsin | Wyoming
infoplease - Origin of State Names
(E?)(L?) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0854966.html
Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
infoplease - State Abbreviations and State Postal Codes
(E?)(L1) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0110468.html
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K
Kansas (W3)
Kentucky (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
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Louisiana (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
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Maine (W3)
Maryland (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
Massachusetts (W3)
Michigan (W3)
Minnesota (W3)
Mississippi (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
Missouri (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
mizian - Nicknames of the Fifty States
(E?)(L?) http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/library/names/american_state_nicknames.htm
Mit Hinweisen zu ihrer Herkunft.
Here's a listing of the often colorful nicknames of the fifty states. When a state has multiple nicknames, the official or most common nickname is listed first.
States:
Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
Nickname(s):
Yellowhammer State, Heart of Dixie, Camellia State | The Last Frontier | Grand Canyon State, Copper State | The Natural State, Land of Opportunity, The Razorback State | Golden State | Centennial State, Colorful Colorado | Constitution State, Nutmeg State | First State, Diamond State, Blue Hen State, Small Wonder | Sunshine State | Peach State, Empire of the South, Goober State | Aloha State, Pineapple State | Gem State, Spud State | Prairie State, Land of Lincoln | Hoosier State | Hawkeye State | Sunflower State, Salt of the Earth | Bluegrass State | Pelican State, Sugar State | Pine Tree State | Old Line State, Free State | Bay State, Old Colony State | Great Lakes State, Wolverine State | North Star State, Gopher State, Land of 10,000 Lakes, Bread and Butter State | Show Me State | Treasure State, Big Sky State | Cornhusker State | Silver State, Battle Born State, Sagebrush State | Granite State | Garden State | Land of Enchantment | Empire State | Tar Heel State, Old North State | Peace Garden State, Flickertail State, Roughrider State | Buckeye State, Modern Mother of Presidents | Sooner State | Beaver State | Keystone State, Quaker State | Ocean State, Little Rhody | Palmetto State | Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State | Volunteer State, Big Bend State | Lone Star State | Beehive State | Green Mountain State | Old Dominion | Evergreen State, Chinook State | Mountain State | Badger State | Equality State, Cowboy State
Montana (W3)
span. montana = mountain
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Nebraska (W3)
(E1)(L1) http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz/faq/etymology.htm#Nebraska
"nebraska" = "shallow or spreading water" (Oto)
Nevada (W3)
span. Sierra nevada = snowy mountains
New Hampshire (W3)
New Jersey (W3)
New Mexico (W3)
New York (W3)
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Ohio (W3)
Oklahoma (W3)
Oregon (W3)
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Pennsylvania (W3)
(E2)(L?) http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/p/penn-w1il.asp
Penn, William, 1644-1718, English Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania , b. London, England; son of Sir William Penn.
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Puerto Rico (W3)
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South Carolina (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
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Tennessee (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
geog.utk - TEA - Tennessee Electronic Atlas
(E?)(L?) http://tnatlas.geog.utk.edu/tea/tea.asp
county specific information: population, business, economic profiles, ...
Texas (W3)
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
span. tejas = roof tiles
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US-Bundesstaaten
zip-code
Länderkürzel
(E?)(L1) http://www.englische-briefe.de/zip-code.htm
Die USA setzen sich aus 54 (?) Bundesstaaten mit einer eigenen Verfassung zusammen.
Die US Bundesstaaten und Ihre Abkürzungen für den ZIP-Code zur Verwendung in der Anschrift
- AL Alabama
- AK Alaska
- AZ Arizona
- CA Californien
- CZ Canal Zone
- CO Colorado
- CT Conneticut
- DE Delaware
- DC Destrict of Columbia
- FL Florida
- GA Georgia
- GU Guam
- HI Hawai
- ID Idaho
- IL Illionois
- IA Iowa
- KS Kansas
- KY Kentucky
- LA Louisiana
- ME Maine
- MD Maryland
- MA Massachusetts
- MI Michigan
- MN Minnesota
- MS Mississippi
- MO Missouri
- MT Montana
- NE Nebraska
- NV Nevada
- NH New Hampshire
- NJ New Jersey
- NM New Mexiko
- NY New York
- NC North Carolina
- ND North Dakota
- OH Ohio
- OK Oklahoma
- OR Oregon
- PA Pennsylvania
- PR Puerto Rico
- RI Rhode Island
- SC South Carolina
- SD South Dakota
- TN Tennessee
- TX Texas
- UT Utah
- VT Vermont
- VA Virgina
- VI Virgin Islands
- WA Washington
- WV West Virginia
- WI Wisconsin
- WY Wyoming
Utah (W3)
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Vermont (W3)
Virgin Islands (W3)
voanews
Words and Their Stories:
State Nicknames, Part 1
(E?)(L?) http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/Words-and-Their-Stories-State-Nicknames-Part-1-112871719.html
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America's fifty states have some of the most historically interesting nicknames.
- Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie because ...
- Alaska is called the Last Frontier ...
- Arizona is the Grand Canyon State ...
- Arkansas is the Land of Opportunity ...
- California was filled with gold. ...
- Colorado ... its nickname is the Centennial State. ...
- Connecticut is called the Nutmeg State ...
- Delaware is called the First State ...
- Florida is the Sunshine State. ...
- Georgia is the Peach State. ...
- Hawaii is the Aloha State. ...
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- Idaho is known as the Gem State.
- Illinois is the Land of Lincoln.
- Indiana is called the Hoosier State. - Indiana the Crossroads of America
- Iowa's nickname, the Hawkeye State,
- Kansas also has a "hawkish" nickname: the Jayhawk State.
- Kentucky is the Bluegrass State.
- Louisiana is the Bayou State.
- Maine, in the nation's northeast, is the Pine Tree State
- Washington is the Evergreen State.
- The eastern state of Massachusetts is the Bay State.
- Michigan is the Wolverine State.
- Wisconsin is the Badger State.
- North Dakota gets its nickname, the Flickertail State ...
- South Dakota takes its nickname, the Coyote State, ...
- Oregon, the Beaver State,
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- Maryland is called the Free State.
- Mississippi is the Magnolia State.
- Missouri is called the Show Me State.
- Montana is known as Big Sky Country.
- Nebraska - The state borrowed the Cornhusker nickname from the university.
- Nevada is called the Silver State.
- New Hampshire is the Granite State.
- New Jersey is the Garden State.
- New York was called the Empire State. - The most famous Manhattan skyscraper got its name from the state. It is, of course, the Empire State Building.
- New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment.
- South Carolina is the Palmetto State.
- North Carolina is the Tar Heel State.
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- Ohio is named the Buckeye State.
- Oklahoma is called the Sooner State.
- Pennsylvania's nickname is the Keystone State.
- Rhode Island is Little Rhody.
- Tennessee is the Volunteer State.
- Texas is called the Lone Star State.
- The Beehive State of Utah ...
- Vermont is the Green Mountain State.
- Virginia is called the Old Dominion.
- West Virginia is called simply the Mountain State.
- Wyoming is the Cowboy State.
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Etymologie der Südstaaten
(E?)(L?) http://www.wcc.at/geschichte/etymologie_suedstaaten.php
Über die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen usw. Verhältnisse der 11 US-Bundesstaaten, die sich 1861 zur CSA zusammenschlossen, berichten wir an anderer Stelle - doch woher kommen die zum Teil blumigen Namen, die bis heute den Klang der "Südstaaten-Romantik" in sich tragen?
Erläutert werden folgende Namen:
- Alabama
- Carolina (Nord- und Süd-):
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
West Virginia (W3)
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List of U.S. state name etymologies
(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_name_etymologies
The fifty U.S. states have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 25 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas: eight come from Algonquian languages, seven from Siouan languages (one of those by way of Illinois, an Algonquian language), three from Iroquoian languages, one from a Uto-Aztecan language, five from other Native American languages, and one comes from Hawaiian.
Twenty-two other state names derive from European languages: seven come from Latin (mostly from Latinate forms of English personal names), six come from English, five come from Spanish (and one more from an Indigenous language by way of Spanish), and three come from French (one of those by way of English). The etymologies of four states are disputed or unclear: Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Oregon, and Rhode Island (in the table below, those states have one row for each potential source language or meaning).
Of the fifty states, eleven are named in honor of an individual. Five of those are named after monarchs: three English kings, an English queen and one French king.
State names
State name Language of origin Word of origin Meaning and Notes
- Alabama Choctaw albah amo "Thicket-clearers"[1] or "plant-cutters", from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear". The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu.[2]
- Alaska Aleut alaxsxaq "Mainland" (literally "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").[3]
- Arizona Basque aritz onak "Good oaks".[4][5]
- O'odham ali ?ona-g "Having a little spring".[6]
- Arkansas Kaw, via Illinois akaansa Borrowed from an Illinois rendering of the tribal name kka:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw.[6][7][8][9]
- California Spanish, Unknown Probably named for the fictional Island of California in the 16th century novel Las sergas de Esplandián by García Ordóñez de Montalvo.[10]
- See also: Origin of the name California
- Colorado Spanish "Red" or "reddish",[11] originally referring to the Colorado River.[12]
- Connecticut Eastern Algonquian quinnitukqut From some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river", after the Connecticut River.[13][14] The name reflects Proto-Eastern-Algonquian *kw?n-, "long"; *-?ht?kw, "tidal river"; and *-?nk, the locative suffix[15] (c.f. Ojibwe ginootigweyaad, "be a long river").[16]
- Florida Spanish (pascua) florida "Flowery (Easter)"[18] (to distinguish it from Christmastide which was also called Pascua), in honor of its discovery by the Spanish during the Easter season.[19]
- Georgia Latin The feminine Latin form of "George", named after King George II of England.[20][21]
- Hawaii Hawaiian Hawai?i From Hawaiki, legendary homeland of the Polynesians.[22]
- Named for Hawai?iloa, legendary discoverer of the Hawaiian islands.[23]
- Idaho English Probably an invented word. Originally claimed to have been derived from a word in a Native American language that meant "Gem of the Mountains."[24]
- See also: Idaho#Origin of name
- Plains Apache ídaahe´ Possibly from the Plains Apache word for "enemy" (ídaahe´), which was used to refer to the Comanches.[25]
- Illinois Algonquian ilenweewa The state is named for the French adaptation of an Algonquian language (perhaps Miami) word apparently meaning "s/he speaks normally" (c.f. Miami ilenweewa,[26] Old Ottawa ,[27] Proto-Algonquian *elen-, "ordinary" and -we·, "to speak"),[28] referring to the Illiniwek (Illinois).[27]
- Indiana Latin "Land of the Indians".[29]
- Iowa Dakota ayúxba/ayuxwe By way of French Aiouez, and named after the Iowa tribe. The name seems to have no further known etymology,[30][31] though some give it the meaning "sleepy ones".[32]
- Kansas Kaw kka:ze Named after the Kansas River,[33][34] which in turn was named after the Kaw or Kansas tribe.[7] The name seems to be connected to the idea of "wind".[35]
- Kentucky Iroquoian Originally referring to the Kentucky River. While some sources say the etymology is uncertain,[36][37] most agree on a meaning of "(on) the meadow" or "(on) the prairie"[38][39] (c.f. Seneca gëdá’geh (phonemic /k?ta?keh/), "at the field").[40]
- Louisiana French Louisiane After King Louis XIV of France.[41]
- Maine English The more probable etymology is that the state's name refers to the mainland, as opposed to the coastal islands.[42]
- French After the French province of Maine.[43]
- Maryland English After Queen Henrietta Maria of England, wife of King Charles I.[44]
- Massachusetts Algonquian Plural of "Massachusett" meaning "Near the great little-mountain", or "at the great hill", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts[45] (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck[45]; Ojibwe misajiwens, "little big hill").[16]
- Michigan Ottawa mishigami "Large water" or "large lake".[16][46]
- Minnesota Dakota mnisota "Cloudy water", referring to the Minnesota River.[47][14]
- Mississippi Ojibwe misi-ziibi "Great river", after the Mississippi River.[16][48]
- Missouri Illinois mihsoori "Dugout canoe". The Missouri tribe was noteworthy among the Illinois for their dugout canoes, and so was referred to as the wimihsoorita, "one who has a wood boat [dugout canoe]".[49]
- Montana Spanish montaña "Mountain".[50]
- Nebraska Chiwere ñibraske "Flattened water", after the Platte River, which used to be known as the Nebraska River.[51]
- Nevada Spanish "Snow-covered",[52] after the Sierra Nevada ("snow-covered mountains").
- New Hampshire English After the county of Hampshire in England.[53]
- New Jersey English After the island of Jersey in the English Channel.[54]
- New Mexico Nahuatl via Spanish Mexihco via Nuevo México A calque of Spanish Nuevo México.[55] The name Mexico comes from Nahuatl Mexihco (pronounced [me?'?i?ko])[56][57], whose meaning is unknown, though many possibilities have been proposed (such as that the name comes from the name of the God Mextli,[58] or that it means "navel of the moon").[59]
- New York English After York, England, to honor the then Duke of York (later King James II of England).[60]
- North Carolina Latin After King Charles I of England.[61]
- North Dakota Sioux dakhóta "Ally" or "friend",[51] after the Dakota tribe.[62]
- Ohio Seneca ohi:yo’ "Large creek",[38] originally the name of both the Ohio River and Allegheny River.[63] Often incorrectly given as "beautiful river",[64] due to a French mistranslation.[26]
- Oklahoma Choctaw okla + homa Devised as a rough translation of "Indian Territory"; in Choctaw, okla means "people", "tribe", or "nation", and homa- means "red", thus: "Red people".[14][65]
- Oregon Connecticut Pidgin Algonquian wauregan "Beautiful".[66][67] First named by Major Robert Rogers in a petition to King George III.[68]
- French Ouaricon-sint A mistranscription of Ouisconsin, the name for the Wisconsin River.[69]
- Chinook Jargon ulâkân From the Cree pronunciation of the Chinook Jargon word.[70] A species of smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, with great significance to inhabitants of the Northwest Coast and an enormous oil content.[71][72] Chinook Jargon probably got the fish's name from Clatsop u-tlalxw?(n), "brook trout".[73]
- Pennsylvania Latin "Penn's woods", after Admiral William Penn.[74]
- Rhode Island Dutch roodt eylandt "Red island", referring to Aquidneck Island.[75]
- Greek ??d?? For a resemblance to the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea.[75]
- South Carolina Latin After King Charles I of England.[76]
- South Dakota Sioux dakhóta "Ally" or "friend". See North Dakota, above.
- Tennessee Cherokee tanasi Tanasi was the name of a Cherokee village;[77] the meaning is unknown.[78]
- Texas Caddo táysha? "Friend",[79] used by the Caddo to refer the larger Caddo nation (in opposition to enemy tribes). The name was borrowed into Spanish as texa, plural texas, and used to refer to the Caddo Nation.[80]
- Utah Western Apache yúdah "High"[81] (not, as is commonly stated,[82] "people of the mountains").[83] J. P. Harrington suggested the name was from the Ute self-designation [nu?i?] (plural [nu??iu]),[84][85] but this has been rejected.[86]
- Vermont French vert + mont "Green mountain"; vert in French means "green", and mont means "mountain".[87]
- Virginia Latin "Country of the Virgin", after Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the "Virgin Queen" because she never married.[88]
- Washington English After George Washington.[89]
- West Virginia Latin The western, transmontane, counties of Virginia; separated from Virginia during Civil War; see Virginia, above.
- Wisconsin Miami Originally spelled Mescousing by the French, and later corrupted to Ouisconsin.[90] Likely it derives from a Miami word for "it lies red"[91][90] (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin, "it lies red").[16] It may also come from the Ojibwe term miskwasiniing, "red-stone place".[16]
- Wyoming Munsee Delaware xwé:wam?nk "At the big river flat"; the name was transplanted westward from the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.[92]
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Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
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Miscellaneous
- List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures
- List of the most common U.S. county name etymologies
- List of U.S. counties named after animals
- List of U.S. counties named after other U.S. counties
- List of U.S. counties named after personal first names
- List of U.S. counties named after plants
- List of U.S. counties named after rivers
- List of U.S. counties named after women
- List of U.S. counties that share names with U.S. states
- List of U.S. counties named after U.S. Presidents
See also
- U.S. state
- County (United States)
- List of U.S. state name etymologies
- List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
External links
- GEOBOPological Survey: The most popular county names, from Washington to Buffalo
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County name State Origin
- Abbeville County South Carolina Named for the French town of Abbeville.
- Acadia Parish Louisiana Named for the French colonial region of Acadia.
- Accomack County Virginia Named for accawmacke, a Native American word meaning across the water place, describing the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
- Ada County Idaho Named for Ada Riggs, the first pioneer child born in the area and the daughter of H.C. Riggs, a cofounder of Boise, Idaho.
- Adair County Iowa Named for John Adair, a general in the War of 1812 and the eighth governor of Kentucky.
- Adair County Kentucky
- Adair County Missouri
- Adair County Oklahoma Named for the Adair family of the Cherokee tribe.
- Adams County Colorado Named for Alva Adams, the fifth governor of Colorado.
- Adams County Idaho Named for John Adams, the second president of the United States.
- Adams County Illinois Named for John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
- Adams County Indiana Named for John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
- Adams County Iowa Named for John Adams, the second president of the United States; or his son, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
- Adams County Mississippi Named for John Adams, the second president of the United States.
- Adams County Nebraska Named for John Adams, the second president of the United States.
- Adams County North Dakota Named for John Quincy Adams, a railroad agent who was instrumental in having the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway be built through North Dakota.
- Adams County Ohio Named for probably John Adams, the second president of the United States; although his son John Quincy Adams has also been suggested as the county's namesake.
- Adams County Pennsylvania Named for John Adams, the second president of the United States.
- Adams County Washington Named for John Adams, the second president of the United States.
- Adams County Wisconsin Named for John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
- Addison County Vermont Named for Joseph Addison, the English writer and politician.
- Aiken County South Carolina Named for William Aiken, the first president of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company.
- Aitkin County, Minnesota: Aitkin is named for William Alexander Aitken, a fur trader in the region.
- Alachua County, Florida: Alachua is named for a Native American word meaning "sinkhole" in either the Muskogee or Timucua languages.
- Alamance County, North Carolina: Alamance is named for the Battle of Alamance, which occurred on Big Alamance Creek, which was named for a local Native American word for the blue mud found in the creek.
- Alameda County, California: Alameda is named for a Spanish word for avenue shaded by trees or cottonwood grove.
- Alamosa County, Colorado: Alamosa is named for a Spanish word meaning cottonwood grove.
- Albany County, New York: Albany is named for King James II of England, who also was the Duke of York and Albany.
- Albany County, Wyoming: Albany is named for the city of Albany, New York.
- Albemarle County, Virginia: Albemarle was named after Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, a British nobleman.
- Alcona County, Michigan: Alcona is named for a word invented by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft meaning the excellent plain with al from Arabic for the, co the root of a word for plain or prairie, and na for excellent.
- Alcorn County, Mississippi: Alcorn is named for James Lusk Alcorn, the twenty-eighth governor of Mississippi.
- Aleutians East Borough, Alaska: Aleutians East is named for its location in the eastern segment of the Aleutian Islands.
- Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska: Aleutians West is named for its location in the western segment of the Aleutian Islands.
- Alexander County, Illinois: Alexander is named for William M. Alexander, a pioneer in the county.
- Alexander County, North Carolina: Alexander is named for the Alexander family, of whom several members were leaders in colonial North Carolina.
- Alexandria, Virginia: Alexandria is named for John Alexander, the original owner of the land that the town is located on, and his family.
- Alfalfa County, Oklahoma: Alfalfa is named for William Henry David "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, the ninth governor of Oklahoma.
- Alger County, Michigan: Alger is named for Russell Alexander Alger, the twentieth governor of Michigan.
- Allamakee County, Iowa: Allamakee is named for either Allan Makee, a trapper and trader, or an uncertain Native American origin.
- Allegan County, Michigan: Allegan is named for probably a word invented by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft meaning the lake with al from Arabic for the and egan from sa-gi-e-gan, the Chippewa word for lake. Other meanings often given are fine river or fair river.
- Allegany County, Maryland: Allegany is named for oolikhanna, a Lenape Native American word meaning beautiful stream. The word is the origin of the name of the Allegheny River.
- Allegany County, New York: Allegany is named for a variant spelling of the Allegheny River.
- Alleghany County, North Carolina: Alleghany is named for oolikhanna, a Lenape Native American word meaning beautiful stream. The word is the origin of the name of the Allegheny River.
- Alleghany County, Virginia: Alleghany is named for the Allegheny Mountains.
- Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: Allegheny is named for oolikhanna, a Lenape Native American word meaning beautiful stream. The word is the origin of the name of the Allegheny River.
- Allen County, Indiana: Allen is named for John Allen, a lawyer, legislator, and lieutenant colonel killed in the Battle of River Raisin in the War of 1812.
- Allen County, Kansas: Allen is named for William Allen, a United States senator from Ohio.
- Allen County, Kentucky: Allen is named for John Allen, a lawyer, legislator, and lieutenant colonel killed in the Battle of River Raisin in the War of 1812.
- Allen County, Ohio: Allen is named for either Ethan Allen, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolutionary War; or John Allen, a lawyer, legislator, and lieutenant colonel killed in the Battle of River Raisin in the War of 1812.
- Allen Parish, Louisiana: Allen is named for Henry Watkins Allen, the nineteenth governor of Louisiana.
- Allendale County, South Carolina: Allendale is named for the Allens family of the area, of which one member, Paul H. Allens, was the county seat's first postmaster.
- Alpena County, Michigan: Alpena is named for a word invented by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft meaning the bird with al from Arabic for the and either pinai for partridge or penaissee for bird.
- Alpine County, California: Alpine is named for its location high in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Amador County, California: Amador is named for Jose Maria Amador, a soldier, rancher and miner, who in 1848 established a successful gold mining camp near the present town of Amador City, California. In Spanish, the word amador means one who loves.
- Amelia County, Virginia: Amelia is named for Princess Amelia of Great Britain, a daughter of George II.
- Amherst County, Virginia: Amherst is named for Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, a colonial governor of Virginia and general in the French and Indian War.
- Amite County, Mississippi: Amite is named for the Amite River, which is located in the county.
- Anchorage, Alaska: Anchorage is named for the fact that Cook Inlet, which Anchorage is located on, once was a popular anchorage for ships.
- Anderson County, Kansas: Anderson is named for Joseph C. Anderson, a Kansas state legislator.
- Anderson County, Kentucky: Anderson is named for Richard Clough Anderson, Jr., a Kentucky legislator and congressman who was the first ambassador from the United States to Colombia.
