Several thousand place names in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France

New France

New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763...

 and French in the United States

French in the United States

The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States. According to year 2000 census figures, 1.6 million Americans over the age of five speak the language at home; making French the fourth most-spoken language in the country behind English, Spanish, and Chinese...

). Others were named after early Americans of French, especially Huguenot, ancestry (Marion

Francis Marion

Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven...

, Revere

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride...

, Fremont

John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...

, Lanier

Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.-Biography:Sidney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry. His distant French Huguenot ancestors immigrated to England in the 16th century...

, Sevier

John Sevier

John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as Governor of Tennessee. As a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death...

, Macon

Nathaniel Macon

Nathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...

, etc.). Some places received their names as a consequence of French colonial settlement (e.g. Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...

, Detroit, New Orleans, Saint Louis).

The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "town" 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; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks). In contrast, Spanish place names in the Southwest were generally not replaced by English names.

Alabama

• Barbour County
  Barbour County, Alabama
  Barbour County, Alabama is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of James Barbour, who served as Governor of Virginia. As of 2010 the population was 27,457. Its county seat is Clayton.-History:...
  
  
• Bay Minette
  Bay Minette, Alabama
  Bay Minette is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 7,820. According to the 2007 U.S. Census estimates, the city had an population of about 7,726 people. The city is the county seat of Baldwin County...
  
   ("Kitty Bay" or "Cute Bay")
• Bayou la Batre
  Bayou La Batre, Alabama
  Bayou La Batre is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area. At the 2000 census, the population was 2,313. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 2,725....
  
   ("Bayou of the Battery")
• Belle Fontaine
  Belle Fontaine, Alabama
  Belle Fontaine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mobile County, Alabama, on the western shore of Mobile Bay. It is located south of the city of Mobile, along the stretch of shore between Deer River and Fowl River...
  
   ("Beautiful Fountain")
• Belle Mina, Alabama
  Belle Mina, Alabama
  Belle Mina is an unincorporated community in southeastern Limestone County, Alabama, United States.-History:The community of Belle Mina was named for the plantation of the same name that belonged to Governor Thomas Bibb, the second governor of the state of Alabama. It was originally called "Belle...
  
  
• Bon Air
  Bon Air, Alabama
  Bon Air is a town in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 96.-Geography:Bon Air is located at .According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and 0.75% is water....
  
   ("Good Air")
• Bon Secour
  Bon Secour, Alabama
  Bon Secour is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It lies along the eastern coastline of Bon Secour Bay . Bon Secour is over due east of the Alabama–Mississippi state line, near Gulf Shores, and over west of Pensacola, Florida...
  
   ("Good Rescue")
• Centreville, Alabama
  Centreville, Alabama
  Centreville is a city in Bibb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 2,466. The city is the county seat of Bibb County.-Geography:According to the U.S...
  
   (note the "re" spelling of centre, as opposed to "er" as in center)
• Citronelle
  Citronelle, Alabama
  Citronelle is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 3,659. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area.-History:This was long part of the territory of thousands of years of indigenous peoples...
  
   (named after the citrus trees.)
• Daphne, Alabama
  Daphne, Alabama
  Daphne is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. The city is located along I-10, 11 miles east of Mobile and 150 miles southwest of the state capital of Montgomery. The United States Census 2000 lists the population of the city as 16,581 making...
  
  
• Dauphin Island
  Dauphin Island, Alabama
  Dauphin Island is a town in Mobile County, Alabama , on a barrier island also named Dauphin Island , at the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 1,371 at the 2000 census. The town is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area...
  
   (named after the Dauphin, French crown prince)
• DeArmanville, Alabama
• Delchamps, Alabama
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Alabama
  Fayette County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette , who aided General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. As of 2010 the population was 17,241...
  
  
• Gasque, Alabama
  Gasque, Alabama
  Gasque, Alabama is a community in unincorporated Baldwin County, Alabama. It is just east of Palmetto Beach, Alabama, on State Route 180 ....
  
  
• Grande Batture Islands (Alabama)
• Isle aux Dames (Alabama) (Island of the ladies)
• Isle aux Herbes (Alabama)
  Isle aux Herbes (Alabama)
  Isle aux Herbes, also known as Coffee Island, is a barrier island located in the Mississippi Sound south of downtown Bayou la Batre, Alabama. It is a , state-owned and tidally inundated island....
  
   (Island of grass)
• LaFayette, Alabama
• Lamar County
  Lamar County, Alabama
  Lamar County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, member of the United States Senate from Mississippi. As of 2010 the population was 14,564...
  
  
• Marion
  Marion, Alabama
  Marion is the county seat of Perry County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 3,511. First called Muckle Ridge, the city was renamed after a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion.-Geography:...
  
   (named after Francis Marion, patriot of the American Revolution and of Huguenot ancestry)
• Mobile
  Mobile, Alabama
  Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
  
   (French name for the indigenous Mauvilla tribe)
• Mon Louis, Alabama
  Mon Louis, Alabama
  Mon Louis is an unincorporated community on Mon Louis Island, in Mobile County, Alabama.-Geography:Mon Louis is located at and has an elevation of ....
  
  
• Montgomery
  Montgomery, Alabama
  Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...
  
   (named after general Richard Montgomery
  Richard Montgomery
  Richard Montgomery was an Irish-born soldier who first served in the British Army. He later became a brigadier-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and he is most famous for leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada.Montgomery was born and raised in Ireland...
  
  , descendant of the Scottish clan
  Clan Montgomery
  -Origins of the Clan:Clan Montgomery originated in Wales, and emigrated to Scotland in the 12th century as vassals of the FitzAlans. The family derives its surname from lands in Wales, likely from the Honour of Montgomery which was located near the Shropshire lands of the FitzAlans...
  
   founded by a Norman
  Normans
  The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...
  
   French family)

Alaska

• La Chaussée Spit at the entrance of Lituya Bay
  Lituya Bay
  Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the coast of the Southeast part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is long and wide at its widest point. The bay was noted in 1786 by Jean-François de La Pérouse, who named it Port des Français...
  
  . Named originally in charts prepared by French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse
  Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
  Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...
  
   in 1786. La Chaussée means "causeway".
• Mount La Pérouse (3231 m) and La Pérouse Glacier in the Fairweather Range
  Fairweather Range
  The Fairweather Range is the unofficial name for a mountain range located in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the southernmost range of the Saint Elias Mountains...
  
   of Alaska, both named after French explorer and naval captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
  Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
  Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...
  
  
• Gastineau Channel
  Gastineau Channel
  Gastineau Channel is a channel between the mainland of the U.S. state of Alaska and Douglas Island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska. It separates Juneau on the mainland side from Douglas , on Douglas Island. The first European to sight the channel was Joseph Whidbey early in...
  
   named after John Gastineau, an English Civil Engineer and Surveyor with a French surname
• Juneau
  Juneau, Alaska
  The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900...
  
   named after Joseph Juneau, French-Canadian prospector and gold miner

Arizona

• Clemenceau
  Clemenceau, Arizona
  Clemenceau is a neighborhood of the city of Cottonwood in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. It was built as a company town in 1917 to serve the new smelter for James Douglas, Jr.'s United Verde Extension mine in Jerome...
  
   (Named after the French prime minister during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  )
• Picket Wire (Corruption of the French Purgatoire, "Purgatory")
• Peridot
  Peridot, Arizona
  Peridot is a census-designated place in Gila and Graham counties in the U.S. state of Arizona. The population was 1,266 at the 2000 census.Peridot is named for the mineral peridot, found in basalt flows nearby.-Geography:...
  
  

Arkansas

• Arkansas
  Arkansas
  Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
  
    (named by French explorers from aboriginal word meaning "south wind")
• Antoine
  Antoine, Arkansas
  Antoine is a town in Pike County, Arkansas, United States, along the Antoine River. The population was 156 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Antoine is located at...
  
   ("Anthony")
• Aurelle
• Auvergne ("french region")
• Barraque
• Bayou
• Beauchamp (fair of beautiful field or plain)
• Beaudry
• Belleaire (from "belle aire", beautiful place)
• Belleville
  Belleville, Arkansas
  Belleville is a town in Yell County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 371 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Belleville is located at ....
  
    ("Beautiful City")
• Bellfonte (maybe from "belle fontaine", beautiful fountain)
• Boeuf ("Beef")
• Bois D'arc ("wood of ark "local wood traded by the Native Americans)
• Bonair (good air)
• Buie
• Burdette
  Burdette, Arkansas
  Burdette is a town in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 129 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Burdette has a total area of 1.7 km² , all land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Cache
• Cadron
• Calumet
• Calvin
  Calvin, Arkansas
  Calvin is a hamlet within Lawrence County, Arkansas.It is at the intersection of U.S. Route 67 and Lawrence Road 548 to the west and Lawrence Road 730....
  
   (Anglicized version of Cauvin, famous French Protestant)
• Champagnolle
• Chancel
• Chicot County
  Chicot County, Arkansas
  Chicot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2010, the population is 11,800. The county seat is Lake Village. Chicot County is Arkansas's tenth county, formed on October 25, 1823, and named after Point Chicot on the Mississippi River.Landmarks around the county include...
  
  
• Claude
• Cloquet
• Darcy
• De Roche (of the rock)
• Deberrie
• Delaplaine
  Delaplaine, Arkansas
  Delaplaine is a town in Greene County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 127 at the 2000 census.-History:Delaplaine was incorporated as a town in April 1912 but has a history that dates back to the time of the French explorations. Early settlers found remains of a French-Indian trading...
  
  
• Departee
• Devue
• Dumas
  Dumas, Arkansas
  Dumas is a city in Desha County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 4,706 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Dumas is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land....
  
   (franch surname)
• Ecore Fabre
• Fayetteville
  Fayetteville, Arkansas
  Fayetteville is the county seat of Washington County, and the third largest city in Arkansas. The city is centrally located within the county and is home to the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville is also deep in the Boston Mountains, a subset of The Ozarks...
  
   (named for French general, Marquis de La Fayette)
• Fontaine
• Fourche
  Fourche, Arkansas
  Fourche is a town in Perry County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 59 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Fourche is located at ....
  
  
• Fourche Lafave
• Fourche Valley
• Francure
• French
• Frenchman's Bayou
• Frenchport
• Gallatin
• Grand Glaise
• Gravette
  Gravette, Arkansas
  Gravette is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 2,325 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers, AR-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
  
• La Fave
• La Grue (the crane)
• La Grue Springs
• Lacrosee
• Ladelle
• Lafayette County
• LaGrange
  LaGrange, Arkansas
  LaGrange is a town in Lee County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 122 at the 2000 census.-Geography:LaGrange is located at ....
  
  
• Lamartine (french author Alphonse de Lamartine, also a surname)
• L'Anguille
• Lapile
• Larue
  Larue, Arkansas
  Larue is an unincorporated community in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. It is the location of Coal Gap School, which is located on Co. Rd. 920 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-References:...
  
   (the street)
• Latour (the tower)
• Lave Creek
• Levesque (the bishop)
• Little Rock
  Little Rock, Arkansas
  Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...
  
   (A translation of La Petite Roche)
• Macon (french city "Mâcon")
• Marais Saline (saline marsh)
• Marche
  Marche, Arkansas
  Marche is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States. It lies north of Little Rock. It is not a census-designated place.-History:...
  
  
• Marie Saline
• Maumee
• Maumelle
  Maumelle, Arkansas
  Maumelle is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States and a suburb of Little Rock. Founded by Jess Odom with federal assistance from the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act, it is a master-planned community....
  
  
• Monette
  Monette, Arkansas
  Monette is a city in Craighead County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,247 at the 2009 census. It is included in the Jonesboro, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Monette is located at ....
  
  
• Mont Sandels
• Montreal (royal mount)
• Ozark
  Ozark, Arkansas
  Ozark is a city in Franklin County, Arkansas, United States, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,525 at the 2000 census, making Ozark the ninth largest municipality in the metro area...
  
   (phonetic rendering of either aux Arks, "of the Ark(ansas)" or aux Arcs, "of the arches", or possibly aux arcs-en-ciel, "of the rainbows")
• Ozark Mountains as per immediately above
• Paris
  Paris, Arkansas
  Paris is a city in Logan County, Arkansas, United States, and serves as the county seat for the northern district of Logan County; its southern district counterpart is Booneville. The population was 3,707 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
  
• Paroquet
• Partain
• Petit Jean  ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River)
• Prairie County
• Rendezvous
• Sans Souci (literally without concern)
• Segur (french city)
• Sevier County
• Smackover
  Smackover, Arkansas
  Smackover is a city in Union County, Arkansas. According to the 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city stands at 1,929.The name Smackover comes from an anglicization of the French "Sumac Couvert" which translates to "covered in sumac"...
  
   (Anglicization of Sumac Couvert, "covered in sumac
  Sumac
  Sumac is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. Sumacs grow in subtropical and temperate regions throughout the world, especially in Africa and North America....
  
  ")
• Soudan
• Terre Noire  (black earth)
• Terre Rouge  (redland or red earth)
• Tollette
  Tollette, Arkansas
  Tollette is a town in Howard County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 324 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Tollette is located at ....
  
  
• Tully
• Urbanette
• Vallier (french surname)
• Vaucluse (french region)
• Vaugine
• Vidette
• Villemont (ville = city, mont = mount)

California

• Artois
  Artois, California
  Artois is a census-designated place in Glenn County, California. It is located north of Willows, at an elevation of 167 feet , in the northern Sacramento Valley of California. It is located on the former US Highway 99W, and is bypassed to the west by Interstate Highway 5...
  
   (named after Artois
  Artois
  Artois is a former province of northern France. Its territory has an area of around 4000 km² and a population of about one million. Its principal cities are Arras , Saint-Omer, Lens and Béthune.-Location:...
  
  , France)
• Beaumont
  Beaumont, California
  Beaumont is a city in Riverside County, California, United States in the Greater Los Angeles area.Now a growing, community planned city, the population was 36,877 at the 2010 census, and expected to be up to 125,000 projected by 2040, making Beaumont as California's next, newest fastest-growing...
  
   ("Beautiful mount" or named after Beaumont)
• Bel Air ("Beautiful Air")
• Belmont
  Belmont, California
  Belmont is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area, located half-way down the San Francisco Peninsula between San Mateo and San Carlos. It was originally part of the Rancho de las Pulgas, for which one of its main roads, the Alameda de las Pulgas,...
  
   ("Beautiful mount")
• Bonnefoy
  Bonnefoy, California
  Bonnefoy is an unincorporated community in Amador County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1276 feet ....
  
   ("Good Faith")
• Butte County
  Butte County, California
  Butte County is a county located in the Central Valley of the US state of California, north of the state capital of Sacramento. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 220,000. The county seat is Oroville. Butte County is the "Land of Natural Wealth and Beauty."Butte County is watered by the...
  
  
• Cassel
  Cassel, California
  Cassel is a census-designated place in Shasta County, California. Cassel sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Cassel's population was 207. The ZIP Code is 96016...
  
   (a town in France)
• Delano
  Delano, California
  Delano's climate is characteristic of the San Joaquin Valley. The weather is hot and dry during the summer and cool and damp in winter. Frequent ground fog known regionally as "tule fog" can obscure vision. Record temperatures range between 115°F and 14°F...
  
   (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
• Disneyland (after Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
  
  , a descendant of the Norman
  Normans
  The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...
  
   family d'Isigny (Isigny
  Isigny-sur-Mer
  Isigny-sur-Mer is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.-Geography:Positioned at the bottom of the baie des Veys, Isigny is an important milk production area, known for its AOC butter and cream, as well as its cheeses made by the Isigny Sainte...
  
  , Normandie, France))
• Fremont
  Fremont, California
  Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...
  
   (named for John C. Frémont
  John C. Frémont
  John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...
  
  , American soldier, explorer and politician of French ancestry)
• French Camp
  French Camp, California
  French Camp is a census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States. The population was 3,376 at the 2010 census, down from 4,109 at the 2000 census. San Joaquin General Hospital is located in French Camp....
  
  
• French Corral
• French Gulch
  French Gulch, California
  French Gulch is a census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States. The population was 346 at the 2010 census, up from 254 at the 2000 census.-Geography:French Gulch is located at ....
  
  
• French Hill
  French Hill, California
  French Hill is an unincorporated community in Del Norte County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1863 feet ....
  
  
• Frenchtown
• Guerneville
  Guerneville, California
  Guerneville is a town in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, California, USA. A popular vacation destination for couples and families as well as corporate retreats and family and friend reunions, Guerneville is well-known for its natural beauty, laid-back attitude, friendly population, good...
  
  
• Lafayette
  Lafayette, California
  Lafayette is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 23,893. It was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero of the American Revolutionary War...
  
   (named for the French general Marquis de La Fayette)
• La Grange
  La Grange, California
  La Grange is a small unincorporated community in rural Stanislaus County, California, United States. Its altitude is 249 feet. As of 2008 it has a population of 345. , and it is located at .-History:...
  
   ("The Barn")
• La Grange Reservoir
• La Porte
  La Porte, California
  La Porte is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 26 at the 2010 census, down from 43 at the 2000 census.-Geography:La Porte is located at ....
  
   ("The door")
• Lebec
  Lebec, California
  Lebec is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Kern County, California. It is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass, and the home of the Tejon Ranch Company. Lebec is south of Bakersfield. The population was 1,468 in the 2010 census, up from 1,224 in...
  
   (Le bec = "the beak")
• Montague
  Montague, California
  Montague is a city in Siskiyou County, California, United States. The population was 1,443 at the 2010 census, down from 1,456 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Montague is located at ....
  
   (pointed hill)
• Montclair
  Montclair, California
  Montclair is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 36,664 at the 2010 United States Census.The current mayor is Paul M. Eaton.-Description:...
  
   ("Clear Mountain")
• Orange
  Orange, California
  Southern California is well-known for year-round pleasant weather: - On average, the warmest month is August. - The highest recorded temperature was in 1985. - On average, the coolest month is December. - The lowest recorded temperature was in 1950...
  
  
• Orange County
  Orange County, California
  Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...
  
  
• Orleans
  Orleans, California
  Orleans , Karuk name Panamnik, is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located northeast of Weitchpec, at an elevation of 404 feet...
  
  
• Rubidoux
  Rubidoux, California
  Rubidoux was a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Riverside County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 34,280, up from 29,180 at the 2000 census. Like much of the fast-growing Inland Empire Metropolitan Area, Rubidoux is rapidly changing...
  
  
• San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi
  Francis of Assisi
  Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...
  
  , who had received that name because his mother was French or as a tribute to France)

Colorado

• Ault
  Ault, Colorado
  The Town of Ault is a Statutory Town located in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,432 at the U.S. Census 2000.-Geography:Ault is located at , at the intersection of U.S...
  
  
• Berthoud Pass
  Berthoud Pass
  Berthoud Pass is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.The pass is located west of Denver, and provides a high route between upper Clear Creek Canyon to the upper valley of the Fraser River in Middle Park to the north...
  
   and town of Berthoud
  Berthoud, Colorado
  Berthoud is a Statutory Town in Larimer and Weld counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. Berthoud is situated north of the Little Thompson River, approximately halfway between the cities of Fort Collins, Colorado and Denver, Colorado along the Front Range Urban Corridor...
  
  
• Bethune
  Bethune, Colorado
  Bethune is a Statutory Town in Kit Carson County, Colorado, United States. The population was 225 at the 2000 census.It has access with Interstate 70 and U.S...
  
   (Maybe from Maximilien de Béthune, also a place)
• Bijou Creek (Bijou from bijou meaning "jewel")
• Cache La Poudre River
  Cache La Poudre River
  The Cache la Poudre River is in the state of Colorado in the United States.Its headwaters are in the Front Range in Larimer County, in the northern part of Rocky Mountain National Park. The river descends eastward in the mountains through the Roosevelt National Forest in Poudre Canyon...
  
   ("hide the powder" or "powder cache")
• De Beque
  De Beque, Colorado
  De Beque is a Statutory Town in Mesa County, Colorado, United States. It is part of the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 504 at the 2010 census. The town consists of a small grid, including a historic downtown featuring a town hall, a tavern, and several commercial...
  
  
• Fremont County
  Fremont County, Colorado
  Fremont County is the thirteenth most populous of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States. The county is named for explorer and presidential candidate John C. Frémont. The county population was 46,824 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Cañon City. The Cañon City...
  
  
• Grand County
  Grand County, Colorado
  Grand County is the 21st largest of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States. The county population was 12,442 at U.S. Census 2000...
  
  
• Lafayette
  Lafayette, Colorado
  The City of Lafayette is a Home Rule Municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 23,884 on 2005-07-01.- Geography :Lafayette is located at ....
  
  
• Laporte
  Laporte, Colorado
  Laporte is a census-designated place in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,691 at the 2000 census...
  
   (from la porte, "the door")
• La Salle
  La Salle, Colorado
  La Salle is a Statutory Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,849 at the 2000 census.-Geography:La Salle is located at ....
  
  
• Louisville
  Louisville, Colorado
  Louisville is a Home Rule Municipality in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The population was 18,937 at the 2000 census. Louisville began as a rough mining community in 1877, suffered through a period of extraordinary labor violence early in the 20th century, and then, when the mines...
  
  
• Parachute Creek
  Parachute Creek
  Parachute Creek is a tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado....
  
  
• North
  North Platte River
  The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately long counting its many curves, It travels about distance. Its course lies in the U.S...
  
   and South Platte River
  South Platte River
  The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River and itself a major river of the American Midwest and the American Southwest/Mountain West, located in the U.S. states of Colorado and Nebraska...
  
  s
• Platteville
  Platteville, Colorado
  Platteville is a Statutory Town in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,370 at the 2000 census. It is adjacent to Fort Vasquez on U.S. Route 85.-Geography:Platteville is located at ....
  
  
• Purgatoire River
  Purgatoire River
  The Purgatoire River is a river in southeastern Colorado, United States. The river is also known locally as the Purgatory River or the Picketwire River...
  
  
• St. Vrain Creek
  St. Vrain Creek
  St. Vrain Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately long, in north central Colorado in the United States. It drains part of the foothills north of Boulder and the Colorado Piedmont area in the vicinity of Longmont.The creek is formed by the confluence of North and South St....
  
