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Locations in the United States with an English name#North Dakota

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A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies.

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Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester, Birmingham and Rochester). Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II).{{cite web|url=http://www.mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/printables/njcolony.pdf|title=The New Jersey Colony|publisher=MrNussbaum.com|accessdate=May 10, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017053514/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/kingston/colonization.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 17, 2007|title=KINGSTON Discover 300 Years of New York History DUTCH COLONIES|publisher=National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior|accessdate=May 10, 2011}} Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford).

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the U.S., is named after the first U.S. President George Washington, whose surname was due to his family holding land in Washington, Tyne and Wear.

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Alabama

  • Ashford
  • Avon
  • Birmingham{{citation |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1597 |title=Birmingham Iron and Steel Companies |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Alabama |publisher=Auburn University |first=W. David |last=Lewis |year=2011 |accessdate=January 10, 2012 }}.
  • Brent
  • Brighton
  • Chelsea
  • Leeds[http://www.leedsalabama.gov/about.aspx "History"], Leeds, Alabama website. Retrieved 2001-Jan-11.
  • New London
  • Oxford
  • Sheffield
  • Woodstock{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130210011240/http://www.woodstockalabama.com/history.html "History of Woodstock, AL"]}}, Town of Woodstock, Alabama website. Retrieved 2012-Jan-11.
  • York

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

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Connecticut

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Delaware

Florida

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Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

File:Cumberland_Falls_2005_05_20a.jpeg" is commonly replicated in Appalachia, such as at Cumberland River (pictured).David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed (Oxford University Press, 1989)]]

  • Cumberland River
  • DoverPossibly named after Dover, believed to be the birthplace of the founder's father. {{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=84}}.
  • Falmouth
  • London{{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=178}}.
  • ManchesterManchester's founders envisioned it would become a large industrial city like Manchester, England.{{harvnb|Rennick|1988|pages=186–87}}.
  • Middlesboro
  • Richmond
  • Somerset
  • WillibaBelieved to have been originally named after Willoughby, England, from where the ancestors of the area's settler's were thought to have emigrated; the name "Williba" was supposedly a corruption adopted by its first postmaster to fit the name on a rubber stamp. {{harvnb|Rennick|1988|page=320}}.
  • Winchester

Louisiana

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Maine

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Maryland

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  • Abingdon{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n14 15]}}
  • Barton
  • Bristol
  • Cambridge{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2482|title=Profile for Cambridge, Maryland, MD|publisher=ePodunk|accessdate=8 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910071115/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2482|archive-date=10 September 2015|url-status=dead}}
  • Cheltenham
  • Chester
  • Cumberland
  • Doncaster
  • Essex
  • Hampstead{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n147 148]}}
  • Hillsborough
  • Kensington
  • Kent{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n172 173]}}
  • Manchester{{cite book|author1=Nancy M. Warner |author2=Ralph B. Levering |author3=Margaret Taylor Woltz | title=Carroll County, Maryland: a history, 1837-1976| location=United States| year=1976| page=35}}
  • Millington
  • Nottingham
  • Olney{{cite web|title=Olney History|url=http://www.olneymd.org/pages/OlneyHistory|website=Olney Chamber of Commerce|accessdate=8 April 2016}}
  • Oxford
  • Salisbury
  • Sunderland
  • Warwick
  • Westminster

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

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Minnesota

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Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

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New Jersey

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==New Mexico==

New York

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North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

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Oklahoma

  • Blackburn
  • Chelsea{{citation |first=Donna Casity |last=McSpadden |title=Chelsea |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CH013.html |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |accessdate=January 10, 2012}} ("Railroad official Charles Peach named the site for his native Chelsea, England.").
  • Manchester (disputed; see footnote){{citation |last=Wilson |first=Linda D. |title=Manchester |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MA009.html |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |accessdate=January 10, 2012}} ("Historian George Shirk asserts that the town was named for Manchester, England, while Charles Gould claims it refers to a former hometown in the East.").
  • Newcastle
  • Warwick

Oregon

Pennsylvania

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Philly Street Commons.jpg|Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley were settled by Quakers reflecting this settlement.

Buckingham Friends BucksCo PA from SE.jpg|Quaker architecture in the state mirrors that in England.

Rhode Island

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South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

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Utah

  • Croydon
  • Leamington, Utah{{cite book | last=Van Cott | first=John W | title=Utah Place Names | publisher=University of Utah Press | location=Salt Lake City | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-87480-345-7}}
  • Leeds

Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

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Wyoming

Other

See also

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