- Anderson County, South Carolina: Anderson is named for Robert Anderson, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- Anderson County, Tennessee: Anderson is named for Joseph Anderson, a U.S. senator from Tennessee.
- Anderson County, Texas: Anderson is named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson, the last vice president of the Republic of Texas.
- Andrew County, Missouri: Andrew is named for Andrew Jackson Davis, an important citizen in St. Louis, Missouri and Savannah, Missouri.
- Andrews County, Texas: Andrews is named for Richard Andrews, the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas Revolution.
- Androscoggin County, Maine: Androscoggin is named for the Androscoggin Native American tribe.
- Angelina County, Texas: Angelina is named for a Hainai Native American woman who assisted early Spanish missionaries and was named Angelina by them.
- Anne Arundel County, Maryland: Anne Arundel is named for Anne Arundell, the wife of Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore and daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour.
- Anoka County, Minnesota: Anoka is named for a Dakota word meaning on both sides.
- Anson County, North Carolina: Anson is named for George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, a British admiral assigned to defend North Carolina's shipping from pirates.
- Antelope County, Nebraska: Antelope is named for the pronghorn antelope in the area.
- Antrim County, Michigan: Antrim is named for County Antrim in Ireland.
- Apache County, Arizona: Apache is named for the Apache Native American tribe.
- Appanoose County, Iowa: Appanoose is named for Appanoose [disambiguation needed], a chief of the Sac and Fox Native American tribes who headed the peace party during the Black Hawk War.
- Appling County, Georgia: Appling is named for Daniel Appling, a soldier in the War of 1812.
- Appomattox County, Virginia: Appomattox is named for the Appomattox River, in turn named for the Appamatucks Native American tribe.
- Aransas County, Texas: Aransas is named for the Rio Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu, a Spanish outpost in early Texas.
- Arapahoe County, Colorado: Arapahoe is named for the Arapaho Native American tribe.
- Archer County, Texas: Archer is named for Branch Tanner Archer, a commissioner for the Republic of Texas.
- Archuleta County, Colorado: Archuleta is named for Antonio D. Archuleta, a Colorado state senator.
- Arenac County, Michigan: Arenac is named for a word invented by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft meaning sandy earth with arena from Latin for sandy and ac from a Native American language for earth.
- Arkansas County, Arkansas: Arkansas is named for the Arkansa Native American tribe.
- Arlington County, Virginia: Arlington is named for the Arlington estate associated with the Washington, Custis, and Lee families. The estate, in turn, was named for the original Arlington estate in Northampton County, Virginia, established sometime before 1680, which was, in turn again, named for Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington.
- Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: Armstrong is named for John Armstrong, a general in the American Revolutionary War and delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania.
- Armstrong County, Texas: Armstrong is named for any one of several Texas pioneer families.
- Aroostook County, Maine: Aroostook is named for a Native American word meaning beautiful river.
- Arthur County, Nebraska: Arthur is named for Chester A. Arthur, the twenty-first president of the United States.
- Ascension Parish, Louisiana: Ascension is named for a colonial ecclesiastical district in the area.
- Ashe County, North Carolina: Ashe is named for Samuel Ashe, the ninth governor of North Carolina.
- Ashland County, Ohio: Ashland is named for Ashland, the farm and mansion of Henry Clay at Lexington, Kentucky.
- Ashland County, Wisconsin: Ashland is named for Ashland, the farm and mansion of Henry Clay at Lexington, Kentucky.
- Ashley County, Arkansas: Ashley is named for Chester Ashley, a U.S. Senator from Arkansas.
- Ashtabula County, Ohio: Ashtabula is named for either the Ashtabula River, or an Algonquian Native American word meaning variously fish, fish river, river of many fish, there are always enough moving, or half-way place.
- Asotin County, Washington: Asotin is named for the Nez Percé Native American name for Eel Creek.
- Assumption Parish, Louisiana: Assumption is named for a colonial ecclesiastical district in the area.
- Atascosa County, Texas: Atascosa is named for the Spanish word for boggy.
- Atchison County, Kansas: Atchison is named for David Rice Atchison, a U. S. senator from Missouri.
- Atchison County, Missouri: Atchison is named for David Rice Atchison, a U. S. senator from Missouri.
- Athens County, Ohio: Athens is named for Athens, Greece, the location of the state university.
- Atkinson County, Georgia: Atkinson is named for William Yates Atkinson, the fifty-eighth governor of Georgia.
- Atlantic County, New Jersey: Atlantic is named for the Atlantic Ocean, on the shores of which the county is located.
- Atoka County, Oklahoma: Atoka is named for its county seat of Atoka, Oklahoma, named in turn for Atoka, a Choctaw leader.
- Attala County, Mississippi: Attala is named for Attala [disambiguation needed], a fictional Native American heroine.
- Audrain County, Missouri: Audrain is named for James H. Audrain, a Missouri state legislator.
- Audubon County, Iowa: Audubon is named for John James Audubon, the famous naturalist and painter.
- Auglaize County, Ohio: Auglaize is named for either the Auglaize River or a Native American word meaning variously fallen timbers, overgrown with brush, or at the lick.
- Augusta County, Virginia: Augusta is named for Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of George III of Great Britain.
- Aurora County, South Dakota: Aurora is named for Aurora, the Ancient Roman goddess of the dawn who was called Eos by the Ancient Greeks.
- Austin County, Texas: Austin is named for Stephen Fuller Austin, the person who facilitated the Anglo American colonization of Texas and is known as the Father of Texas.
- Autauga County, Alabama: Autauga is named for the Native American village of Atagi, which was located at the confluence of Autauga Creek and the Alabama River.
- Avery County, North Carolina: Avery is named for Waightstill Avery, a Revolutionary War colonel and attorney general of the state of North Carolina.
- Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana: Avoyelles is named for the Avoyels Native American tribe.
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- Baca County, Colorado: Baca is named for the prominent Baca family of Trinidad, Colorado, a member of which had settled early in the area.
- Bacon County, Georgia: Bacon is named for Augustus Octavius Bacon, a U. S. senator from Georgia.
- Bailey County, Texas: Bailey is named for Peter James Bailey, a defender of the Alamo.
- Baker County, Florida: Baker is named for James McNair Baker, a Confederate senator.
- Baker County, Georgia: Baker is named for John Baker, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
- Baker County, Oregon: Baker is named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a U. S. Representative from Illinois, Senator from Oregon, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln.
- Baldwin County, Alabama: Baldwin is named for Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the United States Constitution and U.S. congressman from Georgia.
- Baldwin County, Georgia: Baldwin is named for Abraham Baldwin, a signer of the United States Constitution and U.S. congressman from Georgia.
- Ballard County, Kentucky: Ballard is named for Bland W. Ballard, a scout for George Rogers Clark who was killed at the Battle of River Raisin in the War of 1812.
- City of Baltimore, Maryland - Both the city and, indirectly, its adjacent county are named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the founder of the Colony of Maryland.
- Baltimore County, Maryland - Named for the City of Baltimore, which was detached from Baltimore County in 1851.
- Bamberg County, South Carolina: Bamberg is named for either Francis Marion Bamberg, a soldier in the American Civil War; or William Seaborn Bamberg, a local resident along with other members of his family.
- Bandera County, Texas: Bandera is named for Bandera Pass, named in turn for the Spanish word for flag.
- Banks County, Georgia: Banks is named for Richard Banks, a prominent physician.
- Banner County, Nebraska: Banner is named for the hope of the early settlers to make the county the "banner county" of the state.
- Bannock County, Idaho: Bannock is named for the Bannock Native American tribe.
- Baraga County, Michigan: Baraga is named for Frederic Baraga, a missionary who worked with local Native Americans.
- Barber County, Kansas: Barber is named for Thomas W. Barber, a free-stater killed in Douglas County during the "troubles" near Lawrence, Kansas which came to be known as Bloody Kansas.
- Barbour County, Alabama: Barbour is named for James Barbour, the nineteenth governor of Virginia.
- Barbour County, West Virginia: Barbour is named for Philip Pendleton Barbour, a Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia.
- Barnes County, North Dakota: Barnes is named for Alanson Hamilton Barnes, a justice of the Dakota territorial supreme court.
- Barnstable County, Massachusetts: Barnstable is named for probably its county seat of Barnstable, Massachusetts.
- Barnwell County, South Carolina: Barnwell is named for a Barnwell family.
- Barren County, Kentucky: Barren is named for large treeless expanses found by early explorers caused by Native Americans burning tracts of forest.
- Barron County, Wisconsin: Barron is named for Henry D. Barron, a Wisconsin state legislator and judge.
- Barrow County, Georgia: Barrow is named for David Crenshaw Barrow, an official of the University of Georgia.
- Barry County, Michigan: Barry is named for William Taylor Barry, a United States Postmaster General.
- Barry County, Missouri: Barry is named for William Taylor Barry, a United States Postmaster General.
- Bartholomew County, Indiana: Bartholomew is named for Joseph Bartholomew, a hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe and U.S. senator; he was an Indiana state senator at the time of Bartholomew County's formation.
- Barton County, Kansas: Barton is named for Clara Barton, the organizing founder of the American Red Cross.
- Barton County, Missouri: Barton is named for David Barton, a U.S. Senator from Missouri.
- Bartow County, Georgia: Bartow is named for Francis S. Bartow, an American Civil War general killed at the First Battle of Bull Run.
- Bastrop County, Texas: Bastrop is named for Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, an early German settler in Texas.
- Bates County, Missouri: Bates is named for Frederick Bates, the second governor of Missouri.
- Bath County, Kentucky - Named for springs in the area thought to have medicinal value.
- Bath County, Virginia - Named either for the many warm springs within its borders or the city of Bath, England.
- Baxter County, Arkansas: Baxter is named for Elisha Baxter, the thirteenth governor of Arkansas.
- Bay County, Florida: Bay is named for St. Andrews Bay, which the county is located on.
- Bay County, Michigan: Bay is named for Saginaw Bay, which the county is located on.
- Bayfield County, Wisconsin: Bayfield is named for Henry Bayfield, a British naval officer who performed the first survey of the Great Lakes region.
- Baylor County, Texas: Baylor is named for Henry Weidner Baylor, a surgeon in the Texas Rangers during the Mexican-American War.
- Beadle County, South Dakota: Beadle is named for William Henry Harrison Beadle, a leading figure and surveyor-general of the Dakota Territory.
- Bear Lake County, Idaho: Bear Lake is named for Bear Lake, which lies partly within the county and partly within Utah.
- Beaufort County, North Carolina: Beaufort is named for Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, a Lord Proprietor of Carolina.
- Beaufort County, South Carolina: Beaufort is named for Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, a Lord Proprietor of Carolina.
- Beauregard Parish, Louisiana: Beauregard is named for Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, the American Civil War Confederate general.
- Beaver County, Oklahoma: Beaver is named for its county seat of Beaver, Oklahoma and the Beaver River, which flows through the county.
- Beaver County, Pennsylvania: Beaver is named for the Beaver River.
- Beaver County, Utah: Beaver is named for the area's many beavers.
- Beaverhead County, Montana: Beaverhead is named for a rock in the Jefferson River shaped like a beaver's head.
- Becker County, Minnesota: Becker is named for George Loomis Becker, a Minnesota state legislator and mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Beckham County, Oklahoma: Beckham is named for John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, the thirty-fifth governor of Kentucky.
- The City of Bedford and Bedford County, Virginia are both named for John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, a Secretary of State for the Southern Department of Great Britain.
- Bedford County, Pennsylvania: Named for Fort Bedford, which was in turn named for the aforementioned 4th Duke of Bedford.
- Bedford County, Tennessee: Bedford is named for Thomas Bedford, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- Bee County, Texas: Bee is named for Barnard Elliott Bee, Sr., a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.
- Belknap County, New Hampshire: Belknap is named for Jeremy Belknap, an early New Hampshire historian.
- Bell County, Kentucky: Bell is named for Joshua Fry Bell, a lawyer and Kentucky state legislator.
- Bell County, Texas: Bell is named for Peter Hansborough Bell, the third governor of Texas.
- Belmont County, Ohio: Belmont is named for the French word for beautiful mountain or fine mountain, describing the scenery in the area.
- Beltrami County, Minnesota: Beltrami is named for Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, an Italian who explored the northern reaches of the Mississippi River.
- Ben Hill County, Georgia: Ben Hill is named for Benjamin Harvey Hill, a Georgia state, Confederate, and U.S. congressman.
- Benewah County, Idaho: Benewah is named for Benewah, a Coeur d'Alene leader.
- Bennett County, South Dakota: Bennett is named for either Granville C. Bennett, a prominent South Dakota politician; or John E. Bennett, a judge of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
- Bennington County, Vermont: Bennington is named for the city of Bennington, Vermont, named in turn for Benning Wentworth, governor of the New Hampshire Grants in modern-day Vermont.
- Benson County, North Dakota: Benson is named for Bertil W. Benson, a North Dakota state senator.
- Bent County, Colorado: Bent is named for Bent's Fort which was located on the north bank of the Arkansas River, near present day La Junta, and the Bent brothers who founded the fort.
- Benton County, Arkansas: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Indiana: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Iowa: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Minnesota: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Mississippi: Benton is named for Confederate Brigadier General Samuel Benton from Holly Springs, Mississippi. Local lore has it that when the county was formed in 1870, locals suggested the name Benton to the reconstruction legislature as being Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States but the county was actually named for the Confederate General.
- Benton County, Missouri: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Oregon: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Tennessee: Benton is named for either David Benton, a soldier in the colonial Tennessee Militia; or Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benton County, Washington: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a U.S. senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Benzie County, Michigan: Benzie is named for an anglicization of the French name, Riviere Aux-Bec-Scies, for the Betsie River.
- Bergen County, New Jersey: Bergen is named for possibly either Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands; or Bergen, Norway.
- Berkeley County, South Carolina: Berkeley is named for John Berkeley and William Berkeley, two Lord Proprietors of Carolina.
- Berkeley County, West Virginia: Berkeley is named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, a colonial governor of Virginia.
- Berks County, Pennsylvania: Berks is named for the English county of Berkshire.
- Berkshire County, Massachusetts: Berkshire is named for the English county of Berkshire.
- Bernalillo County, New Mexico: Bernalillo is named for either the nearby settlement of Bernalillo, New Mexico or the Gonzales-Bernal family.
- Berrien County, Georgia: Berrien is named for John MacPherson Berrien, the tenth United States Attorney General.
- Berrien County, Michigan: Berrien is named for John MacPherson Berrien, the tenth United States Attorney General.
- Bertie County, North Carolina: Bertie is named for either James Bertie or Henry Bertie, two Lord Proprietors of Carolina.
- Bethel Census Area, Alaska: Bethel is named for the town of Bethel, Alaska which is located in the census area.
- Bexar County, Texas: Bexar is named for San Antonio de Béjar, the capital of Mexican Texas; Béjar is present-day San Antonio, Texas.
- Bibb County, Alabama: Bibb is named for William Wyatt Bibb, the first governor of Alabama who was a native of Georgia.
- Bibb County, Georgia: Bibb is named for William Wyatt Bibb, the first governor of Alabama who was a native of Georgia.
- Bienville Parish, Louisiana: Bienville is named for Jean Baptiste de la Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, a French colonial governor of Louisiana.
- Big Horn County, Montana: Big Horn is named for the bighorn sheep in the area.
- Big Horn County, Wyoming: Big Horn is named for the bighorn sheep in the area.
- Big Stone County, Minnesota: Big Stone is named for Big Stone Lake.
- Billings County, North Dakota: Billings is named for Frederick H. Billings, the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad when the county was formed.
- Bingham County, Idaho: Bingham is named for Henry Harrison Bingham, a U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania.
- Black Hawk County, Iowa: Black Hawk is named for Black Hawk, the Sac and Fox Native American chief who led a revolt against resettlement of his tribe in the Black Hawk War.
- Blackford County, Indiana: Blackford is named for Isaac Newton Blackford, a speaker of the first Indiana General Assembly and judge on the Indiana Supreme Court.
- Bladen County, North Carolina: Bladen is named for Martin Bladen, a British politician and Commissioner of Trade and Plantations.
- Blaine County, Idaho: Blaine is named for James G. Blaine, the American statesman, secretary of state, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate.
- Blaine County, Montana: Blaine is named for James G. Blaine, the American statesman, secretary of state, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate.
- Blaine County, Nebraska: Blaine is named for James G. Blaine, the American statesman, secretary of state, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate.
- Blaine County, Oklahoma: Blaine is named for James G. Blaine, the American statesman, secretary of state, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate.
- Blair County, Pennsylvania: Blair is named for John Blair, a signer of the United States Constitution and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from Pennsylvania.
- Blanco County, Texas: Blanco is named for the Blanco River. Blanco means white in Spanish.
- Bland County, Virginia: Bland is named for Richard Bland, a colonial delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia.
- Bleckley County, Georgia: Bleckley is named for Logan Edwin Bleckley, a soldier and judge on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
- Bledsoe County, Tennessee: Bledsoe is named for Anthony Bledsoe, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and early settler in the area.
- Blount County, Alabama: Blount is named for William Blount, the only governor of the Southwest Territory (modern-day Tennessee).
- Blount County, Tennessee: Blount is named for William Blount, the only governor of the Southwest Territory (modern-day Tennessee).
- Blue Earth County, Minnesota: Blue Earth is named for the Blue Earth River, named in turn for blue-green earth found near its mouth and used by Dakota Native Americans as a pigment.
- Boise County, Idaho: Boise is named for the Boise River. Boisé is French for wooded.
- Bolivar County, Mississippi: Bolivar is named for Simón Bolívar, the great South American revolutionary and general.
- Bollinger County, Missouri: Bollinger is named for George F. Bollinger, a pioneer and Missouri state legislator.
- Bon Homme County, South Dakota: Bon Homme is named for an unknown man whose grave was found on an island in the Missouri River located in the county. A wooden cross marked the grave simply "Bon Homme," the French words for "good man."
- Bond County, Illinois: Bond is named for Shadrach Bond, the first governor of Illinois.
- Bonner County, Idaho: Bonner is named for Edwin L. Bonner, a pioneer ferry operator in the area.
- Bonneville County, Idaho: Bonneville is named for Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville, a French explorer of the Great Basin area.
- Boone County, Arkansas: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Boone County, Illinois: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Boone County, Indiana: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Boone County, Iowa: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman, and his son, Daniel Nathan Boone, a colonel in the U. S. Dragoons.
- Boone County, Kentucky: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Boone County, Missouri: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Boone County, Nebraska: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Boone County, West Virginia: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman.
- Borden County, Texas: Borden is named for Gail Borden, Jr., a businessman, publisher, and surveyor in Texas who invented condensed milk.
- Bosque County, Texas: Bosque is named for the Bosque River.
- Bossier Parish, Louisiana: Bossier is named for presumably Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier, a U.S. representative from Louisiana.
- Botetourt County, Virginia: Botetourt is named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, a colonial governor of Virginia.
- Bottineau County, North Dakota: Bottineau is named for Pierre Bottineau, a Métis guide and frontiersman in the area.
- Boulder County, Colorado: Boulder is named for the abundance of boulders in the area.
- Boundary County, Idaho: Boundary is named for the fact that it borders Washington on the west, Montana on the east, and Canada (British Columbia) on the north.
- Bourbon County, Kansas: Bourbon is named for Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- Bourbon County, Kentucky: Bourbon is named for the French House of Bourbon.
- Bowie County, Texas: Bowie is named for James Bowie, the legendary knife fighter who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
- Bowman County, North Dakota: Bowman is named for Edward M. Bowman, a U.S. representative from the Dakota Territory.
- Box Butte County, Nebraska: Box Butte is named for a large box-shaped butte located in the county.
- Box Elder County, Utah: Box Elder is named for the area's many box elder trees.
- Boyd County, Kentucky: Boyd is named for Linn Boyd, a U. S. congressman and Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives from Kentucky.
- Boyd County, Nebraska: Boyd is named for James E. Boyd, the eighth governor of Nebraska.
- Boyle County, Kentucky: Boyle is named for John Boyle, a U. S. congressman and district judge from Kentucky.
- Bracken County, Kentucky: Bracken is named for Bracken Creek and Little Bracken Creek, two streams located in the county.
- Bradford County, Florida: Bradford is named for Richard Bradford, a soldier in the American Civil War who was killed in the Battle of Santa Rosa Island.
- Bradford County, Pennsylvania: Bradford is named for William Bradford, the second United States Attorney General.
- Bradley County, Arkansas: Bradley is named for Hugh Bradley, a soldier in the War of 1812.
- Bradley County, Tennessee: Bradley is named for Edward Bradley, a Tennessee militia officer in the War of 1812.
- Branch County, Michigan: Branch is named for John Branch, the eighth United States Secretary of the Navy.
- Brantley County, Georgia: Brantley is named for Benjamin D. Brantley, a member of a prominent local family; or William Goodman Brantley, a Georgia state senator.
- Braxton County, West Virginia: Braxton is named for Carter Braxton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence from Virginia.
- Brazoria County, Texas: Brazoria is named for the Brazos River.
- Brazos County, Texas: Brazos is named for the Brazos River.
- Breathitt County, Kentucky: Breathitt is named for John Breathitt, the eleventh governor of Kentucky.
- Breckinridge County, Kentucky —Named for John Breckinridge, the fifth United States Attorney General and a U. S. senator from Kentucky.
- Bremer County, Iowa: Bremer is named for Fredricka Bremer, a Swedish novelist.
- Brevard County, Florida: Brevard is named for Theodore Washington Brevard, a Florida State Controller in the 1850s; it was originally named St. Lucia County.[1]
- Brewster County, Texas: Brewster is named for Henry Percy Brewster, a secretary of war for the Republic of Texas and soldier in the American Civil War. (His middle name has been also given as Persy.)
- Briscoe County, Texas: Briscoe is named for Andrew Briscoe, a soldier during the Texas Revolution.
- City of Bristol, Virginia: Bristol is named for the city of Bristol, England.
- Bristol County, Massachusetts: Bristol is named for the city of Bristol, England.
- Bristol County, Rhode Island: Bristol is named for the city of Bristol, England.
- Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska: Bristol Bay is named for Bristol Bay, which is located in the borough.
- Broadwater County, Montana: Broadwater is named for Charles A. Broadwater, a pioneer in the area and soldier in the United States Army.
- Bronx County, New York: Bronx is named for Jonas Bronck, an early settler in the region.
- Brooke County, West Virginia: Brooke is named for Robert Brooke, the tenth governor of Virginia.
