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Several thousand place names in the United States 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 and French in the United States ). Others were named after early Americans of French, especially Huguenot, ancestry (Marion , Revere , Fremont , Lanier , Sevier , Macon , Decatur , etc.). Some places received their names as a consequence of French colonial settlement (e.g. Baton Rouge , Detroit , New Orleans , Saint Louis ). Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin (Baton Rouge, Boise, Des Moines, Juneau, Montgomery, Montpelier, Pierre, Richmond, Saint Paul) - not even counting Little Rock (originally "La Petite Roche") or Cheyenne (a French rendering of a Lakota word). Fifteen state names are either French words / origin (Delaware, New Jersey, Louisiana, Maine, Oregon, Vermont) or Native American words rendered by French speakers (Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin).
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks).
Alabama
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Alaska
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Arizona
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Arkansas
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Arkansas (named by French explorers from aboriginal word meaning "south wind")
Antoine ("Anthony")
Aurelle
Auvergne (a French region )
Barraque Township
Bayou
Bayou Meto, Arkansas County, Arkansas
Bayou Meto, Lonoke County, Arkansas
Beauchamp (fair of beautiful field or plain)
Beaudry
Belleaire (from "belle aire", beautiful place)
Belleville ("Beautiful City")
Bellefonte (maybe from "belle fontaine", beautiful fountain)
Boeuf ("Beef")
Bonair (good air)
Buie
Burdette
Cache
Cadron
Calumet The French word for a Native American tobacco pipe.
Calvin (Anglicized version of Cauvin, famous French Protestant)
Champagnolle
Chancel
Chicot County (a stump)
Claude
Cloquet
Darcy
De Roche (of the rock)
Deberrie
Decatur
Delaplaine (Of-the-plains, surname)
Departee
Devue
Des Arc ("At the bend")
Dumas (French surname)
Ecore Fabre
Fayetteville (named for French general, Marquis de La Fayette )
Fontaine ("Fountain", a surname)
Fourche ("Pitchfork")
Fourche Lafave
Fourche Valley
Francure
Frenchman's Bayou
Gallatin
Grand Glaise ("Large Clay")
Gravette
La Fave
La Grue (the crane)
La Grue Springs
Lacrosse
Ladelle
Lafayette County
LaGrange ("the barn")
Lamartine (French author Alphonse de Lamartine, also a surname)
L'Anguille ("The Eel")
Lapile
Larue (the street)
Latour (the tower)
Lave Creek
Levesque ("Bishop", a common French-Canadian surname)
Macon (French city "Mâcon ")
Marais Saline (saline marsh)
Marche
Maumee
Maumelle (breasts)
Monette
Mont Sandels
Montreal (royal mount)
Moreau (feedbag, probably a family's proper name)
Mount Magazine
New Gascony (Gascony )
Ozark (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
Paroquet
Partain
Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River)
Pollard
Prairie County ("prairie, meadow")
Sans Souci (literally without concern)
Segur (French city)
Sevier County
Smackover (Anglicization of chemin couvert , "covered way")
Soudan
St. Francis County
Terre Noire (black earth)
Terre Rouge (redland or red earth)
Tollette
Tully
Urbanette
Vallier (French surname)
Vaucluse (French region)
Vaugine Township
Vidette
Villemont (ville = city, mont = mount)
California
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Alsace (Region in France bordering Germany)
Artois (named after Artois , France)
Bel Air ("Beautiful Air")
Belfort ("Beautiful Fort")
Belmont ("Beautiful Mount")
Bonnefoy ("Good Faith")
Brisbane (French "brise" and Old English "bane," meaning bone)
Cassel (a town in France)
Chalfant
Concord (from French "concorde" meaning agreement , harmony , or union )
Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
Disneyland (after Walt Disney , a descendant of the Norman family d'Isigny (Isigny , Normandie, France))
Fremont (named for John C. Frémont , American soldier, explorer and politician of French ancestry)
Friant
Gasquet
Guerneville
Lafayette (named for the French general Marquis de La Fayette )
La Grange ("The Barn")
La Grange Reservoir
La Porte ("The door")
La Verne
Lebec (Le bec = "the beak")
Le Grand ("The Big")
Montague (pointed hill)
Montclair ("Clear Mountain")
Nice (After French city of the same name)
Nord ("North")
Orleans