  

Connecticut

• Ballouville
• Montville
  Montville, Connecticut
  Montville is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 18,546 at the 2000 census and 19,571 at the 2010 census....
  
  
• Orange
  Orange, Connecticut
  Orange is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,233 at the 2000 census. A 2007 Census Bureau estimate puts the population at 13,813. The town is governed by a Board of Selectmen.-History:...
  
   (french city)
• Pomfret Landing
• Versailles
• Versailles Pond in New London County
  New London County, Connecticut
  New London County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of 2010 the population was 274,055. The total area of the county is , including inland and coastal waters....
  
  

Delaware

• Delaware
  Delaware
  Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...
  
   named after Lord de la Warre
  Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
  Thomas West, 3rd and 12th Baron De La Warr was the Englishman after whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, an American Indian people and U.S. state, all later called "Delaware", were named....
  
   (Anglo-Norman surname originally de la Guerre meaning; "of the war")
• Bellefonte
  Bellefonte, Delaware
  Bellefonte is a town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the town is 1,193.-Geography:...
  
   (beautiful fountain)
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Delaware
  Bellevue is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.- References :...
  
  

Florida

• Belandville (failed "colony" in northern Santa Rosa County
  Santa Rosa County, Florida
  Santa Rosa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the population was 117,743, while a July 1, 2005, estimate placed the population at 143,105, an 18% increase making it the 84th fastest growing county in the United States between 2000 and 2005. ...
  
  , approximately one mile south of its border with Escambia County, Alabama
  Escambia County, Alabama
  -2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*62.1% White*31.9% Black*4.4% Native American*0.2% Asian*0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*1.5% Two or more races*1.9% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...
  
  )
• Brevard County
  Brevard County, Florida
  Brevard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2007 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the population is 536,521, making it the 10th most populous county in the state. Influenced by the presence of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Brevard...
  
  
• Collier County
  Collier County, Florida
  Collier County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 251,377. The U.S. Census Bureau 2007 estimate for the county is 315,839...
  
  
• Duval County
  Duval County, Florida
  Duval County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2010, the population was 864,263. Its county seat is Jacksonville, with which the Duval County government has been consolidated since 1968...
  
   (named for William Pope DuVal
  William Pope Duval
  William Pope Duval was the first civilian governor of Florida Territory, serving from April 17, 1822 until April 24, 1834.-Early life:...
  
  )
• La Belle ("The Beauty", "The Beautiful" or "Beautiful Woman")
• Lafayette County
  Lafayette County, Florida
  Lafayette County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of 2000, the population was 7,022. It is the second least populated county in the state, having one more resident, according to the 2000 census, than Liberty County, Florida. The U.S. Census Bureau 2005 estimate for the county is...
  
  
• Marion County
  Marion County, Florida
  Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. The U.S. Census Bureau 2006 estimate for the county is 316,183. Its county seat is Ocala....
  
  
• Orange County
  Orange County, Florida
  Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida and is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 1,145,956....
  
  
• Ribault River
  Ribault River
  Ribault River is a tributary of the Trout River. It is located entirely in Jacksonville, Florida. The river is named after Jean Ribault, a French naval officer. The river's headwaters are near Old Kings Road at an elevation of above sea level. The river cuts through the forest floor near its...
  
   (named for Jean Ribault
  Jean Ribault
  Jean Ribault was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States. He was a major figure in the French attempts to colonize Florida...
  
   leader of the Huguenot colony Fort Caroline
  Fort Caroline
  Fort Caroline was the first French colony in the present-day United States. Established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, on June 22, 1564, under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière, it was intended as a refuge for the Huguenots. It lasted one year before being obliterated by the...
  
   in early Florida whose inhabitants were massacred by the Spanish)

Georgia

• Berrien County
  Berrien County, Georgia
  Berrien County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population is 16,235. The 2007 Census Estimate placed the population at 16,722. The county seat is Nashville....
  
  
• Fannin County
  Fannin County, Georgia
  Fannin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was created on January 21, 1854. As of 2000, the population was 19,798. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 22,580...
  
  
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Georgia
  Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 91,263. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 106,144. The county seat is Fayetteville....
  
  
• LaGrange
  LaGrange, Georgia
  LaGrange is a city in Troup County, Georgia, United States. It is named after the country estate near Paris of the Marquis de La Fayette, who visited the area in 1825. The population was 24,998 at the 2000 census...
  
   ("The Barn", named for the French Estate of Marquis de Lafayette)
• Lanier County
• Macon
  Macon, Georgia
  Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...
  
  
• Valdosta
  Valdosta, Georgia
  Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. It is the principal city of the Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 54,518. The Valdosta metropolitan area, according to the 2010 estimate, has a population of 139,588...
  
   (named after the French-speaking region of Val d'Aoste in the Italian Alps
  Alps
  The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
  
  )

Hawai'i

• Fort DeRussy
  Fort DeRussy Military Reservation
  Fort DeRussy is a United States military reservation in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii, under the jurisdiction of the United States Army. Unfenced and largely open to public traffic, the installation consists mainly of landscaped greenspace. The former Battery Randolph now houses the U.S...
  
   (named for General René Edward De Russy
  René Edward De Russy
  René Edward De Russy was an engineer, military educator, and career United States Army officer who was responsible for erecting many Eastern United States coastal fortifications...
  
   and his brother Lewis, soldiers of Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   ancestry)
• French Frigate Shoals
  French Frigate Shoals
  The French Frigate Shoals is the largest atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Its name commemorates French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse, who nearly lost two frigates when attempting to navigate the shoals...
  
  
• La Pérouse Bay
  La Perouse Bay
  La Perouse Bay is located south of the town of Wailea-Makena, Hawaii at the end of Makena Alanui Road at . The bay's Hawaiian name is Keoneoio....
  
   named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
  Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
  Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania.-Early career:...
  
  , first European to visit the island of Maui
• La Pérouse Pinnacle located in the French Frigate Shoals
  French Frigate Shoals
  The French Frigate Shoals is the largest atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Its name commemorates French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse, who nearly lost two frigates when attempting to navigate the shoals...
  
  , Hawai'i

Idaho

• Arbon
  Arbon, Idaho
  Arbon is an unincorporated community in Power County, Idaho, United States. Arbon is northwest of Malad City. Arbon has a post office with ZIP code 83212....
  
  
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Idaho
  Bellevue is a city in Blaine County in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho. The population was 1,876 at the 2000 census. It is located in the Wood River Valley, about 18 miles south of the resort area of Ketchum and Sun Valley. The town of Hailey and the airport are a few miles north of...
  
   ("Beautiful View")
• Blanchard
  Blanchard, Idaho
  Blanchard is an unincorporated census-designated place in Bonner County, Idaho, United States. Blanchard is located on Idaho State Highway 41 northwest of Spirit Lake. Blanchard has a post office with ZIP code 83804. As of the 2010 census, its population was 261....
  
   (french surname)
• Boise
  Boise, Idaho
  Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, as well as the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River, it anchors the Boise City-Nampa metropolitan area and is the largest city between Salt Lake City, Utah and Portland, Oregon.As of the 2010 Census Bureau,...
  
   (from boisé, "Wooded")
• Bonneville County
  Bonneville County, Idaho
  Bonneville County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 104,234. Its county seat and largest city is Idaho Falls...
  
   (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper and explorer)
• Bovard
• Bruneau
  Bruneau, Idaho
  Bruneau is an unincorporated community in Owyhee County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. Located at , the community sits at an altitude of 2549 feet ....
  
   (french surname)
• Butte
  Butte County, Idaho
  Butte County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. It was established in 1917, and its county seat and largest city is Arco. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 2,891...
  
   ("Hill")
• Cache
• Coeur d'Alene
  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
  Coeur d'Alene is the largest city and county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coeur d'Alene has the second largest metropolitan area in the state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census the population of Coeur...
  
   ("Heart of the Awl")
• Culdesac
  Culdesac, Idaho
  Culdesac is a town in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States. The population was 380 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lewiston, ID-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   ("Dead End")
• Dubois
  Dubois, Idaho
  Dubois is a city in Clark County, Idaho, United States. The population was 647 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Clark County.The city was named for U.S. Senator Fred Dubois....
  
    ("of the wood")
• Fremont County
  Fremont County, Idaho
  Fremont County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. The county was established in 1893, and was named for the explorer John C. Frémont. As of the 2000 census the county had a population of 11,819 . The county seat and largest city is St. Anthony...
  
  
• Grandjean
• Grangeville
  Grangeville, Idaho
  Grangeville is the largest city in and the county seat of Idaho County, Idaho, United States, in the west central part of the state. It had a population of 3,141 at the 2010 census.- Culture :...
  
    ("barn city")
• Jacques
• Labelle
• Laclede
  Laclede, Idaho
  Laclede is an unincorporated community in Bonner County, Idaho, United States. Laclede is located on U.S. Route 2 east of Priest River. Laclede has a post office with ZIP code 83841....
  
  
• La Fleur ("the Flower")
• Malad City
  Malad City, Idaho
  For the Mumbai, India Suburb, see Malad .Malad City is the only city in and the county seat of Oneida County, Idaho, United States. Its population was 2,158 at the 2000 census....
  
   (from malade, French for "sick")
• Michaud (french surname, from Michel(Mickael))
• Montour
• Montpelier
  Montpelier, Idaho
  Montpelier is a city in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,785 at the 2000 census. The city is the largest community in the Bear Lake Valley, a farming region north of Bear Lake in southeastern Idaho along the Utah border...
  
  
• Nez Perce County
  Nez Perce County, Idaho
  Nez Perce County [Eng. pron. Nezz Purse] is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. The population was 39,265 at the 2010 Census. The county seat is Lewiston. The county is named for the Nez Percé tribe....
  
   (from the Nez Perce Tribe's name "nez percé" meaning "pierced nose")
• Paris
  Paris, Idaho
  Paris is a rural city located on the western side of the Bear Lake Valley in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States. Its population was 576 at the 2000 census. The county seat of Bear Lake County, it was settled on September 26, 1863 by pioneer settlers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
  
  
• Payette
  Payette, Idaho
  Payette is a city in and the county seat of Payette County, Idaho, United States. The population was 7,054 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ontario, OR–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area....
  
   (named after François Payette
  Francois Payette
  Francois Payette was a fur trader. Born near Montreal, he began his career as a canoeman, was hired by John Jacob Astor and shipped to the Oregon Country aboard the Beaver, entering the mouth of the Columbia River on May 9, 1812...
  
  )
• Ponderay
  Ponderay, Idaho
  Ponderay is a city in Bonner County, Idaho, United States. The population was 638 at the 2000 census and 1,137 at the 2010 census. Ponderay's city motto is "Little City with the Big Future".-Geography:Ponderay is located at ....
  
   (from pend oreille, "earring")
• Simplot
• St. Maries
  St. Maries, Idaho
  St. Maries is a city in Benewah County, Idaho, United States. The population was 2,652 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Benewah County. Pronounced St. Mary's.-Geography:St. Maries is located at ....
  
  
• Teton
  Teton, Idaho
  Teton is a city in Fremont County, Idaho, United States. The population was 569 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Rexburg, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Teton is located at ....
  
   ("Teat")
• Thiard

Illinois

• Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
  , French version of Illini, a local Native American
  Native Americans in the United States
  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
  
   tribe
• Illinois River
  Illinois River
  The Illinois River is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the State of Illinois. The river drains a large section of central Illinois, with a drainage basin of . This river was important among Native Americans and early French traders as the principal water route...
  
  
• Beaucoup Creek
  Beaucoup Creek
  Beaucoup Creek is a major tributary of the Big Muddy River in Illinois. The name is pronounced locally as in "Ba Cou".Beaucoup Creek is in length.-Cities and counties:The following cities are in the Beaucoup Creek watershed:*Pinckneyville*Vergennes...
  
   (plenty good)
• Belle River
  Belle Rive, Illinois
  Belle Rive is a village in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 371 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Belle Rive is located at ....
  
   ("Beautiful Bank") (French military commander)
• Belleville
  Belleville, Illinois
  Belleville is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city has a population of 44,478. It is the eighth-most populated city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area and the most populated city south of Springfield in the state of Illinois. It is the county...
  
   ("Beautiful City")
• Bonpas Creek
  Bonpas Creek
  Bonpas Creek is a tributary of the Wabash River in Illinois. It joins the Wabash near Grayville, Illinois. In the last of its watercourse, it occupies part of a former Wabash oxbow bend....
  
   ("Good Step")
• Bourbonnais
  Bourbonnais
  Bourbonnais was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. Its capital was Moulins.-History:...
  
   (named for Francois Bourbonnais, Sr., a fur trader)
• Bureau County
  Bureau County, Illinois
  Bureau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 34,978, which is a decrease of 1.5% from 35,503 in 2000. Its county seat is Princeton. Bureau County is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area...
  
   ("Office"; person's name)
• Cache River
  Cache River (Illinois)
  The Cache River is a waterway in southernmost Illinois, in a region sometimes called Little Egypt. The basin spans and six counties: Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski and Union. Located at the convergence of four major physiographic regions, the river is part of the largest complex of...
  
   (hidden river)
• Champaign
  Champaign, Illinois
  Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of...
  
   (from Champaigne, a franch surname)
• Chicago, although not a French place name in itself, shikaakwa or "wild onion" in the Native-American Miami-Illinois language, the pronunciation of the "chi" (as opposed to the "chi" as in China) is the result of early French settlement
• Creve Coeur
  Creve Coeur, Illinois
  Creve Coeur is a village in Groveland Township, Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 5,448...
  
   ("Heartbreak"; early French fort)
• Des Plaines
  Des Plaines, Illinois
  Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It has adopted the official nickname of "City of Destiny." As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,720. It is a suburb of Chicago, and is next to O'Hare International Airport...
  
   ("of the Plains")
• Des Plaines River
  Des Plaines River
  The Des Plaines River is a river that flows southward for through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois in the U.S. Midwest, eventually meeting the Kankakee River west of Channahon to form the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River....
  
  
• Du Bois
  Du Bois, Illinois
  Du Bois is a village in Washington County, Illinois, United States. The population was 205 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Du Bois is located at ....
  
   (from the woods)
• DuPage River
  DuPage River
  The DuPage River is a tributary of the Des Plaines River in the U.S. state of Illinois.-Course:The river begins as two individual streams. The West Branch of the DuPage River, long, starts in Schaumburg at Campanelli Park in Cook County and continues southward through the entire county of DuPage,...
  
  
• DuQuoin (name of an Illiniwek
  Illiniwek
  The Illinois Confederation, sometimes referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, were a group of twelve to thirteen Native American tribes in the upper Mississippi River valley of North America...
  
   chief)
• Embarrass
  Embarras River
  The Embarras River is a tributary of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois in the United States. The waters of the Embarras reach the Gulf of Mexico via the Wabash, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. The river drains a watershed of approximately in an agricultural region...
  
   ("Predicament")
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Illinois
  Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 22,140, which is an increase of 1.6% from 21,802 in 2000. Its county seat is Vandalia...
  
   (after LaFayette)
• Joliet
  Joliet, Illinois
  Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, located southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will County. As of the 2010 census, the city was the fourth-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 147,433. It continues to be Illinois' fastest growing...
  
   (named after explorer Louis Jolliet
  Louis Jolliet
  Louis Jolliet , also known as Louis Joliet, was a French Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America...
  
  )
• La Grange
  La Grange, Illinois
  La Grange, a suburb of Chicago, is a village in Cook County, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 15,608 at the 2000 census.-History:...
  
   ("The Barn")
• La Moine River
  La Moine River
  La Moine River is a tributary of the Illinois River in western Illinois in the United States. Its watershed covers approximately , and it is the sixth-largest tributary to the Illinois River...
  
   ("The Monk", after an early monastery)
• La Salle
  La Salle, Illinois
  LaSalle is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, located at the intersection of Interstates 39 and 80. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area. Originally platted in 1837 over one square mile, the city has grown to...
  
   (named after explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
  René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
  René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de LaSalle was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico...
  
  . La Salle literally means "the Hall.")
• Marseilles
  Marseilles, Illinois
  Marseilles is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,655 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
   (after Marseille
  Marseille
  Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
  
  )
• Massac (French Minister)
• Menard County (after Pierre Menard
  Pierre Menard
  Pierre Menard was a fur trader and U.S. political figure. Pierre Menard was born at St. Antoine-sur-Richelieu, near Montreal, Canada, third in a family of ten children...
  
  )
• Prairie du Rocher
  Prairie du Rocher, Illinois
  Prairie du Rocher is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. Founded in the French colonial period in the American Midwest, the community is located near bluffs that flank the east side of the Mississippi River along the floodplain often called the "American Bottom".Prairie du...
  
   ("Prairie of the Rock")
• St. Georges (Note: retains the silent "s" from the French)
• Versailles
  Versailles, Illinois
  Versailles is a village in Brown County, Illinois, United States. The population was 567 at the 2000 census. The city's name is pronounced differently from the French city of the same name: "ver-".-Geography:...
  
   (for the French city and palace)

Indiana

• Delaware County
  Delaware County, Indiana
  As of the census of 2000, there were 118,769 people, 47,131 households, and 29,692 families residing in the county. The population density was 302 people per square mile . There were 51,032 housing units at an average density of 130 per square mile...
  
  
• Dubois County
  Dubois County, Indiana
  Dubois County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. The county seat is Jasper. As of 2010, the population was 41,889.Dubois County is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
  
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Indiana
  -2010 Census Data:As of the census of 2010, there were 24,277 people and 9,719 households residing in the county. The population density was 113 people per square mile . There were 10,898 housing units at an average density of 51 per square mile...
  
  
• La Porte (named by French explorers travelling up from the south, this area was the first clearing or "door" out of the heavy woods to the south.)
• Lafayette
  Lafayette, Indiana
  Lafayette is a city in and the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States, northwest of Indianapolis. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 67,140. West Lafayette, on the other side of the Wabash River, is home to Purdue University, which has a large impact on...
  
   (named for the French general, Marquis de Lafayette)
• LaGrange County
  LaGrange County, Indiana
  LaGrange County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana and in the Northern Indiana region known as Michiana. As of 2010, the population was 37,128. The county is located about east of South Bend, west of Toledo, Ohio, and northeast of Indianapolis. The area is well known for its large...
  
  
• Ligonier
  Ligonier, Indiana
  Ligonier is a city in Perry Township, Noble County, Indiana, United States. The population was 4,405 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Ligonier is located at ....
  
  
• Saint Leon, Indiana
• Terre Haute
  Terre Haute, Indiana
  Terre Haute is a city and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a population of 170,943. The city is the county seat of Vigo County and...
  
   ("High Ground")
• Versailles
  Versailles, Indiana
  Versailles is a town in Johnson Township, Ripley County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,113 at the 2010 census. The town is the county seat of Ripley County.-Geography:Versailles is located at...
  
  
• Vincennes
  Vincennes, Indiana
  Vincennes is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Indiana, United States. It is located on the Wabash River in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 18,701 at the 2000 census...
  
   (named for François Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes)

Iowa

• Audubon
  Audubon, Iowa
  -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 2,176 in the city, with a population density of . There were 1,106 housing units, of which 961 were occupied....
  
  
• Belle Plaine
  Belle Plaine, Iowa
  Belle Plaine is a city in Benton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,878 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• Belleville
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Iowa
  Bellevue is a city in Jackson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,350 at the 2000 census. The city lies along the Mississippi River , next to Bellevue State Park....
  
  
• Belmond
  Belmond, Iowa
  -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 2,376 in the county, with a population density of . There were 1,197 housing units, of which 1047 were occupied.-2000 census:...
  
  
• Belmont
• Bennezette
• Bonaparte
  Bonaparte, Iowa
  Bonaparte is a city in Van Buren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 458 at the 2000 census. The town is located on the Des Moines River and contains a number of historical buildings, including a large pottery. The town was flooded during the Flood of 1851.-Geography:Bonaparte's...
  
  
• Bondurant
  Bondurant, Iowa
  -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 3,860 in the city, with a population density of . There were 1,422 housing units, of which 1,362 were occupied....
  
  
• Boyer
• Chariton
  Chariton, Iowa
  Chariton is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,573 at the 2000 census. It is the primary distribution center for, and former corporate seat of, the Hy-Vee supermarket chain.-History:...
  
  
• Clutier
  Clutier, Iowa
  Clutier is a city in Tama County, Iowa, United States. The population was 229 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Clutier is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land....
  
  
• Des Moines
  Des Moines, Iowa
  Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...
  
   (from Rivière des Moines, "River of the Monks", the river flowing through the city)
• Dubuque
  Dubuque, Iowa
  Dubuque is a city in and the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River. In 2010 its population was 57,637, making it the ninth-largest city in the state and the county's population was 93,653....
  
   (named after explorer Julien Dubuque
  Julien Dubuque
  Julien Dubuque was a French Canadian from the area of Champlain, Quebec who arrived near what now is known as Dubuque, Iowa - which was named after him. He was one of the first men to settle in the area. He initially received permission from the Meskwaki Native American tribe to mine the lead in...
  
  )
• Durant
  Durant, Iowa
  Durant is a city in Cedar, Muscatine, and Scott counties in the US state of Iowa. The population was 1,677 at the 2000 census. The community is named in honor of Thomas C...
  
   (french surname)
• Fayette
  Fayette, Iowa
  Fayette is a city in Fayette County, Iowa, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 1,300. It was named after the Marquis de la Fayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. Fayette is the home of Upper Iowa University, a small private college...
  
  
• Fontanelle
  Fontanelle, Iowa
  Fontanelle is a city in Summerset Township, Adair County, Iowa, United States. The population was 692 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fontanelle is located at ....
  
  
• Fort de la Trinité
• Fremont
  Fremont, Iowa
  Fremont is a city in Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. The population was 704 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fremont is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Lafayette
• La Grange ("The Barn")
• La Motte
  La Motte, Iowa
  La Motte is a city in Jackson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 272 at the 2000 census.-Geography:La Motte is located at , in hilly countryside....
  
  
• La Porte ("The Door")
• Le Claire
  Le Claire, Iowa
  Le Claire is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,765 in the 2010 census, an increase from 2,847 in the 2000 census. Le Claire is part of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area.- History :...
  
