Arkansas
- Arkansas (named by French explorers from aboriginal word meaning "south wind")
- Antoine ("Anthony")
- Aurelle
- Auvergne ("french region")
- Barraque
- Bayou
- Beauchamp (fair of beautiful field or plain)
- Beaudry
- Belleaire (from "belle aire", beautiful place)
- Belleville ("Beautiful City")
- Bellfonte (maybe from "belle fontaine", beautiful fountain)
- Boeuf ("Beef")
- Bois D'arc ("wood of ark "local wood traded by the Native Americans)
- Bonair (good air)
- Buie
- Burdette
- Cache
- Cadron
- Calumet
- Calvin (Anglicized version of Cauvin, famous French Protestant)
- Champagnolle
- Chancel
- Chicot County
- Claude
- Cloquet
- Darcy
- De Roche (of the rock)
- Deberrie
- Decatur
- Delaplaine
- Departee
- Devue
- Dumas (French surname)
- Ecore Fabre
- Fayetteville (named for French general, Marquis de La Fayette)
- Fontaine
- Fourche
- Fourche Lafave
- Fourche Valley
- Francure
- French
- Frenchman's Bayou
- Frenchport
- Gallatin
- Grand Glaise
- Gravette
- La Fave
- La Grue (the crane)
- La Grue Springs
- Lacrosee
- Ladelle
- Lafayette County
- LaGrange
- Lamartine (French author Alphonse de Lamartine, also a surname)
- L'Anguille
- Lapile
- Larue (the street)
- Latour (the tower)
- Lave Creek
- Levesque (the bishop)
- Little Rock (A translation of La Petite Roche)
- Macon (French city "Mâcon")
- Marais Saline (saline marsh)
- Marche
- Marie Saline
- Maumee
- Maumelle
- Monette
- Mont Sandels
- Montreal (royal mount)
- 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)
- Prairie County
- Rendezvous
- Sans Souci (literally without concern)
- Segur (French city)
- Sevier County
- Smackover (Anglicization of Sumac Couvert, "covered in sumac")
- Soudan
- Terre Noire (black earth)
- Terre Rouge (redland or red earth)
- Tollette
- Tully
- Urbanette
- Vallier (French surname)
- Vaucluse (French region)
- Vaugine
- Vidette
- Villemont (ville = city, mont = mount)
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
Famous quotes containing the word arkansas:
“The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mouthed, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks! He is the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the smallpox on his mother’s side!”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“...I am who I am because I’m a black female.... When I was health director in Arkansas ... I could talk about teen-age pregnancy, about poverty, ignorance and enslavement and how the white power structure had imposed it—only because I was a black female. I mean, black people would have eaten up a white male who said what I did.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)