Piedmont (French spelling of the Piedmont region of Italy)
Richmond (After Virginian city of the same name with French origins)
Rubidoux (named for Louis Rubidoux )
San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi , who had received that name because his mother was French or as a tribute to France)
Vichy Springs (After French city of the same name)
Colorado
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Connecticut
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Delaware
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Florida
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Georgia
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Hawaii
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Idaho
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Illinois
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Illinois , French version of Illini , a local Native American tribe
Illinois River
Beaucoup Creek (plenty good)
Belle Rive ("Beautiful Bank") (French military commander)
Belleville ("Beautiful City")
Bonpas Creek ("Good Step")
Bourbonnais (named for François Bourbonnais, Sr., a fur trader)
Bureau County ("Office"; person's name)
Cache River (hidden river)
Champaign (from Champaigne, a French 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 ("Heartbreak"; early French fort)
Decatur
DePue (named for an early French fur trader by the name of De Pue)
Des Plaines ("of the Plains")
Des Plaines River
Du Bois (from the woods)
DuPage River
Du Quoin (name of an Illiniwek chief)
Embarrass ("Predicament")
Fayette County (after LaFayette)
Fort Massac
Hennepin (named in honor of the 17th-century French explorer Father Louis Hennepin)
Joliet (named after explorer Louis Jolliet )
La Fayette
La Grange ("The Barn")
La Moille
La Moine River ("The Monk", after an early monastery)
La Salle (named after explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle . La Salle literally means "the Hall.")
L'erable, Illinois (Settled by French Canadians)
Libertyville
Marion
Marseilles (after Marseille )
Massac (French Minister)
Menard County (after Pierre Menard )
Prairie du Rocher ("Prairie of the Rock")
Paris
Rochelle
St. Anne (Anne is spelled in French. Founded by French-speaking Canadians. See Charles Chiniquy )
St. Georges (Note: retains the silent "s" from the French)
Sublette
Toulon
Versailles (for the French city and palace)
Indiana
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Iowa
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Kansas
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Kentucky
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Louisiana
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Louisiana (Louisiane in French - named in honor of King Louis XIV of France in 1682)
Abbeville (after Abbeville , France) (One of several communities in the United States named "Abbeville". )
Algiers New Orleans neighborhood
Ascension Parish , named from the French l'Ascension
Arnaudville
Assumption Parish , named from the French l'Assomption
Audubon New Orleans neighborhood
Avoyelles Parish
Baton Rouge ("Red Stick")
Bayou Cane
Bayou Chicot
Bayou Gauche ("Left Bayou")
Bayou Grande Cheniere Mounds
Bayou L'Ourse
Beauregard Parish
Belle Alliance ("Beautiful Alliance")
Belle Chasse ("Beautiful Hunting")
Belle d'Eau
Belle Rose ("Beautiful Rose")
Belmont
Bienville Parish
Blanchard (named after a Louisiana governor of French ancestry)
Bonnet Carré , flood prevention spillway on the Mississippi River ("square bonnet")
Bossier City (after Pierre Bossier)
Bossier Parish
Bourg (ancient French word for "town")
Breaux Bridge
Breton National Wildlife Refuge (on and around Breton Island )
Broussard (after merchant Valsin Broussard, of Acadian descent)
Butte La Rose
Calcasieu
Cancienne
Chalmette ("Pasture land, fallow land")
Chandeleur Islands
Charenton (named after Charenton asylum)
Chataignier ("Chestnut tree")
Chauvin
Chenier Au Tigre ("Tiger oak tree")
Chenal
Cocodrie (dialect word for "crocodile")
Cossinade
Coteau Bourgeois ("Bourgeois hill")
Davant
Delacroix Island
Delcambre
Des Allemands ("of the Germans")
Destrehan (named in honor of Jean Noel Destréhan , Creole politician)
Deville
Dulac ("of the lake")
Evangeline Parish
Faubourg Marigny New Orleans neighborhood
Faubourg Tremé New Orleans neighborhood
Fontainebleau New Orleans neighborhood
Fort De La Boulaye
Garyville
Gentilly New Orleans neighborhood
Grand Bayou ("great bayou")