- Brookings County, South Dakota: Brookings is named for Wilmot W. Brookings, a pioneer who was one of the first settlers in the Dakota Territory.
- Brooks County, Georgia: Brooks is named for Preston Smith Brooks, a U. S. congressman from South Carolina who famously attacked Charles Sumner, a fellow senator, with a cane.
- Brooks County, Texas: Brooks is named for John Abijah Brooks, a Texas Ranger and Texas state legislator.
- Broome County, New York: Broome is named for John Broome, a lieutenant governor of New York.
- City and County of Broomfield, Colorado: Named for the quantity of broom corn grown in the area. The city was incorporated in 1961, and obtained county status in 2001.
- Broward County, Florida: Broward is named for Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, the nineteenth governor of Florida.
- Brown County, Illinois: Brown is named for Jacob Jennings Brown, a general in the War of 1812.
- Brown County, Indiana: Brown is named for Jacob Jennings Brown, a general in the War of 1812.
- Brown County, Kansas: Brown is named for Albert Gallatin Brown, the fourteenth governor of Mississippi and a U.S. senator from Mississippi.
- Brown County, Minnesota: Brown is named for Joseph Renshaw Brown, a prominent pioneer, newspaperman, and Minnesota territorial legislator.
- Brown County, Nebraska: Brown is named for any two of five members of the Nebraska state legislature named Brown at the time of the county's formation.
- Brown County, Ohio: Brown is named for Jacob Jennings Brown, a general in the War of 1812.
- Brown County, South Dakota: Brown is named for Alfred Brown, a Dakota territorial legislator.
- Brown County, Texas: Brown is named for Henry Stevenson Brown, a commander at the Battle of Velasco prior to the Texas Revolution.
- Brown County, Wisconsin: Brown is named for Jacob Jennings Brown, a general in the War of 1812.
- Brule County, South Dakota: Brule is named for probably the Brulé, a branch of the Sioux Native American tribe.
- Brunswick County, North Carolina: Brunswick is named for King George I of Great Britain, Duke of Brunswick.
- Brunswick County, Virginia: Brunswick is named for the region of Brunswick in present-day Germany.
- Bryan County, Georgia: Bryan is named for Jonathan Bryan, a Georgia colonial legislator in the 17th century.
- Bryan County, Oklahoma: Bryan is named for William Jennings Bryan, the lawyer, forty-first United States Secretary of State, and thrice-time presidential candidate.
- Buchanan County, Iowa: Buchanan is named for James Buchanan, the fifteenth president of the United States.
- Buchanan County, Missouri: Buchanan is named for James Buchanan, the fifteenth president of the United States.
- Buchanan County, Virginia: Buchanan is named for James Buchanan, the fifteenth president of the United States.
- Buckingham County, Virginia: Buckingham is named for either the English county of Buckinghamshire; or an unknown Duke of Buckingham (extinct at the time of the county's formation).
- Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Bucks is named for the English county of Buckinghamshire.
- City of Buena Vista, Virginia: Buena Vista is named for the Buena Vista Company, which raised the money for the city's founding.
- Buena Vista County, Iowa: Buena Vista is named for the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican-American War.
- Buffalo County, Nebraska: Buffalo is named for the American Bison which once roamed the present county.
- Buffalo County, South Dakota: Buffalo is named for probably the American Bison.
- Buffalo County, Wisconsin: Buffalo is named for the Buffalo River.
- Bullitt County, Kentucky: Bullitt is named for Alexander Scott Bullitt, a co-author of the Kentucky state constitution and the first lieutenant governor of Kentucky.
- Bulloch County, Georgia: Bulloch is named for Archibald Bulloch, the second governor of Georgia.
- Bullock County, Alabama: Bullock is named for Edward C. Bullock, a soldier in the Confederate States Army.
- Buncombe County, North Carolina: Buncombe is named for Edward Buncombe, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- Bureau County, Illinois: Bureau is named for Pierre de Bureo, a French trader with Native American in the area.
- Burke County, Georgia: Burke is named for Edmund Burke, a member of the British Parliament who advised the repeal of the Stamp Act in the 1760s and reconciliation with the American colonies.
- Burke County, North Carolina: Burke is named for Thomas Burke, the third governor of North Carolina.
- Burke County, North Dakota: Burke is named for John Burke, the tenth governor of North Dakota.
- Burleigh County, North Dakota: Burleigh is named for Walter Atwood Burleigh, a U.S. representative from the Dakota Territory.
- Burleson County, Texas: Burleson is named for Edward Burleson, a general and statesman of the Texas Revolution.
- Burlington County, New Jersey: Burlington is named for a corruption of the name of Bridlington, England.
- Burnet County, Texas: Burnet is named for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- Burnett County, Wisconsin: Burnett is named for Thomas P. Burnett, a Wisconsin state legislator.
- Burt County, Nebraska: Burt is named for Francis Burt, the first governor of the Nebraska Territory.
- Butler County, Alabama: Butler is named for William Butler, a soldier who fought in the Creek War.
- Butler County, Iowa: Butler is named for William Orlando Butler, a Kentucky statesman, U.S. representative, vice presidential candidate, and general in the Mexican-American War.
- Butler County, Kansas: Butler is named for Andrew Pickens Butler, a U.S. senator from South Carolina.
- Butler County, Kentucky: Butler is named for Richard Butler, a general who was killed at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
- Butler County, Missouri: Butler is named for William Orlando Butler, a Kentucky statesman, U.S. representative, vice presidential candidate, and general in the Mexican-American War.
- Butler County, Nebraska: Butler is named for either David Butler, the first governor of Nebraska; or William Orlando Butler, a Kentucky statesman, U.S. representative, vice presidential candidate, and general in the Mexican-American War who also declined an appointment to become the first governor of the Nebraska Territory.
- Butler County, Ohio: Butler is named for Richard Butler, a general who was killed at the Battle of the Wabash.
- Butler County, Pennsylvania: Butler is named for Richard Butler, who was killed at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
- Butte County, California: Butte is named for either the Marysville Buttes or Sutter Buttes.
- Butte County, Idaho: Butte is named for the buttes scattered throughout the county.
- Butte County, South Dakota: Butte is named for one or more unknown buttes.
- Butts County, Georgia: Butts is named for Sam Butts, a soldier killed in the War of 1812.
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- Cabarrus County, North Carolina: Cabarrus is named for Stephen Cabarrus, a North Carolina state legislator.
- Cabell County, West Virginia: Cabell is named for William H. Cabell, the fourteenth governor of Virginia.
- Cache County, Utah: Cache is named for the caches of furs collected in the area by Rocky Mountain Fur Company trappers.
- Caddo County, Oklahoma: Caddo is named for the Caddo Native American tribe.
- Caddo Parish, Louisiana: Caddo is named for the Caddo Native American tribe.
- Calaveras County, California: Calaveras is named for calaveras, the Spanish word for skulls, reportedly for the bones of fighters left behind after a Native American war that were discovered by Captain Gabriel Moraga.
- Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana: Calcasieu is named for supposedly Calcasieu, an Atakapas Native American leader, whose name is said to mean crying eagle.
- Caldwell County, Kentucky: Caldwell is named for John Caldwell, a U. S. senator and the second lieutenant governor of Kentucky.
- Caldwell County, Missouri: Caldwell is named for either John Caldwell, a Native American scout; John Caldwell, a U. S. senator and the second lieutenant governor of Kentucky; or Mathew Caldwell, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and soldier during the Texas Revolution.
- Caldwell County, North Carolina: Caldwell is named for Joseph Caldwell, the first president of the University of North Carolina, who advocated public school and railroad systems in North Carolina.
- Caldwell County, Texas: Caldwell is named for probably Mathew Caldwell, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and soldier during the Texas Revolution.
- Caldwell Parish, Louisiana: Caldwell is named for the locally prominent Caldwell family.
- Caledonia County, Vermont: Caledonia is named for the Latin name for Scotland.
- Calhoun County, Alabama - All Calhoun Counties in the United States are named for John C. Calhoun, the U.S. statesman, seventh vice president of the United States, and Secretary of State from South Carolina.
- Calhoun County, Arkansas
- Calhoun County, Florida
- Calhoun County, Georgia
- Calhoun County, Illinois
- Calhoun County, Iowa
- Calhoun County, Michigan
- Calhoun County, Mississippi
- Calhoun County, South Carolina
- Calhoun County, Texas
- Calhoun County, West Virginia
- Callahan County, Texas: Callahan is named for James Hughes Callahan, a soldier during the Texas Revolution.
- Callaway County, Missouri: Callaway is named for James Callaway, a "Missouri ranger" killed by Native Americans during the War of 1812.
- Calloway County, Kentucky: Calloway is named for Richard Calloway, an early pioneer in Kentucky.
- Calumet County, Wisconsin: Calumet is named for calumet, the French word for a Menominee peace pipe.
- Calvert County, Maryland: Calvert is named for the Calvert family, whose male members bore the title of Baron Baltimore and included the founders of the colony of Maryland.
- Camas County, Idaho: Camas is named for the local camassia plant.
- Cambria County, Pennsylvania: Cambria is named for its original status as Cambria Township of Somerset County, Pennsylvania; Cambria is an ancient name for Wales.
- Camden County, Georgia: Camden is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament who opposed the Stamp Act in the 1760s.
- Camden County, Missouri: Camden is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament who opposed the Stamp Act in the 1760s.
- Camden County, New Jersey: Camden is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament who opposed the Stamp Act in the 1760s.
- Camden County, North Carolina: Camden is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, a member of the British Parliament who opposed the Stamp Act in the 1760s.
- Cameron County, Pennsylvania: Cameron is named for Simon Cameron, the twenty-sixth Secretary of War of the United States in the first year of the American Civil War and a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
- Cameron County, Texas: Cameron is named for Ewen Cameron [disambiguation needed], a soldier during the Texas Revolution.
- Cameron Parish, Louisiana: Cameron is named for Simon Cameron, the twenty-sixth Secretary of War of the United States in the first year of the American Civil War and a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
- Camp County, Texas: Camp is named for John Lafayette Camp, a Texas state politician.
- Campbell County, Kentucky: Campbell is named for John Campbell, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, founder of Louisville, Kentucky, and Kentucky state senator.
- Campbell County, South Dakota: Campbell is named for an uncertain source.
- Campbell County, Tennessee: Campbell is named for Authur Campbell, a Virginia House of Burgesses representative.
- Campbell County, Virginia: Campbell is named for William Campbell, a Continental general of the American Revolutionary War.
- Campbell County, Wyoming: Campbell is named for jointly John Archibald Campbell, a governor of the Wyoming Territory and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; and Robert Campbell, an explorer of the area.
- Canadian County, Oklahoma: Canadian is named for the Canadian River, which flows through the county.
- Candler County, Georgia: Candler is named for Allen Daniel Candler, the fifty-ninth governor of Georgia.
- Cannon County, Tennessee: Cannon is named for Newton Cannon, the tenth governor of Tennessee.
- Canyon County, Idaho: Canyon is named for either the Boise River or Snake River canyons.
- Cape Girardeau County, Missouri: Cape Girardeau is named for supposedly Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot, an early French colonial officer in the area.
- Cape May County, New Jersey: Cape May is named for Cape May, which in turn is named for Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, the sea captain who discovered the cape.
- Carbon County, Montana: Carbon is named for coal deposits in the region.
- Carbon County, Pennsylvania: Carbon is named for coal deposits in the region.
- Carbon County, Utah: Carbon is named for coal deposits in the region.
- Carbon County, Wyoming: Carbon is named for coal deposits in the region.
- Caribou County, Idaho: Caribou is named for the Caribou Mountains.
- Carlisle County, Kentucky: Carlisle is named for John Griffin Carlisle, a Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States from Kentucky.
- Carlton County, Minnesota: Carlton is named for Reuben B. Carlton, a pioneer in the area.
- Caroline County, Maryland: Caroline is named for Lady Caroline Eden, the daughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, sister of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, and wife of Robert Eden, the last colonial governor of Maryland.
- Caroline County, Virginia: Caroline is named for Caroline of Ansbach, the consort of King George II of Great Britain.
- Carroll County, Arkansas: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Georgia: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Illinois: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Indiana: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Iowa: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Kentucky: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Maryland: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Mississippi: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Missouri: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, New Hampshire: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Ohio: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carroll County, Tennessee: Carroll is named for William Carroll, the sixth governor of Tennessee.
- Carroll County, Virginia: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving and only Catholic signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Carson City, Nevada: Carson City is named for Christopher Houston (Kit) Carson, the famous frontier scout and soldier.
- Carson County, Texas: Carson is named for Samuel Price Carson, the first secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.
- Carter County, Kentucky: Carter is named for William Grayson Carter, a Kentucky state senator.
- Carter County, Missouri: Carter is named for Zimri A. Carter, a pioneer in the area.
- Carter County, Montana: Carter is named for Thomas Henry Carter, a United States senator from Montana.
- Carter County, Oklahoma: Carter is named for Ben W. Carter, a captain in the United States Army and a Cherokee who married and settled among the Chickasaws whose son was a state senator for over forty years following statehood.
- Carter County, Tennessee: Carter is named for Landon Carter, a speaker of the senate of the State of Franklin.
- Carteret County, North Carolina: Carteret is named for George Carteret, a Lord Proprietor of the Province of Carolina.
- Carver County, Minnesota: Carver is named for Jonathan Carver, an early explorer in the area.
- Cascade County, Montana: Cascade is named for the Great Falls of the Missouri River which were located in the county.
- Casey County, Kentucky: Casey is named for William Casey, an early pioneer in western Kentucky.
- Cass County, Illinois: Cass is named for
- Cass County, Indiana: Cass is named for Governor of Michigan and U.S. Cabinet member Lewis Cass.
- Cass County, Iowa: Cass is named for
- Cass County, Michigan: Cass is named for Lewis Cass
- Cass County, Minnesota: Cass is named for
- Cass County, Missouri: Cass is named for
- Cass County, Nebraska: Cass is named for
- Cass County, North Dakota: Cass is named for George Washington Cass, who was the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
- Cass County, Texas: Cass is named for
- Cassia County, Idaho: Cassia is named for
- Castro County, Texas: Castro is named for
- Caswell County, North Carolina: Caswell is named for
- Catahoula Parish, Louisiana: Catahoula is named for the Louisiana state dog, the catahoula leopard dog.
- Catawba County, North Carolina: Catawba is named for
- Catoosa County, Georgia: Catoosa is named for Catoosa [disambiguation needed], a Native American chief.
- Catron County, New Mexico: Catron is named for Thomas B. Catron, advocate for statehood and first U.S. Senator.
- Cattaraugus County, New York: Cattaraugus is named for
- Cavalier County, North Dakota: Cavalier is named for
- Cayuga County, New York: Cayuga is named for
- Cecil County, Maryland: Cecil is named for Cecilius Calvert (1605-1675), Second Lord Baltimore, and founder of the Maryland colony.
- Cedar County, Iowa: Cedar is named for
- Cedar County, Missouri: Cedar is named for
- Cedar County, Nebraska: Cedar is named for
- Centre County, Pennsylvania: Centre is named for its geographical location in reference to the rest of the counties in the state
- Cerro Gordo County, Iowa: Cerro Gordo is named for the Battle of Cerro Gordo
- Chaffee County, Colorado: Chaffee is named for Jerome B. Chaffee, a pioneer and one of Colorado's first two United States Senators
- Chambers County, Alabama: Chambers is named for
- Chambers County, Texas: Chambers is named for
- Champaign County, Illinois: Champaign was named by John W. Vance of Vermilion County, Illinois in 1833. It was named after Champaign County, Ohio, where Vance was originally from.
- Champaign County, Ohio: Champaign is named for
- Chariton County, Missouri: Chariton is named for
- Charles City County, Virginia: Charles City is named for King Charles I of England.
- Charles County, Maryland: Charles is named for Charles Calvert, the 3rd Baron Baltimore.
- Charles Mix County, South Dakota: Charles Mix is named for
- Charleston County, South Carolina: Charleston is named for King Charles II of England
- Charlevoix County, Michigan: Charlevoix is named for
- Charlotte County, Florida - Directly named for Charlotte Harbor, a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that borders on the county, which in turn was named for Charlotte, queen consort of King George III. (The bay had been named "Carlos" by the area's earlier Spanish explorers.)
- Charlotte County, Virginia - Also named for the aforementioned Queen Charlotte.
- City of Charlottesville, Virginia - Also named for the aforementioned Queen Charlotte.
- Charlton County, Georgia: Charlton is named for Robert Milledge Charlton, a US Senator from Georgia.
- Chase County, Kansas: Chase is named for
- Chase County, Nebraska: Chase is named for
- Chatham County, Georgia: Chatham is named for
- Chatham County, North Carolina: Chatham is named for
- Chattahoochee County, Georgia: Chattahoochee is named for
- Chattooga County, Georgia: Chatooga is named for
- Chautauqua County, Kansas: Chautauqua is named for
- Chautauqua County, New York: Chautauqua is named for
- Chaves County, New Mexico: Chaves is named for José Francisco Chaves, a 19th Century New Mexico political and military figure.
- Cheatham County, Tennessee, is named for Tennessee state legislator Edward Cheatham.
- Cheboygan County, Michigan: Cheboygan is named for
- Chelan County, Washington: Chelan is named for
- Chemung County, New York: Chemung is named for
- Chenango County, New York: Chenango is named for
- Cherokee County, Alabama: Cherokee is named for
- Cherokee County, Iowa: Cherokee is named for
- Cherokee County, Kansas: Cherokee is named for
- Cherokee County, North Carolina: Cherokee is named for
- Cherokee County, Oklahoma: Cherokee is named for
- Cherokee County, South Carolina: Cherokee is named for
- Cherokee County, Texas: Cherokee is named for
- Cherry County, Nebraska: Cherry is named for
- City of Chesapeake, Virginia: Chesapeake is named for
- Cheshire County, New Hampshire: Cheshire is named for
- Chester County, Pennsylvania: Chester is named for the English county of Cheshire
- Chester County, South Carolina: Chester is named for
- Chester County, Tennessee, is named for Tennessee state legislator Robert I. Chester.
- Chesterfield County, South Carolina: Chesterfield is named for
- Chesterfield County, Virginia: Chesterfield is named for
- Cheyenne County, Colorado: Cheyenne is named for the Cheyenne Native American tribe.
- Cheyenne County, Kansas: Cheyenne is named for
- Cheyenne County, Nebraska: Cheyenne is named for
- Chickasaw County, Iowa: Chickasaw is named for
- Chickasaw County, Mississippi: Chickasaw is named for
- Chicot County, Arkansas: Chicot is named for
- Childress County, Texas: Childress is named for
- Chilton County, Alabama: Chilton is named for
- Chippewa County, Michigan: Chippewa is named for
- Chippewa County, Minnesota: Chippewa is named for
- Chippewa County, Wisconsin: Chippewa is named for
- Chisago County, Minnesota: Chisago is named for
- Chittenden County, Vermont: Chittenden is named for Thomas Chittenden, Vermont's first governor.
- Choctaw County, Alabama: Choctaw is named for
- Choctaw County, Mississippi: Choctaw is named for
- Choctaw County, Oklahoma: Choctaw is named for
- Chouteau County, Montana: Choteau is named for
- Chowan County, North Carolina: Chowan is named for
- Christian County, Illinois: Christian is named for
- Christian County, Kentucky: Christian is named for
- Christian County, Missouri: Christian is named for
- Churchill County, Nevada: Churchill is named for
- Cibola County, New Mexico: Cibola is named for
- Cimarron County, Oklahoma: Cimarron is named for
- Citrus County, Florida: Citrus is named for
- Clackamas County, Oregon: Clackamas is named for
- Claiborne County, Mississippi: Claiborne is named for
- Claiborne County, Tennessee, is named for Governor of Louisiana and Governor of Mississippi Territory William C. C. Claiborne (1775–1817).
- Claiborne Parish, Louisiana: Claiborne is named for the first governor of Louisiana, W.C.C. Claiborne, who was governor from 1812-1816. He was a Virginia native.
- Clallam County, Washington: Clallam is named for
- Clare County, Michigan: Clare is named for
- Clarendon County, South Carolina: Clarendon is named for
- Clarion County, Pennsylvania: Clarion is named after the Clarion River. The name Clarion was given by surveyor Daniel Stanard in 1817, who said "The ripple of the river sounds like a distant clarion." [2]
- Clark County, Arkansas - Named for William Clark, most famous for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He was the governor of the Missouri Territory, which then included modern-day Arkansas, when the county was formed.
- Clark County, Idaho - Named for Sam K. Clark, an Idaho state senator and early settler in that area.
- Clark County, Illinois - Named for George Rogers Clark, the hero of the western front of the American Revolutionary War, and also older brother of William Clark.
- Clark County, Indiana - Also named for George Rogers Clark.
- Clark County, Kansas
- Clark County, Kentucky - Also named for George Rogers Clark.
- Clark County, Missouri - Also named for William Clark.
- Clark County, Nevada - Named for William Andrews Clark, a Montana copper magnate and United States Senator who was largely responsible for the building of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad through the area.
- Clark County, Ohio - Also named for George Rogers Clark
- Clark County, South Dakota
- Clark County, Washington - Also named for William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame.
- Clark County, Wisconsin
- Clarke County, Alabama: Clarke is named for
- Clarke County, Georgia: Clarke is named for
- Clarke County, Iowa: Clarke is named for
- Clarke County, Mississippi: Clarke is named for
- Clarke County, Virginia: Clarke is named for
- Clatsop County, Oregon: Clatsop is named for
- Clay County, Alabama: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Arkansas: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Florida: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Georgia: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Illinois: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Indiana - Named for U.S. Speaker of the House Henry Clay.
- Clay County, Iowa: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Kansas: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Kentucky - Named for Green Clay (1757–1826), a Kentucky politician and cousin of Henry Clay who also fought in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
- Clay County, Minnesota: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Mississippi: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Missouri: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Nebraska: Clay is named for
- Clay County, North Carolina: Clay is named for
- Clay County, South Dakota: Clay is named for
- Clay County, Tennessee, is named for U.S. Speaker of the House Henry Clay (1777–1852).
- Clay County, Texas: Clay is named for
- Clay County, West Virginia: Clay is named for
- Clayton County, Georgia: Clayton is named for
- Clayton County, Iowa: Clayton is named for
- Clear Creek County, Colorado: Clear Creek is named for the river Clear Creek, which runs through the county.