  
• Le Grand
  Le Grand, Iowa
  Le Grand is a city in Marshall and Tama Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 883 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Le Grand's longitude and latitude coordinatesin decimal form are 42.006211, -92.776497...
  
   ("The Great")
• Le Mars
  Le Mars, Iowa
  Le Mars is a city in and the county seat of Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,237 at the 2000 census. Le Mars is the home of Wells' Dairy, the world's largest producer of ice cream novelties in one location and is the self-proclaimed "Ice Cream Capital of the World". Wells...
  
  
• Le Roy
  Le Roy, Iowa
  -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 15 in the city, with a population density of . There were 9 housing units, of which 8 were occupied. -2000 census:...
  
   ("The King")
• Marquette
  Marquette, Iowa
  Marquette is a city in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 421 at the 2000 census. The city, which is located on the Mississippi River, is named after Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette, who along with Louis Joliet discovered the Mississippi River just southeast of the city on...
  
  
• Martelle
  Martelle, Iowa
  Martelle is a city in Jones County, Iowa, United States. The population was 280 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Martelle is located at ....
  
  
• Mondamin
  Mondamin, Iowa
  Mondamin is a city in Harrison County, Iowa, United States. The population was 423 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Mondamin is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Muscatine
  Muscatine, Iowa
  Muscatine is a city in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. The population was 22,886 in the 2010 census, an increase from 22,697 in the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Muscatine County...
  
  
• Orleans
  Orleans, Iowa
  Orleans is a city in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 583 at the 2000 census. Orleans is part of the Iowa Great Lakes region, located along Spirit Lake...
  
   (french city)
• Paris
  Paris, Iowa
  Paris is an unincorporated community in Linn County, Iowa, United States. It is located at the intersections of Sutton Road and County Highway D66 near the banks of the Wapsipinicon River. It is northwest of Central City and southwest of Coggon, at 42.238459N, -91.578187W.-History:The first white...
  
  
• Platte
• Prairie
• Rinard
  Rinard, Iowa
  Rinard is a city in Calhoun County, Iowa, United States. The population was 72 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rinard's longitude and latitude coordinatesin decimal form are 42.339095, -94.488007...
  
  
• Tête des Morts ("Head of the Dead Ones")

Kansas

• Bourbon County
  Bourbon County, Kansas
  Bourbon County is a county located in Southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 15,173...
  
  
• La Cygne
  La Cygne, Kansas
  La Cygne is a city situated along the Marais des Cygnes River in the northeast part of Linn County, located in East Central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,149...
  
   ("The Swan"; after the Marais des Cygnes River
  Marais des Cygnes River
  The Marais des Cygnes River is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
  
  , which was named by French explorers)
• Labette County
  Labette County, Kansas
  Labette County is a county located in southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 21,607. Its county seat is Oswego, and its most populous city is Parsons...
  
  , named after Pierre La Bette, an early settler of French origin
• Marais des Cygnes River
  Marais des Cygnes River
  The Marais des Cygnes River is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
  
  
• Marion County
  Marion County, Kansas
  Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 12,660. The county seat is Marion...
  
  
• Reno County
  Reno County, Kansas
  Reno County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. The county's population was 64,511 for the 2010 census. The largest city and county seat is Hutchinson. The Hutchinson Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Reno County.-19th century:In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska...
  
   (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War, Reno's family name was simplified from the French surname "Renault")
• Sublette, Kansas
  Sublette, Kansas
  Sublette is a city in and the county seat of Haskell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,453.-History:...
  
  
• Wyandotte County
  Wyandotte County, Kansas
  Wyandotte County is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The county's population was 157,505 for the 2010 census. Its county seat and most populous city is Kansas City with which it shares a unified government...
  
  , French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe who were also known as the Hurons by the French in Canada

Kentucky

Cities

• Bellefonte
  Bellefonte, Kentucky
  As of the census of 2000, there were 837 people, 349 households, and 270 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,161.3 people per square mile . There were 383 housing units at an average density of 531.4 per square mile...
  
  
• Bellemeade
  Bellemeade, Kentucky
  Bellemeade is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 871 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bellemeade is located at ....
  
  
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Kentucky
  Bellevue is a city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,955 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Bellevue is located in the extreme northern portion of Kentucky, directly across the Ohio River from the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio...
  
   ("Beautiful Sight")
• Frenchburg
  Frenchburg, Kentucky
  Frenchburg is a city in Menifee County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 551 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Menifee County, and the only incorporated city in the rural county. It is located at the junction of US 460 and Kentucky Route 36...
  
  
• La Center
  La Center, Kentucky
  La Center is a city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,038 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:La Center is located at ....
  
  
• La Grange
  La Grange, Kentucky
  As of the census of 2000, there were 5,676 people, 2,216 households, and 1,502 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,514.8 people per square mile . There were 2,330 housing units at an average density of 621.8 per square mile...
  
  
• LaFayette
  LaFayette, Kentucky
  LaFayette is a town in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 193 at the 2000 census. The town is named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette....
  
  
• Louisville
  Louisville, Kentucky
  Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
  
   (named in honor of King Louis XVI in 1778)
• Paris
  Paris, Kentucky
  As of the census of 2000, there were 9,183 people, 3,857 households, and 2,487 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 4,222 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 84.23% White, 12.71% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.16%...
  
  
• Versailles
  Versailles, Kentucky
  As of the census of 2000, there were 7,511 people, 3,160 households, and 2,110 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,330 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 88.18% White, 8.67% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.35%...
  
  

Counties

• Bourbon County
  Bourbon County, Kentucky
  Bourbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the remnant of what was previously a much larger Bourbon County, established as part of Virginia in 1785, and comprising what are now thirty-four modern Kentucky counties...
  
   (name for House of Bourbon
  House of Bourbon
  The House of Bourbon is a European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty . Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma...
  
  , Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
  an Royal House
  Royal House
  A royal house or royal dynasty consists of at least one, but usually more monarchs who are related to one another, as well as their non-reigning descendants and spouses. Monarchs of the same realm who are not related to one another are usually deemed to belong to different houses, and each house is...
  
  )
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Kentucky
  Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The population was 295,083 in the 2010 Census. Its territory, population and government are coextensive with the city of Lexington, which also serves as county seat....
  
   (named for Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
  Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette
  Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France...
  
  )
• Gallatin County
  Gallatin County, Kentucky
  Gallatin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky along the Ohio River, which at its formation was the main transportation route. It was formed in 1799. As of 2000, the population was 7,870. Its county seat is Warsaw...
  
   (named for Albert Gallatin
  Albert Gallatin
  Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1831, he founded the University of the City of New York...
  
  , Swiss American
  Swiss American
  Swiss Americans are Americans of Swiss descent.There are several ethno-linguistic subgroups among Swiss Americans, including Swiss German-speaking, Swiss French-speaking, and Swiss Italian-speaking....
  
   and Secretary of State
  Secretary of State
  Secretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government....
  
  )
• Larue County
  LaRue County, Kentucky
  LaRue County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2000, the population was 13,373. Its county seat is Hodgenville...
  
   (named for John LaRue early Kentucky
  Kentucky
  The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
  
   settler
  Settler
  A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. Settlers are generally people who take up residence on land and cultivate it, as opposed to nomads...
  
  )
• Marion County
  Marion County, Kentucky
  As of the census of 2000, there were 18,212 people, 6,613 households, and 4,754 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 7,277 housing units at an average density of...
  
   (named for Francis Marion
  Francis Marion
  Francis Marion was a military officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Acting with Continental Army and South Carolina militia commissions, he was a persistent adversary of the British in their occupation of South Carolina in 1780 and 1781, even after the Continental Army was driven...
  
  , a hero of the American Revolution of French Huguenot ancestry)

Louisiana

• Louisiana
  Louisiana
  Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
  
   (Louisiane in French - named in honor of King Louis XIV of France in 1682)
• Abbeville
  Abbeville, Louisiana
  Abbeville is a town in and the parish seat of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States, 150 miles west of New Orleans. The population was 12,257 at the 2010 census...
  
   (after Abbeville
  Abbeville
  Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Location:Abbeville is located on the Somme River, from its modern mouth in the English Channel, and northwest of Amiens...
  
  , France) (One of several communities in the United States named "Abbeville".)
• Algiers
  Algiers, Louisiana
  Algiers is a neighborhood within the city of New Orleans. It is the portion of Orleans Parish on the West Bank of the Mississippi River.Algiers is also known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans.-History:...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Ascension Parish, named from the French l'Ascension
• Audubon
  Audubon, New Orleans
  Audubon is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrolton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue to the north, Jefferson Avenue to the east, the Mississippi River and Magazine Street to the south, and Lowerline...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Avoyelles Parish
• Baton Rouge
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
  
   ("Red Stick")
• Bayou Gauche
  Bayou Gauche, Louisiana
  Bayou Gauche is a census-designated place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,770 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bayou Gauche is located at ....
  
   ("Left Bayou")
• Beauregard Parish
• Belle Chasse
  Belle Chasse, Louisiana
  Belle Chasse is a census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. Belle Chasse is part of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area. The population was 9,848 at the 2000 census....
  
   ("Good Hunting")
• Belle Rose
  Belle Rose, Louisiana
  Belle Rose is a census-designated place in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,944 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   ("Beautiful Rose")
• Bienville Parish
• Bonnet Carré
  Bonnet Carré Spillway
  The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana - about west of New Orleans - it allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River to flow into Lake Pontchartrain and thence into the Gulf of Mexico...
  
  , flood prevention spillway on the Mississippi River ("square bonnet")
• Bossier City
  Bossier City, Louisiana
  Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 61,315. Bossier City is closely tied to its larger sister city Shreveport, located on the western bank of the Red River. The Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area is the...
  
   (after Pierre Bossier)
• Bossier Parish
• Breaux Bridge
• Breton National Wildlife Refuge
  Breton National Wildlife Refuge
  Breton National Wildlife Refuge is located in southeastern Louisiana in the offshore Breton Islands and Chandeleur Islands. It is located in the Gulf of Mexico and is accessible only by boat...
  
   (on and around Breton Island
  Breton Island
  Breton Island is a small rocky island lying southwest of Empereur Island. It was charted in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for their largely Breton crew....
  
  )
• Broussard
  Broussard, Louisiana
  Broussard is a small city in Lafayette and St. Martin parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 6,754 from the 2005 Census Est.Broussard is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
   (after merchant Valsin Broussard, of Acadian descent)
• Butte La Rose
• Chalmette
  Chalmette, Louisiana
  Chalmette is a census-designated place in and the parish seat of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 32,069 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
   ("Pasture land, fallow land")
• Chandeleur Islands
  Chandeleur Islands
  The Chandeleur Islands are a chain of uninhabited barrier islands approximately long, located in the Gulf of Mexico. They form the easternmost point of the state of Louisiana, USA and are a part of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge...
  
  
• Chataignier
  Chataignier, Louisiana
  Chataîgnier is a village in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 383 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Chataîgnier is located at ....
  
   ("Chestnut tree")
• Des Allemands
  Des Allemands, Louisiana
  Des Allemands is a census-designated place in Lafourche and St. Charles parishes in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 2,500 at the 2000 census. The town, known as the "Catfish Capital of the Universe," is along the Bayou Des Allemands, which is the boundary...
  
   ("of the Germans")
• Destrehan
  Destrehan, Louisiana
  Destrehan is a census-designated place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2000 census. It was named after Jean N...
  
   (named in honor of Jean N. Destréhan
  Jean N. Destréhan
  Jean Noel Destréhan was a Creole politician in Louisiana and one-time owner of Destréhan Plantation, one of Louisiana's most famous antebellum historical landmarks. The city of Destrehan, Louisiana is named after him....
  
  , Creole
  Louisiana Creole people
  Louisiana Creole people refers to those who are descended from the colonial settlers in Louisiana, especially those of French and Spanish descent. The term was first used during colonial times by the settlers to refer to those who were born in the colony, as opposed to those born in the Old World...
  
   politician)
• Dulac
  Dulac, Louisiana
  Dulac is a census-designated place in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,458 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   ("of the lake")
• Evangeline Parish
• Faubourg Marigny
  Faubourg Marigny
  The Marigny is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: North Rampart Street and St...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Faubourg Tremé New Orleans neighborhood
• Fontainebleau
  Fontainebleau, New Orleans
  Fontainebleau and Marlyville are jointly designated as a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Colapissa and Broadway Streets and MLK Boulevard to the north, South Jefferson Davis...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Grand Coteau
  Grand Coteau, Louisiana
  Grand Coteau is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,040 at the 2000 census. Grand Coteau is on Interstate 49 south of Opelousas and is part of the Opelousas–Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town is a center for local farming...
  
  
• Grosse Tête
  Grosse Tete, Louisiana
  Grosse Tête is a village in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 670 at the 2000 census. Its name is French for "Big Head." Its local pronunciation is "gross tate."...
  
   ("big head")
• Iberville Parish
• Iberville Projects
  Iberville Projects
  Iberville Projects is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans and one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: St. Louis Street to the north, Basin Street to the east, Iberville Street to...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Jean Lafitte
  Jean Lafitte, Louisiana
  Jean Lafitte is a town on Bayou Barataria in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is named after the privateer Jean Lafitte. The population was 2,137 at the 2000 census...
  
   (named for Jean Lafitte
  Jean Lafitte
  Jean Lafitte was a pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his elder brother, Pierre, spelled their last name Laffite, but English-language documents of the time used "Lafitte", and this is the commonly seen spelling in the United States, including for places...
  
  , a famous pirate)
• Lafayette
  Lafayette, Louisiana
  Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
  
   (named for the Marquis de La Fayette)
• Lafitte Projects
  Lafitte Projects
  The Lafitte Projects are one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans and are located in the 6th Ward of New Orleans Treme neighborhood. It is one of Downtown New Orleans' oldest housing developments and had many associated problems before being severely flooded and damaged during Hurricane Katrina...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Lafourche Parish
  Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
  Lafourche Parish is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, which consisted of the present parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne. The parish seat is Thibodaux...
  
   (from la fourche, referring to a forked path)
• Lake Borgne
  Lake Borgne
  Lake Borgne is a lagoon in eastern Louisiana of the Gulf of Mexico. Due to coastal erosion, it is no longer actually a lake but rather an arm of the Gulf of Mexico. Its name comes from the French word borgne, which means "one-eyed".-Geography:...
  
  
• Lake Pontchartrain
  Lake Pontchartrain
  Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It is the second-largest inland saltwater body of water in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the largest lake in Louisiana. As an estuary, Pontchartrain is not a true lake.It covers an area of with...
  
  
• LaPlace
  Laplace, Louisiana
  LaPlace is a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the east bank of the Mississippi River in the New Orleans metropolitan area. The population is 32,134 at the 2010 census....
  
   (named for early settler Basile LaPlace.)
• Mandeville
  Mandeville, Louisiana
  Mandeville is a city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 12,421 in 2008. Mandeville is located on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12. It is across the lake from the city of New Orleans and its southshore suburbs...
  
   (named for developer Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville
  Bernard de Marigny
  Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, was a French-Creole American nobleman, playboy, politician, and President of the Louisiana Senate between 1822-1823.-Early life:...
  
  )
• Metairie
  Metairie, Louisiana
  Metairie is a census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States and is a major part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish. It is an unincorporated area that would be larger than most of the state's cities if it were...
  
   (from a French word for sharecropping
  Sharecropping
  Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land . This should not be confused with a crop fixed rent contract, in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a fixed amount of...
  
  )
• Napoleonville (for French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte)
• New Orleans (named for the duke of Orléans
  Orléans
  -Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...
  
  , France)
• Paincourtville ("short of bread town")
• Paradis
  Paradis, Louisiana
  Paradis is a census-designated place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,252 at the 2000 census. Its name is French for "paradise."-Geography:Paradis is located at ....
  
   ("Paradise")
• Pierre Part
  Pierre Part, Louisiana
  Pierre Part is a census-designated place in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,239 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Pierre Part Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Assumption Parish...
  
  
• Plaquemines Parish
• Pointe aux Chenes ("Oak Point")
• Pointe à la Hache
  Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana
  Pointe à la Hache is an unincorporated village and place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.Located on the east bank of the Mississippi River, the village has been the seat for Plaquemines Parish since the formation of the parish....
  
   ("Axe Spike")
• Pointe Coupee Parish
  Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
  Pointe Coupee Parish, pronounced "Pwent Koo-Pay" and , is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is New Roads. As of 2000, the population was 22,763....
  
   (from pointe coupée, "cut spike")
• St. Claude
  St. Claude, New Orleans
  St. Claude is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Law, Montegut and North Galvez Streets to the north, Lesseps Street to the east, Burgundy Street, Clouet Street and St. Claude Avenue...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• St. Landry Parish
• St. Martinville
• St. Roch
  St. Roch, New Orleans
  St. Roch is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Lafreniere Street, Paris Avenue, I-610, Benefit Street and Dahlia Walk to the north, People's Avenue and Almonaster Avenue to the...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood
• Terrebonne Parish
  Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
  Terrebonne Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Houma. Its population was 111,860...
  
   ("Good Ground")
• Tulane/Gravier
  Tulane/Gravier, New Orleans
  Tulane/Gravier is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: St...
  
   New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant
• Vieux Carré
  Vieux Carre
  Vieux Carré may refer to:*New Orleans's French Quarter* Vieux Carré, a play by Tennessee Williams...
  
   ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter
  French Quarter
  The French Quarter, also known as Vieux Carré, is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. When New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city was originally centered on the French Quarter, or the Vieux Carré as it was known then...
  
   in New Orleans
• Village de L'Est New Orleans neighborhood
• Ville Platte
  Ville Platte, Louisiana
  Ville Platte is a city in and the parish seat of Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,145 at the 2000 census. Its name is derived from the French ville plate, or "flat town."-History:...
  
   ("Flat City")

Maine

• Maine
  Maine
  Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
  
   (one theory suggests the state was named after the historic French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   province of Maine)
• Cadillac Mountain
  Cadillac Mountain
  Cadillac Mountain is a mountain located on Mount Desert Island, within Acadia National Park. With an elevation of , its summit is the highest point in Hancock County, and the highest within of a coastline on the U.S. East Coast as well as down to the Yucatán Peninsula.-History:Before being renamed...
  
  
• Calais
  Calais, Maine
  Calais is a city in Washington County, Maine, United States. The city has three United States border crossings or also known as a Port of entry with the busiest being on the St. Croix River bordering St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada...
  
   (after Calais
  Calais
  Calais is a town in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....
  
  , France)
• Caribou
  Caribou, Maine
  Caribou is the second largest city in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. Its population was 8,189 at the 2010 census.-History:Between 1838 and 1839, the undeclared Aroostook War flared between the United States and Canada, and the Battle of Caribou occurred in December 1838...
  
  
• Castine
  Castine, Maine
  Castine is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States and was once the capital of Acadia . The population was 1,343 at the 2000 census. Castine is the home of Maine Maritime Academy, a four-year institution that graduates officers and engineers for the United States Merchant Marine and marine...
  
  
• Fort Pentagouet
• Frenchboro
  Frenchboro, Maine
  Frenchboro is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States, and a village within this town located on Long Island in Blue Hill Bay. The population was 38 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
  
• Frenchville
  Frenchville, Maine
  Frenchville is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2000 census: 80 percent are habitual speakers of French, aided by its proximity to French-speaking Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada....
  
  
• Grand Isle
  Grand Isle, Maine
  Grand Isle is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 518 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....
  
  
• Isle au Haut
  Isle au Haut, Maine
  Isle au Haut is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States, on an island of the same name in Penobscot Bay. The population was 79 at the 2000 census. Home to portions of Acadia National Park, Isle au Haut is accessible by mailboat from Stonington.-History:Native Americans left behind shell mounds...
  
  
• Mount Desert Island
  Mount Desert Island
  Mount Desert Island , in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine. With an area of it is the 6th largest island in the contiguous United States. Though it is often claimed to be the third largest island on the eastern seaboard of the United States, it is actually second...
  
  
• Paris
  Paris, Maine
  Paris is a town in and the county seat of Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,793 at the 2000 census. The census-designated place of South Paris is located within the town. Because the U.S. Post Office refers to the entire town as South Paris, the town as a whole is commonly...
  
  
• Presque Isle
  Presque Isle, Maine
  Presque Isle is the commercial center and largest city in the sparsely populated Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 9,692 at the 2010 census...
  
   (from the French word "presqu'île" meaning "peninsula"--- from presque meaning "almost", and isle meaning "island". The town is surrounded on three sides by water, and therefore is "almost an island")
• Saint Croix Island
  Saint Croix Island, Maine
  Saint Croix Island , long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the International Boundary separating Maine from New Brunswick....
  
  
• St. Francis River
  St. Francis River (Maine)
  The St. Francis River is a river roughly long, which forms part of the Canada – United States border. The river rises in a lake of the same name located east of the Rivière du Loup in Quebec...
  
  
• Saint John River

Maryland

• Bel Air ("Good Air")
• Havre de Grace
  Havre de Grace, Maryland
  Havre de Grace is a city in Harford County, Maryland, United States. Located at the mouth of the Susquehanna River and the head of the Chesapeake Bay, Havre de Grace is named after the port city of Le Havre, France, which was first named Le Havre de Grâce, meaning in French "Harbor of Grace." As...
  
   (named after Le Havre
  Le Havre
  Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
  
   (originally Le Havre de Grâce, literally "haven of grace"), France)

Massachusetts

• Barre
  Barre, Massachusetts
  Barre is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,398 at the 2010 census.-History:Originally called the Northwest District of Rutland, it was first settled in 1720. The town was incorporated on June 17, 1774, as Hutchinson after Thomas Hutchinson, colonial...
  
  
• Belmont
  Belmont, Massachusetts
  Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The population was 24,729 at the 2010 census.- History :Belmont was founded on March 18, 1859 by former citizens of, and land from the bordering towns of Watertown, to the south; Waltham, to the west; and Arlington, then...
  
  
• French King Bridge
  French King Bridge
  The French King Bridge is a three-span "cantilever arch" style bridge crossing the Connecticut River on the border of the towns of Erving and Gill, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Marion
  Marion, Massachusetts
  Marion is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,123 at the 2000 census.For geographic and demographic information on the village of Marion Center, please see the article Marion Center, Massachusetts.-History:...
  