Grand Ecaille ("great scale")
Grand Ecore
Grand Isle ("great island")
Grand Chenier ("great oakwood")
Grand Coteau ("great hill")
Grosse Isle ("big island")
Grand Point
Grand Prairie ("great meadow")
Grosse Tête ("fat or big head")
Gueydan
Iberville Parish (named for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville )
Iberville Projects New Orleans neighborhood
Jean Lafitte (named for Jean Lafitte , a famous pirate)
Labadieville
Lacamp
Lacassine ("small house")
LaCour
Lacombe
Lafayette (named for the Marquis de La Fayette )
Lafitte Projects New Orleans neighborhood
Lafourche Parish (from la fourche , referring to a forked path)
Lake Borgne ("one-eyed")
Lake Pontchartrain
L'Anse Grise ("the gray cove")
LaPlace (named for early settler Basile LaPlace.)
Larose ("the rose")
Lebeau ("the beautiful")
Le Blanc ("the white")
Lecompte
Leonville
Le Moyen
Loreauville
Marchand
Mandeville (named for developer Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville )
Maringouin (Cajun French in origin and means "mosquito")
Marion (named after an American soldier of Huguenot ancestry)
Maurepas
Meaux (after the town of Meaux )
Meraux
Mermentau
Mer Rouge ("red sea")
Metairie (from a French word for sharecropping )
Michoud New Orleans neighborhood
Montegut
Montpelier
Moreauville
Napoleonville (for French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte )
New Orleans (named for the duke of Orléans , France)
Ossun (named after the town of Ossun )
Paincourtville ("short of bread town")
Paradis ("Paradise")
Parlange
Pierre Part
Plaisance
Plaquemines Parish
Plaucheville
Point Au Fer Reef Light
Pointe aux Chenes ("Oak Point")
Pointe à la Hache ("Axe Spike")
Pointe Coupee Parish (from pointe coupée , "cut spike")
Port Barre
Port Fourchon
Pont Des Mouton
Prairieville ("meadow town")
Presquille (from presqu'île , "peninsula")
Provencal
Rosaryville
Saint Benedict
Saint Bernard
Saint Maurice
St. Amant
St. Claude New Orleans neighborhood
St. Francisville
St. Gabriel
St. Landry Parish
St. Malo
St. Martinville (originally named Poste des Attakapas-Atakapas Post)
St. Roch New Orleans neighborhood
St. Rose
Saline
South Vacherie
Terrebonne Parish ("Good Land")
Timbalier Island ("timpani player")
Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant
Vacherie ("Cowshed")
Verdun
Versailles
Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans
Ville Platte ("Flat City")
Maine
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Maryland
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Massachusetts
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Michigan
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Allouez (named after missionary Claude-Jean Allouez )
Au Gres (French for "at the sandstone")
Au Sable
Au Sable River
Au Train
Barbeau
Beaugrand Township
Belle River
Belleville ("Beautiful City;" named for a Paris district)
Bellevue
Benzie County "Bec Scie", meaning "Saw Beak" or "Saw Bill", a kind of duck
Berrien County
Bete Grise ("Gray Beast")
Bete Grise (community also meaning "Gray Beast")
Bois Blanc Island ("White Wood")
Cadillac (named after explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac )
Chapin Township
Charlevoix (named for Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761), a French Jesuit in New France )
Cheviers
Delaware Township
De Tour Village
Detroit (of the "Strait")
Doty
Eau Claire
Ecorse (from Rivière aux Écorces , "Bark River")
Fort Gratiot Charter Township
Fremont Township
Grand Blanc ("Great/Large White")
Grand Marais ("Large Marsh")
Grand Traverse County
Grande Pointe
Gratiot County
Grosse Ile ("Big Island")
Grosse Pointe ("Big Point")
Grosse Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Park
Grosse Pointe Shores
Grosse Pointe Woods
Hamtramck (named for the French-Canadian soldier Jean François Hamtramck from Québec, became a decorated officer in the American Revolutionary War)
Isle Royale National Park ("Royal Island")
Lac La Belle ("Beautiful Lake", community)
Lac La Belle ("Beautiful Lake", lake)
Lachine
Lamotte Township
L'Anse ("The Cove")
Lapeer County
Lasalle
LeRoy ("The King")
Les Cheneaux Islands ("The Channels")
Marion Township
Marlette
Marne (named after a river in France)
Marquette (named after explorer Jacques Marquette )
Marquette County
Montcalm County (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French military commander in the French and Indian War ).