- Clearfield County, Pennsylvania: Clearfield is named for
- Clearwater County, Idaho: Clearwater is named for
- Clearwater County, Minnesota: Clearwater is named for
- Cleburne County, Alabama: Cleburne is named for
- Cleburne County, Arkansas: Cleburne is named for
- Clermont County, Ohio: Clermont is named for
- Cleveland County, Arkansas: Cleveland is named for
- Cleveland County, North Carolina: Cleveland is named for
- Cleveland County, Oklahoma: Cleveland is named for
- Clinch County, Georgia: Clinch is named for
- Clinton County, Illinois: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, Indiana: Clinton is named for Governor of New York DeWitt Clinton.
- Clinton County, Iowa: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, Kentucky: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, Michigan: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, Missouri: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, New York: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, Ohio: Clinton is named for
- Clinton County, Pennsylvania: Clinton is named for
- Cloud County, Kansas: Cloud is named for
- Coahoma County, Mississippi: Coahoma is named for
- Coal County, Oklahoma: Coal is named for
- Cobb County, Georgia: Cobb is named for Thomas Willis Cobb, a US representative and senator.
- Cochise County, Arizona: Cochise is named for
- Cochran County, Texas: Cochrane is named for
- Cocke County, Tennessee, is named for William Cocke (1747–1828), one of Tennessee's first U.S. Senators.
- Coconino County, Arizona: Coconino is named for
- Codington County, South Dakota: Codington is named for
- Coffee County, Alabama: Coffee is named for
- Coffee County, Georgia: Coffee is named for
- Coffee County, Tennessee, is named for John Coffee (1772–1833), frontiersman, planter, and veteran of the Creek War and War of 1812.
- Coffey County, Kansas: Coffey is named for
- Coke County, Texas: Coke is named for
- Colbert County, Alabama: Colbert is named for
- Cole County, Missouri: Cole is named for
- Coleman County, Texas: Coleman is named for
- Coles County, Illinois: Coles is named for
- Colfax County, Nebraska: Colfax is named for
- Colfax County, New Mexico: Colfax is named for
- Colleton County, South Carolina: Colleton is named for
- Collier County, Florida: Coller is named for
- Collin County, Texas: Collin is named for
- Collingsworth County, Texas: Collingsworth is named for
- City of Colonial Heights, Virginia - Stems from an incident during the American Revolutionary War. In 1781, French troops under the command of Lafayette, known as the Coloniels, retreated north from Petersburg and deployed artillery on the heights overlooking Petersburg from across the Appomattox River. The area thus came to be known as "Colonial Heights", and in 1906 the name was given to the area that would eventually become the city.
- Colorado County, Texas: Colorado is named for
- Colquitt County, Georgia: Colquitt is named for
- Columbia County, Arkansas: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, Florida: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, Georgia: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, New York: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, Oregon: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, Pennsylvania: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, Washington: Columbia is named for
- Columbia County, Wisconsin: Columbia is named for
- Columbiana County, Ohio: Columbiana is named for
- Columbus County, North Carolina: Columbus is named for
- Colusa County, California: Colusa is named for
- Comal County, Texas: Comal is named for
- Comanche County, Kansas: Comanche is named for
- Comanche County, Oklahoma: Comanche is named for
- Comanche County, Texas: Comanche is named for
- Concho County, Texas: Concho is named for
- Concordia Parish, Louisiana: Concordia is named for
- Conecuh County, Alabama: Conecuh is named for
- Conejos County, Colorado: Conejos is named for the Spanish word for "rabbit"; the swift-moving Conejos River also runs through the county.
- Contra Costa County, California: Contra Cosa is named for
- Converse County, Wyoming: Converse is named for
- Conway County, Arkansas: Conway is named for
- Cook County, Georgia: Cook is named for
- Cook County, Illinois: Cook is named for the early Illinois statesman Daniel Pope Cook.
- Cook County, Minnesota: Cook is named for
- Cooke County, Texas: Cooke is named for
- Cooper County, Missouri: Cooper is named for
- Coos County, New Hampshire: Coos is named for
- Coos County, Oregon: Coos is named for
- Coosa County, Alabama: Coosa is named for
- Copiah County, Mississippi: Copiah is named for
- Corson County, South Dakota: Corson is named for
- Cortland County, New York: Cortland is named for
- Coryell County, Texas: Coryell is named for
- Coshocton County, Ohio - Named for a Lenape village
- Costilla County, Colorado: Costilla is named for the settlement of Costilla, New Mexico (at the time the county was named (1861), the settlement was in Colorado- an 1868 boundary revision placed it in New Mexico).
- Cottle County, Texas: Cottle is named for
- Cotton County, Oklahoma: Cotton is named for
- Cottonwood County, Minnesota: Cottonwood is named for
- City of Covington, Virginia: Covington is named for
- Covington County, Alabama: Covington is named for
- Covington County, Mississippi: Covington is named for
- Coweta County, Georgia: Coweta is named for
- Cowley County, Kansas: Cowley is named for
- Cowlitz County, Washington: Cowlitz is named for
- Craig County, Oklahoma: Craig is named for
- Craig County, Virginia: Craig is named for
- Craighead County, Arkansas: Craighead is named for
- Crane County, Texas: Crane is named for
- Craven County, North Carolina: Craven is named for
- Crawford County, Arkansas: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Georgia: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Illinois: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Indiana: Crawford is named for either U.S. Treasury Secretary William H. Crawford or Col. William Crawford, a friend of George Washington's.
- Crawford County, Iowa: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Kansas: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Michigan: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Missouri: Crawford is named for
- Crawford County, Ohio: Crawford is named for William Crawford
- Crawford County, Pennsylvania: Crawford is named for William Crawford
- Crawford County, Wisconsin: Crawford is named for
- Creek County, Oklahoma: Creek is named for
- Crenshaw County, Alabama: Crenshaw is named for
- Crisp County, Georgia: Crisp is named for
- Crittenden County, Arkansas: Crittenden is named for
- Crittenden County, Kentucky: Crittenden is named for
- Crook County, Oregon: Crook is named for
- Crook County, Wyoming: Crook is named for
- Crosby County, Texas: Crosby is named for
- Cross County, Arkansas: Cross is named for
- Crow Wing County, Minnesota: Crow Wing is named for
- Crowley County, Colorado: Crowley is named for state senator John H. Crowley.
- Culberson County, Texas: Culberson is named for
- Cullman County, Alabama: Cullman is named for
- Culpeper County, Virginia: Culpeper is named for
- Cumberland County, Illinois: Cumberland is named for the Cumberland Road.
- Cumberland County, Kentucky: Cumberland is named for the Cumberland River.
- Cumberland County, Maine: Cumberland is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
- Cumberland County, New Jersey: Cumberland is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
- Cumberland County, North Carolina: Cumberland is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
- Cumberland County, Pennsylvania: Cumberland is named for Cumberland, England.
- Cumberland County, Tennessee, is named for the Cumberland Mountains.
- Cumberland County, Virginia: Cumberland is named for Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
- Cuming County, Nebraska: Cuming is named for
- Currituck County, North Carolina: Currituck is named for
- Curry County, New Mexico: Curry is named for
- Curry County, Oregon: Curry is named for
- Custer County, Colorado: Custer is named for General George Armstrong Custer, who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn eight months before the county was created.
- Custer County, Idaho: Custer is named for
- Custer County, Montana: Custer is named for
- Custer County, Nebraska: Custer is named for
- Custer County, Oklahoma: Custer is named for
- Custer County, South Dakota: Custer is named for
- Cuyahoga County, Ohio: Cuyahoga is named for its location at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River
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- Dade County, Georgia: Dade is named for
- Dade County, Missouri: Dade is named for
- Daggett County, Utah: Daggett is named for
- Dakota County, Minnesota: Dakota is named for
- Dakota County, Nebraska: Dakota is named for
- Dade County, Florida: former name of Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Dale County, Alabama: Dale is named for
- Dallam County, Texas: Dallam is named for
- Dallas County, Alabama: Dallas is named for
- Dallas County, Arkansas: Dallas is named for
- Dallas County, Iowa: Dallas is named for
- Dallas County, Missouri: Dallas is named for
- Dallas County, Texas: Dallas is named for George Mifflin Dallas, eleventh vice president of the United States.
- Dane County, Wisconsin: Dane is named for
- Daniels County, Montana: Daniels is named for
- Danville, Virginia: Danville is named for
- Dare County, North Carolina: Dare is named for
- Darke County, Ohio: Darke is named for
- Darlington County, South Carolina: Darlington is named for
- Dauphin County, Pennsylvania: Dauphin is named for Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France the first son of Louis XVI.
- Davidson County, North Carolina: Davidson is named for
- Davidson County, Tennessee, is named for William Lee Davidson (1746–1781), a Brigadier General who died at the Revolutionary War Battle of Cowan's Ford.
- Davie County, North Carolina: Davie is named for Revolutionary War Calvary leader & NC statesman William Richardson Davie
- Daviess County, Indiana: Daviess is named for military man Joseph Daviess.
- Daviess County, Kentucky: Daviess is named for
- Daviess County, Missouri: Daviess is named for
- Davis County, Iowa: Davis is named for
- Davis County, Utah: Davis is named for
- Davison County, South Dakota: Davison is named for
- Dawes County, Nebraska: Dawes is named for
- Dawson County, Georgia: Dawson is named for jurist and politician William Crosby Dawson
- Dawson County, Montana: Dawson is named for
- Dawson County, Nebraska: Dawson is named for
- Dawson County, Texas: Dawson is named for
- Day County, South Dakota: Day is named for
- De Kalb County, Georgia: De Kalb is named for Baron Johann de Kalb
- De Kalb County, Indiana: De Kalb is named for Baron Johann de Kalb
- DeKalb County, Alabama: DeKalb is named for Baron Johann de Kalb
- DeKalb County, Illinois: DeKalb is named for
- DeKalb County, Missouri: DeKalb is named for Baron Johann de Kalb
- DeKalb County, Tennessee, is named for Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a German-born baron who assisted the Continentals during the American Revolutionary War.
- De Soto County, Mississippi: De Soto is named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto
- De Soto Parish, Louisiana: De Soto is named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.
- DeSoto County, Florida: DeSoto is named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto
- DeWitt County, Illinois: DeWitt is named for
- DeWitt County, Texas: DeWitt is named for
- De Baca County, New Mexico: De Baca is named for
- Deaf Smith County, Texas: Deaf Smith is named for
- Dearborn County, Indiana: Dearborn is named for U.S. Secretary of War Henry Dearborn.
- Decatur County, Georgia: Decatur is named for
- Decatur County, Indiana: Decatur is named for Stephen Decatur, a naval leader in the War of 1812.
- Decatur County, Iowa: Decatur is named for
- Decatur County, Kansas: Decatur is named for
- Decatur County, Tennessee, is named for U.S. naval officer Stephen Decatur (1779–1820).
- Deer Lodge County, Montana: Deer Lodge is named for
- Defiance County, Ohio: Defiance is named for the city of Defiance, Ohio, which was built on the site of Fort Defiance, built by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne in the late 18th century.
- Del Norte County, California: Del Norte is named for
- Delaware County, Indiana: Delaware is named for the Delaware Native American people.
- Delaware County, Iowa: Delaware is named for
- Delaware County, New York: Delaware is named for
- Delaware County, Ohio: Delaware is named for
- Delaware County, Oklahoma: Delaware is named for
- Delaware County, Pennsylvania: Delaware is named for
- Delta County, Colorado: Delta is named for the town of Delta, Colorado, which itself is named its location on the broad river delta formed by the Gunnison River and the Uncompahgre River.
- Delta County, Michigan: Delta is named for
- Delta County, Texas: Delta is named for
- Dent County, Missouri: Dent is named for
- Denton County, Texas: Denton is named for John B. Denton, a preacher, lawyer, and soldier.
- City and County of Denver, Colorado: Denver is named for James W. Denver, a former governor of the Kansas Territory which the place was part of at the time.
- Des Moines County, Iowa: Des Moines is named for
- Deschutes County, Oregon: Deschutes is named for
- Desha County, Arkansas: Desha is named for
- Deuel County, Nebraska: Deuel is named for
- Deuel County, South Dakota: Deuel is named for
- Dewey County, Oklahoma: Dewey is named for
- Dewey County, South Dakota: Dewey is named for
- Dickens County, Texas: Dickens is named for
- Dickenson County, Virginia: Dickenson is named for
- Dickey County, North Dakota: Dickey is named for
- Dickinson County, Iowa: Dickinson is named for
- Dickinson County, Kansas: Dickinson is named for
- Dickinson County, Michigan: Dickinson is named for
- Dickson County, Tennessee, is named for U.S. Representative William Dickson (1770–1816).
- Dillingham Census Area, Alaska: Dillingham is named for
- Dillon County, South Carolina: Dillon is named for
- Dimmit County, Texas: Dimmit is named for
- Dinwiddie County, Virginia: Dinwiddie is named for
- Divide County, North Dakota: Divide is named for
- Dixie County, Florida: Dixie is named for
- Dixon County, Nebraska: Dixon is named for
- Doddridge County, West Virginia: Doddridge is named for
- Dodge County, Georgia: Dodge is named for
- Dodge County, Minnesota: Dodge is named for
- Dodge County, Nebraska: Dodge is named for
- Dodge County, Wisconsin: Dodge is named for
- Dolores County, Colorado: Dolores is named for the Dolores River, itself originally named by Spanish explorers as El Río de Nuestra Señora de Delores ("The River of Our Lady of Sorrows")
- Doña Ana County, New Mexico: Doña Ana is named for
- Doniphan County, Kansas: Doniphan is named for
- Donley County, Texas: Donley is named for
- Dooly County, Georgia: Dooly is named for
- Door County, Wisconsin: Door is named for
- Dorchester County, Maryland: Dorchester is named for
- Dorchester County, South Carolina: Dorchester is named for
- Dougherty County, Georgia: Dougherty is named for
- Douglas County, Colorado: Douglas is named for United States Senator and Presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas, who died five months before the county's creation.
- Douglas County, Georgia: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Illinois: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Kansas: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Minnesota: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Missouri: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Nebraska: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Nevada: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Oregon: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, South Dakota: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Washington: Douglas is named for
- Douglas County, Wisconsin: Douglas is named for
- Drew County, Arkansas: Drew is named for
- Du Page County, Illinois
- Dubois County, Indiana: Dubois is named for Toussaint Dubois, who fought in the War of 1812.
- Dubuque County, Iowa
- Duchesne County, Utah
- Dukes County, Massachusetts: Originally part of New York, Dukes was named in honor of James, Duke of York in 1683, and was formed at the same time Kings, Queens, and Dutchess Counties in New York were established. (The City and Province of New York had already been named for James in 1664.)
- Dundy County, Nebraska
- Dunklin County, Missouri
- Dunn County, North Dakota
- Dunn County, Wisconsin
- Duplin County, North Carolina: British nobleman Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, then Earl of Kinnoull.
- Durham County, North Carolina
- Dutchess County, New York: Dutchess was named in honor of Mary of Modena, the Dutchess of York, in 1683.
- Duval County, Florida
- Duval County, Texas
- Dyer County, Tennessee, is named for Tennessee state legislator Robert Henry Dyer.
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- Eagle County, Colorado, is named for the Eagle River, which runs through the county.
- Early County, Georgia
- East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, is named for the largest city therein and the state capitol, Baton Rouge. The name Baton Rouge is French for "red stick". Records of D'Iberville describe large reddened poles erected by Indians with fish and bear heads attached in sacrifice. These may have designated boundaries at a point separating the hunting grounds of the Bayou Goula and the Houma Indian tribes.
- East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
- East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana: Feliciana is Spanish for "Happy Land" and the name is said to have its origin from "Felicite", the wife of Don Bernado de Galvez, the governor of Spanish Louisiana.
- Eastland County, Texas
- Eaton County, Michigan
- Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
- Echols County, Georgia
- Ector County, Texas
- Eddy County, New Mexico
- Eddy County, North Dakota
- Edgar County, Illinois
- Edgecombe County, North Carolina
- Edgefield County, South Carolina
- Edmonson County, Kentucky
- Edmunds County, South Dakota
- Edwards County, Illinois
- Edwards County, Kansas
- Edwards County, Texas
- Effingham County, Georgia
- Effingham County, Illinois
- El Paso County, Colorado: El Paso County is named for Ute Pass (known to early Spanish settlers as El Paso or "The Pass"), an important mountain pass through the Front Range.
- El Paso County, Texas
- Elbert County, Colorado: Elbert County is named for Samuel Hitt Elbert, the 6th Territorial Governor of Colorado.
- Elbert County, Georgia
- Elk County, Kansas
- Elk County, Pennsylvania
- Elkhart County, Indiana: Elkhart is named for the Elkhart Native American people.
- Elko County, Nevada
- Elliott County, Kentucky
- Ellis County, Kansas
- Ellis County, Oklahoma
- Ellis County, Texas
- Ellsworth County, Kansas
- Elmore County, Alabama
- Elmore County, Idaho
- Emanuel County, Georgia
- Emery County, Utah
- Emmet County, Iowa
- Emmet County, Michigan
- Emmons County, North Dakota
- City of Emporia, Virginia
- Erath County, Texas
- Erie County, New York
- Erie County, Ohio
- Erie County, Pennsylvania
- Escambia County, Alabama
- Escambia County, Florida
- Esmeralda County, Nevada
- Essex County, Massachusetts
- Essex County, New Jersey
- Essex County, New York
- Essex County, Vermont
- Essex County, Virginia
- Estill County, Kentucky
- Etowah County, Alabama
- Eureka County, Nevada
- Evangeline Parish, Louisiana
- Evans County, Georgia
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- Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
- City of Fairfax and Fairfax County, Virginia - Both are named for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the proprietor of the Northern Neck (which in colonial times included what is now Northern Virginia).
- Fairfield County, Connecticut: Named after the town of Fairfield, which was named after the salt marshes that bordered the coast.
- Fairfield County, Ohio: Named after the Fairfield area of the original Lancaster.
- Fairfield County, South Carolina
- Fall River County, South Dakota
- Fallon County, Montana
- Falls County, Texas
- City of Falls Church, Virginia - From The Falls Church, a historic church in the city. The church in turn was named because it was located on what had been the main road to the Great Falls of the Potomac River in colonial times.[1]
- Fannin County, Georgia
- Fannin County, Texas
- Faribault County, Minnesota
- Faulk County, South Dakota
- Faulkner County, Arkansas
- Fauquier County, Virginia
- Fayette County, Alabama - All Fayette Counties in the United States are named after Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (1757–1834), a French general who played a major role in the Revolutionary War.
- Fayette County, Georgia
- Fayette County, Illinois
- Fayette County, Indiana
- Fayette County, Iowa
- Fayette County, Kentucky
- Fayette County, Ohio
- Fayette County, Pennsylvania
- Fayette County, Tennessee
- Fayette County, Texas
- Fayette County, West Virginia
- Fentress County, Tennessee - Named for Tennessee state legislator James Fentress.
- Fergus County, Montana
- Ferry County, Washington
- Fillmore County, Minnesota
- Fillmore County, Nebraska
- Finney County, Kansas
- Fisher County, Texas
- Flagler County, Florida
- Flathead County, Montana
- Fleming County, Kentucky
- Florence County, South Carolina
- Florence County, Wisconsin
- Floyd County, Georgia
- Floyd County, Indiana - Named for either Col. John Floyd of Virginia or for either early settler Davis Floyd or early settler John Floyd.
- Floyd County, Iowa
- Floyd County, Kentucky
- Floyd County, Texas
- Floyd County, Virginia
- Fluvanna County, Virginia
- Foard County, Texas
- Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
- Ford County, Illinois
- Ford County, Kansas
- Forest County, Pennsylvania
- Forest County, Wisconsin
- Forrest County, Mississippi
- Forsyth County, Georgia
- Forsyth County, North Carolina
- Fort Bend County, Texas
- Foster County, North Dakota
- Fountain County, Indiana: Fountain is named for soldier James Fountain who was killed at the Battle of Maumee in 1790.
- City of Franklin, Virginia
- Franklin County, Alabama
- Franklin County, Arkansas
- Franklin County, Florida
- Franklin County, Georgia
- Franklin County, Idaho
- Franklin County, Illinois
- Franklin County, Indiana: Franklin is named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
- Franklin County, Iowa
- Franklin County, Kansas
- Franklin County, Kentucky
- Franklin County, Maine
- Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Franklin County, Mississippi
- Franklin County, Missouri
- Franklin County, Nebraska
- Franklin County, New York
- Franklin County, North Carolina
- Franklin County, Ohio
- Franklin County, Pennsylvania:Franklin is named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
- Franklin County, Tennessee, is named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790).
- Franklin County, Texas
- Franklin County, Vermont
- Franklin County, Virginia
- Franklin County, Washington
- Franklin Parish, Louisiana is named for Benjamin Franklin.
- Frederick County, Maryland
- Frederick County, Virginia
- City of Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Freeborn County, Minnesota
- Freestone County, Texas
- Fremont County, Colorado: Fremont County is named for explorer and Presidential candidate John C. Frémont.
- Fremont County, Idaho
- Fremont County, Iowa
- Fremont County, Wyoming
- Fresno County, California
- Frio County, Texas
- Frontier County, Nebraska
- Fulton County, Arkansas
- Fulton County, Georgia
- Fulton County, Illinois
- Fulton County, Indiana: Fulton is named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
- Fulton County, Kentucky
- Fulton County, New York
- Fulton County, Ohio
- Fulton County, Pennsylvania
- Furnas County, Nebraska
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- Gadsden County, Florida
- Gage County, Nebraska
- Gaines County, Texas
- City of Galax, Virginia
- Gallatin County, Illinois
- Gallatin County, Kentucky
- Gallatin County, Montana
- Gallia County, Ohio
- Galveston County, Texas
- Garden County, Nebraska
- Garfield County, Colorado: Garfield County is named for assassinated United States President James Garfield.
- Garfield County, Montana
- Garfield County, Nebraska
- Garfield County, Oklahoma
- Garfield County, Utah
- Garfield County, Washington
- Garland County, Arkansas
- Garrard County, Kentucky
- Garrett County, Maryland
- Garvin County, Oklahoma
- Garza County, Texas
- Gasconade County, Missouri
- Gaston County, North Carolina
- Gates County, North Carolina
- Geary County, Kansas
- Geauga County, Ohio
- Gem County, Idaho
- Genesee County, Michigan
- Genesee County, New York
- Geneva County, Alabama
- Gentry County, Missouri
- George County, Mississippi
- Georgetown County, South Carolina
- Gibson County, Indiana: Gibson is named for John Gibson, a secretary of the Indiana Territory.
- Gibson County, Tennessee, is named for John H. Gibson, a soldier of the Natchez Expedition and the Creek War.
