| Origin Story | City |
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| 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 | |
| Because it was built upon Hohokam ruins, the founders named this city after a mythological creature that was also born from destruction | |
| Named for one of the area's largest landowners, William Trent | |
| One of the first settlers, Samuel Stone, named the city after his hometown in England which is only one letter different | |
| Two brothers went to a New York town of the same name to sell nonexistant plots in this floodplain and the swindled buyers named the marsh after their hometown | |
| Named after a local Native American tribe | |
| Named after the American Revolutionary War hero, Francis Nash | |
| Named after a German chancellor in effort to attract German investment | |
| Named in 1719 after an English trader who settled in the area and secured grants of 800 acres | |
| Named for a stone formation located on the south bank of the local river | |
| Named after Colonel George Clendenin's father and later shortened from two words to one | |
| Named in honor of America's 7th president (even though he was only a general at the time of naming) | |
| 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 for a nearby body of water | |
| Named for Stephen Frank, a pioneer in the 1870s who was killed by Indians while fording a river | |
| Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, named this city for a term meaning God's activity on earth | |
| William Byrd II named this city after an English town which is presently a part of London | |
| In the native language, it means 'sheltered bay' | |
| Named after a small town in Lincolnshire, England | |
| A Muskogean Indian word usually translated as 'old fields' | |
| Named by William Penn for the city of the same name in Kent, England | |
| Named in honor of King James II of England whose former title was the Duke of ____________ | |
| Early Spanish settlers named this city 'Holy Faith' | |
| Formerly 'Rumford,' this city was renamed to reflect newfound harmony with the neighboring city of 'Bow' | |
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