  
• Orleans
  Orleans, Massachusetts
  Orleans is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 5,890 at the 2010 census....
  
   (named for Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
  Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
  Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans commonly known as Philippe, was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the ruling dynasty of France. He actively supported the French Revolution and adopted the name Philippe Égalité, but was nonetheless guillotined during the Reign of Terror...
  
  )
• Revere
  Revere, Massachusetts
  Revere is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and located approximately from downtown Boston. It is named after the American patriot Paul Revere. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 51,755.- History :...
  
   (after Paul Revere
  Paul Revere
  Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride...
  
  , of Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   ancestry; his family name originally was Rivoire)
• Savoy
  Savoy
  Savoy is a region of France. It comprises roughly the territory of the Western Alps situated between Lake Geneva in the north and Monaco and the Mediterranean coast in the south....
  
  

Michigan

• Allouez
  Allouez Township, Michigan
  Allouez Township is a civil township of Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,584.-Communities:The village of Ahmeek is the only incorporated municipality in the township...
  
   (named after missionary Claude-Jean Allouez
  Claude-Jean Allouez
  Claude Jean Allouez was a Jesuit missionary and French explorer of North America.Allouez was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay in the département of Haute-Loire in south-central France. In 1639, he graduated from the College of Le Puy, and became a Jesuit novice in Toulouse, France. In 1655, he was...
  
  )
• Au Sable River
  Au Sable River (Michigan)
  The Au Sable River in Michigan runs approximately through the northern Lower Peninsula, through the towns of Grayling and Mio, and enters Lake Huron at Oscoda. It is considered one of the best brown trout fisheries east of the Rockies and has been designated a blue ribbon trout stream by the...
  
  
• Belleville
  Belleville, Michigan
  Belleville is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,991 at the 2010 census. It is the sister city of Machynlleth, Wales. Belleville is southeast of Ann Arbor and southwest of Detroit.-Geography:...
  
   ("Beautiful City;" named for a Paris district)
• Benzie County
• Berrien County
  Berrien County, Michigan
  Berrien County is a county located in the extreme southwest of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph....
  
  
• Bete Grise ("Gray Beast")
• Bois Blanc Island
  Bois Blanc Island (Michigan)
  Bois Blanc Island is coterminous with Bois Blanc Township, Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The island covers about and is about 12 miles long, 6 miles wide and has 6 lakes. Bois Blanc is located in Lake Huron southeast of Mackinac Island and almost due north of the city of...
  
   ("White Wood")
• Cadillac
  Cadillac, Michigan
  Cadillac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,000. The city is situated at the junction of US 131, M-55 and M-115...
  
   (named after explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac)
• Charlevoix
  Charlevoix, Michigan
  Charlevoix is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,994. It is the county seat of Charlevoix County....
  
   (named for Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
  Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
  Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was a French Jesuit traveller and historian distinguished as the first historian of New France....
  
   (1682–1761), a French Jesuit in New France
  New France
  New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763...
  
  )
• Detroit
  Detroit, Michigan
  Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
  
   ("Strait")
• Ecorse
  Ecorse, Michigan
  Ecorse is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan, named for the Ecorse River. The population was 9,512 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
   (from Rivière aux Écorces, "Bark River")
• Frenchtown Charter Township
• Grand Blanc
  Grand Blanc, Michigan
  Grand Blanc is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint. The population was 8,242 at the 2000 census. The city is situated within Grand Blanc Charter Township, but is politically independent...
  
   ("Large White")
• Grand Marais
  Grand Marais, Michigan
  Grand Marais is an unincorporated community in Burt Township, Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located on Lake Superior at and is the eastern gateway to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore via H-58....
  
   ("Large Marsh")
• Grand Traverse County
• Gratiot County
  Gratiot County, Michigan
  -US Highways:* US-127 routes north to I-75 and south to Lansing.*   BUS US-127 is a loop route through downtown Alma.*   BUS US-127 is a loop route through downtown Ithaca.*   BUS US-127 is a loop route through downtown St. Louis....
  
  
• Grosse Ile ("Big Island")
• Grosse Pointe
  Grosse Pointe, Michigan
  Grosse Pointe is a suburban city bordering Detroit in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city covers just over one square mile, and had a population of 5,421 at the 2010 census. It is bordered on the west by Grosse Pointe Park, on the north by Detroit, on the east by Grosse Pointe...
  
   ("Big Point")
• Isle Royale National Park
  Isle Royale National Park
  Isle Royale National Park is a U.S. National Park in the state of Michigan. Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles in length and 9 miles wide at its widest point. The park is made of Isle Royale itself and approximately 400 smaller islands, along with any submerged...
  
   ("Royal Island")
• Lac La Belle
  Lac La Belle, Michigan
  Lac La Belle , is the name given to both a lake and a small unincorporated community in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The town was originally the site of a stamping plant for the copper mines of the Keweenaw, specifically the Mendota Mine and the Delaware Mine...
  
   ("Beautiful Lake")
• L'Anse
  L'Anse, Michigan
  L'Anse is a village in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Baraga County. The population was 2,107 at the 2000 census. The village is located within L'Anse Township....
  
   ("The Cove")
• Lapeer County
• LeRoy
  Le Roy, Michigan
  Le Roy is a village in Osceola County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 267. The village is located within Le Roy Township.-Geography:...
  
   ("The King")
• Les Cheneaux Islands
  Les Cheneaux Islands
  Les Cheneaux Islands are a group of 36 small islands, some inhabited, along 12 miles of Lake Huron shoreline on the southeastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. The name is French for "the Channels", noting the many channels between the islands in the group...
  
   ("The Channels")
• Marquette
  Marquette, Michigan
  Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...
  
   (named after explorer Jacques Marquette
  Jacques Marquette
  Father Jacques Marquette S.J. , sometimes known as Père Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...
  
  )
• Marquette County
  Marquette County, Michigan
  -National protected areas:* Hiawatha National Forest * Huron National Wildlife Refuge* Ottawa National Forest -University:Northern Michigan University is a four-year university, established in 1899, located in Marquette, Michigan, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula...
  
  
• Montcalm County
  Montcalm County, Michigan
  -Michigan State Highways:* M-46* M-57* M-66* M-82* M-91-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 61,266 people, 22,079 households, and 16,183 families residing in the county. The population density was 86 people per square mile . There were 25,900 housing units at an average density...
  
   (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War .Montcalm was born near Nîmes in France to a noble family, and entered military service...
  
  , French military commander in the French and Indian War
  French and Indian War
  The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war...
  
  ).
• Montmorency County
  Montmorency County, Michigan
  -Michigan State trunklines:* M-32* M-33-Michigan State trunkline business loops:* Business M-32 is short, disconnected route in the village of Hillman.-Montmorency County intercounty highways:* F-01* F-21-Demographics:...
  
   (named for the Montmorency family
  Montmorency family
  Montmorency, pronounced , the name of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in France, derived from the city of Montmorency, now in the Val-d'Oise département, in the immediate neighborhood of Enghien-les-Bains and Saint-Denis, about 9 miles northwest of Paris.The family, since its...
  
  , a noble family influential in the administration of New France
  New France
  New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763...
  
  )
• Napoleon
  Napoleon, Michigan
  Napoleon is an unincorporated community in Napoleon Township of Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a Census-designated place for statistical purposes and without any legal status as an incorporated municipality...
  
   (for Napoleon Bonaparte
  Napoleon I of France
  Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...
  
  )
• Pere Marquette River
  Pere Marquette River
  The Pere Marquette River is a river in the State of Michigan. The main stream of this river is about long, running from Lake County, Michigan just west of Reed City into the Pere Marquette Lake, and from there into Lake Michigan....
  
   (for Father (père) Jacques Marquette)
• Pointe Mouillee State Game Area
  Pointe Mouillee State Game Area
  Pointe Mouillee State Game Area is a state game area located primarily in Berlin Charter Township in the northeasternmost corner of Monroe County, Michigan. It consists of of coastal wetlands in Lake Erie near the mouth of the Huron River...
  
  
• Presque Isle (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
• Presque Isle County
• Sault Ste. Marie
  Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
  Sault Ste. Marie is a city in and the county seat of Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the north-eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the Canadian border, separated from its twin city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, by the St. Marys River...
  
   ("St. Mary's Rapids")
• St. Clair County
  St. Clair County, Michigan
  -Interstates:* I-69 enters the county from the west, coming from Lansing and Flint, terminating at the approach to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron....
  
  
• St. Clair Shores
• St. Ignace
  St. Ignace, Michigan
  Saint Ignace, usually written as St. Ignace, is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,678. It is the county seat of Mackinac County. From the Lower Peninsula, St. Ignace is the gateway to the Upper Peninsula.St...
  
   (French rendition of St. Ignatius)
• St. Joseph
  St. Joseph, Michigan
  St. Joseph is a city in the US state of Michigan. It was incorporated as a village in 1834 and as a city in 1891. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 8,789. It lies on the shore of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, about east-northeast of Chicago. It is the county...
  
  
• Traverse City

Minnesota

• Albertville
  Albertville, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 3,621 people, 1,287 households, and 984 families residing in the city. The population density was 826.3 people per square mile . There were 1,318 housing units at an average density of 300.8 per square mile...
  
  , named after a city in France
• Argyle
  Argyle, Minnesota
  Argyle is a city in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States, along the Middle River. The population was 639 at the 2010 census. Old Mill State Park is nearby.-History:Before James J...
  
   (from the French Argile, "clay") (or from Argyll
  Argyll
  Argyll , archaically Argyle , is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient Dál Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western coast between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath...
  
   in Scotland?)
• Audubon
  Audubon, Minnesota
  Audubon is a city in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 519 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and 1.69% is water.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Baudette
  Baudette, Minnesota
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,104 people, 490 households, and 271 families residing in the city. The population density was 334.1 people per square mile . There were 540 housing units at an average density of 163.4 per square mile...
  
  
• Belle Plaine
  Belle Plaine, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 3,789 people, 1,396 homes and 949 families residing in the city. The population density was 932.7 people per square cube . There were 1,424 housing units at an average density of 350.5 per square mile...
  
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• Belle Prairie Township
• Bois de Sioux River
  Bois de Sioux River
  The Bois de Sioux River drains Lake Traverse, the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It is a tributary of the Red River of the North and defines part of the western border of the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the eastern borders of North Dakota and South Dakota...
  
   ("woods of the Sioux")
• Bois Forte Indian Reservation
  Bois Forte Indian Reservation
  Bois Forte Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation formed for the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa...
  
   ("hard wood")
• Brule River
  Brule River (Minnesota)
  The Brule River is a river of Minnesota. The Brule River originates at Brule Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and terminates at Lake Superior approximately northeast of Grand Marais, Minnesota within the boundaries of Judge C. R...
  
   (from the Ojibwe name Wiskode-zibi "half-burned wood river", which was translated directly into French as Bois Brulé. Half of the river disappears into a pothole in the Judge C. R. Magney State Park
  Judge C. R. Magney State Park
  Judge C. R. Magney State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was named for Clarence R. Magney, a former mayor of Duluth and judge on the Minnesota Supreme Court, who was instrumental in getting 11 state parks and scenic waysides established along the...
  
  ).
• Cloquet
  Cloquet, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 11,201 people, 4,636 households, and 2,967 families residing in the city. The population density was 317.9 people per square mile . There were 4,805 housing units at an average density of 136.4 per square mile...
  
  
• Coteau des Prairies
  Coteau des Prairies
  The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width , rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa in the United States...
  
   ("slope of the prairies")
• Delano
  Delano, Minnesota
  Delano is a city in Wright County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,464 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
• Detroit Lakes
  Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
  -Demographics:As of the official census of 2000, there were 7,348 people, 3,319 households, and 1,845 families permanently residing in the city. The population density was 980.4 people per square mile . There were 3,782 housing units at an average density of 504.6 per square mile...
  
   ("narrows lake")
• Duluth
  Duluth, Minnesota
  Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...
  
   (named after Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
  Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
  Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota is now located and the headwaters of the Mississippi River near Grand Rapids...
  
  )
• Faribault County
  Faribault County, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 16,181 people, 6,652 households, and 4,476 families residing in the county. The population density was 23 people per square mile . There were 7,247 housing units at an average density of 10 per square mile...
  
  
• Fond du Lac Indian Reservation ("bottom of the lake")
• Frontenac State Park
  Frontenac State Park
  Frontenac State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the Mississippi River southeast of Red Wing. The park is notable both for its history and for its birdwatching opportunities. The centerpiece of the park is a , steep limestone bluff overlooking Lake Pepin, a natural widening of the...
  
  
• Frontier  ("Border" refers to its position on the Minnesota/Ontario border)
• Glese  (From the French "glaise" or clay)
• Grand Marais
  Grand Marais, Minnesota
  Grand Marais is a city in Cook County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,351 at the 2010 census. It is also the county seat of Cook County...
  
   ("Big Marsh"; some speculate "Big Harbor" in founders' accent)
• Hennepin County
  Hennepin County, Minnesota
  Hennepin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota, named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. As of 2010 the population was 1,152,425. Its county seat is Minneapolis. It is by far the most populous county in Minnesota; more than one in five Minnesotans live...
  
   (named in honor of the 17th-century French explorer Father Louis Hennepin
  Louis Hennepin
  Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, was a Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollect order and an explorer of the interior of North America....
  
  )
• Huot, Minnesota
  Huot, Minnesota
  Huot is an unincorporated community in Louisville Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States. The name of the village evokes the French-Canadian and Métis history of the Red River Trails and the Pembina settlements of Assiniboia.-History:...
  
   named after French-Canadian settler Louis Huot
• La Porte  (The Door)
• La Prairie
  La Prairie, Minnesota
  La Prairie is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, USA. The population was 665 at the 2010 census.U.S. Highways 2 and 169 are two of the main arterial routes in the community.-Geography:...
  
  
• Lac qui Parle
  Lac qui Parle
  Lac qui Parle is a reservoir located in western Minnesota, United States, which was formed by the damming of the Minnesota River. The dam was built by the Works Progress Administration . Lac qui Parle is a French translation of the native Dakota name, meaning "lake which speaks".The northernmost...
  
   ("lake that speaks")
• Lac Vieux Desert
  Lac Vieux Desert
  Lac Vieux Desert is a lake in the United States divided between Gogebic County, Michigan, and Vilas County, Wisconsin. Fed primarily by springs in the surrounding swamps, it is the source of the Wisconsin River, which flows out of its southwest corner...
  
   ("lake of the old clearing")
• Lake Traverse
  Lake Traverse
  Lake Traverse is the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It lies along the border between the U.S. states of Minnesota and South Dakota...
  
  
• Le Sueur
  Le Sueur County, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 25,426 people, 9,630 households, and 6,923 families residing in the county. The population density was 57 people per square mile . There were 10,858 housing units at an average density of 24 per square mile...
  
   (named for Pierre-Charles Le Sueur
  Pierre-Charles Le Sueur
  Pierre-Charles Le Sueur was a French fur trader and explorer in North America, recognized as the first known European to explore the Minnesota River valley....
  
  )
• Mille Lacs County
  Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 22,330 people, 8,638 households, and 6,003 families residing in the county. The population density was 39 people per square mile . There were 10,467 housing units at an average density of 18 per square mile...
  
  
• Mille Lacs Lake
  Mille Lacs Lake
  Mille Lacs Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located in the counties of Mille Lacs, Aitkin and Crow Wing, roughly 100 miles north of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area....
  
   ("one thousand lakes")
• Nicollet County
  Nicollet County, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 29,771 people, 10,642 households, and 7,311 families residing in the county. The population density was 66 people per square mile . There were 11,240 housing units at an average density of 25 per square mile...
  
  
• Pelland
  Pelland, Minnesota
  Pelland is an unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States.The community is located southwest of International Falls at the junction of U.S. Route 71 and Minnesota State Highway 11....
  
  
• Pomme de Terre
  Pomme de Terre River (Minnesota)
  The Pomme de Terre River is a tributary of the Minnesota River, 106 miles long, in western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 875 square miles in an agricultural region...
  
   ("potato")
• Roseau
  Roseau, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,756 people, 1,157 households, and 713 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,153.6 people per square mile . There were 1,229 housing units at an average density of 514.4 per square mile...
  
   ("reed")
• Renville County, Minnesota
  Renville County, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 17,154 people, 6,779 households, and 4,623 families residing in the county. The population density was 18 people per square mile . There were 7,413 housing units at an average density of 8 per square mile...
  
  
• Roseville
  Roseville, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 33,690 people, 14,598 households, and 8,598 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,543.9 people per square mile . There were 14,917 housing units at an average density of 1,126.4 per square mile...
  
  
• St. Cloud
  St. Cloud, Minnesota
  St. Cloud is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the largest population center in the state's central region. The population was 65,842 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stearns County...
  
   (named after a Paris suburb; St.Cloud is Saint Clodoald
  Clodoald
  Saint Clodoald , better known as Cloud, was the son of King Chlodomer of Orleans.-Life:Clodoald was raised in Paris by his grandmother, Saint Clotilde. He was one of three brothers, all of whom were targeted for assassination by their uncle, Clotaire I...
  
  , grandson of the Frankish king Clovis I
  Clovis I
  Clovis Leuthwig was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the leadership from a group of royal chieftains, to rule by kings, ensuring that the kingship was held by his heirs. He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul . He was the son...
  
  )
• St. Croix River
  St. Croix River (Wisconsin-Minnesota)
  The St. Croix River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The lower of the river form the border between Wisconsin and Minnesota. The river is a National Scenic Riverway under the protection of the National Park Service. A...
  
  
• St. Hilaire
  St. Hilaire, Minnesota
  St. Hilaire is a city in section 6 of River Falls Township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 279 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
  
• St. Louis Park
  St. Louis Park, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 44,126 people, 20,782 households, and 10,557 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,122.5 persons per square mile . There were 21,140 housing units at an average density of 1,975.0 per square mile...
  
  
• Saint Paul
  Saint Paul, Minnesota
  Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city...
  
   (once known as Pig's Eye Landing after Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant
  Pierre Parrant
  Pierre “Pig’s Eye” Parrant is recognized as being the first person of European descent to live within the borders of what would eventually become the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota...
  
   - French: l'Oeil du Cochon, a French-Canadian trader and innkeeper, renamed Saint Paul by French-Canadian pastor Lucien Galtier when he built the first Roman Catholic chapel in the area)
• Terrebonne
  Terrebonne, Minnesota
  Terrebonne is a former townsite on the Clearwater River in Terrebonne Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota, United States. In 1901, the village of Terrebonne was the site of a thriving flour mill, a cheese factory, a blacksmith shop, a general store and an "eating place", the latter operated by...
  
   ("good land")
• Traverse County
  Traverse County, Minnesota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 4,134 people, 1,717 households, and 1,129 families residing in the county. The population density was 7 people per square mile . There were 2,199 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...
  
  
• Vadnais Heights
  Vadnais Heights, Minnesota
  Vadnais Heights is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,302 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. It borders the cities of Shoreview, Little Canada, White Bear...
  
  , suburb of Saint Paul
• Lake Vermilion
  Lake Vermilion
  Lake Vermilion is a freshwater lake in northeastern Minnesota, United States. The Ojibwe originally called the lake Onamuni, which means "Lake of the Sunset Glow". French fur traders translated this to the Latin word Vermilion, which is a red pigment...
  
  
• Voyageurs National Park
  Voyageurs National Park
  Voyageurs National Park is a United States National Park in northern Minnesota near the town of International Falls. It was established in 1975. The park's name commemorates the voyageurs, French-Canadian fur traders who were the first European settlers to frequently travel through the area...
  
  , (named after the French-Canadian explorers - "travellers")

Mississippi

• Amite County
  Amite County, Mississippi
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 13,599 people, 5,271 households, and 3,879 families residing in the county. The population density was 19 people per square mile . There were 6,446 housing units at an average density of 9 per square mile...
  
   (from amitié, "friendship")
• Bay St. Louis
  Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
  Bay Saint Louis is a city located in Hancock County, Mississippi. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,209. It is the county seat of Hancock County...
  
   (from Baie Saint-Louis)
• Beaumont
  Beaumont, Mississippi
  Beaumont is a town in Perry County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 977 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Beaumont is located at ....
  
  
• Bellefontaine
• Benoit
  Benoit, Mississippi
  Benoit is a town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 611 at the 2000 census. The 1956 movie Baby Doll was shot on location in Benoit; many local residents played in minor roles.-Geography:...
  
  
• Biloxi
  Biloxi, Mississippi
  Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, in the United States. The 2010 census recorded the population as 44,054. Along with Gulfport, Biloxi is a county seat of Harrison County....
  
  
• Bourbon
• Carriere
  Carriere, Mississippi
  Carriere is an unincorporated area in Pearl River County, Mississippi, United States....
  
  
• Centreville
  Centreville, Mississippi
  Centreville is a town in Amite and Wilkinson Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 1,680 at the 2000 census. It is part of the McComb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   (note the "re" spelling of "centre" as opposed to "center")
• Clermont Harbor
  Clermont Harbor, Mississippi
  Clermont Harbor is an unincorporated village on the western end of Hancock County on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• De Lisle
• D'Iberville
  D'Iberville, Mississippi
  D'Iberville is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, immediately north of Biloxi, across the back bay. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
   (named after Pierre Lemoyne, Sieur d'Iberville
  Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
  Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville pronounced as described in note] Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville pronounced as described in note] Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville pronounced as described in note] (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1702 (probable)was a soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of...
  
  , governor of New France
  New France
  New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763...
  
  )
• Fayette
  Fayette, Mississippi
  Fayette is a city in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,242 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Jefferson County.-Geography:Fayette is located at ....
  
  
• Gautier
  Gautier, Mississippi
  Gautier is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States, along the Gulf of Mexico west of Pascagoula. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 11,681 at the 2000 census. In 2002, Gautier annexed land nearly doubling its population to...
  