Montmorency County (named for the Montmorency family , a noble family influential in the administration of New France )
Napoleon (for Napoleon Bonaparte )
Parisville
Pere Marquette River (for Father (père ) Jacques Marquette)
Pere Marquette Township
Pointe Aus Barques
Pointe aux Tremble
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area
Portage
Presque Isle (from presqu'île , "peninsula")
Presque Isle County
Reno Township
River Rouge
Saint Clair Haven
Saint Clair Shores
Sans Souci
Sault Ste. Marie ("St. Mary's Rapids")
Sebille Manor
St. Clair
St. Clair County
St. Clair Shores
St. Ignace (French rendition of St. Ignatius )
St. Joseph
Traverse City
Vermilion
Vermontville
Minnesota
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Albertville , named after a city in France
Argyle (from the French Argile, "clay") (or from Argyll in Scotland?)
Audubon
Baudette
Beaulieu
Belle Plaine [1 ]
Belle Prairie Township
Bernadotte
Big Fork River (originally Rivière Grande Fourche )
Bois de Sioux River ("woods of the Sioux")
Bois Forte Indian Reservation ("hard wood")
Brule River (from the Ojibwe name Wiisakode-ziibi "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 ).
Calumet
Cloquet
Coteau des Prairies ("slope of the prairies")
Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
Detroit Mountain , thus Detroit Lakes
Duluth (named after Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut )
Faribault
Faribault County , named for Jean-Baptiste Faribault , French-Canadian trader
Fond du Lac Indian Reservation ("source of the lake")
Frontenac State Park
Frontier ("Border" refers to its position on the Minnesota / Ontario border)
Gentilly
Glese (From the French "glaise" or clay)
Grand Marais ("Big Marsh"; some speculate "Big Harbor" in founders' accent)
Grand Portage ("Large Portage")
Grand Rapids
Hennepin County (named in honor of the 17th-century Belgian explorer Father Louis Hennepin )
Huot, Minnesota named after French-Canadian settler Louis Huot
La Moille - corruption of La Mouette 'the seagull' from a Vermont city name
La Porte (The Door)
La Prairie
Lac qui Parle ("lake that speaks")
La Crescent
Lac Vieux Desert ("lake of the old clearing")
Lake Pepin named after French-Canadian settler Jean Pepin
Lake Traverse
La Salle (named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , a french explorer)
Le Roy
Le Sueur (named for Pierre-Charles Le Sueur )
Leech Lake (originally lac sangsue , "leech lake", a translation from the Ojibwe Ozagaskwaajimekaag-zaaga'igan "Lake abundant with leeches")
Little Fork River (originally Rivière Petite Fourche )
Little Marais (originally Petit Marais , "Little Marsh")
Mille Lacs County
Mille Lacs Lake ("thousand lakes")
Nicollet County
Orleans
Pelland
Platte
Pomme de Terre ("potato")
Red Lake (originally lac rouge , "red lake", a translation from the Ojibwe Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan "Red-colored Waters Lake")
Rainy Lake (originally lac à la pluie , "rainy lake")
Renville County, Minnesota
Roseau ("reed")
Roseville
St. Cloud (named after a Paris suburb; St.Cloud is Saint Clodoald , grandson of the Frankish king Clovis I )
St. Croix River
St. Hilaire
St. Louis Park
Saint Paul (once known as Pig's Eye Landing after Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant - 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)
Sedan (named after the french city of the same name)
Terrebonne ("good land")
Traverse County
Vadnais Heights , suburb of Saint Paul
Lake Vermilion
Voyageurs National Park , (named after the French-Canadian explorers - "travellers")
Mississippi
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Missouri
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Montana
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Nebraska