- Gila County, Arizona
- Gilchrist County, Florida
- Giles County, Tennessee is named for U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia William B. Giles (1762–1830).
- Giles County, Virginia
- Gillespie County, Texas
- Gilliam County, Oregon
- Gilmer County, Georgia
- Gilmer County, West Virginia
- Gilpin County, Colorado: Gilpin County is named for William Gilpin, the first Territorial Governor of Colorado.
- Glacier County, Montana
- Glades County, Florida
- Gladwin County, Michigan
- Glascock County, Georgia
- Glasscock County, Texas
- Glenn County, California
- Glynn County, Georgia
- Gogebic County, Michigan
- Golden Valley County, Montana
- Golden Valley County, North Dakota
- Goliad County, Texas
- Gonzales County, Texas
- Goochland County, Virginia
- Goodhue County, Minnesota
- Gooding County, Idaho
- Gordon County, Georgia
- Goshen County, Wyoming
- Gosper County, Nebraska
- Gove County, Kansas
- Grady County, Georgia
- Grady County, Oklahoma
- Grafton County, New Hampshire
- Graham County, Arizona
- Graham County, Kansas
- Graham County, North Carolina
- Grainger County, Tennessee, is named for Mary Grainger Blount, wife of William Blount and "first lady" of the Southwest Territory, which later became Tennessee.
- Grand County, Colorado: Grand County is named for the Colorado River, which begins in the mountains of eastern Grand County. Before 1921, the river was known as the Grand River as it flowed through the state of Colorado.
- Grand County, Utah
- Grand Forks County, North Dakota
- Grand Isle County, Vermont
- Grand Traverse County, Michigan
- Granite County, Montana
- Grant County, Arkansas
- Grant County, Indiana: Grant is named for Captains Samuel and Moses Grant of Kentucky.
- Grant County, Kansas
- Grant County, Kentucky
- Grant County, Minnesota
- Grant County, Nebraska
- Grant County, New Mexico
- Grant County, North Dakota
- Grant County, Oklahoma
- Grant County, Oregon
- Grant County, South Dakota
- Grant County, Washington
- Grant County, West Virginia
- Grant County, Wisconsin
- Grant Parish, Louisiana bears the name of the general and president, Ulysses S. Grant.
- Granville County, North Carolina
- Gratiot County, Michigan
- Graves County, Kentucky
- Gray County, Kansas
- Gray County, Texas
- Grays Harbor County, Washington
- Grayson County, Kentucky
- Grayson County, Texas
- Grayson County, Virginia
- Greeley County, Kansas
- Greeley County, Nebraska
- Green County, Kentucky
- Green County, Wisconsin
- Green Lake County, Wisconsin
- Greenbrier County, West Virginia
- Greene County, Alabama
- Greene County, Arkansas
- Greene County, Georgia
- Greene County, Illinois
- Greene County, Indiana: Greene is named for Nathanael Greene, an officer of the American Revolutionary War.
- Greene County, Iowa
- Greene County, Mississippi
- Greene County, Missouri
- Greene County, New York
- Greene County, North Carolina
- Greene County, Ohio
- Greene County, Pennsylvania
- Greene County, Tennessee is named for American Revolutionary War leader Nathanael Greene (1742–1786).
- Greene County, Virginia
- Greenlee County, Arizona
- Greensville County, Virginia
- Greenup County, Kentucky
- Greenville County, South Carolina
- Greenwood County, Kansas
- Greenwood County, South Carolina
- Greer County, Oklahoma
- Gregg County, Texas
- Gregory County, South Dakota
- Grenada County, Mississippi
- Griggs County, North Dakota
- Grimes County, Texas
- Grundy County, Illinois
- Grundy County, Iowa
- Grundy County, Missouri
- Grundy County, Tennessee is named for U.S. Attorney General Felix Grundy (1777–1840).
- Guadalupe County, New Mexico
- Guadalupe County, Texas
- Guernsey County, Ohio
- Guilford County, North Carolina
- Gulf County, Florida
- Gunnison County, Colorado: Gunnison County is named for explorer John W. Gunnison, who surveyed the county during his ill-fated 1853 expedition.
- Guthrie County, Iowa
- Gwinnett County, Georgia
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- Haakon County, South Dakota
- Habersham County, Georgia
- Haines Borough, Alaska
- Hale County, Alabama
- Hale County, Texas
- Halifax County, North Carolina
- Halifax County, Virginia
- Hall County, Georgia
- Hall County, Nebraska
- Hall County, Texas
- Hamblen County, Tennessee is named for early settler Hezekiah Hamblen.
- Hamilton County, Florida
- Hamilton County, Illinois
- Hamilton County, Indiana: Hamilton is named for Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
- Hamilton County, Iowa
- Hamilton County, Kansas
- Hamilton County, Nebraska
- Hamilton County, New York, is named for Alexander Hamilton, although he himself was from New York City and served as an assemblyman in the New York Legislature from New York County.
- Hamilton County, Ohio
- Hamilton County, Tennessee, is named for Founding Father Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757–1804).
- Hamilton County, Texas
- Hamlin County, South Dakota
- Hampden County, Massachusetts
- Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Hampshire County, West Virginia
- City of Hampton, Virginia
- Hampton County, South Carolina
- Hancock County, Georgia
- Hancock County, Illinois
- Hancock County, Indiana: Hancock is named for president of the Continental Congress John Hancock.
- Hancock County, Iowa
- Hancock County, Kentucky
- Hancock County, Maine
- Hancock County, Mississippi
- Hancock County, Ohio
- Hancock County, Tennessee, is named for President of the Continental Congress John Hancock (1737–1793),
- Hancock County, West Virginia
- Hand County, South Dakota
- Hanover County, Virginia
- Hansford County, Texas
- Hanson County, South Dakota
- Haralson County, Georgia
- Hardee County, Florida
- Hardeman County, Tennessee, is named for Thomas Jones Hardeman, Creek War and War of 1812 soldier, later a member of the Republic of Texas legislature.
- Hardeman County, Texas
- Hardin County, Illinois
- Hardin County, Iowa
- Hardin County, Kentucky
- Hardin County, Ohio
- Hardin County, Tennessee, is named for Joseph Hardin, legislator of the Southwest Territory and State of Franklin.
- Hardin County, Texas
- Harding County, New Mexico
- Harding County, South Dakota
- Hardy County, West Virginia
- Harford County, Maryland
- Harlan County, Kentucky
- Harlan County, Nebraska
- Harmon County, Oklahoma
- Harnett County, North Carolina
- Harney County, Oregon
- Harper County, Kansas
- Harper County, Oklahoma
- Harris County, Georgia
- Harris County, Texas
- Harrison County, Indiana: Harrison is named for William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory and later U.S. President.
- Harrison County, Iowa
- Harrison County, Kentucky
- Harrison County, Mississippi
- Harrison County, Missouri
- Harrison County, Ohio
- Harrison County, Texas
- Harrison County, West Virginia
- City of Harrisonburg, Virginia - Named for its founder, 18th-century settler Thomas Harrison.
- Hart County, Georgia
- Hart County, Kentucky
- Hartford County, Connecticut: Hartford is named for the city of Hartford, the county seat and capital of Connecticut.
- Hartley County, Texas
- Harvey County, Kansas
- Haskell County, Kansas
- Haskell County, Oklahoma
- Haskell County, Texas
- Hawaii County, Hawaii
- Hawkins County, Tennessee, is named for [United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] Benjamin Hawkins (1754–1816).
- Hayes County, Nebraska
- Hays County, Texas
- Haywood County, North Carolina
- Haywood County, Tennessee, is named for Judge John Haywood (1762–1826), called "the father of Tennessee history."
- Heard County, Georgia
- Hemphill County, Texas
- Hempstead County, Arkansas
- Henderson County, Illinois
- Henderson County, Kentucky
- Henderson County, North Carolina
- Henderson County, Tennessee, is named for James Henderson, an officer of the War of 1812.
- Henderson County, Texas
- Hendricks County, Indiana: Hendricks is named for Governor of Indiana William Hendricks.
- Hendry County, Florida
- Hennepin County, Minnesota
- Henrico County, Virginia
- Henry County, Alabama
- Henry County, Georgia
- Henry County, Illinois
- Henry County, Indiana: Henry is named for Patriot Patrick Henry.
- Henry County, Iowa
- Henry County, Kentucky
- Henry County, Missouri
- Henry County, Ohio
- Henry County, Tennessee, is named for Revolutionary-era patriot Patrick Henry (1736–1799).
- Henry County, Virginia
- Herkimer County, New York
- Hernando County, Florida
- Hertford County, North Carolina
- Hettinger County, North Dakota
- Hickman County, Kentucky
- Hickman County, Tennessee, is named for Edwin Hickman, a longhunter killed by Native Americans near the present-day Centerville, Tennessee.
- Hickory County, Missouri
- Hidalgo County, New Mexico
- Hidalgo County, Texas
- Highland County, Ohio
- Highland County, Virginia
- Highlands County, Florida
- Hill County, Montana
- Hill County, Texas
- Hillsborough County, Florida
- Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
- Hillsdale County, Michigan
- Hinds County, Mississippi
- Hinsdale County, Colorado: Hinsdale County is named for George A. Hinsdale, a lawyer who was named Lieutenant Governor when Colorado first applied for statehood (1864-65). United States President Andrew Johnson rejected the application and Colorado did not become a state until 1876.
- Hitchcock County, Nebraska
- Hocking County, Ohio
- Hockley County, Texas
- Hodgeman County, Kansas
- Hoke County, North Carolina: Hoke County is named for a general of the Confederacy, Gen. Robert F. Hoke.[2]
- Holmes County, Florida
- Holmes County, Mississippi
- Holmes County, Ohio
- Holt County, Missouri
- Holt County, Nebraska
- Honolulu County, Hawaii
- Hood County, Texas
- Hood River County, Oregon
- Hooker County, Nebraska
- City of Hopewell, Virginia
- Hopkins County, Kentucky
- Hopkins County, Texas
- Horry County, South Carolina, named for Revolutionary War South Carolina militia Colonel Peter Horry.
- Hot Spring County, Arkansas
- Hot Springs County, Wyoming
- Houghton County, Michigan
- Houston County, Alabama
- Houston County, Georgia
- Houston County, Minnesota
- Houston County, Tennessee, is named for Sam Houston (1793–1863), Tennessee governor and congressman, president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. Senator from Texas, and Texas governor.
- Houston County, Texas
- Howard County, Arkansas
- Howard County, Indiana: Howard is named for T. A. Howard, a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
- Howard County, Iowa
- Howard County, Maryland
- Howard County, Missouri
- Howard County, Nebraska
- Howard County, Texas
- Howell County, Missouri
- Hubbard County, Minnesota
- Hudson County, New Jersey
- Hudspeth County, Texas
- Huerfano County, Colorado: Huerfano County is named for the Huerfano River, which itself is named for an isolated landmark known as Huerfano Bluff (Huerfano is Spanish for "Orphan")
- Hughes County, Oklahoma
- Hughes County, South Dakota
- Humboldt County, California
- Humboldt County, Iowa
- Humboldt County, Nevada
- Humphreys County, Mississippi
- Humphreys County, Tennessee, is named for U.S. Representative Parry Wayne Humphreys (1778–1839).
- Hunt County, Texas
- Hunterdon County, New Jersey
- Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
- Huntington County, Indiana: Huntington is named for president of the Continental Congress Samuel Huntington.
- Huron County, Michigan
- Huron County, Ohio
- Hutchinson County, South Dakota
- Hutchinson County, Texas
- Hyde County, North Carolina
- Hyde County, South Dakota
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- Iberia Parish, Louisiana
- Iberville Parish, Louisiana
- Ida County, Iowa
- Idaho County, Idaho
- Imperial County, California
- Independence County, Arkansas
- Indian River County, Florida
- Indiana County, Pennsylvania was named after early Pennsylvania explorer Everett Indiana.
- Ingham County, Michigan
- Inyo County, California
- Ionia County, Michigan
- Iosco County, Michigan
- Iowa County, Iowa
- Iowa County, Wisconsin
- Iredell County, North Carolina
- Irion County, Texas
- Iron County, Michigan
- Iron County, Missouri
- Iron County, Utah
- Iron County, Wisconsin
- Iroquois County, Illinois
- Irwin County, Georgia was named after Manfred Irwin, first warden of the Georgia Penal Colony.
- Isabella County, Michigan
- Isanti County, Minnesota
- Island County, Washington
- Isle of Wight County, Virginia
- Issaquena County, Mississippi
- Itasca County, Minnesota
- Itawamba County, Mississippi
- Izard County, Arkansas
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- Jack County, Texas
- Jackson County, Alabama : is named for General Samuel L. Jackson, who later became the fifth governor of Alabama.
- Jackson County, Arkansas
- Jackson County, Colorado: Jackson County is named for United States President Andrew Jackson.
- Jackson County, Florida
- Jackson County, Georgia
- Jackson County, Illinois: is named after Andrew Jackson who had just defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, and who later became U.S. President.
- Jackson County, Indiana: Jackson is named for United States President Andrew Jackson.
- Jackson County, Iowa
- Jackson County, Kansas
- Jackson County, Kentucky
- Jackson County, Michigan: Named for United States President Andrew Jackson.
- Jackson County, Minnesota
- Jackson County, Mississippi
- Jackson County, Missouri
- Jackson County, North Carolina
- Jackson County, Ohio
- Jackson County, Oklahoma
- Jackson County, Oregon
- Jackson County, South Dakota
- Jackson County, Tennessee
- Jackson County, Texas
- Jackson County, West Virginia
- Jackson County, Wisconsin
- Jackson Parish, Louisiana
- James City County, Virginia
- Jasper County, Georgia
- Jasper County, Illinois: is named after William Jasper.
- Jasper County, Indiana: Jasper is named for Sgt. William Jasper, a famous scout for the Continentals during the Revolutionary War.
- Jasper County, Iowa
- Jasper County, Mississippi
- Jasper County, Missouri
- Jasper County, South Carolina
- Jasper County, Texas
- Jay County, Indiana: Jay is named for U.S. Secretary of State John Jay.
- Jeff Davis County, Georgia - Both this county and its counterpart in Texas are named for Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederacy.
- Jeff Davis County, Texas
- Jefferson County, Alabama
- Jefferson County, Arkansas
- Jefferson County, Colorado: Jefferson County is named for the extralegal Jefferson Territory, of which it was a part of from 1859 to 1861.
- Jefferson County, Florida
- Jefferson County, Georgia
- Jefferson County, Idaho
- Jefferson County, Illinois: Jefferson is named for United States President Thomas Jefferson.
- Jefferson County, Indiana: Jefferson is named for United States President Thomas Jefferson.
- Jefferson County, Iowa
- Jefferson County, Kansas
- Jefferson County, Kentucky: Named for Thomas Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia at the time.
- Jefferson County, Mississippi
- Jefferson County, Missouri
- Jefferson County, Montana
- Jefferson County, Nebraska
- Jefferson County, New York
- Jefferson County, Ohio
- Jefferson County, Oklahoma
- Jefferson County, Oregon
- Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
- Jefferson County, Tennessee
- Jefferson County, Texas
- Jefferson County, Washington
- Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Jefferson County, Wisconsin
- Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
- Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi - Both this county and the Louisiana parish of the same name are also named for Jefferson Davis.
- Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana
- Jenkins County, Georgia
- Jennings County, Indiana: Jennings is named for Governor of Indiana Jonathan Jennings.
- Jerauld County, South Dakota
- Jerome County, Idaho
- Jersey County, Illinois: Jersey is named for the US state New Jersey.
- Jessamine County, Kentucky
- Jewell County, Kansas
- Jim Hogg County, Texas
- Jim Wells County, Texas
- Jo Daviess County, Illinois: Jo Daviess County is named after Joseph Hamilton Daviess, a soldier killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- Johnson County, Arkansas
- Johnson County, Georgia
- Johnson County, Illinois
- Johnson County, Indiana: Johnson is named for John Johnson, a judge of the Indiana Supreme Court.
- Johnson County, Iowa
- Johnson County, Kansas: Johnson is named for Thomas Johnson, a nineteenth-century Methodist missionary to the Shawnee tribe.
- Johnson County, Kentucky
- Johnson County, Missouri
- Johnson County, Nebraska
- Johnson County, Tennessee
- Johnson County, Texas
- Johnson County, Wyoming
- Johnston County, North Carolina
- Johnston County, Oklahoma
- Jones County, Georgia
- Jones County, Iowa
- Jones County, Mississippi
- Jones County, North Carolina
- Jones County, South Dakota
- Jones County, Texas: Jones County is named for Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas. Its county seat is Anson.
- Josephine County, Oregon
- Juab County, Utah
- Judith Basin County, Montana
- Juneau County, Wisconsin
- Juneau City and Borough, Alaska
- Juniata County, Pennsylvania
- Jupiter, Florida
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- Kalamazoo County, Michigan: Named for the river that runs through it, the Native American form of which was probably "Ke-Ken-a-ma-zoo," which means "boiling water."
- Kalawao County, Hawaii
- Kalkaska County, Michigan: Created by Henry Schoolcraft. Schoolcraft's family name formerly was Calcraft. The Ks may have been added to make the name appear more like a Native American word.
- Kanabec County, Minnesota
- Kanawha County, West Virginia
- Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
- Kane County, Illinois: Kane is named after U.S. senator Elias Kane.
- Kane County, Utah
- Kankakee County, Illinois: Kankakee County is named for the Kankakee River.
- Karnes County, Texas
- Kauai County, Hawaii - Named after its largest island, Kaua?i.
- Kaufman County, Texas
- Kay County, Oklahoma
- Kearney County, Nebraska
- Kearny County, Kansas
- Keith County, Nebraska
- Kemper County, Mississippi
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Kendall County, Illinois: Kendall County is named after Amos Kendall, who was the editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky newspaper, and went on to be an important advisor to President Andrew Jackson.
- Kendall County, Texas
- Kenedy County, Texas
- Kennebec County, Maine
- Kenosha County, Wisconsin
- Kent County, Delaware
- Kent County, Maryland
- Kent County, Michigan: Named for James Kent.
- Kent County, Rhode Island
- Kent County, Texas
- Kenton County, Kentucky - Named after frontiersman Simon Kenton.
- Keokuk County, Iowa
- Kern County, California
- Kerr County, Texas
- Kershaw County, South Carolina
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
- Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
- Keweenaw County, Michigan: Named after the Native American word "Kee-wi-wai-non-ing", which means "portage" or "place where portage is made."
- Keya Paha County, Nebraska
- Kidder County, North Dakota
- Kimball County, Nebraska
- Kimble County, Texas
- King County, Texas - Named for William Philip King, who died at the Alamo.
- King County, Washington - Named for William Rufus King, but was 'renamed' in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1986.
- King George County, Virginia
- King William County, Virginia
- King and Queen County, Virginia
- Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
- Kingman County, Kansas
- Kings County, California
- Kings County, New York: Named in honor of King Charles II of England.
- Kingsbury County, South Dakota
- Kinney County, Texas
- Kiowa County, Colorado: Kiowa County is named for the Kiowa Native American tribe.
- Kiowa County, Kansas
- Kiowa County, Oklahoma
- Kit Carson County, Colorado: Kit Carson County is named for explorer, trapper, and "Wild West" figure Kit Carson.
- Kitsap County, Washington
- Kittitas County, Washington
- Kittson County, Minnesota
- Klamath County, Oregon
- Kleberg County, Texas
- Klickitat County, Washington
- Knott County, Kentucky
- Knox County, Illinois: Knox is named after Revolutionary War General Henry Knox, who became the first United States Secretary of War.
- Knox County, Indiana: Knox is named for U.S. Secretary of War Henry Knox.
- Knox County, Kentucky
- Knox County, Maine
- Knox County, Missouri
- Knox County, Nebraska
- Knox County, Ohio
- Knox County, Tennessee
- Knox County, Texas
- Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
- Koochiching County, Minnesota
- Kootenai County, Idaho
- Kosciusko County, Indiana: Kosciusko is named for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish ally of the Americans during the Revolutionary War.
- Kossuth County, Iowa
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- La Crosse County, Wisconsin
- La Moure County, North Dakota
- La Paz County, Arizona
- La Plata County, Colorado: La Plata County is named for the La Plata Mountains, which were named by Spanish explorers Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez during their 1776 expedition through Colorado. (The mountains were named for their reputed silver ore; La Plata is Spanish for "silver").
- La Porte County, Indiana: LaPorte means the door or the port in the French language.
- LaSalle County, Illinois
- La Salle County, Texas
- La Salle Parish, Louisiana
- Labette County, Kansas
- Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota
- Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
- Laclede County, Missouri
- Lafayette County, Arkansas - All Lafayette Counties in the United States, as well as Lafayette Parish in Louisiana, are named for Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), a French general who played a major role in the Revolutionary War.
- Lafayette County, Florida
- Lafayette County, Mississippi
- Lafayette County, Missouri
- Lafayette County, Wisconsin
- Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
- Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
- Lagrange County, Indiana: Lagrange is named after the Marquis de la Fayette's home outside of Paris, France.
- Lake County, California
- Lake County, Colorado: Lake County is named for Twin Lakes, two lakes (now a reservoir) located just south of Leadville.
- Lake County, Florida: Named for the large number of lakes the county contains.
- Lake County, Illinois
- Lake County, Indiana: Lake is named for its location on Lake Michigan.
- Lake County, Michigan: Named for the several small lakes that are found in the county.
- Lake County, Minnesota
- Lake County, Montana
- Lake County, Ohio: Lake is named for its location on Lake Erie.
- Lake County, Oregon
- Lake County, South Dakota
- Lake County, Tennessee - From Reelfoot Lake, the county's most significant geographic feature along with the Mississippi River.
- Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
- Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota
- Lamar County, Alabama
- Lamar County, Georgia
- Lamar County, Mississippi
- Lamar County, Texas
- Lamb County, Texas
- Lamoille County, Vermont
- Lampasas County, Texas
- Lancaster County, Nebraska
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Lancaster County, South Carolina
- Lancaster County, Virginia
- Lander County, Nevada
- Lane County, Kansas
- Lane County, Oregon
- Langlade County, Wisconsin
- Lanier County, Georgia
- Lapeer County, Michigan: Named from the French "la pierre," meaning flint or flint stone.
- Laramie County, Wyoming
- Larimer County, Colorado: Larimer County is named for "General" William Larimer, Jr., the founder of Denver, Colorado.
- Larue County, Kentucky
- Las Animas County, Colorado: Las Animas County is named for the Purgatoire River, which was once known as the Río de las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio, Spanish for "River of Souls Lost in Purgatory."