   (Named for the Gautier family, who established a homestead
  Homesteading
  Broadly defined, homesteading is a lifestyle of simple self-sufficiency.-Current practice:The term may apply to anyone who follows the back-to-the-land movement by adopting a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle. While land is no longer freely available in most areas of the world, homesteading...
  
   on the site in 1867.)
• LeFleur's Bluff State Park
  LeFleur's Bluff State Park
  LeFleur's Bluff State Park is a Mississippi state park in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi in the United States. The park is and sits at an elevation of . It is located off of Interstate 55 on the banks of the Pearl River within the city of Jackson...
  
   (Named after earlier French-Canadian trader and settler Louis LeFleur)
• Pass Christian
  Pass Christian, Mississippi
  Pass Christian , nicknamed The Pass, is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, along the Gulf of Mexico. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
   (Named after Nicholas Christian L'Adnier)
• Petit Bois Island ("Little Woods")
• Saucier
  Saucier, Mississippi
  Saucier is a census-designated place in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  

Missouri

• Audrain County
  Audrain County, Missouri
  Audrain County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2010, the population was 25,529. Its county seat is Mexico. The county was organized in 1836. Audrain County was named for Col. James Hunter Audrain. Col. Audrain was Colonel of militia in the War of 1812. In 1830 Col...
  
  
• Auxvasse
  Auxvasse, Missouri
  Auxvasse is a city in Callaway County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 983 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Auxvasse is located at ....
  
  
• Bay de Charles
• Bayouville
• Belgique
  Belgique, Missouri
  Belgique is an unincorporated community in eastern Perry County, Missouri, USA. It is located about five miles south of Chester, Illinois. Its post office has closed and its mail now comes from Perryville. The community was founded in 1890 and is named after the French name for Belgium....
  
  
• Belle
  Belle, Missouri
  Belle is a city in Maries and Osage counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 1,344 at the 2000 census.The Osage County portion of Belle is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• Bellefontaine
• Bevier
  Bevier, Missouri
  Bevier is a city in Macon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 718 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Bevier is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Bonne Terre
• Bourbeuse River
  Bourbeuse River
  The Bourbeuse River is a river located in east-central Missouri, in the Ozarks region, and is one of two major tributaries of the Meramec River, the other being the Big River...
  
  
• Bourbon
  Bourbon, Missouri
  Bourbon is a city in Crawford County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,348 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Brazeau
  Brazeau, Missouri
  Brazeau is an unincorporated community in southeastern Perry County, Missouri. Although it is small, it does have a United States Post Office with a zip code of 63737. It is located about ten miles southeast of Perryville, Missouri and about 35 miles north of Cape Girardeau...
  
  
• Cap au Gris
• Cape Girardeau
  Cape Girardeau, Missouri
  Cape Girardeau is a city located in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in Southeast Missouri in the United States. It is located approximately southeast of St. Louis and north of Memphis. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 37,941. A college town, it is the home of Southeast Missouri...
  
  
• Carondelet
• Castor River
  Castor River (Missouri)
  The Castor River rises in southeastern Missouri near Fredericktown. The river flows south to Bollinger County and empties into the Headwater Diversion Channel, which flows into the Mississippi River just south of Cape Girardeau. The river below the Diversion Channel flows south until it reaches...
  
  
• Chamois
  Chamois, Missouri
  Chamois is a city in Osage County, Missouri, United States. The population was 456 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city was founded in 1856 and is named after Chamonix in France, due to its Alpine scenery...
  
  
• Chouteau Springs
• Courtois
  Courtois, Missouri
  Courtois is an unincorporated community in southwestern Washington County, Missouri, United States. It is located about 12 miles southwest of Belgrade. Its post office is closed and mail now comes from Steelville or Belgrade. The community is named after an unidentified settler, as is a nearby...
  
  
• Courtois Creek
  Courtois Creek
  Courtois Creek is a stream in southern Missouri, U.S.A. It shares its name with the nearby town of Courtois. According to the information in the Ramsay Place Names File at the University of Missouri, the creek was "doubtless named for some French settler, but his identity has not been...
  
  
• Creve Coeur
  Creve Coeur, Missouri
  Creve Coeur, derived from French for "heartbreak" , is a second-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in west St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The city derives its name from Creve Coeur Lake, which is shaped like a broken heart. The population was 17,833 at the 2010 census...
  
   ("Heartbreak")
• Cuivre River
  Cuivre River
  The Cuivre River is a river in the east central part of the state of Missouri, north of the Missouri River terminus. A good part of its course marks the borders between Lincoln and St. Charles counties before emptying into the Mississippi River north of St. Louis. The Cuivre River State Park near...
  
   ("copper")
• Dardenne Prairie
  Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
  Dardenne Prairie is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,384 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Dardenne Prairie is located at...
  
  
• DeBaliviere Place
  DeBaliviere Place, St. Louis
  DeBaliviere ' Place is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri.-Location:The DeBaliviere Place neighborhood is bounded by Delmar Boulevard on the North, Union Boulevard on the East, Lindell Boulevard on the South, and Debaliviere Avenue on the west.-Characteristics:The DeBaliviere Place neighborhood...
  
   (Neighborhood in St. Louis)
• Des Arc
  Des Arc, Missouri
  Des Arc is a village in Iron County, Missouri, United States. The population was 187 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Des Arc is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Desloge
• Des Peres
  Des Peres, Missouri
  Des Peres is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 8,373 at the 2010 census.-History:The first inhabitants of Des Peres were the Cahokia, the Kaskaskia, the Michigamea, the Moingwena, and the Tamaora Native American tribes....
  
  
• River Des Peres
  River des Peres
  The River des Peres is a metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and stormwater systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County...
  
  
• Fayette
  Fayette, Missouri
  Fayette is a city in Howard County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,793 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Howard County. It is in the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
  
• Femme Osage
• Florissant
  Florissant, Missouri
  Florissant is a second-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in northern St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The city has a total population of 52,158 in 2010 census.-History:...
  
   (formerly Fleurissant)
• Frontenac
  Frontenac, Missouri
  Frontenac is a wealthy inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The signature landmark is Plaza Frontenac, a high-end mall featuring many prominent retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Tiffany & Co., among others...
  
  
• Gasconade County (from the French word "gascon" which means braggart)
• Gravois Mills
  Gravois Mills, Missouri
  Gravois Mills is a village in Morgan County, Missouri, United States. The population was 208 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town.-Geography:Gravois Mills is located at ....
  
  
• La Belle
  La Belle, Missouri
  La Belle is a city in Lewis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 669 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Although this article lists La Belle as two words in the French tradition, residents write it as "LaBelle"...
  
  
• Laclede County (named for Pierre Laclede
  Pierre Laclède
  Pierre Laclède or Pierre Laclède Liguest was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and "stepson" Auguste Chouteau, founded St...
  
   (1729–1778), founder of St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
  
  )
• Lafayette County (named for Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette)
• La Forge
• La Grange
  La Grange, Missouri
  La Grange is a city in Lewis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,000 at the 2000 census. Since the 2000 census the population has been dwindling. It is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Police Scandal:...
  
  
• Lake Lafayette
• La Vieille Mine (Alternate name of Old Mines
  Old Mines, Missouri
  Old Mines is the name of both an unincorporated community and the surrounding area in southeast Missouri that were settled by French colonists who mined for lead from the early 18th century when the area was a part of the Illinois Country of New France...
  
  )
• Loutre River
  Loutre River
  The Loutre River is a tributary of the Missouri River in the United States. The Loutre River, beginning as Little Loutre Creek in Audrain County, is fed along its path by many small creeks and streams. It flows into the Missouri River from the north in Montgomery County opposite the town of Hermann...
  
  
• Lyon
  Lyon
  Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
  
  
• Marais Croche
• Marais des Cygnes River
  Marais des Cygnes River
  The Marais des Cygnes River is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River...
  
  
• Marais des Liards (original name of Bridgeton
  Bridgeton, Missouri
  Bridgeton is a city in northwestern St. Louis County, Missouri, serving as a suburb and transport hub within Greater St. Louis. The population at the 2010 census was 11,550. Portions of Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport are within Bridgeton.-Location:...
  
  )
• Marais Temps Clair
• Maupin
• Mine La Motte
• Moniteau County
• Moreau River
  Moreau River
  The Moreau River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 200 mi long, in South Dakota in the United States.It rises in two forks in northwestern South Dakota, in the Badlands of Harding County. The North Fork rises approximately 10 mi northeast of Crow Buttes...
  
  
• Noel
  Noel, Missouri
  Noel is a city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States, along the Elk River. The population was 1,615 at the 2009 census. It is part of the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Area....
  
  
• Normandy
  Normandy, Missouri
  Normandy is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,008 at the 2010 census.-History:The town is on land once owned by Charles Lucas. Lucas obtained property from the federal government with land grants, and he purchased the land from victims of the New Madrid...
  
  
• Papin
  Papin
  Papin is a surname, and may refer to:* Christine Papin , French murderer* Denis Papin , French physicist, mathematician and inventor* Jean-Pierre Papin , French former football player...
  
  
• Paris
  Paris, Missouri
  Paris is a city in Monroe County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,529 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Monroe County.-Geography:Paris is located at...
  
  
• Pere Marquette Park
• Petit Marais Rondeau Lake
• Pomme de Terre Lake
  Pomme de Terre Lake
  Pomme de Terre Lake is located in southwest Missouri at the confluence of Lindley Creek and the Pomme de Terre River . The lake is located in southern Hickory and northern Polk counties, about north of Springfield...
  
   ("Potato")
• Pomme de Terre River
  Pomme de Terre River (Missouri)
  The Pomme de Terre River is a tributary of the Osage River in southwestern Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.Pomme de terre is French for potato.-Course:...
  
   ("Potato")
• Portage des Sioux
  Portage Des Sioux, Missouri
  Portage Des Sioux is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The town sits on the Mississippi River roughly opposite Elsah, Illinois, and is the home of the riverside shrine of Our Lady of the Rivers. The population was 367 at the 2007 census. The city was founded in 1799 by...
  
  
• Portageville
  Portageville, Missouri
  Portageville is a city in New Madrid and Pemiscot counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 3,295 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Portageville is located at , primarily in New Madrid County....
  
  
• Prairie du Chien
• River aux Vases
• Robidoux
• Roubidoux Creek
  Roubidoux Creek
  Roubidoux Creek is a scenic tributary to the Gasconade River in south central Missouri named after French explorer Joseph Robidoux. It is long. Due to its colder water temperatures, it is listed as a trout stream. Roubidoux Spring is a landmark that is nestled three and a half miles south of the...
  
  
• Rocheport
  Rocheport, Missouri
  Rocheport is a city in Boone County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 208 at the 2000 census...
  
  
• St. Aubert
• St. Francois County
• St. Francois Mountains
• St. Louis
  St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
  
   (named in honor of King Louis IX
  Louis IX of France
  Louis IX , commonly Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death. He was also styled Louis II, Count of Artois from 1226 to 1237. Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and...
  
  , later canonized as Saint Louis)
• Ste. Genevieve
  Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
  Ste. Genevieve is a city in and the county seat of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, United States. The population was 11,654 at the 2000 census...
  
   (after the patron saint
  Patron saint
  A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person...
  
   of Paris)
• Terre du Lac
  Terre du Lac, Missouri
  Terre du Lac is an unincorporated community in St. Francois County, Missouri and Washington County, Missouri United States. It uses Zip Code 63628 from neighboring Bonne Terre.-Festival:...
  
  
• Theabeau
• Valles Mines
  Valles Mines, Missouri
  Valles Mines is an unincorporated community in southern Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. It is located about seven miles south of De Soto and is less than a mile from U.S. Route 67.-References:...
  
  
• Versailles
  Versailles, Missouri
  Versailles is a city in Morgan County, Missouri, United States. According to the 2000 census the population is 2,565. It is the county seat of Morgan County...
  
  
• Vichy
  Vichy, Missouri
  Vichy is an unincorporated community in southern Maries County, Missouri, United States. It is located on U.S. Route 63 about ten miles north of Rolla. The community was founded in 1880 and is named after Vichy, France. The Rolla National Airport, a former U.S...
  
  

Montana

• Belle Creek
• Cascade County
  Cascade County, Montana
  -National protected areas:*Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge*Lewis and Clark National Forest -Economy:Malmstrom Air Force Base is a driving force in the regional economy...
  
   ("waterfall")
• Choteau
  Choteau, Montana
  Choteau is a city in and the county seat of Teton County, Montana, United States. It lies along U.S. Routes 89 and 287 about east of the Rocky Mountains, near Flathead National Forest, the Rocky Mountain Division of Lewis and Clark National Forest, and Glacier National Park. The population was...
  
  
• Chouteau County
  Chouteau County, Montana
  -National protected areas:* Lewis and Clark National Forest * Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument -Economy:Chouteau County is the largest winter wheat producer for the state of Montana...
  
  , named after Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
  Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
  Pierre Chouteau, Jr. , also referred to as Pierre Cadet Chouteau, was an American merchant and a member of the wealthy Chouteau fur-trading family of St. Louis, Missouri.-Early life and education:...
  
  , an American fur trader of French Canadian origin
• Dupuyer
• Froid
  Froid, Montana
  As of the census of 2000, there were 195 people, 97 households, and 51 families residing in the town. The population density was 688.1 people per square mile . There were 122 housing units at an average density of 430.5 per square mile . The racial makeup of the town was 90.77% White, 5.64% Native...
  
   ("Cold")
• Gallatin County
  Gallatin County, Montana
  -National protected areas:* Gallatin National Forest * Yellowstone National Park -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 67,831 people, 26,323 households, and 16,188 families residing in the county. The population density was 26 people per square mile . There were 29,489 housing units...
  
  
• Havre
  Havre, Montana
  Havre is a city in, and the county seat of, Hill County, Montana, United States. It is said to be named after the city of Le Havre in France. The population was 9,621 at the 2000 census.-History:...
  
   (from Le Havre
  Le Havre
  Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
  
  , France)
• Joliet
  Joliet, Montana
  Joliet is a town in Carbon County, Montana, United States. It is part of the Billings, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 575 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Joliet is located at .-Notable residents:...
  
  
• Laurin
• Lozeau
• Portage
• Prairie County
  Prairie County, Montana
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,199 people, 537 households, and 354 families residing in the county. The population density was -Demographics:...
  
  
• St. Marie
  St. Marie, Montana
  St. Marie is a census-designated place in Valley County, Montana, United States. The population was 183 at the 2000 census. It is located at the site of the former Glasgow Air Force Base. When the Air Force base was decommissioned, the housing was purchased and offered for sale to private...
  
  
• St. Xavier
  St. Xavier, Montana
  St. Xavier is a census-designated place in Big Horn County, Montana, United States. The population was 67 at the 2000 census.-Geography:St...
  
  
• Sonnette
  Sonnette, Montana
  Sonnette is an unincorporated community in west central Powder River County, Montana, United States. The community is situated near the headwaters of Pumpkin Creek, just west of the Custer National Forest. It lies along local roads northwest of the town of Broadus, the county seat of Powder River...
  
  
• Teton County
  Teton County, Montana
  -National protected area:*Lewis and Clark National Forest *Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Area -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 6,445 people, 2,538 households, and 1,761 families residing in the county. The population density was 3 people per square mile . There were 2,910...
  
   ("Teat")
• Virgelle
• Wibaux County
  Wibaux County, Montana
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,068 people, 421 households, and 287 families residing in the county. The population density was less than 1 person per square mile . There were 587 housing units at an average density of less than 1/sq mi...
  
  

Nebraska

• Barada
  Barada, Nebraska
  Barada is a village in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 28 at the 2000 census. The village was named in honor of folk hero Antonine Barada, and was located within the former Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation.-Geography:...
  
   (named after Antoine Barada, whose father was French fur trapper and interpreter Michel Barada)
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Nebraska
  Bellevue is a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 50,137 at the 2010 census. Eight miles south of Omaha, Bellevue is part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Originally settled in the 1830s, It was the first state capitol. Bellevue was incorporated in...
  
    ("Beautiful Sight")
• Cabanné's Post
  Cabanne's Trading Post
  Cabanne's Trading Post was established in 1822 by the American Fur Company as Fort Robidoux near present-day Dodge Park in North Omaha, Nebraska. It was named for influential fur trapper Joseph Robidoux...
  
  
• Du Bois
  Du Bois, Nebraska
  Du Bois is a village in the southeast corner of Pawnee County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 166 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Du Bois is located at ....
  
   ("of the Woods")
• Fremont
  Fremont, Nebraska
  Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Dodge County, Nebraska, United States, near Omaha in the eastern part of the state. The population was 26,397 at the 2010 census....
  
   (named for John C. Frémont
  John C. Frémont
  John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...
  
  , French-American pioneer and politician)
• Grand Island
  Grand Island, Nebraska
  Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 48,520 at the 2010 census.Grand Island is home to the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center which is the sole agency responsible for training law enforcement officers throughout the state,...
  
  
• Loup County, Loup River ("Wolf")
• Papillion
  Papillion, Nebraska
  Papillion is a city in Sarpy County in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is a suburb to the southwest of neighboring Omaha, and is the county seat of Sarpy County. The population of Papillion was 18,894 at the 2010 census. In 2009, Papillion was named the #3 best place to live in the United States by...
  
   (from papillon, "butterfly")
• Platte County
  Platte County, Nebraska
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 31,662 people, 12,076 households, and 8,465 families residing in the county. The population density was 47 people per square mile . There were 12,916 housing units at an average density of 19 per square mile...
  
  
• Platte River
  Platte River
  The Platte River is a major river in the state of Nebraska and is about long. Measured to its farthest source via its tributary the North Platte River, it flows for over . The Platte River is a tributary of the Missouri River, which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi River which flows to...
  
   ("flat river")
• Sarpy County
  Sarpy County, Nebraska
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 122,595 people, 43,426 households, and 33,220 families residing in the county. The population density was 510 people per square mile . There were 44,981 housing units at an average density of 187 per square mile...
  
   (named after Peter Abadie Sarpy, a fur trader of French origin born in New Orleans, Louisiana)

Nevada

• Frenchman
• Lamoille
  Lamoille, Nevada
  Lamoille is a rural unincorporated community in Elko County in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It is located about east of Elko at the base of the Ruby Mountains at an elevation of and is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area.The early...
  
  
• Pioche
  Pioche, Nevada
  -External links:*...
  
   (named for François Louis Alfred Pioche, financier who purchased the town in 1869)
• Reno
  Reno, Nevada
  Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...
  
   (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War, Reno's family name was simplified from the French surname "Renault")

New Hampshire

• Belmont
  Belmont, New Hampshire
  Belmont is a town in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 7,356 at the 2010 census.The primary settlement in town, where 1,301 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined by the U.S...
  
   (named for August Belmont
  August Belmont
  August Belmont, Sr. was an American politician.-Early life:August Belmont was born in Alzey, Hesse, on December 8, 1813--some sources say 1816--to Simon and Frederika Elsass Schönberg, a Jewish family. After his mother's death, when he was seven, he lived with his uncle and grandmother in Frankfurt...
  
  , German-born financier who changed his name to Belmont upon arriving in the United States)
• Fremont
  Fremont, New Hampshire
  Fremont is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,283 at the 2010 census. Fremont is crossed by the Rockingham Recreation Trail and NH Route 107.-History:...
  
   (named for John C. Frémont
  John C. Frémont
  John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...
  
  , French-American pioneer and politician)
• Pinardville
  Pinardville, New Hampshire
  Pinardville is a census-designated place in the eastern part of the town of Goffstown in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,780 at the 2010 census...
  
   (named for Edmond Pinard, Québec native and early resident)

New Jersey

• New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
   and Jersey City (after the Bailliage de Jersey
  Jersey
  Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
  
  , the largest of the Anglo-Norman Channel Islands
  Channel Islands
  The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
  
  , whose inhabitants spoke a Norman-French dialect until the twentieth century)
• Bayonne
  Bayonne, New Jersey
  Bayonne is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Located in the Gateway Region, Bayonne is a peninsula that is situated between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill van Kull to the south, and New York Bay to the east...
  
   (according to tradition, from Bayonne
  Bayonne
  Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
  
  , France)
• Lavallette
  Lavallette, New Jersey
  Lavallette is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the borough population was 1,875. Lavallette is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.Lavallette was...
  
   (named for Elie A. F. La Vallette
  Elie A. F. La Vallette
  Elie Augustus Frederick La Vallette was one of the first rear admirals appointed in the United States Navy when President Abraham Lincoln created the rank in July 1862.-Biography:...
  
  , U.S. naval captain of French family origin)
• Port Liberté
  Port Liberté, Jersey City
  Port Liberté is a section of Jersey City located on Caven Point that used to be one of last natural sand beaches on the Upper New York Bay. The community is a European style village located along the western side of Upper New York Bay. The community has canals, gardens, playgrounds, and even a...
  
  
• Montclair
  Montclair, New Jersey
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 38,977 people, 15,020 households, and 9,687 families residing in the township. The population density was 6,183.6 people per square mile . There were 15,531 housing units at an average density of 2,464.0 per square mile...
  
   ("Bright Mountain")

New Mexico

• Bayard
  Bayard, New Mexico
  Bayard is a city in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,534 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bayard is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
   (named for George D. Bayard, Union general in the Civil War of French ancestry)
• Clovis
  Clovis, New Mexico
  Clovis is the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 32,667 at the 2000 census; according to 2010 Census Bureau estimates, the population had risen to 37,775....
  
   (named for Clovis
  Clovis I
  Clovis Leuthwig was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the leadership from a group of royal chieftains, to rule by kings, ensuring that the kingship was held by his heirs. He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul . He was the son...
  
  , first Christian King of the Franks
  Franks
  The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
  
  )

New York

• Au Sable
  Au Sable, New York
  Au Sable, or Ausable, is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 3,146 at the 2010 census. The name is from a river that flows through the town and means "Of the sand."...
  
  
• Ausable River ("sand river")
• Barre
  Barre, New York
  Barre is a town in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 2,124 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Barre, Massachusetts.The Town of Barre is on the south border of the county.- History :...
  
  
• Bellerose
  Bellerose, New York
  Bellerose is a village in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The population was 1,193 at the 2010 census.Bellerose is in the town of Hempstead near the western county line.- History :...
  
  
• Belle Terre
  Belle Terre, New York
  Belle Terre is a village in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 832 at the 2000 census.The Incorporated Village of Belle Terre is in the Town of Brookhaven, on the North Shore of Long Island.-Geography:...
  
