Ohio
- Auglaize River (corruption of the French eau glaise, meaning "muddy water")
- Auglaize County
- Bellaire
- Bellefontaine ("Beautiful Fountain")
- Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
- Belmont County (Anglicized "Beautiful Mountain")
- Belmont
- Belpre ("Beautiful Meadow")
- Champaign County
- Chardon
- Cheviot
- Clermont County (from the city Clermont, France. "Clair" = clear, "mont" = mount)
- Conneaut
- Decatur
- Delaware County
- Duchouquet Township
- Fayette County (after the Marquis de Lafayette)
- Fayette
- Fremont
- Gallia County (Latin for Gaul, Roman name for France)
- Gallipolis, Ohio, largest city of Gallia County
- Girard
- Grand Prairie Township
- Guernsey County
- Huron County (French name for the Wyandot tribe)
- Lafayette
- Lagrange ("The Barn")
- LaRue ("The Street")
- Leroy Township ("The King")
- Lorain County (for the French province of Lorraine)
- Lorain
- Louisville
- Marietta (to honor Marie Antoinette)
- Marion COunty
- Marseilles (from the French city of Marseille)
- Martel ("Hammer")
- Massillon (after Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop)
- Montgomery County
- Moraine
- Nimishillen, Ohio Stark County
- Oregon
- Paris Township
- Portage County
- St. Bernard Township
- Vermilion River (Red River)
- Versailles, Ohio Darke County
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
Famous quotes containing the word ohio:
“All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a “better land,” without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)