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Barada (named after Antoine Barada, whose father was French fur trapper and interpreter Michel Barada)
Bayonne (named for the city)
Bellevue ("Beautiful Sight")
Bordeaux (named for the creek, below)
Bordeaux Creek (named for a fur trader )
Cabanné's Post
Chadron, Nebraska
Decatur
Du Bois ("of the Woods")
Fontanelle , Fontenelle Forest , Fontenelle Boulevard, Hotel Fontenelle , Logan Fontenelle Housing Project (Named after Logan Fontenelle , Omaha Tribe chief who was the son of a Creole and Omahan mother)
Fremont (named for John C. Frémont , French-American pioneer and politician)
Grand Island
La Platte
Loup County , Loup River ("Wolf", named after the Skidi Pawnee people who called themselves the Wolf People)
Louisville
Loup River
Lyons
Papillion (from papillon , "butterfly")
Platte County
Platte River ("flat river")
Robidoux Pass
Sarpy County (named after Peter Abadie Sarpy, a fur trader of French origin born in New Orleans, Louisiana)
St. Deroin (named after a family called Du Roins).
St. Paul
Nevada
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Frenchman
Frenchman Flat
Lamoille
Montreux
Pioche , named after François Louis Alfred Pioche, a financier who purchased the town in 1869.
Primeaux
Reno , named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. (Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault")
Valmy , named after the place in France of a famous battle during the Revolutionary period.
New Hampshire
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New Jersey
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New Mexico
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Bayard (named for George Dashiell Bayard , Union general in the Civil War of French ancestry)
Clovis (named for Clovis , first Christian King of the Franks )
Lamy, New Mexico (named for the French born and educated Santa Fe, New Mexico Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814 - 1888)
Ledoux, New Mexico (named for Abraham Ledoux (1784-1842) and Antoine Ledoux (1779 - ?), two French brothers born in Québec , who became trappers and settled in Mora, New Mexico and Taos, New Mexico )
Antoine Leroux, New Mexico (named for Antoine Leroux (1801 - 1861), a famous trader and scout, born from French - Canadian parents, who settled in Taos, New Mexico )
St. Vrain, New Mexico (named for Ceran St. Vrain (1802 - 1870), a Western American trader of French descent.
New York
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Au Sable, New York Au Sable
Ausable River ("sand river")
Barre
Bellerose
Belle Terre
Boquet or Bouquet River
Buffalo (One theory holds that the city gets its name from an English corruption of the French "beau fleuve" ("beautiful river").)
Chateaugay (named after Chateauguay, Québec )
Chateaugay River
Champlain (named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
Chaumont
Chaumont Bay
Chaumont River
Chazy
Clermont
Decatur
Delaware County
Dunkirk (named after the city of Dunkirk or Dunkerque, France, because of the similar harbor.)
Esperance
Fayette
Fayetteville
Fremont
Fremont Center (named after John C. Frémont , Franco-American explorer, military officer and politician)
Gouverneur
Grand Island
Granville
Grasse River (named after the Comte de Grasse, a French admiral who decisively defeated the British fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake in September 1781 during the American Revolution)
Huguenot
Jacques Cartier State Park (park located along the St. Lawrence River and named after 16th-century French explorer Jacques Cartier )
La Chute River
LaFayette
LaGrange
Lake Champlain (lake named after French explorer Samuel de Champlain)
Le Ray
Le Roy
Lorraine
Louisville
Maine
Marion
Massena (named after André Masséna , one of Napoleon 's field marshals.)
