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This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
Location of counties with the five most popular names. This is a list of U.S. county names that are used in two or more states. Ranked are the 428 most common county names, which are shared by counties in two or more states each, accounting for 1,730 of the 3,140 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.
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.
Union County, North Carolina: Named as a compromise between Whigs, who wanted to name the new county after Henry Clay, and Democrats, who wanted to name it after Andrew Jackson. [3] [4] Union County, Ohio: Named because it is a union of portions of Delaware, Franklin, Logan, and Madison counties. Union County, Oregon; Union County, Pennsylvania
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.
The following table lists the 3,244 counties and county equivalents of the United States with the following information for each entity: The entity name; The state or equivalent (federal district or territory) The population as of April 1, 2020 as enumerated by the United States Census Bureau. [10]
The name of the state in which the city lies [1] The city population as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau [1] The city population as of April 1, 2020, as enumerated by the 2020 United States census [1] The city percent population change from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023; The city land area as of January 1, 2020 [2]
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...