Kansas
- Bourbon County
- Decatur County
- La Cygne ("The Swan"; after the Marais des Cygnes River, which was named by French explorers)
- Labette County, named after Pierre La Bette, an early settler of French origin
- Lecompton
- Marais des Cygnes River
- Marion County
- Reno County, named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. (Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault")
- Sublette, Kansas
- Wyandotte County, French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe who were also known as the Hurons by the French in Canada
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Famous quotes containing the word kansas:
“Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.... Now I know we’re not in Kansas.”
—Noel Langley (1898–1981)