| Origin Story | City |
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| Named after its state's name which is derived from a Choctaw word meaning 'red people' | |
| Originally named 'Calhoun' after South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, this city changed its name to its current, more generic moniker in 1832 when the senator fell out of favor | |
| Named after Colonel George Clendenin's father and later shortened from two words to one | |
| Because it was built upon Hohokam ruins, the founders named this city after a mythological creature that was also born from destruction | |
| William Byrd II named this city after an English town which is presently a part of London | |
| Probably named by trustee David Leslie who hailed from a famous witch-trial town of the same name | |
| Named after the wife of Lord Baltimore plus a Greek suffix meaning 'city' | |
| A Native American word meaning 'to dig good potatoes' | |
| French for 'of the monks' in reference to the French Trappist monks who settled there | |
| French explorer Sieur d'Iberville called this place 'the red stick' when he saw an Indian tribal boundary marker: a cypress pole covered with dead animals | |
| Named after a Kansas Territorial Governor by a land speculator trying to gain the favor of said governor | |
| Named for one of the area's largest landowners, William Trent | |
| Named after a German chancellor in effort to attract German investment | |
| Spaniards named the valley and river of the same name when they claimed that the natural beauty was like the 'Holy Sacrament' of the Eucharist | |
| Simply the name of the state plus a Greek suffix meaning 'city' | |
| Named in honor of America's 7th president (even though he was only a general at the time of naming) | |
| Accounts differ but one story credits French-Canadian fur trappers who named the local river--which the city is named after--'the wooded river' | |
| Named after the American Revolutionary War hero, Francis Nash | |
| A Muskogean Indian word usually translated as 'old fields' | |
| Named for a nearby body of water | |
| In the native language, it means 'sheltered bay' | |
| In 1841, Father Lucien Galtier, minister to Catholic French Canadians, named his chapel after his favorite saint; the city was named after this chapel | |
| Named in honor of a town in Scott County, Minnesota which emphasizes the second syllable which is unlike an Arkansas town of the same spelling that emphasizes the first syllable | |
| Named after Stephen F. ____________, the so-called father of the state | |
| Named in honor of America's 4th president | |
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