Montague
Montour
New Paltz (named by French Huguenots)
New Rochelle (founded by French Huguenots and named after La Rochelle , France.)
Orleans
Orleans County
Portage
Raquette River
Rouses Point (named after early settler Jacques Rouse.)
Point Au Roche State Park (park located on the shores of Lake Champlain)
St. Armand
St. Lawrence County (for the Saint Lawrence River , English form of Fleuve Saint-Laurent.)
Valcour Island (island located in Lake Champlain)
North Carolina
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North Dakota
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Ohio
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Auglaize River (corruption of the French eau glaise , meaning "muddy water")
Auglaize County
Belfort (named for a town in France)
Bellaire
Bellefontaine ("Beautiful Fountain")
Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
Belmont County (Anglicized "Beautiful Mountain")
Belmont
Belpre ("Beautiful Meadow")
Champaign County
Chardon
Cheviot
Clermont County (from the city Clermont, France. "Clair" = clear, "mont" = mount)
Conneaut
Decatur
Delaware County
Duchouquet Township
Fayette County (after the Marquis de Lafayette )
Fayette
Fremont
Gallia County (Latin for Gaul , Roman name for France)
Gallipolis, Ohio , largest city of Gallia County
Girard
Grand Prairie Township
Guernsey County
Huron County (French name for the Wyandot tribe)
Lafayette
Lagrange ("The Barn")
LaRue ("The Street")
Leroy Township, Lake County ("The King")
Lorain County (for the French province of Lorraine )
Lorain
Louisville
Marietta (to honor Marie Antoinette )
Marion County
Marne (named after a river in France)
Marseilles (from the French city of Marseille )
Martel ("Hammer")
Massillon (after Jean Baptiste Massillon , French bishop)
Moraine
Oregon
Paris Township, Portage County, Ohio
Paris Township, Stark County, Ohio
Paris Township, Union County, Ohio
Portage County
Vermilion River (Red River)
Versailles
Oklahoma
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Oregon
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Pennsylvania
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Belle Vernon
Bellefonte ("Beautiful Fountain")
Bellevue
Boquet
Calumet, Pennsylvania
Charleroi ("Charles King"—in reference to King Carlos II of Spain )
Chartiers Township
Dauphin County
Decatur Township
Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
DuBois ("Of the Woods")
Duquesne , named after the Marquis Duquesne, governor of New France
Eau Claire
Fayette City
Fayette County , named to honor the Marquis de LaFayette
Fort Duquesne , original name of what is now Pittsburgh
Fort Le Boeuf
Fort Machault
Fort Presque Isle
Laporte ("The door")
Ligonier , named after Field Marshal John Ligonier, a British noble and officer with French ancestry
Luzerne County
Luzerne Township
Mercer Township
Montour County
North Versailles Township
Paris
South Versailles Township
Versailles , named after the Palace of Versailles
Wilkes-Barre (Barre was a British politician with Huguenot ancestry, favorable to the cause of US colonies)
Rhode Island
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South Carolina
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South Dakota
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Belle Fourche ("Beautiful Fork")
Belle Fourche Reservoir
Belle Fourche River
Big Sioux River
Bois de Sioux River ("Woods of the Sioux" River)
Bon Homme County ("Good Man" County)
Burdette
Conde (maybe from the noble French family of Condé)
Corsica
Coteau des Prairies ("Slope of the Prairies")
Missouri Coteau ("Slope of the Missouri")
East Sioux Falls , a ghost town
Edgemont
De Smet , named for Pierre-Jean De Smet , a Belgian priest
Dupree (maybe from "du pré")
Flandreau , named for Charles Eugene Flandrau , judge of Huguenot ancestry
Fort Pierre
Jerauld County
Joubert (a common French surname)
Lake Traverse
La Plant
LeBeau
Mellette County
Montrose (possibly from "pink mountain")
Moreau River
North Sioux City
Pierpont
Pierre , named for Pierre Chouteau, Jr. , an American fur trader of French Canadian origin
Platte
Roubaix , a ghost town named for the French city of the same name
Roubaix Lake , a lake located in the Black Hills (from the French city of Roubaix)
St. Francis