- Lassen County, California
- Latah County, Idaho
- Latimer County, Oklahoma
- Lauderdale County, Alabama
- Lauderdale County, Mississippi
- Lauderdale County, Tennessee
- Laurel County, Kentucky - Named for the mountain laurel trees common in the area.
- Laurens County, Georgia
- Laurens County, South Carolina
- Lavaca County, Texas
- Lawrence County, Alabama
- Lawrence County, Arkansas
- Lawrence County, Illinois
- Lawrence County, Indiana: Lawrence is named for U.S. naval leader James Lawrence.
- Lawrence County, Kentucky
- Lawrence County, Mississippi
- Lawrence County, Missouri
- Lawrence County, Ohio
- Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
- Lawrence County, South Dakota
- Lawrence County, Tennessee
- Le Flore County, Oklahoma
- Le Sueur County, Minnesota
- Lea County, New Mexico
- Leake County, Mississippi
- Leavenworth County, Kansas
- Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
- Lee County, Alabama
- Lee County, Arkansas
- Lee County, Florida
- Lee County, Georgia
- Lee County, Illinois
- Lee County, Iowa
- Lee County, Kentucky
- Lee County, Mississippi
- Lee County, North Carolina
- Lee County, South Carolina
- Lee County, Texas
- Lee County, Virginia
- Leelanau County, Michigan: Created by Henry Schoolcraft, who gave the name "Leelinau" to some Native American women in his stories.
- Leflore County, Mississippi
- Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Lemhi County, Idaho
- Lenawee County, Michigan: Created from a Native American word meaning "man," either from the Delaware "leno or lenno" or the Shawnee "lenawai."
- Lenoir County, North Carolina
- Leon County, Florida
- Leon County, Texas
- Leslie County, Kentucky
- Letcher County, Kentucky
- Levy County, Florida
- Lewis County, Idaho
- Lewis County, Kentucky
- Lewis County, Missouri
- Lewis County, New York
- Lewis County, Tennessee
- Lewis County, Washington
- Lewis County, West Virginia
- Lewis and Clark County, Montana
- City of Lexington, Virginia
- Lexington County, South Carolina
- Liberty County, Florida
- Liberty County, Georgia
- Liberty County, Montana
- Liberty County, Texas
- Licking County, Ohio
- Limestone County, Alabama,
- Limestone County, Texas
- Lincoln County, Arkansas
- Lincoln County, Colorado: Lincoln County is named for United States President Abraham Lincoln.
- Lincoln County, Georgia
- Lincoln County, Idaho
- Lincoln County, Kansas
- Lincoln County, Kentucky
- Lincoln County, Maine
- Lincoln County, Minnesota
- Lincoln County, Mississippi
- Lincoln County, Missouri
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Lincoln County, Nebraska
- Lincoln County, Nevada
- Lincoln County, New Mexico
- Lincoln County, North Carolina
- Lincoln County, Oklahoma
- Lincoln County, Oregon
- Lincoln County, South Dakota
- Lincoln County, Tennessee
- Lincoln County, Washington
- Lincoln County, West Virginia
- Lincoln County, Wisconsin
- Lincoln County, Wyoming
- Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
- Linn County, Iowa
- Linn County, Kansas
- Linn County, Missouri
- Linn County, Oregon
- Lipscomb County, Texas
- Litchfield County, Connecticut
- Little River County, Arkansas
- Live Oak County, Texas
- Livingston County, Illinois
- Livingston County, Kentucky
- Livingston County, Michigan: Named for Edward Livingston.
- Livingston County, Missouri
- Livingston County, New York
- Livingston Parish, Louisiana
- Llano County, Texas
- Logan County, Arkansas
- Logan County, Colorado: Logan County is named for Civil War general and Vice-Presidential candidate John A. Logan, who died two months before the county's formation.
- Logan County, Illinois
- Logan County, Kansas
- Logan County, Kentucky
- Logan County, Nebraska
- Logan County, North Dakota
- Logan County, Ohio
- Logan County, Oklahoma
- Logan County, West Virginia
- Long County, Georgia
- Lonoke County, Arkansas
- Lorain County, Ohio: Lorain County was named after the province of Lorraine, France
- Los Alamos County, New Mexico
- Los Angeles County, California
- Loudon County, Tennessee
- Loudoun County, Virginia
- Louisa County, Iowa
- Louisa County, Virginia
- Loup County, Nebraska
- Love County, Oklahoma
- Loving County, Texas
- Lowndes County, Alabama
- Lowndes County, Georgia - William Lowndes
- Lowndes County, Mississippi
- Lubbock County, Texas
- Lucas County, Iowa
- Lucas County, Ohio
- Luce County, Michigan: Named for Cyrus G. Luce, former governor of Michigan.
- Lumpkin County, Georgia
- Luna County, New Mexico
- Lunenburg County, Virginia
- Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
- Lyman County, South Dakota
- City of Lynchburg, Virginia - Named for John Lynch, who founded the first European settlement at the site.
- Lynn County, Texas
- Lyon County, Iowa
- Lyon County, Kansas
- Lyon County, Kentucky
- Lyon County, Minnesota
- Lyon County, Nevada
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- Mackinac County, Michigan: Named from the French interpretation of a Native American word that meant "great turtle," the shape of nearby Mackinac Island from a distance.
- Macomb County, Michigan: Named for Alexander Macomb.
- Macon County, Alabama
- Macon County, Georgia
- Macon County, Illinois
- Macon County, Missouri
- Macon County, North Carolina
- Macon County, Tennessee
- Macoupin County, Illinois
- Madera County, California
- Madison County, Alabama: Madison is named for fourth U.S. President James Madison.
- Madison County, Arkansas
- Madison County, Florida
- Madison County, Georgia
- Madison County, Idaho
- Madison County, Illinois
- Madison County, Indiana: Madison is named for fourth U.S. President James Madison.
- Madison County, Iowa
- Madison County, Kentucky
- Madison County, Mississippi
- Madison County, Missouri
- Madison County, Montana
- Madison County, Nebraska
- Madison County, New York
- Madison County, North Carolina
- Madison County, Ohio
- Madison County, Tennessee
- Madison County, Texas
- Madison County, Virginia
- Madison Parish, Louisiana
- Magoffin County, Kentucky
- Mahaska County, Iowa
- Mahnomen County, Minnesota
- Mahoning County, Ohio
- Major County, Oklahoma
- Malheur County, Oregon
- City of Manassas, Virginia
- City of Manassas Park, Virginia
- Manatee County, Florida
- Manistee County, Michigan: Named for the river. Derived from a Native American word which means "river at whose mouth there are islands."
- Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
- Marathon County, Wisconsin
- Marengo County, Alabama
- Maricopa County, Arizona: Named after the Maricopa Native American people of the region. [1]
- Maries County, Missouri
- Marin County, California
- Marinette County, Wisconsin
- Marion County, Alabama - All Marion Counties in the United States are named either directly or indirectly for Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolutionary War.
- Marion County, Arkansas
- Marion County, Florida
- Marion County, Georgia
- Marion County, Illinois
- Marion County, Indiana
- Marion County, Iowa
- Marion County, Kansas - Named directly for Marion County, Ohio.
- Marion County, Kentucky
- Marion County, Mississippi
- Marion County, Missouri
- Marion County, Ohio
- Marion County, Oregon
- Marion County, South Carolina
- Marion County, Tennessee
- Marion County, Texas
- Marion County, West Virginia
- Mariposa County, California
- Marlboro County, South Carolina
- Marquette County, Michigan
- Marquette County, Wisconsin: Named for Jacques Marquette.
- Marshall County, Alabama
- Marshall County, Illinois
- Marshall County, Indiana: Marshall is named for U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall.
- Marshall County, Iowa
- Marshall County, Kansas
- Marshall County, Kentucky
- Marshall County, Minnesota
- Marshall County, Mississippi
- Marshall County, Oklahoma
- Marshall County, South Dakota
- Marshall County, Tennessee
- Marshall County, West Virginia
- Martin County, Florida - Named for John W. Martin, Governor of Florida from 1925 to 1929.
- Martin County, Indiana - Named for Maj. John T. Martin of Kentucky.
- Martin County, Kentucky - Named for John Preston Martin, a Kentucky politician and one-term Congressman.
- Martin County, Minnesota
- Martin County, North Carolina - Named for Josiah Martin, the last colonial governor of North Carolina.
- Martin County, Texas - Named for Wylie Martin, an early settler in the region.
- City of Martinsville, Virginia - Named for the city's founder Joseph Martin, a general in the Virginia militia during the Revolutionary War.
- Mason County, Illinois
- Mason County, Kentucky
- Mason County, Michigan: Named for Stevens T. Mason, former governor of Michigan.
- Mason County, Texas
- Mason County, Washington
- Mason County, West Virginia
- Massac County, Illinois
- Matagorda County, Texas
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
- Mathews County, Virginia
- Maui County, Hawaii - Named after Maui, the largest and most populous of the five islands that make up the county.
- Maury County, Tennessee
- Maverick County, Texas
- Mayes County, Oklahoma
- McClain County, Oklahoma
- McCone County, Montana
- McCook County, South Dakota
- McCormick County, South Carolina
- McCracken County, Kentucky
- McCreary County, Kentucky
- McCulloch County, Texas
- McCurtain County, Oklahoma
- McDonald County, Missouri
- McDonough County, Illinois
- McDowell County, North Carolina
- McDowell County, West Virginia
- McDuffie County, Georgia
- McHenry County, Illinois
- McHenry County, North Dakota
- McIntosh County, Georgia
- McIntosh County, North Dakota
- McIntosh County, Oklahoma
- McKean County, Pennsylvania
- McKenzie County, North Dakota
- McKinley County, New Mexico
- McLean County, Illinois
- McLean County, Kentucky
- McLean County, North Dakota
- McLennan County, Texas
- McLeod County, Minnesota
- McMinn County, Tennessee
- McMullen County, Texas
- McNairy County, Tennessee
- McPherson County, Kansas
- McPherson County, Nebraska
- McPherson County, South Dakota
- Meade County, Kansas
- Meade County, Kentucky
- Meade County, South Dakota
- Meagher County, Montana
- Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- Mecosta County, Michigan: Named for Potawatomi chief Mecosta.
- Medina County, Ohio
- Medina County, Texas
- Meeker County, Minnesota
- Meigs County, Ohio, is named for Return J. Meigs, Jr., the 4th Governor of Ohio and 8th Postmaster General.
- Meigs County, Tennessee, is named for Return J. Meigs, Sr., an officer in the Continental Army.
- Mellette County, South Dakota
- Menard County, Illinois
- Menard County, Texas
- Mendocino County, California
- Menifee County, Kentucky
- Menominee County, Michigan: Named for the Menominee, who lived in the vicinity. "Menominee" means "rice men" or "rice gatherers."
- Menominee County, Wisconsin
- Merced County, California
- Mercer County, Illinois
- Mercer County, Kentucky
- Mercer County, Missouri
- Mercer County, New Jersey is named for Hugh Mercer, an officer in the Continental Army killed in the Battle of Princeton
- Mercer County, North Dakota
- Mercer County, Ohio
- Mercer County, Pennsylvania
- Mercer County, West Virginia
- Meriwether County, Georgia
- Merrick County, Nebraska
- Merrimack County, New Hampshire
- Mesa County, Colorado: Mesa County is named for Grand Mesa, a large flat-topped geologic formation near Grand Junction.
- Metcalfe County, Kentucky
- Miami County, Indiana: Miami is named for the Miami Native American people.
- Miami County, Kansas
- Miami County, Ohio
- Miami-Dade County, Florida - An amalgamation of:
- Miami, named after the Miami River, which in turn is believed to be derived from the Mayaimi, a Native American tribe that lived in South Florida until the 18th century.
- Dade County, Florida, named after Major Francis L. Dade, a soldier killed in 1835 in the Second Seminole War.
- Middlesex County, Connecticut
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Middlesex County, New Jersey
- Middlesex County, Virginia
- Midland County, Michigan: Named "Midland" because it is located near the geographical center of the Lower Peninsula.
- Midland County, Texas
- Mifflin County, Pennsylvania: is named after the first governor of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin.
- Milam County, Texas
- Millard County, Utah
- Mille Lacs County, Minnesota Named for the French translation for a thousand lakes.
- Miller County, Arkansas
- Miller County, Georgia
- Miller County, Missouri
- Mills County, Iowa
- Mills County, Texas
- Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
- Miner County, South Dakota
- Mineral County, Colorado: Mineral County is named for the rich mineral ores found in the county, particularly the silver deposits located near the county seat of Creede.
- Mineral County, Montana
- Mineral County, Nevada
- Mineral County, West Virginia
- Mingo County, West Virginia
- Minidoka County, Idaho
- Minnehaha County, South Dakota
- Missaukee County, Michigan: Named for Ottawa chief Missaukee.
- Mississippi County, Arkansas
- Mississippi County, Missouri
- Missoula County, Montana
- Mitchell County, Georgia
- Mitchell County, Iowa
- Mitchell County, Kansas
- Mitchell County, North Carolina
- Mitchell County, Texas
- Mobile County, Alabama
- Modoc County, California
- Moffat County, Colorado: Moffat County is named for railroad tycoon and banker David Moffat, who died less than three weeks after the county was named in his honor.
- Mohave County, Arizona
- Moniteau County, Missouri
- Monmouth County, New Jersey
- Mono County, California
- Monona County, Iowa
- Monongalia County, West Virginia
- Monroe County, Alabama
- Monroe County, Arkansas
- Monroe County, Florida
- Monroe County, Georgia
- Monroe County, Illinois
- Monroe County, Indiana: Monroe is named for U.S. President James Monroe.
- Monroe County, Iowa
- Monroe County, Kentucky
- Monroe County, Michigan: Named for United States President James Monroe.
- Monroe County, Mississippi
- Monroe County, Missouri
- Monroe County, New York
- Monroe County, Ohio
- Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- Monroe County, Tennessee
- Monroe County, West Virginia
- Monroe County, Wisconsin
- Montague County, Texas
- Montcalm County, Michigan: Named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm.
- Monterey County, California
- Montezuma County, Colorado: Montezuma County is named for the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II; the county's world-famous Mesa Verde ruins were once thought to have been built by the Aztecs.
- Montgomery County, Alabama
- Montgomery County, Arkansas
- Montgomery County, Georgia
- Montgomery County, Illinois
- Montgomery County, Indiana: Montgomery is named for Richard Montgomery, an officer of the American Revolutionary War.
- Montgomery County, Iowa
- Montgomery County, Kansas
- Montgomery County, Kentucky
- Montgomery County, Maryland
- Montgomery County, Mississippi
- Montgomery County, Missouri
- Montgomery County, New York
- Montgomery County, North Carolina
- Montgomery County, Ohio
- Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: is believed to have been either named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada, or for the Welsh county of Montgomeryshire (which was named after one of William the Conqueror's main counselors, Roger de Montgomerie), as it was part of the Welsh Tract -- an area of Pennsylvania settled by Quakers from Wales
- Montgomery County, Tennessee
- Montgomery County, Texas
- Montgomery County, Virginia
- Montmorency County, Michigan
- Montour County, Pennsylvania
- Montrose County, Colorado: Montrose County is named for the town of Montrose, which itself is named after the novel A Legend of Montrose, by Sir Walter Scott.
- Moody County, South Dakota
- Moore County, North Carolina
- Moore County, Tennessee
- Moore County, Texas
- Mora County, New Mexico
- Morehouse Parish, Louisiana
- Morgan County, Alabama
- Morgan County, Colorado: Morgan County is named for the town of Fort Morgan (the county seat), which itself was named for United States Colonel Christopher A. Morgan, an aide to Civil War general John Pope.
- Morgan County, Georgia
- Morgan County, Illinois
- Morgan County, Indiana: Morgan is named for Daniel Morgan, an officer of the American Revolutionary War.
- Morgan County, Kentucky
- Morgan County, Missouri
- Morgan County, Ohio
- Morgan County, Tennessee
- Morgan County, Utah
- Morgan County, West Virginia
- Morrill County, Nebraska
- Morris County, Kansas
- Morris County, New Jersey
- Morris County, Texas
- Morrison County, Minnesota
- Morrow County, Ohio
- Morrow County, Oregon
- Morton County, Kansas
- Morton County, North Dakota
- Motley County, Texas
- Moultrie County, Illinois
- Mountrail County, North Dakota
- Mower County, Minnesota
- Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
- Multnomah County, Oregon
- Murray County, Georgia
- Murray County, Minnesota
- Murray County, Oklahoma
- Muscatine County, Iowa
- Muscogee County, Georgia
- Muskegon County, Michigan: Named for the river. Derived from the Ojibwa/Chippewa word "mashkig," which means "swamp" or "marsh."
- Muskingum County, Ohio
- Muskogee County, Oklahoma
- Musselshell County, Montana
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- Nacogdoches County, Texas
- Nance County, Nebraska
- Town and County of Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Napa County, California
- Nash County, North Carolina
- Nassau County, Florida
- Nassau County, New York: Named after an old name for Long Island, which was named Nassau after William of Nassau, Prince of Orange (who later became King William III of England.)
- Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
- Natrona County, Wyoming
- Navajo County, Arizona
- Navarro County, Texas
- Nelson County, Kentucky
- Nelson County, North Dakota
- Nelson County, Virginia
- Nemaha County, Kansas
- Nemaha County, Nebraska
- Neosho County, Kansas
- Neshoba County, Mississippi
- Ness County, Kansas
- Nevada County, Arkansas
- Nevada County, California
- New Castle County, Delaware
- New Hanover County, North Carolina
- New Haven County, Connecticut: New Haven is named after its largest city and county seat, New Haven.
- New Kent County, Virginia
- New London County, Connecticut: New London is named after the county seat, New London, which is obviously named for London.
- New Madrid County, Missouri
- New York County, New York: New York is named after James, Duke of York, who renamed New Amsterdam after himself shortly after the British takeover in 1664. The county name also refers to the fact that New York City was wholly contained in the county until it combined with other areas in the 1880s. New York County today is thus simply referred to as Manhattan, the island that forms almost all the area of the county.
- Newaygo County, Michigan: Derived from then name of a Chippewa chief who signed the Treaty of Saginaw or from a Native American word meaning "much water."
- Newberry County, South Carolina
- Newport County, Rhode Island
- City of Newport News, Virginia - Not known with any certainty. See the "Name" section of the city's article for possibilities.
- Newton County, Arkansas
- Newton County, Georgia
- Newton County, Indiana: Newton is named for Sgt. John Newton.
- Newton County, Mississippi
- Newton County, Missouri
- Newton County, Texas
- Nez Perce County, Idaho
- Niagara County, New York
- Nicholas County, Kentucky
- Nicholas County, West Virginia
- Nicollet County, Minnesota
- Niobrara County, Wyoming
- Noble County, Indiana: Noble is named for James Noble, the first U.S. Senator from Indiana.
- Noble County, Ohio
- Noble County, Oklahoma
- Nobles County, Minnesota
- Nodaway County, Missouri
- Nolan County, Texas
- Nome Census Area, Alaska
- City of Norfolk, Virginia
- Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- Norman County, Minnesota
- North Slope Borough, Alaska
- Northampton County, North Carolina
- Northampton County, Pennsylvania
- Northampton County, Virginia
- Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Northumberland County, Virginia
- Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
- City of Norton, Virginia
- Norton County, Kansas
- Nottoway County, Virginia
- Nowata County, Oklahoma
- Noxubee County, Mississippi
- Nuckolls County, Nebraska
- Nueces County, Texas
- Nye County, Nevada
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- O'Brien County, Iowa
- Oakland County, Michigan: Named for the numerous oak openings in the county.
- Obion County, Tennessee
- Ocean County, New Jersey: Location on the Atlantic Ocean [1]
- Oceana County, Michigan: Named "Oceana" because it borders Lake Michigan, the freshwater "ocean."
- Ochiltree County, Texas
- Oconee County, Georgia
- Oconee County, South Carolina
- Oconto County, Wisconsin
- Ogemaw County, Michigan: Named after Ogemaw-ki-keto, a prominent Saginaw Valley Indian chief who signed the Treaty of Saginaw. "Ogima" in Ottawa or Ojibwa means "chief" or "boss."
- Ogle County, Illinois
- Oglethorpe County, Georgia
- Ohio County, Indiana - All three Ohio Counties in the United States are named for the Ohio River. The Indiana and West Virginia counties border on the river, and the Kentucky county did as well until other counties were carved from it.
- Ohio County, Kentucky
- Ohio County, West Virginia
- Okaloosa County, Florida
- Okanogan County, Washington
- Okeechobee County, Florida: Okeechobee was named for the Lake Okeechobee, which was itself named for Hitchiti words oka (water) and chobi (big).
- Okfuskee County, Oklahoma
- Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
- Okmulgee County, Oklahoma
- Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
- Oldham County, Kentucky
- Oldham County, Texas
- Oliver County, North Dakota
- Olmsted County, Minnesota
- Oneida County, Idaho
- Oneida County, New York
- Oneida County, Wisconsin
- Onondaga County, New York
- Onslow County, North Carolina
- Ontario County, New York
- Ontonagon County, Michigan: Named for the river, called "Nantounagon" on a 1670 French map. The Ojibwa word "onagon" means "dish" or "bowl."
- Orange County, California: Orange is named for its main product at the time of its naming, oranges.
- Orange County, Florida: Orange is named for its main product at the time of its naming, oranges.
- Orange County, Indiana: Orange is named for Orange County, North Carolina.
- Orange County, New York
- Orange County, North Carolina
- Orange County, Texas
- Orange County, Vermont
- Orange County, Virginia
- Orangeburg County, South Carolina
- Oregon County, Missouri
- Orleans County, New York
- Orleans County, Vermont
- Orleans Parish, Louisiana
- Osage County, Kansas: Osage is named for the Osage River that runs through it.
- Osage County, Missouri
- Osage County, Oklahoma
- Osborne County, Kansas
- Osceola County, Florida
- Osceola County, Iowa
- Osceola County, Michigan: Named for the Seminole Indian chief Osceola.
- Oscoda County, Michigan: Believed to be a combination of two Ojibwa words, "ossin" (stone) and "muskoda" (prairie).
- Oswego County, New York
- Otero County, Colorado: Otero County is named for Miguel Antonio Otero, a prominent politician from the New Mexico Territory.
- Otero County, New Mexico: Otero County is named for Miguel Antonio Otero, a prominent politician from the New Mexico Territory.
- Otoe County, Nebraska
- Otsego County, Michigan: Derived from the Mohawk Iroquoian word that meant either "clear water" or "meeting place."
