West Virginia
- Bayard
- Belle
- Belmont
- Despard
- Fayette
- Fayette County
- Fayetteville
- French Creek
- Granville
- Guyandotte River (a river in southern West Virginia, running from Wyoming County near Beckley, to the Ohio River near Huntington. Guyandotte is the French spelling of the name of an Indian tribe also known as the Wyandot.)
- Marion County
- Montcalm (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War).
- Ronceverte (Name is derived from two words meaning "Greenbrier.")
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