  
• Boquet or Bouquet River
• Buffalo
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
   (One theory holds that the city gets its name from an English corruption of the French "beau fleuve" ("beautiful river").)
• Chateaugay
  Chateaugay (town), New York
  Chateaugay is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,036. The name is derived from a location in France, which was applied to a local land grant....
  
   (named after Chateauguay, Québec
  Châteauguay, Quebec
  Châteauguay is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, located both on the Chateauguay River and Lac St-Louis, which is a section of the St. Lawrence River...
  
  )
• Chateaugay River
• Champlain
  Champlain (town), New York
  Champlain is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 5,754 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Lake Champlain....
  
   (named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
• Chaumont
  Chaumont, New York
  Chaumont is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 592 at the 2000 census. The village is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, the Comte de Chaumont in France....
  
  
• Chaumont Bay
• Chaumont River
• Clermont
  Clermont, New York
  Clermont is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 1,726 at the 2000 census. The name of the town is French for "Clear Mountain," referring to the mountain views in the town....
  
  
• Delaware County
  Delaware County, New York
  Delaware County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2010 the population was 47,980. The county seat is Delhi. It is named after the Delaware River, which was named in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, appointed governor of Virginia in 1609.-History:When counties...
  
  
• Dunkirk (named after the city of Dunkirk or Dunkerque, France, because of the similar harbor.)
• Esperance
• Fayette
  Fayette, New York
  Fayette is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States. The population was 3,643 at the 2000 census.The Town of Fayette is on the western border of the county and is southeast of Geneva, New York.- History :...
  
  
• Fayetteville
  Fayetteville, New York
  Fayetteville is a village located in Onondaga County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the village had a population of 4,190. The village is named after Lafayette, a national hero of both France and the United States...
  
  
• Fremont
  Fremont, Steuben County, New York
  Fremont is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 964 at the 2000 census. The town is named after General John Fremont.The Town of Fremont is in the western part of Steuben County, northeast of Hornell, New York....
  
  
• Fremont Center (named after John C. Frémont
  John C. Frémont
  John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...
  
  , Franco-American explorer, military officer and politician)
• French Creek
  French Creek, New York
  French Creek is a town in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 935 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the stream flowing through it.The Town of French Creek lies in the southwest corner of Chautauqua County....
  
  
• Gouverneur
  Gouverneur (town), New York
  Gouverneur is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 7,418 at the 2000 census. The town is named after statesman and landowner Gouverneur Morris....
  
  
• Grand Island
  Grand Island, New York
  Grand Island is a town and an island in Erie County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the town population is 20,374. This represents an increase of 9.41% from the 2000 census figure . The current town name derives from the French name La Grande Île, as Grand Island is the largest island in...
  
  
• Granville
  Granville, New York
  Granville is a town on the eastern border of Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
  
• Huguenot
  Huguenot, Staten Island
  Huguenot is the name of a neighborhood located on the South Shore of Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, USA. In recent years it has become increasingly customary to refer to the western part of Huguenot as a separate neighborhood called Woodrow...
  
  
• Jacques Cartier State Park
  Jacques Cartier State Park
  Jacques Cartier State Park is located in the Town of Morristown in Saint Lawrence County, New York. The park is located on the south bank of the St...
  
   (park located along the St. Lawrence River and named after 16th century French explorer Jacques Cartier
  Jacques Cartier
  Jacques Cartier was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big...
  
  )
• La Chute River
  La Chute River
  The La Chute River is a short, fast-moving river, near the Vermont-New York State border, now almost wholly contained within the municipality of Ticonderoga, New York, connecting the northern end and outlet of the long Lake George and the southern end of Lake Champlain through many falls and...
  
  
• LaFayette
  LaFayette, New York
  LaFayette is a town in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 4,833 at the 2000 census. The town is named after LaFayette, a national hero of both France and the United States....
  
  
• LaGrange
  LaGrange, New York
  LaGrange is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 14,928 at the 2000 census. The town was named after the ancestral estate of the Marquis de Lafayette.-History:...
  
  
• Lake Champlain
  Lake Champlain
  Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...
  
   (lake named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
• Le Ray
  Le Ray, New York
  Le Ray is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 21,782 at the 2010 census. The town is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, from France.The Town of Le Ray is in the central part of the county and is east of Watertown....
  
  
• Le Roy
  Le Roy (town), New York
  Le Roy, or more commonly LeRoy, is a town in Genesee County, New York, United States. The population was 7,790 at the 2000 census. The town is named after one of the original land owners, Herman Le Roy....
  
  
• Liberty Island
  Liberty Island
  Liberty Island is a small uninhabited island in New York Harbor in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. Though so called since the turn of the century, the name did not become official until 1956. In 1937, by proclamation 2250, President Franklin D...
  
   (after the Statue de la Liberté
  Statue of Liberty
  The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886...
  
   offered by France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  )
• Lorraine
  Lorraine, New York
  Lorraine is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 1,037 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Lorraine, a region in France.The Town of Lorraine is on the south border of the county and is south of Watertown....
  
  
• Louisville
  Louisville, New York
  Louisville is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 3,195 at the 2000 census. The town is reportedly named after a French king, but it is pronounced as "Lewis-ville."...
  
  
• Maine
  Maine, New York
  Maine is a town in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 5,459 at the 2000 census.The Town of Maine is on the western border of the county and is northwest of Binghamton.Maine is home to the Greater Binghamton Airport...
  
  
• Marion
  Marion, New York
  Marion is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States. The population was 4,974 as of the 2000 census. It is named after Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. It is an interior town near the center of the county, about 20 miles east of Rochester, New York and 50 miles west of Syracuse, New...
  
  
• Massena
  Massena (town), New York
  Massena is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The town is on the northern border of the county and is nicknamed "The Gateway to the Fourth Coast". The population was 13,121 at the 2000 census. The town of Massena contains a village also called Massena...
  
   (named after André Masséna
  André Masséna
  André Masséna 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d'Essling was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
  
  , one of Napoléon's field marshals.)
• Montague
  Montague, New York
  Montague is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 108 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Mary Montague Pierpont, the daughter of the original owner....
  
  
• Montour
  Montour, New York
  Montour is a town in Schuyler County, New York, United States. The population was 2,446 at the 2000 census. The town is one of two towns in the county named after Catherine Montour....
  
  
• New Paltz (named by French Huguenots)
• New Rochelle
  New Rochelle, New York
  New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.The town was settled by refugee Huguenots in 1688 who were fleeing persecution in France...
  
   (founded by French Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
  s and named after La Rochelle
  La Rochelle
  La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988...
  
  , France.)
• Orleans
  Orleans, New York
  Orleans is a town in Jefferson County, New York, USA. The population was 2,789 at the 2010 census. The town is located in the northern part of the county and is north of Watertown. Orleans is named after the commune of Orléans in France.- History :...
  
  
• Portage
  Portage (town), New York
  Portage is a town in the southwest corner of Livingston County, New York, USA. The town is near the south end of Letchworth State Park. The name of the town stems from the need to portage canoes around the falls of the Genesee River.- History :...
  
  
• Raquette River
  Raquette River
  The Raquette River, sometimes spelled Racquette, originates at Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. long, it is the third longest river entirely in the state of New York....
  
  
• Rouses Point
  Rouses Point, New York
  Rouses Point is a village in Clinton County, New York, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 2,209 at the 2010 census. The village is named after Jacques Rouse, an early settler....
  
   (named after early settler Jacques Rouse.)
• Point Au Roche State Park
  Point Au Roche State Park
  Point Au Roche State Park is a state park in Clinton County in the State of New York in the USA. The park is in the east part of the Town of Beekmantown on the shore of Lake Champlain. It was started by former Town Supervisor Florence Corron with a grant.It has a playground,biking paths, walking...
  
   (park located on the shores of Lake Champlain)
• St. Armand
  St. Armand, New York
  St. Armand is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. The town was named by an early settler for Saint-Armand, Quebec in Canada....
  
  
• St. Lawrence County
  St. Lawrence County, New York
  St. Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,944. The county seat is Canton. The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River, which in turn was named for the Catholic saint on whose Feast day the river was discovered by...
  
   (for the Saint Lawrence River
  Saint Lawrence River
  The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...
  
  , English form of Fleuve Saint-Laurent.)
• Valcour Island
  Valcour Island
  Valcour Island is an island in Lake Champlain in Clinton County, New York, USA. The island is mostly in the Town of Peru and partly in the Town of Plattsburgh, southeast of the City of Plattsburgh....
  
   (island located in Lake Champlain)

North Carolina

• Beaufort
  Beaufort, North Carolina
  Beaufort is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. Established in 1709, it is the third-oldest town in North Carolina.The population was 4,189 at the 2008 census and it is the county seat of Carteret County...
  
   ("Beautiful Fort")
• Camp Lejeune US Marine Corps base
• Fayetteville
  Fayetteville, North Carolina
  Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army post located northwest of the city....
  
  
• Lenoir
  Lenoir, North Carolina
  Lenoir is a city in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 18,228 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Caldwell County. Lenoir is located in the Blue Ridge foothills. The city also contains the Brushy Mountains, a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains...
  
  

North Dakota

• Belcourt
  Belcourt, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,440 people, 806 households, and 561 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 417.0 people per square mile . There were 856 housing units at an average density of 146.3/sq mi...
  
  
• Bois de Sioux River
  Bois de Sioux River
  The Bois de Sioux River drains Lake Traverse, the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It is a tributary of the Red River of the North and defines part of the western border of the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the eastern borders of North Dakota and South Dakota...
  
  
• Bordulac ("Edge of the Lake")
• Bottineau
  Bottineau, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,336 people, 979 households, and 550 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,230.0 people per square mile . There were 1,114 housing units at an average density of 1,063.4 per square mile...
  
   (named for Pierre Bottineau, Métis
  Métis
  A Métis is a person born to parents who belong to different groups defined by visible physical differences, regarded as racial, or the descendant of such persons. The term is of French origin, and also is a cognate of mestizo in Spanish, mestiço in Portuguese, and mestee in English...
  
   pioneer, hunter, and trapper)
• Butte
  Butte, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 92 people, 50 households, and 25 families residing in the city. The population density was 366.7 people per square mile . There were 82 housing units at an average density of 326.8 per square mile...
  
  
• Cavalier
  Cavalier, North Dakota
  Cavalier is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota in the United States. It is the county seat of Pembina County. The population was 1,302 at the 2010 census. Cavalier was founded in 1877 and became the county seat in 1911....
  
   (from "chevalier", knight)
• Charbonneau
  Charbonneau, North Dakota
  Charbonneau is a ghost town in McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. It was abandoned when the post office was closed in the 1960s.-References:*...
  
  
• Chateau de Mores
  Chateau de Mores
  The Chateau de Mores is a historic home built by the Marquis de Mores in 1883 as a hunting lodge and summer home for his family and guests. The home is now part of the Chateau de Mores State Historic Site, which also includes Chimney Park and de Mores Memorial Park, in Medora, North...
  
   State Historic Site (home and ranch built in th 1880s by the French nobleman Marquis de Morès)
• Coteau du Missouri
  Coteau du Missouri
  The Coteau du Missouri, or Missouri Plateau, is a large plateau that stretches along the eastern side of the valley of the Missouri River in central North Dakota and north-central South Dakota in the United States...
  
  
• Coulee
• De Lamere
• Des Lacs
  Des Lacs, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 209 people, 75 households, and 63 families residing in the city. The population density was 390.1 people per square mile . There were 76 housing units at an average density of 141.9 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 99.04% White, 0.48% Native...
  
   ("of the Lakes")
• Des Lacs River
  Des Lacs River
  The Des Lacs River is a river in central North America which flows through Saskatchewan. It flows into the Souris River in Burlington, North Dakota, but also comes very close to it near the 49th parallel....
  
  
• Fargo
  Fargo, North Dakota
  Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...
  
   (named after William Fargo whose original family name was "Fargeau")
• Gascoyne
  Gascoyne, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 23 people, 9 households, and 8 families residing in the city. The population density was 23.3 people per square mile . There were 15 housing units at an average density of 15.2 per square mile...
  
   (maybe from the french region "Gascogne")
• Grand Forks
  Grand Forks, North Dakota
  Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461...
  
   (from the French "les Grandes Fourches" or the big forks)
• Grandin
  Grandin, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 181 people, 72 households, and 56 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,086.2 people per square mile . There were 80 housing units at an average density of 480.1 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 98.90% White, 0.55% Native...
  
   (named after French-Canadian Bishop Grandin)
• Granville
  Granville, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 286 people, 120 households, and 77 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,042.5 people per square mile . There were 141 housing units at an average density of 514.0 per square mile...
  
   (from "grand" = big, "ville" = city)
• Joliette
  Joliette, North Dakota
  Joliette is an unincorporated community located along Interstate 29 in Joliette Township in Pembina County in the U.S. State of North Dakota. It was established in 1879 as a rural post office. It was settled by French Canadians and named for Joliette, Quebec, the hometown of the town's first settler...
  
   (maybe from "jolie" = pretty)
• LaMoure
  LaMoure, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 944 people, 386 households, and 238 families residing in the city. The population density was 736.2 people per square mile . There were 433 housing units at an average density of 337.7 per square mile . The racial makeup of the city was 99.15% White, 0.42%...
  
  
• Medora
  Medora, North Dakota
  In the city the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males...
  
   (named by the French nobleman Marquis de Morès for his wife Medora)
• Merricourt
• Minot
  Minot, North Dakota
  Minot is a city located in north central North Dakota in the United States. It is most widely known for the Air Force base located approximately 15 miles north of the city. With a population of 40,888 at the 2010 census, Minot is the fourth largest city in the state...
  
   (French word for "bushel" of grain or from minotier for "flour-miller" )
• Montpelier
  Montpelier, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 103 people, 44 households, and 31 families residing in the town. The population density was 385.9 people per square mile . There were 45 housing units at an average density of 168.6 per square mile...
  
   (named after Montpellier
  Montpellier
  -Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
  
  , France)
• Napoleon
  Napoleon, North Dakota
  The median household income was $28,167, and the median family income was $36,042. Males had a median income of $28,036 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,208. About 5.9% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.4% of those...
  
   (named after French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
  Napoleon I of France
  Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...
  
  )
• Renville County
  Renville County, North Dakota
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,610 people, 1,085 households, and 748 families residing in the county. The population density was 3 people per square mile . There were 1,413 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile...
  
  
• Rolette
  Rolette, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 538 people, 243 households, and 140 families residing in the city. The population density was 535.4 people per square mile . There were 286 housing units at an average density of 284.6 per square mile...
  
  
• Souris River
  Souris River
  The Souris River or Mouse River is a river in central North America. It is about 700 km in length and drains about . It rises in the Yellow Grass Marshes north of Weyburn, Saskatchewan...
  
   ("Mouse")
• Verendrye
  Verendrye, North Dakota
  Verendrye is a ghost town in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States. The Verendrye Electric Cooperative was established here in 1939 but relocated to Velva within a couple years. By 2007, the remnants of the town amounted to two or three house foundations and the backless facade of an old...
  
   (named for Pierre de La Vérendrye
  Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
  Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer. In the 1730s he and his four sons opened up the area west of Lake Superior and thus began the process that added Western Canada to the original New France in the Saint Lawrence basin...
  
  , French-Canadian officer and explorer)
• Voltaire
  Voltaire, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 51 people, 20 households, 45 Dogs, 3 horses, and 14 families residing in the city. The population density was 125.1 people per square mile . There were 21 housing units at an average density of 51.5 per square mile...
  
   (named for Voltaire
  Voltaire
  François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
  
  , French Enlightenment
  Age of Enlightenment
  The Age of Enlightenment was an elite cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in church and state...
  
   philosopher)

Ohio

• Auglaize River
  Auglaize River
  The Auglaize River is a tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio in the United States. It drains a primarily rural farming area in the watershed of Lake Erie. The name of the river either comes from a Shawnee phrase meaning "fallen timbers" or a French term for "frozen water."It rises in...
  
   (corruption of the French eau glaise, meaning "muddy water")
• Bellefontaine
  Bellefontaine, Ohio
  Bellefontaine is a city in and the county seat of Logan County, Ohio, United States. The population was 13,069 at the 2000 census. It is the center of the Bellefontaine Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003...
  
   ("Beautiful Fountain")
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Ohio
  Bellevue is a city in Erie, Huron, Sandusky and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 8,193 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Bellevue as a Tree City USA....
  
   ("Beautiful View")
• Belmont County
  Belmont County, Ohio
  Belmont County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the population was 70,400. Its county seat is St. Clairsville...
  
    (Anglicized "Beautiful Mountain")
• Champaign County
  Champaign County, Ohio
  As of the census of 2000, there were 38,890 people, 14,952 households, and 10,870 families residing in the county. The population density was 91 people per square mile . There were 15,890 housing units at an average density of 37 per square mile...
  
  
• Clermont County
  Clermont County, Ohio
  Clermont County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States, just east of Cincinnati. As of 2010, the population was 197,363. Its county seat is Batavia...
  
   (from french city Cermont. "Clair" = clear, "mont" = mount)
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Ohio
  As of the census of 2000, there were 28,433 people, 11,054 households, and 7,837 families residing in the county. The population density was 70 people per square mile . There were 11,904 housing units at an average density of 29 per square mile...
  
   (for the Marquis de Lafayette)
• Gallia County
  Gallia County, Ohio
  As of the census of 2000, there were 31,069 people, 12,060 households, and 8,586 families residing in the county. The population density was 66 people per square mile . There were 13,498 housing units at an average density of 29 per square mile...
  
   (Latin for Gaul
  Gaul
  Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine. The Gauls were the speakers of...
  
  , Roman name for France)
• Huron County
  Huron County, Ohio
  As of the census of 2000, there were 59,487 people, 22,307 households, and 16,217 families residing in the county. The population density was 121 people per square mile . There were 23,594 housing units at an average density of 48 per square mile...
  
   (French name for the Wyandot tribe)
• LaRue ("The Street")
• Lorain County
  Lorain County, Ohio
  Lorain County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, and is considered to be a part of what is locally referred to as Greater Cleveland. As of the 2010 census, its population was 301,356. an increase from 284,664 in 2000...
  
   (for the French province of Lorraine
  Lorraine (province)
  The Duchy of Upper Lorraine was an historical duchy roughly corresponding with the present-day northeastern Lorraine region of France, including parts of modern Luxembourg and Germany. The main cities were Metz, Verdun, and the historic capital Nancy....
  
  )
• Marietta
  Marietta, Ohio
  Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States. During 1788, pioneers to the Ohio Country established Marietta as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory. Marietta is located in southeastern Ohio at the mouth...
  
   (to honor Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
  
  )
• Marseilles
  Marseilles, Ohio
  Marseilles is a village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The population was 124 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Marseilles is located at ....
  
   (from the french city Marseille)
• Nimishillen, Ohio Stark County
• Vermilion River
  Vermilion River (Ohio)
  The Vermilion River is a river in northern Ohio in the United States. It is long and is a tributary of Lake Erie, draining an area of . The name alludes to the reddish clay that is the predominant local soil along its route...
  
    (Red River)
• Versailles, Ohio Darke County

Oklahoma

• Achille
  Achille, Oklahoma
  Achille is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 506.The town's name comes from a Cherokee word, "atsila", meaning fire.-History:...
  
   ("Achilles")
• Avant
  Avant, Oklahoma
  Avant is a town in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 372 at the 2000 census.-History:Ben Avant, a native of Gonzales, Texas, married Rosalie Rogers, a Cherokee-Osage, and established a ranch in 1896. The Midland Valley Railroad reached the Avant ranch in 1905, where a post...
  
   ("Before" or "ahead")
• Ballard (a common French surname)
• Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
• Boise City
  Boise City, Oklahoma
  Boise City is a city in and the county seat of Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,266 at the 2010 census.'Boise' rhymes with 'voice'...
  
   (from Boisé, "Wooded")
• Le Flore
  Le Flore, Oklahoma
  Le Flore is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 168 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Le Flore is located at ....
  
   ("The Flora")
• Lucien (A common French given name)
• Poteau
  Poteau, Oklahoma
  Poteau is a city in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 8,520 at the 2010 census, ranking fifth in the Greater Fort Smith Area. It is the county seat of Le Flore County...
  
   ("Stake")

Oregon

• Oregon
  Oregon
  Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
  
   (possibly from "le fleuve aux ouragans", French for "river of the hurricanes", referring to the windiness of the Columbia River)
• Bonneville
  Bonneville, Oregon
  Bonneville is an unincorporated community in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States, on Interstate 84 and the Columbia River. Bonneville is best known as the site of Bonneville Dam...
  
   (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
• Butteville
  Butteville, Oregon
  Butteville is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Butteville as a census-designated place . The census definition of the area may not precisely correspond to local understanding of the area with...
  
  
• Charbonneau
  Charbonneau, Oregon
  Charbonneau is a private planned community within the city limits of Wilsonville in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States...
  
   (named after Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau son of Sacajawea and a French Canadian member of the Lewis & Clark expedition)
• Coquille
  Coquille, Oregon
  Coquille is a city that is the county seat of Coos County, Oregon, United States. The population was 4,184 at the 2000 census. The 2007 estimate is 4,215 residents. The primary economic base is the timber industry...
  
   ("Shell")
• Deschutes County
  Deschutes County, Oregon
  -National protected areas:* Deschutes National Forest * Newberry National Volcanic Monument-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 115,367 people, 45,595 households, and 31,962 families residing in the county. The population density was 38 people per square mile . There were 54,583...
  
   ("of the waterfalls")
• Deschutes River (from rivière des chutes meaning river of the waterfalls)
• Deschutes National Forest
  Deschutes National Forest
  The Deschutes National Forest is a United States National Forest located in parts of Deschutes, Klamath, Lake, and Jefferson counties in central Oregon. It comprises 1.8 million acres along the east side of the Cascade mountains. In 1908, the Deschutes National Forest was established from parts...
  
   (Waterfalls National Forest)
• Detroit
  Detroit, Oregon
  Detroit is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. It was named for Detroit, Michigan in the 1890s because of the large number of people from Michigan in the community. The population was 262 at the 2000 census...
  