- Otsego County, New York
- Ottawa County, Kansas
- Ottawa County, Michigan: Named for the Ottawa tribe called "Ondatahouats," or "people of the forest."
- Ottawa County, Ohio
- Ottawa County, Oklahoma
- Otter Tail County, Minnesota
- Ouachita County, Arkansas
- Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
- Ouray County, Colorado: Ouray County is named for Chief Ouray, leader of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe and a noted statesman.
- Outagamie County, Wisconsin
- Overton County, Tennessee
- Owen County, Indiana: Owen is named for Abraham Owen, a colonel who died at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- Owen County, Kentucky
- Owsley County, Kentucky
- Owyhee County, Idaho
- Oxford County, Maine
- Ozark County, Missouri
- Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
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- Pacific County, Washington
- Page County, Iowa
- Page County, Virginia - John Page, a governor of Virginia
- Palm Beach County, Florida
- Palo Pinto County, Texas
- Pamlico County, North Carolina
- Panola County, Mississippi
- Panola County, Texas
- Park County, Colorado: Park County is named for South Park (Colorado basin), a large and fertile mountain valley.
- Park County, Montana
- Park County, Wyoming
- Parke County, Indiana: Parke is named for Benjamin Parke, a delegate of Indiana Territory to the U.S. Congress.
- Parker County, Texas
- Parmer County, Texas
- Pasco County, Florida
- Pasquotank County, North Carolina
- Passaic County, New Jersey from the Lenape word "Pahsayek" for valley [2]
- Patrick County, Virginia
- Paulding County, Georgia
- Paulding County, Ohio
- Pawnee County, Kansas: Pawnee County is named for the Pawnee Indian tribe who readily utilized the land as prime hunting grounds.
- Pawnee County, Nebraska
- Pawnee County, Oklahoma
- Payette County, Idaho
- Payne County, Oklahoma
- Peach County, Georgia
- Pearl River County, Mississippi
- Pecos County, Texas
- Pembina County, North Dakota
- Pemiscot County, Missouri
- Pend Oreille County, Washington
- Pender County, North Carolina
- Pendleton County, Kentucky
- Pendleton County, West Virginia
- Pennington County, Minnesota
- Pennington County, South Dakota
- Penobscot County, Maine
- Peoria County, Illinois
- Pepin County, Wisconsin
- Perkins County, Nebraska
- Perkins County, South Dakota
- Perquimans County, North Carolina
- Perry County, Alabama
- Perry County, Arkansas
- Perry County, Illinois
- Perry County, Indiana: Perry is named for U.S. naval officer Oliver Hazard Perry.
- Perry County, Kentucky
- Perry County, Mississippi
- Perry County, Missouri
- Perry County, Ohio
- Perry County, Pennsylvania: Formed in 1820, named for Oliver Hazard Perry, who passed away in 1819
- Perry County, Tennessee
- Pershing County, Nevada
- Person County, North Carolina
- City of Petersburg, Virginia - Named for 17th-century soldier Peter Jones, who commanded a fort near the city's current location and opened a trading post known as Peter's Point where the city was eventually founded.
- Petroleum County, Montana
- Pettis County, Missouri
- Phelps County, Missouri
- Phelps County, Nebraska
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - Named by the city's founder William Penn from the Greek F??ad??fe?a, meaning "brotherly love" (from philos, "love", and adelphos, "brother").
- Phillips County, Arkansas
- Phillips County, Colorado: Phillips County is named for R.O. Phillips, a company secretary for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
- Phillips County, Kansas: Phillips County is named for Williams Phillips, a free-state martyr who was killed September 1, 1856 in Leavenworth.
- Phillips County, Montana
- Piatt County, Illinois
- Pickaway County, Ohio
- Pickens County, Alabama
- Pickens County, Georgia
- Pickens County, South Carolina
- Pickett County, Tennessee
- Pierce County, Georgia
- Pierce County, Nebraska
- Pierce County, North Dakota
- Pierce County, Washington: Pierce is named for president Franklin Pierce.
- Pierce County, Wisconsin
- Pike County, Alabama - All Pike Counties in the United States are named for soldier and explorer Zebulon Pike.
- Pike County, Arkansas
- Pike County, Georgia
- Pike County, Illinois
- Pike County, Indiana
- Pike County, Kentucky
- Pike County, Mississippi
- Pike County, Missouri
- Pike County, Ohio
- Pike County, Pennsylvania
- Pima County, Arizona
- Pinal County, Arizona
- Pine County, Minnesota
- Pinellas County, Florida
- Pipestone County, Minnesota
- Piscataquis County, Maine
- Pitkin County, Colorado: Pitkin County is named for Frederick Walker Pitkin, who was Governor of Colorado at the time of the county's formation (1881).
- Pitt County, North Carolina
- Pittsburg County, Oklahoma
- Pittsylvania County, Virginia
- Piute County, Utah
- Placer County, California
- Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
- Platte County, Missouri
- Platte County, Nebraska,
- Platte County, Wyoming
- Pleasants County, West Virginia
- Plumas County, California
- Plymouth County, Iowa
- Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- Pocahontas County, Iowa
- Pocahontas County, West Virginia
- Poinsett County, Arkansas
- Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
- Polk County, Arkansas: Unless otherwise specified, all Polk Counties are named for James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States.
- Polk County, Florida
- Polk County, Georgia
- Polk County, Iowa
- Polk County, Minnesota
- Polk County, Missouri
- Polk County, Nebraska
- Polk County, North Carolina: For William Polk, a colonel in the American Revolution and a member of that state's House of Commons
- Polk County, Oregon
- Polk County, Tennessee
- Polk County, Texas
- Polk County, Wisconsin
- Pondera County, Montana
- Pontotoc County, Mississippi
- Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
- Pope County, Arkansas
- Pope County, Illinois
- Pope County, Minnesota
- City of Poquoson, Virginia
- Portage County, Ohio
- Portage County, Wisconsin
- Porter County, Indiana: Porter is named for David Porter, a notable Commodore for the Americans during the War of 1812.
- City of Portsmouth, Virginia
- Posey County, Indiana: Posey is named for Thomas Posey, a governor of Indiana Territory.
- Pottawatomie County, Kansas
- Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma
- Pottawattamie County, Iowa
- Potter County, Pennsylvania
- Potter County, South Dakota
- Potter County, Texas
- Powder River County, Montana
- Powell County, Kentucky
- Powell County, Montana
- Power County, Idaho: For the American Falls Power Plant
- Poweshiek County, Iowa
- Powhatan County, Virginia
- Prairie County, Arkansas
- Prairie County, Montana
- Pratt County, Kansas
- Preble County, Ohio
- Prentiss County, Mississippi
- Presidio County, Texas
- Presque Isle County, Michigan: Derived from a French phrase for "peninsula," literally "almost an island."
- Preston County, West Virginia
- Price County, Wisconsin
- Prince Edward County, Virginia
- Prince George County, Virginia
- Prince George's County, Maryland
- Prince William County, Virginia
- Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area, Alaska
- Providence County, Rhode Island
- Prowers County, Colorado: Prowers County is named for cattleman and legislator John Wesley Prowers.
- Pueblo County, Colorado: Pueblo County is named for El Pueblo, an adobe trading post located at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek.
- Pulaski County, Arkansas
- Pulaski County, Georgia
- Pulaski County, Illinois
- Pulaski County, Indiana: Pulaski is named for Kazimierz Pulaski, an ally of the Americans during the Revolutionary War.
- Pulaski County, Kentucky
- Pulaski County, Missouri
- Pulaski County, Virginia
- Pushmataha County, Oklahoma
- Putnam County, Florida
- Putnam County, Georgia
- Putnam County, Illinois
- Putnam County, Indiana: Putnam is named for American Revolutionary War general Israel Putnam.
- Putnam County, Missouri
- Putnam County, New York
- Putnam County, Ohio
- Putnam County, Tennessee
- Putnam County, West Virginia
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- Quay County, New Mexico
- Queen Anne's County, Maryland
- Queens County, New York: Named for the then-queen consort, Catherine of Braganza, the Catholic wife of Charles II.
- Quitman County, Georgia
- Quitman County, Mississippi
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- Rabun County, Georgia
- Racine County, Wisconsin
- City of Radford, Virginia
- Rains County, Texas
- Raleigh County, West Virginia
- Ralls County, Missouri
- Ramsey County, Minnesota
- Ramsey County, North Dakota
- Randall County, Texas
- Randolph County, Alabama
- Randolph County, Arkansas
- Randolph County, Georgia
- Randolph County, Illinois: Named for Edmund Randolph, first Attorney General of the United States.
- Randolph County, Indiana: Randolph is named for either Thomas Randolph or Randolph County, North Carolina.
- Randolph County, Missouri
- Randolph County, North Carolina
- Randolph County, West Virginia
- Rankin County, Mississippi
- Ransom County, North Dakota
- Rapides Parish, Louisiana
- Rappahannock County, Virginia
- Ravalli County, Montana
- Rawlins County, Kansas
- Ray County, Missouri
- Reagan County, Texas
- Real County, Texas
- Red Lake County, Minnesota
- Red River County, Texas
- Red River Parish, Louisiana
- Red Willow County, Nebraska
- Redwood County, Minnesota
- Reeves County, Texas
- Refugio County, Texas
- Reno County, Kansas
- Rensselaer County, New York
- Renville County, Minnesota
- Renville County, North Dakota
- Republic County, Kansas
- Reynolds County, Missouri
- Rhea County, Tennessee
- Rice County, Kansas
- Rice County, Minnesota
- Rich County, Utah
- Richardson County, Nebraska
- Richland County, Illinois
- Richland County, Montana
- Richland County, North Dakota
- Richland County, Ohio
- Richland County, South Carolina
- Richland County, Wisconsin
- Richland Parish, Louisiana
- City of Richmond, Virginia
- Richmond County, Georgia
- Richmond County, New York: Named after an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England.
- Richmond County, North Carolina
- Richmond County, Virginia
- Riley County, Kansas
- Ringgold County, Iowa
- Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- Rio Blanco County, Colorado: Rio Blanco County is named for the White River (known in Spanish as the Río Blanco), which runs through the county.
- Rio Grande County, Colorado: Rio Grande County is named for the Rio Grande River, which runs through the county.
- Ripley County, Indiana: Ripley is named for Eleazer W. Ripley, an officer of the War of 1812.
- Ripley County, Missouri
- Ritchie County, West Virginia
- Riverside County, California
- Roane County, Tennessee
- Roane County, West Virginia
- City of Roanoke and Roanoke County, Virginia - The county was named for the Roanoke River. The city, originally the town of Big Lick, was renamed for the county in 1882, two years before it became a city and legally separated from the county. The river in turn is believed to have been named after an Algonquian word for shells that were used as currency by Native American tribes in the region.
- Roberts County, South Dakota
- Roberts County, Texas
- Robertson County, Kentucky
- Robertson County, Tennessee
- Robertson County, Texas
- Robeson County, North Carolina
- Rock County, Minnesota
- Rock County, Nebraska
- Rock County, Wisconsin: after the Rock River [3]
- Rock Island County, Illinois
- Rockbridge County, Virginia
- Rockcastle County, Kentucky
- Rockdale County, Georgia
- Rockingham County, New Hampshire
- Rockingham County, North Carolina
- Rockingham County, Virginia
- Rockland County, New York
- Rockwall County, Texas
- Roger Mills County, Oklahoma
- Rogers County, Oklahoma
- Rolette County, North Dakota
- Rooks County, Kansas
- Roosevelt County, Montana
- Roosevelt County, New Mexico
- Roscommon County, Michigan: Named for County Roscommon, located in central Ireland.
- Roseau County, Minnesota
- Rosebud County, Montana
- Ross County, Ohio
- Routt County, Colorado: Routt County is named for John Long Routt, the last Territorial and first State Governor of Colorado.
- Rowan County, Kentucky
- Rowan County, North Carolina
- Runnels County, Texas
- Rush County, Indiana: Rush is named for Founding Father Benjamin Rush.
- Rush County, Kansas
- Rusk County, Texas
- Rusk County, Wisconsin
- Russell County, Alabama
- Russell County, Kansas
- Russell County, Kentucky
- Russell County, Virginia
- Rutherford County, North Carolina
- Rutherford County, Tennessee
- Rutland County, Vermont
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- Sabine County, Texas
- Sabine Parish, Louisiana
- Sac County, Iowa
- Sacramento County, California
- Sagadahoc County, Maine
- Saginaw County, Michigan
- Saguache County, Colorado: Saguache County was named for a Ute word, "Sa-gua-gua-chi-pa," which roughly translated to "Blue Earth" and referred to clear blue waters from springs in the county.
- City of Salem, Virginia
- Salem County, New Jersey
- Saline County, Arkansas
- Saline County, Illinois
- Saline County, Kansas
- Saline County, Missouri
- Saline County, Nebraska
- Salt Lake County, Utah - From Great Salt Lake, which forms the county's western border.
- Saluda County, South Carolina
- Sampson County, North Carolina
- San Augustine County, Texas
- San Benito County, California
- San Bernardino County, California
- San Diego County, California
- City and County of San Francisco, California - From Mission San Francisco de Asís, a Spanish mission located in what is now the city's Mission District and named for Francis of Assisi.
- San Jacinto County, Texas
- San Joaquin County, California
- San Juan County, Colorado: San Juan County is named for the San Juan River (Colorado River), known to early Spanish settlers as El Río de San Juan.
- San Juan County, New Mexico
- San Juan County, Utah
- San Juan County, Washington
- San Luis Obispo County, California
- San Mateo County, California
- San Miguel County, Colorado: San Miguel County is named for El Río de San Miguel, the San Miguel River, which runs through the county.
- San Miguel County, New Mexico
- San Patricio County, Texas
- San Saba County, Texas
- Sanborn County, South Dakota
- Sanders County, Montana
- Sandoval County, New Mexico
- Sandusky County, Ohio
- Sangamon County, Illinois
- Sanilac County, Michigan
- Sanpete County, Utah
- Santa Barbara County, California
- Santa Clara County, California is named after the Mission Santa Clara de Asís, itself named for Saint Clare of Assisi
- Santa Cruz County, Arizona
- Santa Cruz County, California
- Santa Fe County, New Mexico
- Santa Rosa County, Florida
- Sarasota County, Florida
- Saratoga County, New York
- Sargent County, North Dakota
- Sarpy County, Nebraska
- Sauk County, Wisconsin
- Saunders County, Nebraska
- Sawyer County, Wisconsin
- Schenectady County, New York
- Schleicher County, Texas
- Schley County, Georgia
- Schoharie County, New York
- Schoolcraft County, Michigan
- Schuyler County, Illinois
- Schuyler County, Missouri
- Schuyler County, New York
- Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
- Scioto County, Ohio
- Scotland County, Missouri
- Scotland County, North Carolina
- Scott County, Arkansas
- Scott County, Illinois
- Scott County, Indiana: Scott is named for Governor of Kentucky Charles Scott.
- Scott County, Iowa is named after General Winfield Scott[1] U.S. Army General during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, briefly, the American Civil War
- Scott County, Kansas
- Scott County, Kentucky
- Scott County, Minnesota
- Scott County, Mississippi
- Scott County, Missouri
- Scott County, Tennessee is named for U.S. army officer Winfield Scott (1786–1866).
- Scott County, Virginia
- Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
- Screven County, Georgia
- Scurry County, Texas
- Searcy County, Arkansas
- Sebastian County, Arkansas
- Sedgwick County, Colorado: Sedgwick County is named for Fort Sedgwick, an Army post itself named for Civil War general John Sedgwick, who was killed at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864.
- Sedgwick County, Kansas
- Seminole County, Florida
- Seminole County, Georgia
- Seminole County, Oklahoma
- Seneca County, New York
- Seneca County, Ohio
- Sequatchie County, Tennessee: Name is from a Cherokee word believed to mean, opossum, he grins or runs.
- Sequoyah County, Oklahoma
- Sevier County, Arkansas
- Sevier County, Tennessee is named for John Sevier (1745–1815), governor of the State of Franklin and first Governor of Tennessee.
- Sevier County, Utah
- Seward County, Kansas
- Seward County, Nebraska
- Shackelford County, Texas
- Shannon County, Missouri
- Shannon County, South Dakota
- Sharkey County, Mississippi
- Sharp County, Arkansas
- Shasta County, California
- Shawano County, Wisconsin
- Shawnee County, Kansas
- Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
- Shelby County, Alabama
- Shelby County, Illinois
- Shelby County, Indiana: Shelby is named for Governor of Kentucky Isaac Shelby.
- Shelby County, Iowa
- Shelby County, Kentucky
- Shelby County, Missouri
- Shelby County, Ohio
- Shelby County, Tennessee is named for Isaac Shelby (1750–1826), commander at Kings Mountain, first governor of Kentucky, and negotiator of the purchase of the western district (today's West Tennessee and the Purchase of Kentucky) from the Chickasaws.
- Shelby County, Texas
- Shenandoah County, Virginia
- Sherburne County, Minnesota
- Sheridan County, Kansas
- Sheridan County, Montana
- Sheridan County, Nebraska
- Sheridan County, North Dakota
- Sheridan County, Wyoming
- Sherman County, Kansas- named for Founding Father Roger Sherman of Connecticut.
- Sherman County, Nebraska-named for Roger Sherman
- Sherman County, Oregon-named for Roger Sherman
- Sherman County, Texas-named for Roger Sherman
- Shiawassee County, Michigan
- Shoshone County, Idaho
- Sibley County, Minnesota
- Sierra County, California
- Sierra County, New Mexico
- Silver Bow County, Montana
- Simpson County, Kentucky
- Simpson County, Mississippi
- Sioux County, Iowa
- Sioux County, Nebraska
- Sioux County, North Dakota
- Siskiyou County, California
- Sitka City and Borough, Alaska
- Skagit County, Washington
- Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska
- Skamania County, Washington
- Slope County, North Dakota
- Smith County, Kansas
- Smith County, Mississippi
- Smith County, Tennessee is named for Revolutionary War officer and U.S. Senator Daniel Smith (1748–1818).
- Smith County, Texas: Named for James Smith, a general during the Texas Revolution
- Smyth County, Virginia
- Snohomish County, Washington
- Snyder County, Pennsylvania
- Socorro County, New Mexico
- Solano County, California
- Somerset County, Maine
- Somerset County, Maryland
- Somerset County, New Jersey
- Somerset County, Pennsylvania
- Somervell County, Texas
- Sonoma County, California
- Southampton County, Virginia
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska
- Spalding County, Georgia
- Spartanburg County, South Carolina
- Spencer County, Indiana: Spencer is named for Spier Spencer, a soldier of the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- Spencer County, Kentucky
- Spink County, South Dakota
- Spokane County, Washington
- Spotsylvania County, Virginia
- St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
- St. Charles County, Missouri
- St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
- St. Clair County, Alabama
- St. Clair County, Illinois
- St. Clair County, Michigan
- St. Clair County, Missouri
- St. Croix County, Wisconsin
- St. Francis County, Arkansas
- St. Francois County, Missouri
- St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
- St. James Parish, Louisiana
- St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
- St. Johns County, Florida
- St. Joseph County, Indiana: St. Joseph is named for the St. Joseph River.
- St. Joseph County, Michigan
- St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
- St. Lawrence County, New York
- St. Louis, Missouri
- St. Louis County, Minnesota
- St. Louis County, Missouri
- St. Lucie County, Florida
- St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
- St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
- St. Mary's County, Maryland
- St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana - From Tamanend, a Lenni-Lenape chief in the Delaware Valley during the 17th century who made peace with William Penn. In the decades following the American Revolution, Tamanend became a folk saint among many in the newly independent United States.
- Stafford County, Kansas
- Stafford County, Virginia
- Stanislaus County, California
- Stanley County, South Dakota
- Stanly County, North Carolina
- Stanton County, Kansas
- Stanton County, Nebraska
- City of Staunton, Virginia - Named for Lady Rebecca Staunton, wife of Virginia colonial governor William Gooch.
- Stark County, Illinois
- Stark County, North Dakota
- Stark County, Ohio
- Starke County, Indiana: Starke is named for John Stark, an officer of the American Revolutionary War.
- Starr County, Texas
- Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri
- Stearns County, Minnesota
- Steele County, Minnesota
- Steele County, North Dakota
- Stephens County, Georgia
- Stephens County, Oklahoma
- Stephens County, Texas: Stephens Co. is named for Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America. The county was originally named Buchanan Co. after US President James Buchanan.
- Stephenson County, Illinois
- Sterling County, Texas
- Steuben County, Indiana: Steuben is named for Baron Frederick von Steuben, an officer of the American Revolutionary War.
- Steuben County, New York
- Stevens County, Kansas
- Stevens County, Minnesota
- Stevens County, Washington
- Stewart County, Georgia: Stewart is named for General Daniel Stewart
- Stewart County, Tennessee is named for Duncan Stewart, Tennessee state legislator and lieutenant governor of Mississippi Territory.
- Stillwater County, Montana
- Stoddard County, Missouri
- Stokes County, North Carolina
- Stone County, Arkansas
- Stone County, Mississippi
- Stone County, Missouri
- Stonewall County, Texas
- Storey County, Nevada
- Story County, Iowa: The county was named after Joseph Story, a preeminent United States Supreme Court Justice, in 1853.
- Strafford County, New Hampshire
- Stutsman County, North Dakota
- Sublette County, Wyoming
- City of Suffolk, Virginia
- Suffolk County, Massachusetts
- Suffolk County, New York: Named after his native Suffolk county of England by John Youngs, the founder of the first settlement.
- Sullivan County, Indiana: Sullivan is named for Daniel Sullivan, a soldier of the American Revolutionary War.
- Sullivan County, Missouri
- Sullivan County, New Hampshire
- Sullivan County, New York
- Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
- Sullivan County, Tennessee is named for John Sullivan (1740–1795), Governor of New Hampshire.
- Sully County, South Dakota
- Summers County, West Virginia
- Summit County, Colorado Summit County is named for the numerous mountain peaks which fill the region, including Grays Peak and Torreys Peak.
- Summit County, Ohio
- Summit County, Utah
- Sumner County, Kansas
- Sumner County, Tennessee is named for Jethro Sumner (1733–1785), an American colonist who defended North Carolina against the British in 1780.
- Sumter County, Alabama
- Sumter County, Florida
- Sumter County, Georgia
- Sumter County, South Carolina
- Sunflower County, Mississippi
- Surry County, North Carolina
- Surry County, Virginia
- Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
- Sussex County, Delaware
- Sussex County, New Jersey
- Sussex County, Virginia
- Sutter County, California
- Sutton County, Texas
- Suwannee County, Florida
- Swain County, North Carolina
- Sweet Grass County, Montana
- Sweetwater County, Wyoming
- Swift County, Minnesota
- Swisher County, Texas
- Switzerland County, Indiana: Switzerland is named for the home country of many of the early settlers, Switzerland.
