California
- Alsace
- Artois (named after Artois, France)
- Beaumont ("Beautiful mount" or named after Beaumont)
- Bel Air ("Beautiful Air")
- Belmont ("Beautiful mount")
- Bonnefoy ("Good Faith")
- Butte County
- Cassel (a town in France)
- Delano (after a scion of the famous Delano Family, originally Huguenots named "De Lannoye")
- Disneyland (after Walt Disney, a descendant of the Norman family d'Isigny (Isigny, Normandie, France))
- Fremont (named for John C. Frémont, American soldier, explorer and politician of French ancestry)
- French Camp
- French Corral
- French Gulch
- French Hill
- Frenchtown
- Friant
- Guerneville
- Lafayette (named for the French general Marquis de La Fayette)
- La Grange ("The Barn")
- La Grange Reservoir
- La Porte ("The door")
- Lebec (Le bec = "the beak")
- Le Grand
- Montague (pointed hill)
- Montclair ("Clear Mountain")
- Nice (After French city of the same name)
- Nord ("North")
- Orange
- Orange County
- Orleans
- Rubidoux
- San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi, who had received that name because his mother was French or as a tribute to France)
- Vichy Springs
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
Famous quotes containing the word california:
“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)
“But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)