   ("Strait")
• French Prairie
  French Prairie
  French Prairie is a prairie located in Marion County, Oregon, United States, in the Willamette Valley between the Willamette River and the Pudding River, north of Salem...
  
  
• Gervais
  Gervais, Oregon
  Gervais is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. The population was 2,009 at the 2000 census. The 2007 estimate is 2,250 residents. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
   (A French given name)
• Grand Ronde
  Grand Ronde, Oregon
  Grand Ronde is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon, United States. Originally named "Grand Ronde Agency", the name of this city is a variation of the French Grande Ronde or "fine large valley", a description given to the area by the employees of the...
  
   ("Big ring")
• Lafayette
  Lafayette, Oregon
  Lafayette is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States on the Yamhill River and Oregon Route 99W. It was founded in 1846 and incorporated in 1878...
  
  
• La Grande
  La Grande, Oregon
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 12,327 people, 5,124 households, and 2,982 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,833.5 people per square mile . There were 5,483 housing units at an average density of 1,260.3 per square mile...
  
   ("The Big/Great One")
• Langlois
  Langlois, Oregon
  Langlois is an unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon, United States, on the Oregon Coast. Langlois was once famous for its blue cheese, until the cheese factory burned down in the 1950s. It was never rebuilt.- External links :* * *...
  
   (French surname. From "L'Anglais" = the Englishman)
• La Pine
  La Pine, Oregon
  La Pine is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, incorporated on December 7, 2006.La Pine is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,799 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a census-designated place . La Pine is in an isolated area of Central...
  
   ("The Pine")
• Malheur County
  Malheur County, Oregon
  Malheur County is a county located in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is included in the eight-county definition of Eastern Oregon. Most of the county observes the Mountain Time Zone, although the southern quarter of the county observes the Pacific Time Zone along with the...
  
   ("Misfortune")
• Marion County
  Marion County, Oregon
  Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was originally named the Champooick District, after Champoeg, a meeting place on the Willamette River. On September 3, 1849, the territorial legislature renamed it in honor of Francis Marion, a Continental Army general of the...
  
  
• Maupin
  Maupin, Oregon
  Maupin is a city in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. Located on the Deschutes River, much of the city's economy is related to the river through outdoor activities, such as fishing and rafting...
  
  
• Nonpareil
  Nonpareil, Oregon
  Nonpareil is an unincorporated historic locale in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. It is located about eight miles east of Sutherlin, near Calapooya Creek. The population of the area was about 202 in 2000. Nonpareil was the birthplace of novelist H. L...
  
   ("Unparalleled")
• Rainier
  Rainier, Oregon
  Rainier is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,687 at the 2000 census. Rainier is located on the south bank of the Columbia River across from Kelso and Longview, Washington-History:...
  
  
• Ruch
  Ruch, Oregon
  Ruch is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It is located on Oregon Route 238, southeast of Grants Pass.Ruch was named for Casper M. Ruch, who bought a tract of land where the community now stands in 1896. He built a blacksmith shop, a store and a house...
  
   ("Hive")
• Saint Louis
• Saint Paul
  St. Paul, Oregon
  St. Paul is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. It is named after the Saint Paul Mission founded by Archbishop François Norbert Blanchet, who arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1838 to minister to the Catholic inhabitants of French Prairie. The population was 354 at the 2000 census...
  
  
• Sauvie Island
  Sauvie Island
  Sauvie Island, in the U.S. state of Oregon, originally Wapato Island or Wappatoo Island, is the largest island along the Columbia River, at 26,000 acres , and the largest river island in the United States...
  
  
• Terrebonne
  Terrebonne, Oregon
  Terrebonne is a census-designated place in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
   ("Good ground")
• The Dalles
  The Dalles, Oregon
  The Dalles is the largest city and county seat of Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The name of the city comes from the French word dalle The Dalles is the largest city and county seat of Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The name of the city comes from the French word dalle The Dalles is...
  
   (from les dalles meaning "slabs" or possibly a type of rapids)
• Willamette River
  Willamette River
  The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States...
  
   (French pronunciation of a Clackamas Indian village name)
• Willamette Valley
  Willamette Valley
  The Willamette Valley is the most populated region in the state of Oregon of the United States. Located in the state's northwest, the region is surrounded by tall mountain ranges to the east, west and south and the valley's floor is broad, flat and fertile because of Ice Age conditions...
  
  

Pennsylvania

• Bellefonte
  Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
  Bellefonte is a borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies about twelve miles northeast of State College and is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area...
  
   ("Beautiful Fountain")
• Charleroi
  Charleroi, Pennsylvania
  Charleroi is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River, 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. Charleroi was settled in 1890 and incorporated in 1891. The population in 1900 stood at 5,930; in 1910, 9,615; in 1920, 11,516, and in 1940, 10,784...
  
   ("Charles King" -- in reference to King Charles II of Spain
  Charles II of Spain
  Charles II was the last Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of large parts of Italy, the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from the Americas to the Spanish East Indies...
  
  )
• Dauphin County
  Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
  Dauphin County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is one of the three counties comprising the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010 census, the population was 268,100. The county includes the city of Harrisburg, which has served as the state capital...
  
  
• Delano
  Delano, Pennsylvania
  Delano is a census-designated place in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 377 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Delano is located at ....
  
   (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
• DuBois
  DuBois, Pennsylvania
  DuBois is a city in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, northeast of Pittsburgh. It is the principal city in the DuBois, Pa Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
  
   ("Of the Woods")
• Duquesne
  Duquesne, Pennsylvania
  Duquesne is a city along the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. The population was 5,565 at the 2010 census.-History:...
  
  , named after the Marquis Duquesne, governor of New France
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Pennsylvania
  Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the2010 census, the population was 136,606. The county is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  , named to honor the Marquis de LaFayette
• Fort Duquesne
  Fort Duquesne
  Fort Duquesne was a fort established by the French in 1754, at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now downtown Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania....
  
  , original name of what is now Pittsburgh
• Laporte
  Laporte, Pennsylvania
  Laporte is a borough in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 316 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Sullivan County. Laporte is surrounded by Laporte Township. It was named for John Laporte...
  
   ("The door")
• Ligonier
  Ligonier, Pennsylvania
  Ligonier is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,695 at the 2000 census. Ligonier was settled in the 1760s. The borough is well known for nearby Idlewild Park, one of the oldest amusement parks in the country, and nearby Seven Springs Mountain Resort...
  
  , named after Field Marshal John Ligonier, a British noble and officer with French ancestry
• Luzerne County
  Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
  - Demographics :As of the 2010 census, the county was 90.7% White, 3.4% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 3.3% were of some other race, and 1.5% were two or more races. 6.7% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino ancestry...
  
  
• Montour County
  Montour County, Pennsylvania
  Montour County is located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. In 2010, the county's population was 18,267. Its county seat is Danville. It is named for Andrew Montour, a prominent métis interpreter who served with George Washington during the French and Indian War. The county is part of the...
  
  
• Versailles
  Versailles, Pennsylvania
  Versailles is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,515 at the 2010 census. Despite being named after the extraordinary Palace of Versailles, the name of the borough is almost universally pronounced ver-sales by residents of the area.-Geography:Versailles...
  
  , named after the Palace of Versailles
  Palace of Versailles
  The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles....
  
  
• Wilkes-Barre
  Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
  Wilkes-Barre is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the county seat of Luzerne County. It is at the center of the Wyoming Valley area and is one of the principal cities in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, which had a population of 563,631 as of the 2010 Census...
  
   (Barre was a British politician with Huguenot ancestry, favorable to the cause of US colonies)

Rhode Island

• Lafayette Village, a historic district in North Kingstown, RI
• Louisquisset, a neighborhood and major parkway in Providence, RI
• Marieville, a neighborhood in Providence, RI

South Carolina

• Abbeville
  Abbeville, South Carolina
  For other communities of the same name, see Abbeville .Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina, United States, 86 miles west of Columbia. Its population was 5,237 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Abbeville County...
  
   (from Abbeville
  Abbeville
  Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.-Location:Abbeville is located on the Somme River, from its modern mouth in the English Channel, and northwest of Amiens...
  
  , France)
• Beaufort
  Beaufort, South Carolina
  Beaufort is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston. The city's population was 12,361 in the 2010 census. It is located in the Hilton Head Island-Beaufort Micropolitan...
  
  
• Bonneau
  Bonneau, South Carolina
  Bonneau is a town in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 354 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   (from bonne eau, "good water")
• Bordeaux (from Bordeaux
  Bordeaux
  Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
  
  , France)
• Eau Claire
  Eau Claire, South Carolina
  -Location:The Eau Claire community is bordered by Main St. and Monticello Rd. to the east, River Drive and Sunset Drive to the south, the Broad River to the west, and Interstate 20 to the north.-External links:*...
  
   ("Clear Water")
• Fort Motte
• Gaston
  Gaston, South Carolina
  Gaston is a town in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,645 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Gaston is located at ....
  
   (A common French given name)
• Gourdin
• La France
• Pacolet
  Pacolet, South Carolina
  Pacolet is a town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,235 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Pacolet is located at ....
  
  
• Port Royal Sound
  Port Royal Sound
  Port Royal Sound is a coastal sound, or inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, located in the Sea Islands region, in Beaufort County in the U.S. state of South Carolina...
  
  
• Sans Souci
  Sans Souci, South Carolina
  Sans Souci is a census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 7,836 at the 2000 census...
  
   ("No Worries", the French name of chateau of Frederick the Great, famously Francophile)
• Turbeville
  Turbeville, South Carolina
  Turbeville is a town in Clarendon County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 766 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Turbeville is located at...
  
  
• Vaucluse
  Vaucluse, South Carolina
  Vaucluse is an unincorporated community in Aiken County in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is located at . Vaucluse is part of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area....
  
   (from the Vaucluse
  Vaucluse
  The Vaucluse is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.- History :Vaucluse was created on 12 August 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, and Basses-Alpes...
  
  , France)

South Dakota

• Belle Fourche
  Belle Fourche, South Dakota
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which are land and is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 4,565 people, 1,854 households, and 1,186 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,446.9 people per square mile...
  
   ("Beautiful Fork")
• Belvidere
  Belvidere, South Dakota
  Belvidere is a city in Jackson County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 49 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Belvidere is located at ....
  
   (maybe from "belvédère")
• Bois de Sioux River
  Bois de Sioux River
  The Bois de Sioux River drains Lake Traverse, the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It is a tributary of the Red River of the North and defines part of the western border of the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the eastern borders of North Dakota and South Dakota...
  
    (Woods of the Sioux River)
• Bon Homme County
  Bon Homme County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 7,260 people, 2,635 households, and 1,786 families residing in the county. The population density was 13 people per square mile . There were 3,007 housing units at an average density of 5 per square mile...
  
    ("Good Man" County)
• Burdette
• Butte County
  Butte County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 9,094 people, 3,516 households, and 2,468 families residing in the county. The population density was 4 people per square mile . There were 4,059 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile...
  
  
• Conde
  Conde, South Dakota
  Conde is a city in Spink County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 140 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Conde is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
   (maybe from the noble french family of Condé)
• Coteau des Prairies  ("Slope of the prairies")
• Coteau du Missouri
  Coteau du Missouri
  The Coteau du Missouri, or Missouri Plateau, is a large plateau that stretches along the eastern side of the valley of the Missouri River in central North Dakota and north-central South Dakota in the United States...
  
    ("Slope of the Missouri")
• Dupree
  Dupree, South Dakota
  Dupree is a city in Ziebach County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 525 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ziebach County.-Geography:Dupree is located at ....
  
   (maybe from "du pré")
• Flandreau
  Flandreau, South Dakota
  Flandreau is a city in Moody County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 2,341 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Moody County...
  
  , named for Charles Eugene Flandrau
  Charles Eugene Flandrau
  Charles Eugene Flandrau was an American lawyer and colonel in the Union Army.-Early life:...
  
  , judge of Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   ancestry
• Fort Pierre
  Fort Pierre, South Dakota
  Fort Pierre is a city in Stanley County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Pierre, South Dakota Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,078 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Stanley County. Lily Park, in Fort Pierre, is situated at the mouth of the Bad River. The...
  
  
• Jerauld County
  Jerauld County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,295 people, 987 households, and 651 families residing in the county. The population density was 4 people per square mile . There were 1,167 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile . The racial makeup of the county was 99.00% White,...
  
  
• Joubert (A common French surname)
• Lake Traverse
  Lake Traverse
  Lake Traverse is the southernmost body of water in the Hudson Bay watershed of North America. It lies along the border between the U.S. states of Minnesota and South Dakota...
  
  
• Mellette County
  Mellette County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,083 people, 694 households, and 498 families residing in the county. The population density was 2 people per square mile . There were 824 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile...
  
  
• Pierre
  Pierre, South Dakota
  Pierre is the capital of the U.S. state of South Dakota and the county seat of Hughes County. The population was 13,646 at the 2010 census, making it the second least populous state capital after Montpelier, Vermont...
  
  , named for Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
  Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
  Pierre Chouteau, Jr. , also referred to as Pierre Cadet Chouteau, was an American merchant and a member of the wealthy Chouteau fur-trading family of St. Louis, Missouri.-Early life and education:...
  
  , an American fur trader of French Canadian origin
• Roubaix Lake, a lake located in the Black Hills (from french city Roubaix)

Tennessee

• Decatur County
• Fayette County
• Gallatin
  Gallatin, Tennessee
  Gallatin is a city in and the county seat of Sumner County, Tennessee, United States, along a navigable tributary of the Cumberland River. The population was 23,230 at the 2000 census. Named for U.S...
  
  
• Lafayette
  Lafayette, Tennessee
  Lafayette is a city in Macon County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,885 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Macon County....
  
  
• La Follette
  La Follette, Tennessee
  LaFollette is a city in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 7,926 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the La Follette, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Campbell County, and is a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette...
  
  
• La Vergne
  La Vergne, Tennessee
  La Vergne is a city in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 18,687 at the 2000 census. La Vergne lies within the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
  
• Lenoir City
  Lenoir City, Tennessee
  Lenoir City is a city in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 8,642 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Knoxville Metropolitan Area....
  
   (named for William Lenoir
  William Lenoir (general)
  William Lenoir was an American Revolutionary War officer and prominent statesman in late 18th-century and early 19th-century North Carolina. Both the City of Lenoir, North Carolina and Lenoir County, North Carolina are named for him. Additionally, Lenoir City, Tennessee is jointly named for him...
  
  , Revolutionary War
  American Revolutionary War
  The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...
  
   general of Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   ancestry, and his son)
• Macon County
• Marion County
  Marion County, Tennessee
  Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2000, the population was 27,776. Its county seat is Jasper.Marion County is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:According to the U.S...
  
  
• Paris
  Paris, Tennessee
  Paris is a city in Henry County, Tennessee, United States, west of Nashville, on a fork of the West Sandy River. In 1900, 2,018 people lived in Paris, Tennessee; in 1910, 3,881; and in 1940, 6,395. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 9,763. It is the county seat of Henry...
  
  
• Sevier County
  Sevier County, Tennessee
  Sevier County is a county of the state of Tennessee, United States. Its population was 71,170 at the 2000 United States Census. It is included in the Sevierville, Tennessee, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN Combined Statistical Area. The...
  
  
• Sevierville
  Sevierville, Tennessee
  Sevierville is a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern United States. Its population was 11,757 at the 2000 United States Census; in 2004 the estimated population was 14,101. Sevierville is the county seat of Sevier County, Tennessee....
  
   (named for John Sevier
  John Sevier
  John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as Governor of Tennessee. As a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death...
  
  , Tennessee governor of Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   ancestry)

Texas

• Beaumont
  Beaumont, Texas
  Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...
  
   ("beautiful mountain")
• Burnet County
  Burnet County, Texas
  Burnet County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population was 34,147. The 2008 Census Bureau Estimate was 44,488. Its county seat is Burnet. Burnet is named for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first president of the Republic of Texas...
  
   (named after early Texas leader David Gouverneur Burnet)
• Crockett County (Davy Crockett
  Davy Crockett
  David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
  
  's ancestors were Huguenots named Croquetagne, one of whom was captain in the Royal Guard of Louis XIV)
• Dumas
  Dumas, Texas
  Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, United States. The population was 13,747 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Moore County. Located approximately fifty miles north of Amarillo, the city is named for...
  
  , named after its founder Louis Dumas
• Duval County
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, Texas
  Fayette County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population was 21,804. Its county seat is La Grange. Fayette is named for the Marquis de la Fayette, a French nobleman who became an American Revolutionary War hero...
  
   (named after the Marquis de Lafayette)
• La Grange
  La Grange, Texas
  La Grange is a city in Fayette County, Texas, near the Colorado River. The population was 4,478 at the 2000 census. The 2006 estimated population was 4,645. But a 2010 census estimated that the city had a population of 4,923...
  
   (named after the Marquis de Lafayette's chateau)
• La Porte
  La Porte, Texas
  La Porte is a city in Harris County, Texas within the Bay Area of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 31,880...
  
   ("The Door")
• La Salle County (named after explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle)
• Lamar County (named after early Texas leader Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar)
• Marion County
  Marion County, Texas
  As of the census of 2000, there were 10,941 people, 4,610 households, and 3,120 families residing in the county. The population density was 29 people per square mile . There were 6,384 housing units at an average density of 17 per square mile...
  
  
• Menard County
• Mont Belvieu
  Mont Belvieu, Texas
  Mont Belvieu is a city in Chambers and Liberty Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is just north of Interstate 10 along State Highway 146. The population was 2,324 at the 2000 Census, increasing 65% to 3,835 in the 2010 Census.-Geography:...
  
  
• Orange
  Orange, Texas
  Orange is a city in Orange County, Texas, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 18,643. It is the county seat of Orange County, and is the easternmost city in Texas. Located on the Sabine River at the border with Louisiana, it is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur...
  
  
• Paris
  Paris, Texas
  Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived...
  
  

Utah

• Ballard
  Ballard, Utah
  Ballard is a town in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 566 at the 2000 census, a decrease of 78 persons from the 1990 population of 644.-Geography:Ballard is located at ....
  
  
• Bonneville Salt Flats (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper and explorer)
• Cache County
• Duchesne County
  Duchesne County, Utah
  Duchesne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2010 the population was 18,607, a 29.5% increase over the 2000 figure of 14,371. Its county seat is Duchesne and the largest city is Roosevelt.-Geography:...
  
  
• Fayette
  Fayette, Utah
  Fayette is a town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 204 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fayette is located at ....
  
  
• Fort Duchesne
  Fort Duchesne, Utah
  Fort Duchesne is a census-designated place in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The population was 621 at the 2000 census, a slight decrease from the 1990 figure of 655...
  
  
• Grand County
  Grand County, Utah
  Grand County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000 the population was 8,485, and by 2005 had been estimated at 8,743. It was named for the Colorado River, which at the time of statehood was known as the Grand River. Its county seat and largest city is Moab.-Geography:According...
  
  
• Portage
  Portage, Utah
  Portage is a town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 245 at the 2010 census. The town received its name from Mormon apostle Lorenzo Snow...
  
  
• Provo
  Provo, Utah
  Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...
  
   (named after Étienne Provost
  Étienne Provost
  Étienne Provost was a French Canadian fur trader whose trapping and trading activities in the American southwest preceded Mexican independence...
  
  )
• Sevier County
  Sevier County, Utah
  As of the census of 2000, there were 18,842 people, 6,081 households, and 4,907 families residing in the county. The population density was 10 people per square mile . There were 7,016 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...
  
  

Vermont

• Vermont
  Vermont
  Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
  
   (originally Vert Mont, or "Green Mountain")
• Barre ("Barred")
• Belmont
  Belmont, Vermont
  Belmont is an unincorporated village in the town of Mount Holly in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. Belmont is about six miles west of the village of Ludlow....
  
  
• Calais
  Calais, Vermont
  Calais is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,529 at the 2000 census. Calais is pronounced similarly to palace, not chalet...
  
  
• Grand Isle County
  Grand Isle County, Vermont
  Grand Isle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of 2010, the population was 6,970. Its shire town is North Hero.Grand Isle County is part of the Burlington-South Burlington, VT Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   ("big island")
• Isle la Motte
• Jay Peak
  Jay Peak (Vermont)
  Jay Peak is a mountain located about 5 mi. south of the United States-Canada border, in Jay and Westfield, Orleans County, Vermont, of which it is the highest point.Most of the mountain is in Jay Peak State Forest....
  
   (named after John Jay
  John Jay
  John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States ....
  
  , whose family was of French
  French people
  The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
  
   Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   origin)
• Lake Champlain
  Lake Champlain
  Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...
  
  
• Lamoille (either for a misspelling of Champlain's intended name of Lake Champlain, or for the French la Moelle, "the marrow")
• Montpelier
  Montpelier, Vermont
  Montpelier is a city in the U.S. state of Vermont that serves as the state capital and the shire town of Washington County. As the capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the site of the Vermont State House, seat of the legislative branch of Vermont government. The population was 7,855 at the 2010...
  
   (named after Montpellier
  Montpellier
  -Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
  
  , France)
• Orange
  Orange, Vermont
  Orange is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 965 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.0 square miles , of which 38.8 square miles is land and 0.2 square mile is water...
  
  
• Orleans County
  Orleans County, Vermont
  Orleans County is one of the four northernmost counties in the U.S. state of Vermont. It borders Canada. In 2010, the population was 27,231. Its county seat is Newport. As in the rest of New England, few governmental powers have been granted to the county...
  
  
• Orleans
  Orleans, Vermont
  Orleans is a village in the northwestern corner of Barton, Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 826 at the 2000 census, making it the largest village in Orleans County.-Government:...
  
   (named after Orléans
  Orléans
  -Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...
  
  , France)
• Vergennes
  Vergennes, Vermont
  Vergennes is a city located in the northwest quadrant of Addison County, Vermont, in the United States. Bordered by the towns of Ferrisburgh, Panton and Waltham, as of the 2000 census the city population was 2,741. It is the smallest of Vermont's nine cities in terms of population...
  
  

Virginia

• Amissville
  Amissville, Virginia
  Amissville is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located on U.S. Route 211 about halfway between Warrenton and the small town of Washington, Virginia. Amissville was first settled by French Huguenots and the English. In about 1763, Thomas...
  