Sioux Falls
Vermillion
West Branch Lac qui Parle River ("Lake that Speaks" River)
Tennessee
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Texas
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Utah
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Vermont
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Virginia
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Washington
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Beaux Arts Village (from "fine arts")
Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
Belfair
Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
Blanchard (Old French for "Whitish")
Boistfort
Brier
Coulee City
Coupeville
Decatur Island
Deschutes ("of the Falls")
Des Moines ("of the Monks")
Doty
Dupont
Duvall
Esperance ("Hope")
Fauntleroy (Old French for "Child of the King")
Guerrier ("Warrior")
Grand Coulee (from coulée or couler , meaning "to flow")
La Center
La Crosse
La Grande
Lamont
La Push (Clallam County, along the Quileute River on the Olympic Peninsula . Home to the Quileute Indian Tribe . From la bouche, meaning "mouth", as infused into Chinook trading jargon)
Laurier (Named after Sil Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister)
Loup Loup (from loup , "wolf")
Malo
Maury Island
Mount Rainier (named after Captain Peter Rainier , grandson of the Huguenot refugee Daniel Regnier)
Normandy (named after Normandy , 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)
Ozette
Palouse (from pelouse , meaning "lawn")
Pend Oreille County (named after the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. French for "earring" and a reference to heavy earrings and distended lobes of the people of the same name)
Pomeroy (Old French for "Apple Orchard")
Portage
Portage Island
Puget Sound named after Peter Puget, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
Quimper Peninsula
Roche Harbor
Touchet
Touchet River
Vashon
Vashon Island named after James Vashon, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
West Virginia
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin (anglicized from the French "Ouisconsin", which in turn is a corruption of the Ojibwe "Meskonsing")
Allouez (after Claude-Jean Allouez )
Apple 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 potatoes ")
Argonne (from the Argonne Forest in France)
Ballou
Belle Plaine ("beautiful plain")
Bellevue ("beautiful view")
Benoit
Bois Brule River ("burnt wood")
Butte des Morts ("hill of the dead")
Calumet County (French for Menominee peace pipe)
Cassel (a town in France)
Couderay (from lac courte oreilles , "short ears")
Dell Prairie
De Pere (from les rapides des pères , "the rapids of the fathers")
Dovre
Eau Claire ("clear water")
Eau Claire County
Eau Galle ("gall water")
Eau Pleine ("full water")
Flambeau ("torch")
Fond du Lac ("bottom of the lake")
Fond du Lac County
Grand Chute ("great fall")
Green Bay (anglicized from the French baie verte , previously "Baie des Puants" - "Bay of Stinks")
Juneau County ("Named for Solomon Juneau, born in Quebec")
La Crosse ("the crozier")
La Crosse County
La Farge
Lafayette County
La Grange (originally "La Grane" after the native place of General La Fayette)
La Pointe (from la pointe de Chequamegon , the area around Chequamegon Bay)
La Valle ("the valley")
Lac Courte Oreilles ("lake short ears")
Lac du Flambeau ("lake of the torch")
Lac La Belle ("Lake the beautiful or beautiful lake")
Lake Butte des Morts ("hill of the dead")
Langlade County
Marinette County
Marquette (after Father Jacques Marquette )
Marquette County
Montreal ("Royal Mountain", after Montréal, Québec)
Nicolet National Forest (after Jean Nicolet )
Pepin County
Portage (originally named for the Fox-Wisconsin portage)
Portage County
Prairie du Chien ("dog prairie")
Prairie du Sac ("prairie of the Sac people ")
Presque Isle (from presqu'île , "peninsula")
Racine ("root", after the Root River)
Racine County
Radisson ("radish")
Roche a Cri
St. Croix Falls (after the St. Croix ("Holy Cross") river, named c. 1689)
St. Croix County
Superior (from Lake Superior / Lac Supérieur - meaning "upper" in this context)
Theresa
Trempealeau River (from "trempe à l'eau", "plunge into the water")
Trempealeau County
Wyoming
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