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See also: List of city name changes

These are the list of renamed places in the United States --- various political and physical entities in the U.S. that have had their names changed, though not by merger, split, or any other process which was not one-to-one. It also generally does not include differences due to a change in status, for example, a "River Bluff Recreation Area" the becomes "River Bluff State Parkway".

Alaska[edit]

California[edit]

Connecticut[edit]

Delaware[edit]

Florida[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Illinois[edit]

Indiana[edit]

Kansas[edit]

Kentucky[edit]

  • Limestone was named Maysville after John May, a surveyor, clerk and land owner in the area in 1787 when the town was formed. The post office opened as "Limestone" and kept that name from 1794 to 1799.

Massachusetts[edit]

  • Cold Spring (1731–1761) became Belchertown (1761–Present).
  • Gay Head (1870-1998) became Aquinnah (1998–Present) after residents voted to approve the name change in 1997.[19]
  • Manchester (1645–1989) became Manchester-By-The-Sea (1989–Present).
  • Trimountaine (1625-1630) became Boston (1630-Present).[20]

Minnesota[edit]

Mississippi[edit]

Nebraska[edit]

New Jersey[edit]

New Mexico[edit]

New York[edit]

North Carolina[edit]

  • Hamburgh (later Hamburg) is now Glenville.
  • The towns of Leaksville, Spray, and Draper were consolidated and became the city of Eden in 1967.[28]

Ohio[edit]

Pennsylvania[edit]

South Carolina[edit]

South Dakota[edit]

Tennessee[edit]

  • Coal Creek became Lake City in 1936, after the completion of Norris Dam, which created Norris Lake. Later, it was renamed to Rocky Top.

Texas[edit]

Utah[edit]

  • The territory that became Utah was known as Deseret when first settled by Latter-Day Saints in 1847
  • Parley's Park City became shortened to Park City
  • Fort Utah became Provo
  • The area known as Provo Bench became Orem before the city's incorporation in 1919

Wyoming[edit]

  • The valley in which the town of Jackson is located was originally known as Jackson's Hole and is now Jackson Hole. (The town's name has never contained the word "Hole".)

 

References[edit]

  • Baker, Ronald L. (1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253328667.
  • Logan, William Bryant; Muse, Vance (1989). Kennedy, Roger G. (ed.). The Deep South. The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. ISBN 1-55670-068-7.
  • Shorto, Russell (2004). The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385503490.
  1. ^ Wyden, Ron (US Senator) (September 10, 2013). "Senate Report 113-93, Designation of Denali in the State of Alaska". US Government Publishing Office. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Campbell, Jon (November 8, 2015). "Old Name Officially Returns to Nation's Highest Peak". U.S. Board on Geographic Names (U.S. Geological Survey). Retrieved August 31, 2015.
  3. ^ Hersher, Rebecca (1 December 2016). "Barrow, Alaska, Changes Its Name Back To Its Original 'Utqiagvik'". The Two-Way. NPR. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  4. ^ a b "More pushback against Native names". Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  5. ^ "Juneau assembly votes to give district new Native name". The Seattle Times. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  6. ^ "City History". City of Wilmington. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  7. ^ Phillips, Cabell (November 29, 1963). "Canaveral Space Center Renamed Cape Kennedy". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  8. ^ "Florida Law Restores Cape Canaveral's Name". The New York Times. May 30, 1973. p. 79. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  9. ^ Navarro, Mireya (November 29, 1997). "Miami Lends Good Name, And Bad, to Needy Region". The New York Times. pp. A1. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  10. ^ Logan & Muse 1989, p. 307
  11. ^ Roark, H. Randal (1975). "Atlanta: Urban Patterns". The American Institute of Architects Guide to Atlanta. Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. p. 13.
  12. ^ Logan & Muse 1989, p. 288
  13. ^ a b Callary, Edward (2008). Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033568 – via ProQuest.
  14. ^ "Historical Information - the Village of Orland Hills, IL".
  15. ^ Baker 1995, p. 297.
  16. ^ Baker 1995, p. 83.
  17. ^ a b Baker 1995, p. 136.
  18. ^ Baker 1995, p. 242.
  19. ^ "Wampanoag History". Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  20. ^ Peterson, Mark (2019). "Chapter 1 - Boston Emerges: From Hiding Place to Hub of the Puritan Atlantic". The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 29. Retrieved November 16, 2023 – via JSTOR.
  21. ^ Otárola, Miguel (May 13, 2020). "Minnesota DNR can rename Lake Calhoun as Bde Maka Ska, high court rules". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
  22. ^ Lee, Kurtis (December 15, 2023). "New Mexico Spaceport Leaves Economic Dreams Grounded". The New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
  23. ^ a b c d e f Shorto 2004, p. 262.
  24. ^ Steinberg, Brenda (August 23, 2017). "Always Idlewild". The New York Times. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  25. ^ Seyfried, Vincent F. (1995). Elmhurst: From Town Seat to Mega-Suburb. Merrick, N.Y.: Traction Yearbook. p. 73. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
  26. ^ Shorto 2004, p. 3.
  27. ^ Berger, Joseph (December 11, 1996). "North Tarrytown Votes to Pursue Its Future as Sleepy Hollow". The New York Times. pp. B2. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  28. ^ Powell, William Stevens; Hill, Michael R. (2010). The North Carolina Gazetteer (2nd ed.). Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-8078-3399-5 – via EBSCOhost.
  29. ^ Clarke, Robert (1870). Information wanted with reference to the early settlers of Losantiville (now Cincinnati). Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co. p. 1. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
  30. ^ Rose, Marla Matzer (June 28, 2016). "John Glenn honored as Columbus airport is renamed for him". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  31. ^ Thomas, Madalaine (2015). "From Running Touchdowns to Running Away with the Casket: Thorpe v. Borough of Jim Thorpe". DePaul Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law. 26 (1): 61–62 – via Hein Online.
  32. ^ Edgar, Walter (1998). South Carolina: A History. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. p. 587. ISBN 1570032556. OCLC 38964188.
  33. ^ "City of Austin - Austin History Center: Our Collections".
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