  
• Barboursville
  Barboursville, Virginia
  Barboursville is an unincorporated community in Albemarle and Orange counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. Barboursville is famous for being the birthplace of renowned American military commander and President Zachary Taylor...
  
  
• Basye
• Bavon
  Bavon, Virginia
  Bavon is an unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia, United States. Bavon is located on Virginia Route 14 south-southeast of Mathews....
  
  
• Belmont
  Belmont, Virginia
  Belmont is a census-designated place on Goose Creek in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 5,966.Belmont is situated along Belmont Ridge Road between State Route 7 and the State Route 267 . Two major subdivisions make up Belmont; Belmont Country Club being the bigger...
  
  
• Bertrand
  Bertrand, Virginia
  Bertrand is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County in the U. S. state of Virginia....
  
   (A common French given name)
• Boissevain
  Boissevain, Virginia
  Boissevain is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was defined as a census-designated place at the 1950 United States Census under the name Boissevaine when it had a population of 1,197...
  
  
• Bon Air
  Bon Air, Virginia
  Bon Air is a census-designated place in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. The population was 16,366 at the 2010 census. The community is considered a suburb of the independent city of Richmond in the Richmond-Petersburg region, and shares a post office with Richmond...
  
  
• Botetourt County
  Botetourt County, Virginia
  As of the census of 2000, there were 30,496 people, 11,700 households, and 9,114 families residing in the county. The population density was 56 people per square mile . There were 12,571 housing units at an average density of 23 per square mile...
  
  
• Capron
  Capron, Virginia
  Capron is a town in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. The population was 167 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Capron is located at ....
  
  
• Caret
  Caret, Virginia
  Caret is an unincorporated community in Essex County, in the U.S. state of Virginia....
  
  
• Cedon
  Cedon, Virginia
  Cedon is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.-Reference:...
  
  
• Champlain
• Chantilly
  Chantilly, Virginia
  Chantilly is an unincorporated community located in western Fairfax County and southeastern Loudoun County of Northern Virginia. Recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census designated place , the community population was 23,039 as of the 2010 census -- down from 41,041 in 2000, due to the...
  
  , named after Chantilly
  Chantilly, Oise
  Chantilly is a small city in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune in the department of Oise.It is in the metropolitan area of Paris 38.4 km...
  
  , France
• Clary
  Clary, Virginia
  Clary is an unincorporated community in Shenandoah County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.-Reference:...
  
  
• Crozet
  Crozet, Virginia
  Crozet is a census-designated place in Albemarle County in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is situated along the I-64 corridor approximately west of Charlottesville and east of Staunton. Originally called "Wayland's Crossing", it was renamed in 1870 in honor of Colonel Claudius Crozet, the...
  
  
• Delaplane
  Delaplane, Virginia
  Delaplane is a small unincorporated village in Fauquier County, Virginia, located approximately due west of Washington, D.C.. Delaplane is situated along U.S. Route 17 and Interstate 66; bordering Upperville, Virginia to the north, Hume, Virginia to the south, Paris, Virginia to the west, and...
  
  
• Dogue
  Dogue, Virginia
  Dogue is an unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia, United States....
  
  
• Fauquier County
  Fauquier County, Virginia
  As of the census of 2000, there were 55,139 people, 19,842 households, and 15,139 families residing in the county. The population density was 85 people per square mile . There were 21,046 housing units at an average density of 32 per square mile...
  
  
• Fremont
• La Crosse
  La Crosse, Virginia
  La Crosse is a town in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States. Its name is derived from the fact that it was a place where railroads once crossed, and there is still a caboose in the center of the town...
  
  
• Macon
  Macon, Virginia
  Macon is an unincorporated community in Powhatan County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.-Reference:...
  
  
• Manquin
  Manquin, Virginia
  Manquin is an unincorporated community in King William County, Virginia, United States....
  
  
• Mauzy
  Mauzy, Virginia
  Mauzy is an unincorporated community located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located south of Timberville, just north of Lacey Spring along Route 259, just off Interstate 81....
  
  
• Montpelier
• Orange County
  Orange County, Virginia
  As of the census of 2000, there were 25,881 people, 10,150 households, and 7,470 families residing in the county. The population density was 76 people per square mile . There were 11,354 housing units at an average density of 33 per square mile...
  
  
• Raphine
  Raphine, Virginia
  Raphine is an unincorporated community in Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in the U.S. state of Virginia.-History:The name "Raphine" came from an old Greek word "raphis", meaning "to sew." It was chosen in honor of James Edward Allen Gibbs , a local farmer who patented the first...
  
  
• Renan
  Renan, Virginia
  Renan is an unincorporated community in the northeastern part of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. It is included in the Danville, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• Richmond
  Richmond, Virginia
  Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
  
  , from "riche mont", a name given first to the castle
  Richmond Castle
  Richmond Castle in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, stands in a commanding position above the River Swale, close to the centre of the town of Richmond. It was originally called Riche Mount, 'the strong hill'...
  
   founded in North Yorkshire by a Breton
  Breton people
  The Bretons are an ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France. They trace much of their heritage to groups of Brythonic speakers who emigrated from southwestern Great Britain in waves from the 3rd to 6th century into the Armorican peninsula, subsequently named Brittany after them.The...
  
   family, and from there to Richmond near London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  
• Rochelle
  Rochelle, Virginia
  -References:*...
  
  
• Sabot
• Turbeville

Washington

• Beaux Arts Village
  Beaux Arts Village, Washington
  Beaux Arts Village is a town located in the Eastside, an affluent region of King County, Washington, United States in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the smallest municipal jurisdiction in the county, with a population of 299 as of the 2010 census and a land area of 0.1 sq mi...
  
   (from "fine arts")
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Washington
  Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...
  
   ("Beautiful View")
• Des Moines
  Des Moines, Washington
  Des Moines is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 29,673 at the 2010 census. Property within the city has been the subject of land buyouts because of noise from aircraft landing or taking off from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport two miles to the north of...
  
   ("of the Monks")
• Grand Coulee
  Grand Coulee, Washington
  Grand Coulee is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 897 at the 2000 census.-History:Grand Coulee was officially incorporated on November 6, 1935...
  
   (from coulée or couler, meaning "to flow")
• La Crosse
  La Crosse, Washington
  La Crosse is a town in Whitman County, Washington, United States. The population was 313 at the 2010 census.-History:LaCrosse was incorporated on February 19, 1917....
  
  
• La Push
  La Push, Washington
  La Push is a small unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington, United States. It is home to the Quileute tribe and is located along the Quileute River. La Push is known for its whale-watching and natural beauty.- Geography :...
  
   (Clallam County, along the Quileute River on the Olympic Peninsula
  Olympic Peninsula
  The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state of the USA, that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Puget Sound. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous...
  
  . Home to the Quileute Indian Tribe. From la bouche, meaning "mouth", as infused into Chinook trading jargon)
  Chinook Jargon
  Chinook Jargon originated as a pidgin trade language of the Pacific Northwest, and spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then British Columbia and as far as Alaska, sometimes taking on characteristics of a creole language...
  
  
• Loup Loup
  Loup Loup
  Loup Loup Ski Bowl is a ski area located in the Methow Valley of Okanogan County, Washington, midway between the towns of Twisp and Omak on Highway 20....
  
   (from loup, "wolf")
• Mount Rainier
  Mount Rainier
  Mount Rainier is a massive stratovolcano located southeast of Seattle in the state of Washington, United States. It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of . Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most...
  
   (named after Captain Peter Rainier
  Peter Rainier, junior
  Peter Rainier, Jr. was a British naval officer. Mount Rainier in Washington, USA, was named after him.-Biography:Rainier was born in England, the grandson of Daniel Regnier, a Huguenot refugee, and the son of Peter Rainier of Sandwich. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1756 at the age of 15. He...
  
  , grandson of the Huguenot
  Huguenot
  The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
  
   refugee Daniel Regnier)
• Normandy
  Normandy Park, Washington
  Normandy Park is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,335 at the 2010 census.Based on per capita income, Normandy Park ranks 26th of 522 areas in the state of Washington.-History:...
  
   (named after Normandy
  Normandy
  Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...
  
  , France)
• North Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
• Palouse
  Palouse, Washington
  Palouse is a city in Whitman County, Washington, United States. The population was 998 at the 2010 census. Palouse is named for the region of farmland in which it is situated, and was incorporated in 1888.-History:...
  
   (from pelouse, meaning "lawn")
• Pend Oreille County (named after the Pend d'Oreilles
  Pend d'Oreilles (tribe)
  The Pend d'Oreilles, also known as the Kalispel, are a tribe of Native Americans who lived around Lake Pend Oreille, as well as the Pend Oreille River, and Priest Lake although some of them live spread throughout Montana and eastern Washington...
  
   tribe. French for "earring")
• Puget Sound
  Puget Sound
  Puget Sound is a sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and one minor connection to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean — Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and...
  
   named after Peter Puget, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
• Vashon Island named after James Vashon, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent

West Virginia

• Bayard
  Bayard, West Virginia
  Bayard is a town in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 299 at the 2000 census. Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., who later became a United States Senator from Delaware . Bayard was founded on the West Virginia Central and...
  
  
• Belle
  Belle, West Virginia
  Belle is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,259 at the 2000 census. Belle was incorporated on December 13, 1958 by the Kanawha County Circuit Court...
  
  
• Belmont
  Belmont, West Virginia
  Belmont is a city in Pleasants County, West Virginia, in the United States. It is part of the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,036 at the 2000 census....
  
  
• Despard
  Despard, West Virginia
  Despard is a census-designated place in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,004 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Despard is located at ....
  
  
• Fayette
  Fayette, West Virginia
  Fayette is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 919 feet . It is the major take-out for the lower section of the New River Gorge National River....
  
  
• Fayette County
  Fayette County, West Virginia
  As of the census of 2000, there were 47,579 people, 18,945 households, and 13,128 families residing in the county. The population density was 72 people per square mile . There were 21,616 housing units at an average density of 33 per square mile...
  
  
• Fayetteville
  Fayetteville, West Virginia
  Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,754 at the 2000 census.Fayetteville was listed as one of the 2006 "Top 10 Coolest Small Towns in America" by Budget Travel Magazine ....
  
  
• French Creek
  French Creek, West Virginia
  French Creek is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, USA.French Creek is 9½ miles south of the county seat, Buckhannon, West Virginia, on West Virginia Route 20. It is home to the West Virginia State Wildlife Center — formerly the "French Creek Game Farm" — a zoological park...
  
  
• Granville
  Granville, West Virginia
  Granville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 778 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Granville is located at ....
  
  
• Guyandotte River
  Guyandotte River
  The Guyandotte River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 166 mi long, in southwestern West Virginia in the United States. It was named after the French term for the Wendat Native Americans...
  
   (a river in southern West Virginia, running from Wyoming County near Beckley, to the Ohio River near Huntington. Guyandotte is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot.)
• Marion County
  Marion County, West Virginia
  | style="float:right;"|As of the census of 2000, there were 56,598 people, 23,652 households, and 15,515 families residing in the county. The population density was 183 people per square mile . There were 26,660 housing units at an average density of 86 per square mile...
  
  
• Montcalm
  Montcalm, West Virginia
  Montcalm is a census-designated place in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 726 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,342.-Geography:...
  
   (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War .Montcalm was born near Nîmes in France to a noble family, and entered military service...
  
  , French military commander in the French and Indian War
  French and Indian War
  The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war...
  
  ).
• Ronceverte
  Ronceverte, West Virginia
  Ronceverte is a city in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, on the Greenbrier River. The population was 1,557 at the 2000 census.- Culture and History :...
  
   (Name is derived from two words meaning "Greenbrier.")

Wisconsin

• Wisconsin
  Wisconsin
  Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
  
   (anglicized from the French "Ouisconsin", which in turn is a corruption of the Ojibwe "Meskonsing")
• Allouez
  Allouez, Wisconsin
  Allouez is a village in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 15,443. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
  
   (after Claude-Jean Allouez
  Claude-Jean Allouez
  Claude Jean Allouez was a Jesuit missionary and French explorer of North America.Allouez was born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay in the département of Haute-Loire in south-central France. In 1639, he graduated from the College of Le Puy, and became a Jesuit novice in Toulouse, France. In 1655, he was...
  
  )
• Apple River
  Apple River (Wisconsin)
  The Apple River is a tributary of the St. Croix River, about 70 mi long, in northwestern Wisconsin in the United States. Via the St. Croix, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River....
  
   (corruption of the French Rivière Pomme de Terre des Cygnes, which in turn is a translation from the Ojibwe Waabiziipinikaani-ziibi, "River abundant with swan potato
  Sagittaria
  Sagittaria is a genus of about 30 species of aquatic plants whose members go by a variety of common names, including arrowhead, duck potato, iz-ze-kn, katniss, kuwai , swan potato, tule potato, and wapato...
  
  es")
• Argonne
  Argonne, Wisconsin
  Argonne is a town in Forest County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 512 at the 2010 census. The census-designated place of Argonne is located in the town...
  
   (from the Argonne Forest in France)
• Belle Plaine
  Belle Plaine, Wisconsin
  Belle Plaine is a town in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,867 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Adams Beach and Belle Plaine are located in the town...
  
   ("beautiful plain")
• Bellevue
  Bellevue, Wisconsin
  Bellevue is a village in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. It was a town until incorporating as a village on February 14, 2003. The population of the area that became the village was 11,828 in 2000...
  
   ("beautiful view")
• Bois Brule River
  Bois Brule River
  The Bois Brule River is a river situated in Douglas County, Wisconsin, near its eastern border with Bayfield County. The river, which is 44 miles long, rises in central Douglas County near Upper St...
  
    ("burnt wood")
• Calumet County
  Calumet County, Wisconsin
  Calumet County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is included in the Appleton, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the county's population was 48,971. The county seat is Chilton.-History:...
  
   (French for Menominee peace pipe)
• Cassel
  Cassel, Wisconsin
  Cassel is a town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the Wausau, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 847 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
   (a town in France)
• Couderay
  Couderay, Wisconsin
  Couderay is a village in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Couderay River. The population was 96 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Couderay....
  
   (from lac courte oreilles, "short ears")
• De Pere
  De Pere, Wisconsin
  De Pere is a city located in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 20,559 at the 2000 census. De Pere is a suburb of Green Bay and is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Registered historic places:...
  
   (from les rapides des pères, "the rapids of the fathers")
• Eau Claire
  Eau Claire, Wisconsin
  Eau Claire is a city located in the west-central part of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 65,883 as of the 2010 census, making it the largest municipality in the northwestern portion of the state, and the 9th largest in the state overall. It is the county seat of Eau Claire County,...
  
   ("clear water")
• Eau Galle  ("gall water")
• Eau Pleine  ("full water")
• Flambeau ("torch")
• Fond du Lac
  Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
  Fond du Lac is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The name is French for bottom of the lake, for it is located at the bottom of Lake Winnebago. The population was 42,203 at the 2000 census...
  
   ("bottom of the lake")
• Grand Chute
  Grand Chute, Wisconsin
  Grand Chute is a town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The city of Appleton and unincorporated community of Apple Creek are partially located in the town...
  
   ("big falls")
• Green Bay
  Green Bay, Wisconsin
  Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...
  
   (anglicized from the French baie verte, previously "Baie des Puants" - "Bay of Stinks")
• La Crosse
  La Crosse, Wisconsin
  La Crosse is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. The city lies alongside the Mississippi River.The 2011 Census Bureau estimates the city had a population of 52,485...
  
   ("the crozier")
• La Farge
  La Farge, Wisconsin
  La Farge is a village along the Kickapoo River in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 775 at the 2000 census. The residential community of Dreamtime Village is located near LaFarge.-Transportation:...
  
  
• La Grange (originally "La Grane" after the native place of General La Fayette)
• La Pointe
  La Pointe, Wisconsin
  La Pointe is a town in Ashland County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The town includes all of the Apostle Islands. There is also an unincorporated community named La Pointe on Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostle Islands . The population was 246 at the 2000 census...
  
   (from la pointe de Chequamegon, the area around Chequamegon Bay)
• La Valle
  La Valle, Wisconsin
  La Valle is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Baraboo River. The population was 326 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of La Valle.-Geography:La Valle is located at ....
  
   ("the valley")
• Lac Courte Oreilles
  Lac Courte Oreilles
  Lac Courte Oreilles is a large freshwater lake located in north central Wisconsin in Sawyer County in townships 39 and 40 north, ranges 8 and 9 west. It is irregular in shape having numerous peninsulas and bays, being approximately six miles long in a southwest to northeast direction and with a...
  
   ("lake short ears")
• Lac du Flambeau ("lake of the torch")
• Lac La Belle
  Lac La Belle, Wisconsin
  Lac La Belle is a village located mostly in Waukesha County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 329 at the 2000 census. The village is located mostly within the Town of Oconomowoc in Waukesha County. On March 28, 2002, the village annexed a portion of land in the Town of Ixonia in...
  
   ("Lake the beautiful or beautiful lake")
• Lake Butte des Morts
  Lake Butte des Morts
  Big Lake Butte des Morts is an lake located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and is part of the Winnebago Pool . The lake is fed by the Fox River in the southwest and the Wolf River draining from Lake Winneconne in the northwest, and drains via the Fox River southeast into Lake Winnebago...
  
   ("hill of the dead")
• Marquette
  Marquette, Wisconsin
  Marquette is a village in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 169 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Marquette...
  
   (after Father Jacques Marquette
  Jacques Marquette
  Father Jacques Marquette S.J. , sometimes known as Père Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...
  
  )
• Montreal
  Montreal, Wisconsin
  Montreal is a city in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 838 at the 2000 census. The neighborhood of Gile is part of the city; however, it still has its own post office and ZIP code: 54525.-History:...
  
    ("Royal Mountain", after Montréal, Québec)
• Nicolet National Forest (after Jean Nicolet
  Jean Nicolet
  Jean Nicolet de Belleborne was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Green Bay in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin.-Life:...
  
  )
• Portage
  Portage, Wisconsin
  Portage is a city in and the county seat of Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 10,662 at the 2010 census making it the largest city in Columbia County...
  
   (originally named for the Fox-Wisconsin portage)
• Prairie du Chien
  Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
  Prairie du Chien is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,911 at the 2010 census. Its Zip Code is 53821....
  
   ("dog prairie")
• Prairie du Sac
  Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
  Prairie du Sac is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,231 at the 2000 census. The village is surrounded by the Town of Prairie du Sac, the Wisconsin River, and the village of Sauk City; together, Prairie du Sac and Sauk City are referred to as Sauk...
  
   ("prairie of the Sac people")
• Presque Isle
  Presque Isle, Wisconsin
  Presque Isle is a town in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 513 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Katinka Village is located in the town.-Name:...
  
   (from presqu'île, "peninsula")
• Racine
  Racine, Wisconsin
  Racine is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city had a population of 82,196...
  
   ("root", after the Root River)
• Radisson
  Radisson, Wisconsin
  Radisson is a village in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Couderay River. The population was 222 at the 2000 census. The village is located within the Town of Radisson and was named in honor of the early French explorer, Pierre-Esprit Radisson .-Geography:Radisson is located at ...
  
   ("radish")
• St. Croix Falls
  St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
  St. Croix Falls is a city in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,033 at the 2000 census. The city is located within the Town of St. Croix Falls....
  
   (after the St. Croix ("Holy Cross") river, named c. 1689)
• Superior
  Superior, Wisconsin
  Superior is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 26,960 at the 2010 census. Located at the junction of U.S. Highways 2 and 53, it is north of and adjacent to both the Village of Superior and the Town of Superior.Superior is at the western...
  
   (from Lake Superior / Lac Supérieur - meaning "upper" in this context)
• Trempealeau River
  Trempealeau River
  The Trempealeau River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, 55 mi long, in the Driftless Area of western Wisconsin in the United States.-Course:...
  
   (from "trempe à l'eau", "plunge into the water")

Wyoming

• Cheyenne
  Cheyenne, Wyoming
  Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County. It is the principal city of the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Laramie County. The population is 59,466 at the 2010 census. Cheyenne is the...
  
   (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota
  Dakota language
  Dakota is a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota people of the Sioux tribes. Dakota is closely related to and mutually intelligible with the Lakota language.-Dialects:...
  
   word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people.)
• Dubois
  Dubois, Wyoming
  Dubois is a town in Fremont County, Wyoming. The population was 962 at the 2000 census, although it nearly doubles in the summer with many part-time residents.-Geography:...
  
   (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois
  Fred Dubois
  Fred Thomas Dubois was a controversial American politician who served two terms in the United States Senate from Idaho. He was best-known for his opposition to the gold standard and his efforts to disenfranchise Mormon voters....
  
  , of French-Canadian ancestry)
• Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont
  John C. Frémont
  John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...
  
  , French-American pioneer and politician)
• Gilette
  Gillette, Wyoming
  Gillette is a city in and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 29,087 in 2010. Gillette is a city centrally located in an area involved with the development of vast quantities of American coal, oil, and coal bed methane gas...
  
  
• Grand Teton National Park
  Grand Teton National Park
  Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The Park consists of approximately and includes the major peaks of the long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Only south of Yellowstone...
  
   (from French grands tétons, "large teats" - presumably referring to the mountains' shape)
• Laramie
  Laramie, Wyoming
  Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 30,816 at the . Located on the Laramie River in southeastern Wyoming, the city is west of Cheyenne, at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 287....
  
   (named for Jacques LaRamie, a French or French-Canadian trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in the late 1810s)
• Laramie County
  Laramie County, Wyoming
  Laramie County is the most populous of the 23 counties of the U.S. state of Wyoming. The county is located in the southeastern corner of the state. The county's population was 91,738 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Cheyenne, the state capital...
  
  
• Platte County
• Sublette County
• Teton County
  Teton County, Wyoming
  Teton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of 2010, the population was 21,294. Its county seat is Jackson. Teton County contains the affluent Jackson Hole skiing area...
  
  

U.S. Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands of the United States are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.The U.S...

• Saint Croix
  Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States. Formerly the Danish West Indies, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of...
  
   ("Holy Cross")

See also

• List of U.S. state name etymologies
• Lists of U.S. county name etymologies
• List of U.S. place names of Spanish origin
• List of Chinook Jargon placenames