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- Talbot County, Georgia
- Talbot County, Maryland
- Taliaferro County, Georgia
- Talladega County, Alabama
- Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
- Tallapoosa County, Alabama
- Tama County, Iowa
- Taney County, Missouri
- Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
- Taos County, New Mexico
- Tarrant County, Texas
- Tate County, Mississippi
- Tattnall County, Georgia
- Taylor County, Florida
- Taylor County, Georgia
- Taylor County, Iowa
- Taylor County, Kentucky
- Taylor County, Texas
- Taylor County, West Virginia
- Taylor County, Wisconsin
- Tazewell County, Illinois
- Tazewell County, Virginia
- Tehama County, California
- Telfair County, Georgia
- Teller County, Colorado: Teller County was named for Henry M. Teller, a United States Senator and the 15th United States Secretary of the Interior.
- Tensas Parish, Louisiana
- Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
- Terrell County, Georgia
- Terrell County, Texas
- Terry County, Texas
- Teton County, Idaho
- Teton County, Montana
- Teton County, Wyoming
- Texas County, Missouri
- Texas County, Oklahoma
- Thayer County, Nebraska
- Thomas County, Georgia
- Thomas County, Kansas,
- Thomas County, Nebraska
- Throckmorton County, Texas
- Thurston County, Nebraska
- Thurston County, Washington
- Tift County, Georgia
- Tillamook County, Oregon
- Tillman County, Oklahoma
- Tioga County, New York
- Tioga County, Pennsylvania
- Tippah County, Mississippi
- Tippecanoe County, Indiana: Tippecanoe is named for the Tippecanoe River and the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- Tipton County, Indiana: Tipton is named for John Tipton, a soldier of the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- Tipton County, Tennessee is named for Jacob Tipton, who was killed by Native Americans in a conflict over the Northwest Territory.
- Tishomingo County, Mississippi
- Titus County, Texas
- Todd County, Kentucky
- Todd County, Minnesota
- Todd County, South Dakota
- Tolland County, Connecticut: Tolland County is named for the town of Tolland, Connecticut, which itself is named after Tolland, Somerset.
- Tom Green County, Texas
- Tompkins County, New York
- Tooele County, Utah
- Toole County, Montana
- Toombs County, Georgia
- Torrance County, New Mexico
- Towner County, North Dakota
- Towns County, Georgia
- Traill County, North Dakota
- Transylvania County, North Carolina
- Traverse County, Minnesota
- Travis County, Texas
- Treasure County, Montana
- Trego County, Kansas
- Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
- Treutlen County, Georgia
- Trigg County, Kentucky
- Trimble County, Kentucky
- Trinity County, California
- Trinity County, Texas
- Tripp County, South Dakota
- Troup County, Georgia
- Trousdale County, Tennessee is named for William Trousdale (1790–1872), Creek and Mexican-American War soldier and officer, state senator and Governor of Tennessee.
- Trumbull County, Ohio
- Tucker County, West Virginia
- Tulare County, California
- Tulsa County, Oklahoma
- Tunica County, Mississippi
- Tuolumne County, California
- Turner County, Georgia
- Turner County, South Dakota
- Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
- Tuscarawas County, Ohio
- Tuscola County, Michigan
- Twiggs County, Georgia
- Twin Falls County, Idaho
- Tyler County, Texas
- Tyler County, West Virginia
- Tyrrell County, North Carolina
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- Uinta County, Wyoming
- Uintah County, Utah
- Ulster County, New York
- Umatilla County, Oregon
- Unicoi County, Tennessee: Name is a Native American word for the southern Appalachian Mountains, probably meaning white or fog-draped.
- Union County, Arkansas
- Union County, Florida,
- Union County, Georgia
- Union County, Illinois
- Union County, Indiana: Union is so named because it is the product of a union of parts of Fayette, Franklin and Wayne counties, as united into one county in 1821.
- Union County, Iowa
- Union County, Kentucky
- Union County, Mississippi
- Union County, New Jersey
- Union County, New Mexico
- Union County, North Carolina
- Union County, Ohio
- Union County, Oregon
- Union County, Pennsylvania
- Union County, South Carolina
- Union County, South Dakota
- Union County, Tennessee was named either for its creation from parts of five counties or to memorialize East Tennessee's support for preservation of the Union in the years before the Civil War.
- Union Parish, Louisiana
- Upshur County, Texas
- Upshur County, West Virginia
- Upson County, Georgia
- Upton County, Texas
- Utah County, Utah
- Uvalde County, Texas
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- Val Verde County, Texas
- Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska
- Valencia County, New Mexico
- Valley County, Idaho
- Valley County, Montana
- Valley County, Nebraska
- Van Buren County, Arkansas
- Van Buren County, Iowa
- Van Buren County, Michigan
- Van Buren County, Tennessee is named for U.S. President Martin Van Buren (1782–1862).
- Van Wert County, Ohio
- Van Zandt County, Texas
- Vance County, North Carolina
- Vanderburgh County, Indiana: Vanderburgh is named for Henry Vanderburgh, a judge for Indiana Territory.
- Venango County, Pennsylvania
- Ventura County, California
- Vermilion County, Illinois
- Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
- Vermillion County, Indiana: Vermillion is named for the Vermillion River.
- Vernon County, Missouri
- Vernon County, Wisconsin
- Vernon Parish, Louisiana
- Victoria County, Texas
- Vigo County, Indiana: Vigo is named for Francis Vigo, an Italian tradesman from St. Louis who assisted George Rogers Clark's campaigns during the American Revolutionary War.
- Vilas County, Wisconsin
- Vinton County, Ohio
- City of Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Volusia County, Florida
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- Wabash County, Illinois
- Wabash County, Indiana - Named for the Wabash River.
- Wabasha County, Minnesota
- Wabaunsee County, Kansas
- Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska
- Wadena County, Minnesota
- Wagoner County, Oklahoma
- Wahkiakum County, Washington
- Wake County, North Carolina
- Wakulla County, Florida
- Waldo County, Maine
- Walker County, Alabama
- Walker County, Georgia
- Walker County, Texas
- Walla Walla County, Washington
- Wallace County, Kansas
- Waller County, Texas
- Wallowa County, Oregon
- Walsh County, North Dakota
- Walthall County, Mississippi
- Walton County, Florida
- Walton County, Georgia
- Walworth County, South Dakota
- Walworth County, Wisconsin
- Wapello County, Iowa
- Ward County, North Dakota
- Ward County, Texas
- Ware County, Georgia
- Warren County, Georgia
- Warren County, Illinois
- Warren County, Indiana: Warren is named for Joseph Warren, an American Revolutionary War soldier.
- Warren County, Iowa
- Warren County, Kentucky
- Warren County, Mississippi
- Warren County, Missouri
- Warren County, New Jersey
- Warren County, New York
- Warren County, North Carolina
- Warren County, Ohio
- Warren County, Pennsylvania
- Warren County, Tennessee is named for American Revolutionary War officer Joseph Warren (1741–1775), who sent Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride.
- Warren County, Virginia
- Warrick County, Indiana: Warrick is named for Jacob Warrick, a notable soldier of the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- Wasatch County, Utah
- Wasco County, Oregon
- Waseca County, Minnesota
- Washakie County, Wyoming
- Washburn County, Wisconsin
- Washington County, Alabama
- Washington County, Arkansas
- Washington County, Colorado: Washington County is named for United States President George Washington.
- Washington County, Florida
- Washington County, Georgia
- Washington County, Idaho
- Washington County, Illinois
- Washington County, Indiana: Washington is named for United States President George Washington.
- Washington County, Iowa
- Washington County, Kansas
- Washington County, Kentucky
- Washington County, Maine
- Washington County, Maryland
- Washington County, Minnesota
- Washington County, Mississippi
- Washington County, Missouri
- Washington County, Nebraska
- Washington County, New York
- Washington County, North Carolina
- Washington County, Ohio
- Washington County, Oklahoma
- Washington County, Oregon
- Washington County, Pennsylvania
- Washington County, Rhode Island: Washington County is named for United States President George Washington.
- Washington County, Tennessee is named for U.S. President George Washington.
- Washington County, Texas
- Washington County, Utah
- Washington County, Vermont
- Washington County, Virginia
- Washington County, Wisconsin
- Washington Parish, Louisiana
- Washita County, Oklahoma
- Washoe County, Nevada
- Washtenaw County, Michigan
- Watauga County, North Carolina
- Watonwan County, Minnesota
- Waukesha County, Wisconsin
- Waupaca County, Wisconsin
- Waushara County, Wisconsin
- Wayne County, Georgia
- Wayne County, Illinois
- Wayne County, Indiana: Wayne is named for Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne.
- Wayne County, Iowa
- Wayne County, Kentucky
- Wayne County, Michigan
- Wayne County, Mississippi
- Wayne County, Missouri
- Wayne County, Nebraska
- Wayne County, New York
- Wayne County, North Carolina
- Wayne County, Ohio
- Wayne County, Pennsylvania
- Wayne County, Tennessee is named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne (1745–1796).
- Wayne County, Utah
- Wayne County, West Virginia
- City of Waynesboro, Virginia
- Weakley County, Tennessee is named for U.S. Representative Robert Weakley (1764–1845).
- Webb County, Texas
- Weber County, Utah
- Webster County, Georgia
- Webster County, Iowa
- Webster County, Kentucky
- Webster County, Mississippi
- Webster County, Missouri
- Webster County, Nebraska
- Webster County, West Virginia
- Webster Parish, Louisiana
- Weld County, Colorado: Weld County is named for Lewis Ledyard Weld, a nephew of noted abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld and the designer of the Seal of Colorado who died while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War.
- Wells County, Indiana: Wells is named for Captain William A. Wells, a scout for Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne.
- Wells County, North Dakota
- West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
- West Carroll Parish, Louisiana
- West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
- Westchester County, New York
- Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County, Virginia
- Weston County, Wyoming
- Wetzel County, West Virginia
- Wexford County, Michigan
- Wharton County, Texas
- Whatcom County, Washington
- Wheatland County, Montana
- Wheeler County, Georgia
- Wheeler County, Nebraska
- Wheeler County, Oregon
- Wheeler County, Texas
- White County, Arkansas: White is named for Hugh Lawson White, a Whig candidate for President of the United States.
- White County, Georgia
- White County, Illinois
- White County, Indiana: White is named for Isaac White, a soldier who was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe.
- White County, Tennessee is named for John White, Revolutionary War soldier and the first European-American settler in the county.
- White Pine County, Nevada
- Whiteside County, Illinois
- Whitfield County, Georgia
- Whitley County, Indiana: Whitley is named for Col. William Whitley, who was killed in the War of 1812.
- Whitley County, Kentucky
- Whitman County, Washington
- Wibaux County, Montana
- Wichita County, Kansas
- Wichita County, Texas
- Wicomico County, Maryland
- Wilbarger County, Texas
- Wilcox County, Alabama
- Wilcox County, Georgia
- Wilkes County, Georgia
- Wilkes County, North Carolina
- Wilkin County, Minnesota
- Wilkinson County, Georgia
- Wilkinson County, Mississippi
- Will County, Illinois
- Willacy County, Texas
- Williams County, North Dakota
- Williams County, Ohio
- City of Williamsburg, Virginia - Named for Dutch-born British king William of Orange.
- Williamsburg County, South Carolina
- Williamson County, Illinois
- Williamson County, Tennessee is named for U.S. Representative Hugh Williamson (1735–1819).
- Williamson County, Texas
- Wilson County, Kansas
- Wilson County, North Carolina
- Wilson County, Tennessee is named for David Wilson, a member of the legislatures of North Carolina and the Southwest Territory.
- Wilson County, Texas
- City of Winchester, Virginia - Named after the English city of Winchester, birthplace of Colonel James Wood, who laid out the community's original plan and served as the first court clerk of the county which today surrounds the city.
- Windham County, Connecticut: Windham County is named for the town of Windham, Connecticut, which itself is named after the village of Windham (now Wineham), Sussex.
- Windham County, Vermont
- Windsor County, Vermont
- Winkler County, Texas
- Winn Parish, Louisiana
- Winnebago County, Illinois
- Winnebago County, Iowa
- Winnebago County, Wisconsin
- Winneshiek County, Iowa
- Winona County, Minnesota
- Winston County, Alabama
- Winston County, Mississippi
- Wirt County, West Virginia
- Wise County, Texas
- Wise County, Virginia
- Wolfe County, Kentucky
- Wood County, Ohio
- Wood County, Texas
- Wood County, West Virginia
- Wood County, Wisconsin
- Woodbury County, Iowa
- Woodford County, Illinois
- Woodford County, Kentucky
- Woodruff County, Arkansas
- Woods County, Oklahoma
- Woodson County, Kansas
- Woodward County, Oklahoma
- Worcester County, Maryland
- Worcester County, Massachusetts
- Worth County, Georgia
- Worth County, Iowa
- Worth County, Missouri
- Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska
- Wright County, Iowa
- Wright County, Minnesota
- Wright County, Missouri
- Wyandot County, Ohio
- Wyandotte County, Kansas
- Wyoming County, New York
- Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
- Wyoming County, West Virginia
- Wythe County, Virginia
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- Yadkin County, North Carolina
- Yakima County, Washington
- Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
- Yalobusha County, Mississippi
- Yamhill County, Oregon
- Yancey County, North Carolina
- Yankton County, South Dakota
- Yates County, New York: Yates County is named in honor of Joseph C. Yates, who was as Governor of New York.
- Yavapai County, Arizona
- Yazoo County, Mississippi
- Yell County, Arkansas
- Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
- Yellowstone County, Montana
- Yoakum County, Texas
- Yolo County, California
- York County, Maine
- York County, Nebraska
- York County, Pennsylvania
- York County, South Carolina
- York County, Virginia
- Young County, Texas
- Yuba County, California
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
- Yuma County, Arizona
- Yuma County, Colorado: Yuma County is named for the town of Yuma, Colorado, which itself was supposedly named for a Quechan railroad worker (or a man named "Yuma") who died near the town while building a line for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
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- County name State Origin
- Zapata County Texas Named after Colonel Jose Antonio de Zapata, a rancher who rebelled against Mexico in 1839.[2]
- Zavala County Texas Named after Lorenzo de Zavala, Mexican politician and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.[3]
- Ziebach County South Dakota Named after local leader Frank M. Ziebach.
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List of U.S. state name etymologies
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State name Language of origin Word of origin Meaning and Notes
- Alabama Choctaw albah amo "Thicket-clearers"[1] or "plant-cutters", from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear". The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu.[2]
- Alaska Aleut alaxsxaq "Mainland" (literally "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed").[3]
- Arizona Basque aritz onak "Good oaks".[4][5]
- O'odham ali ?ona-g "Having a little spring".[6]
- Arkansas Kaw, via Illinois akaansa Borrowed from an Illinois rendering of the tribal name kka:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw.[6][7][8][9]
- California Spanish, Unknown Probably named for the fictional Island of California ruled by Queen Califia in the 16th century novel Las sergas de Esplandián by García Ordóñez de Montalvo.[10]
- See also: Origin of the name California
- Colorado Spanish "Red" or "reddish",[11] originally referring to the Colorado River.[12]
- Connecticut Eastern Algonquian quinnitukqut From some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river", after the Connecticut River.[13][14] The name reflects Proto-Eastern-Algonquian *kw?n-, "long"; *-?ht?kw, "tidal river"; and *-?nk, the locative suffix[15] (c.f. Ojibwe ginootigweyaad, "be a long river").[16]
- Delaware French via English de la Warr After the Delaware River, which was named for Lord de la Warr (originally de la Guerre, "of the war"), who travelled it in 1610.[17]
- Florida Spanish (pascua) florida "Flowery (Easter)"[18] (to distinguish it from Christmastide which was also called Pascua), in honor of its discovery by the Spanish during the Easter season.[19]
- Georgia Latin The feminine Latin form of "George", named after King George II of Great Britain.[20][21]
- Hawaii Hawaiian Hawai?i From Hawaiki, legendary homeland of the Polynesians.[22]
- Named for Hawai?iloa, legendary discoverer of the Hawaiian islands.[23]
- Idaho English Probably an invented word. Originally claimed to have been derived from a word in a Native American language that meant "Gem of the Mountains."[24]
- See also: Idaho#Origin of name
- Plains Apache ídaahe´ Possibly from the Plains Apache word for "enemy" (ídaahe´), which was used to refer to the Comanches.[25]
- Illinois Algonquian via French ilenweewa The state is named for the French adaptation of an Algonquian language (perhaps Miami) word apparently meaning "s/he speaks normally" (c.f. Miami ilenweewa,[26] Old Ottawa ,[27] Proto-Algonquian *elen-, "ordinary" and -we·, "to speak"),[28] referring to the Illiniwek (Illinois).[27]
- Indiana Latin "Land of the Indians".[29]
- Iowa Dakota via French ayúxba/ayuxwe By way of French Aiouez, and named after the Iowa tribe. The name seems to have no further known etymology,[30][31] though some give it the meaning "sleepy ones".[32]
- Kansas Kaw kka:ze Named after the Kansas River,[33][34] which in turn was named after the Kaw or Kansas tribe.[7] The name seems to be connected to the idea of "wind".[35]
- Kentucky Iroquoian Originally referring to the Kentucky River. While some sources say the etymology is uncertain,[36][37] most agree on a meaning of "(on) the meadow" or "(on) the prairie"[38][39] (c.f. Seneca gëdá’geh (phonemic /k?ta?keh/), "at the field").[40]
- Louisiana French Louisiane After King Louis XIV of France.[41]
- Maine English The more probable etymology is that the state's name refers to the mainland, as opposed to the coastal islands.[42]
- French After the French province of Maine.[43]
- Maryland English After Queen Henrietta Maria of England, wife of King Charles I.[44]
- Massachusetts Algonquian Plural of "Massachusett" meaning "Near the great little-mountain", or "at the great hill", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts[45] (c.f. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck[45]; Ojibwe misajiwens, "little big hill").[16]
- Michigan Ottawa mishigami "Large water" or "large lake".[16][46]
- Minnesota Dakota mnisota "Cloudy water", referring to the Minnesota River.[14][47]
- Mississippi Ojibwe misi-ziibi "Great river", after the Mississippi River.[16][48]
- Missouri Illinois mihsoori "Dugout canoe". The Missouri tribe was noteworthy among the Illinois for their dugout canoes, and so was referred to as the wimihsoorita, "one who has a wood boat [dugout canoe]".[49]
- Montana Spanish montaña "Mountain".[50]
- Nebraska Chiwere ñibraske "Flattened water", after the Platte River, which used to be known as the Nebraska River.[51]
- Nevada Spanish "Snow-covered",[52] after the Sierra Nevada ("snow-covered mountains").
- New Hampshire English After the county of Hampshire in England.[53]
- New Jersey English After the English Channel island of Jersey,[54], the name of which is thought to derive from the combination of a Norse personal name, (e.g. Geirr) and the Norse suffix -ey, meaning "island".[55]
- New Mexico Nahuatl via Spanish Mexihco via Nuevo México A calque of Spanish Nuevo México.[56] The name Mexico comes from Nahuatl Mexihco (pronounced [me?'?i?ko])[57][58], whose meaning is unknown, though many possibilities have been proposed (such as that the name comes from the name of the God Mextli,[59] or that it means "navel of the moon").[60]
- New York English After York, England, to honor the then Duke of York (later King James II of England).[61]
- North Carolina Latin After King Charles I of England.[62]
- North Dakota Sioux dakhóta "Ally" or "friend",[51] after the Dakota tribe.[63]
- Ohio Seneca via French ohi:yo’ "Large creek",[38] originally the name of both the Ohio River and Allegheny River.[64] Often incorrectly given as "beautiful river",[65] due to a French mistranslation.[26]
- Oklahoma Choctaw okla + homa Devised as a rough translation of "Indian Territory"; in Choctaw, okla means "people", "tribe", or "nation", and homa- means "red", thus: "Red people".[14][66]
- Oregon
- See also:
- Oregon (toponym) Connecticut Pidgin Algonquian wauregan "Beautiful".[67][68] First named by Major Robert Rogers in a petition to King George III.[69]
- French Ouaricon-sint A mistranscription of Ouisconsin, the name for the Wisconsin River.[70]
- Chinook Jargon ulâkân From the Cree pronunciation of the Chinook Jargon word.[71] A species of smelt, Thaleichthys pacificus, with great significance to inhabitants of the Northwest Coast and an enormous oil content.[72][73] Chinook Jargon probably got the fish's name from Clatsop u-tlalxw?(n), "brook trout".[74]
- Pennsylvania Latin "Penn's woods", after Admiral William Penn.[75]
- Rhode Island Dutch roodt eylandt "Red island", referring to Aquidneck Island.[76]
- Greek ???d?? For a resemblance to the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea.[76]
- South Carolina Latin After King Charles I of England.[77]
- South Dakota Sioux dakhóta "Ally" or "friend". See North Dakota, above.
- Tennessee Cherokee tanasi Tanasi was the name of a Cherokee village;[78] the meaning is unknown.[79]
- Texas Caddo via Spanish táysha? "Friend",[80] used by the Caddo to refer the larger Caddo nation (in opposition to enemy tribes). The name was borrowed into Spanish as texa, plural texas, and used to refer to the Caddo Nation.[81]
- Utah Western Apache yúdah "High"[82] (not, as is commonly stated,[83] "people of the mountains").[84] J. P. Harrington suggested the name was from the Ute self-designation [nut?i?] (plural [nu?t?iu]),[85][86] but this has been rejected.[87]
- Vermont French vert + mont "Green mountain"; vert in French means "green", and mont means "mountain".[88]
- Virginia Latin "Country of the Virgin", after Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the "Virgin Queen" because she never married.[89]
- Washington English After George Washington.[90]
- West Virginia Latin The western, transmontane, counties of Virginia; separated from Virginia during Civil War; see Virginia, above.
- Wisconsin Miami via French Originally spelled Mescousing by the French, and later corrupted to Ouisconsin.[91] Likely it derives from a Miami word for "it lies red"[91][92] (c.f. Ojibwe miskosin, "it lies red").[16] It may also come from the Ojibwe term miskwasiniing, "red-stone place".[16]
- Wyoming Munsee Delaware xwé:wam?nk "At the big river flat"; the name was transplanted westward from the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.[93]
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- Canadian provincial name etymologies
- Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
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