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List of place names of French origin in the United States

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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).

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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.

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Notes

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  1. ^ Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 1 suggests that this town is named for a French settler.
  2. ^ Gudde 1998, p. 263 suggests this town was named from German, which also has "Nord" as its word for "North."
  3. ^ This is disputed; Palús is the name of the aboriginal people who lived at the mouth of the river and the name has been connected to a group of rocks at the same area. French fur traders referred to the river as pavillon (flag).[85]

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  1. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 13.
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  4. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 1.
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  6. ^ a b c Foscue 1989, p. 46.
  7. ^ a b Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 2.
  8. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 62.
  9. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 64.
  10. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 76.
  11. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 3.
  12. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 91.
  13. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 93.
  14. ^ a b Foscue 1989, p. 94.
  15. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 4.
  16. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 95.
  17. ^ Foscue 1989, p. 125.
  18. ^ Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 6.
  19. ^ a b Orth, Donald J. (1967). Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (PDF). Washington: Government Printing Office. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  20. ^ a b Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 8.
  21. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 9.
  22. ^ a b Coulet du Gard & Coulet de Gard 1974, p. 11.
  23. ^ Coulet du Gard & Coulet de Gard 1974, p. 12.
  24. ^ Granger, Byrd Howell (1983). Arizona's Names: X Marks the Place. Tucson: Falconer Publishing Company. p. 474. ISBN 0918080185.
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  27. ^ Branner 1899, p. 34.
  28. ^ a b Branner 1899, p. 35.
  29. ^ a b c d Branner 1899, p. 39.
  30. ^ a b c d e f Branner 1899, p. 36.
  31. ^ Branner 1899, pp. 36–37.
  32. ^ a b c d e Branner 1899, p. 37.
  33. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet de Gard 1974, p. 14.
  34. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Branner 1899, p. 38.
  35. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet de Gard 1974, p. 16.
  36. ^ a b Branner 1899, p. 40.
  37. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 17.
  38. ^ a b Gudde 1998, p. 31.
  39. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 18.
  40. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 19.
  41. ^ Gudde 1998, p. 104.
  42. ^ Gudde 1998, pp. 137–138.
  43. ^ Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 20.
  44. ^ Gudde 1998, p. 141.
  45. ^ a b c d e f Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 21.
  46. ^ a b c d Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 22.
  47. ^ Gudde 1998, p. 261.
  48. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 23.
  49. ^ Gudde 1998, p. 289.
  50. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 24.
  51. ^ Bright 2004, p. 16.
  52. ^ Bright 2004, p. 17.
  53. ^ Bright 2004, pp. 18–19.
  54. ^ a b Bright 2004, p. 28.
  55. ^ a b c d Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 25.
  56. ^ Bright 2004, p. 69.
  57. ^ a b c d e f Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 26.
  58. ^ a b Bright 2004, p. 108.
  59. ^ Bright 2004, p. 120.
  60. ^ Bright 2004, p. 142.
  61. ^ Bright 2004, p. 156.
  62. ^ a b c Hughes, Arthur H.; Allen, Morse S. (1976). Connecticut Place Names. Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society.
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  64. ^ a b Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 29.
  65. ^ a b Morris 1995, p. 25.
  66. ^ Morris 1995, p. 32.
  67. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 30.
  68. ^ a b Morris 1995, p. 72.
  69. ^ Morris 1995, p. 93.
  70. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 31.
  71. ^ a b Morris 1995, p. 172.
  72. ^ Morris 1995, p. 206.
  73. ^ Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 32.
  74. ^ a b c d Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 33.
  75. ^ a b c d e Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 34.
  76. ^ a b c d Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 35.
  77. ^ a b c Krakow, Kenneth K. (1994). Georgia Place Names (2nd ed.). Macon, Ga.: Winship Press. ISBN 0915430002.
  78. ^ a b Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 36.
  79. ^ a b c Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 37.
  80. ^ Coulet du Gard & Coulet du Gard 1974, p. 38.
  81. ^ "Bee Branch Creek History | Dubuque, IA - Official Website". www.cityofdubuque.org. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  82. ^ "An Indian Legend". Bellevue Herald Leader. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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  85. ^ Thompson, Albert W. (1971). "The Early History of the Palouse River and Its Names". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 62 (2): 69–76. ISSN 0030-8803.
  86. ^ "Cheyenne | Origin and meaning of the name cheyenne by Online Etymology Dictionary".

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