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This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name.
Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi.University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.; Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names : Their Origin and Meaning.
Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II). [1] [2] Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford).
The following is a set–index article, providing a list of lists, for the cities, towns and villages within the jurisdictional United States. It is divided, alphabetically, according to the state , territory , or district name in which they are located.
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This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country ...
Pages in category "Names of places in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following articles contain lists of cities in the United States of America: Lists of populated places in the United States - Lists of U.S. cities by state; List of United States cities by population; List of United States cities by area; List of United States cities by elevation; List of most populous cities in the United States by decade