List of American Places Named After People - D

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• Daby's Ferry, California – S. Daby (ferry operator)
• Dacono, Colorado – Daisy Baum, Cora Van Vorhies and Nona (or Nora) Brooks (local residents)
• Dade City, Florida – Major Francis L. Dade
• Daisetta, Texas – Daisy Barrett and Etta White (early residents)
• Dallas, Texas – George M. Dallas
• Dalton, Massachusetts and Dalton, New Hampshire – Tristram Dalton (Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
• Danforth, Maine – Thomas Danforth (proprietor)
• Danvers, Massachusetts – Danvers Osborn family
• Danville, California – Daniel Inman (local landowner)
• Danville, Georgia – Daniel G. Hughes (father of U.S. Representative Dudley Mays Hughes)
• Danville, Vermont – Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
• Darrah, California – Richard Darrah (first postmaster)
• Darwin, California – Dr. Darwin French
• Daulton, California – Henry C. Daulton (landowner and politician)
• Davenport, Iowa – Colonel George Davenport
• Davie, Florida – Randolph P. Davie (developer)
• Davis, California – Jerome C. Davis (local farmer)
• Dawson, Illinois – John Dawson (member of "The Long Nine", a group of legislators from Sangamon County)
• Dayton, Maine – Thomas Day (submitted the petition for Dayton to separate from Hollis)
• Dayton, Ohio – Jonathan Dayton
• Dayton, Texas – I. C. Day (landowner) (combination of Day's Town)
• Daytona Beach, Florida – Matthias Day
• Dearborn, Michigan and Dearborn, Missouri – Henry Dearborn (Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War)
• Deblois, Maine – T.A. Deblois (president of the Bank of Portland)
• Decatur, Illinois – Stephen Decatur (War of 1812 naval hero)
• Decatur, Nebraska – Stephen Decatur (one of the village's incorporators)
• Decoto, California – Ezra Decoto (landowner)
• Deering, New Hampshire – Frances Deering Wentworth (the maiden name of Governor John Wentworth's wife)
• DeHaven, California – John J. De Haven
• DeLand, Florida – Henry Addison DeLand (founder, also founded Stetson University)
• Delano, California – Columbus Delano
• Delavan, Wisconsin – Edward C. Delevan (temperance leader in Albany, New York)
• Denning, New York – William Denning (land purchaser)
• Dennis, Massachusetts – Josiah Dennis (resident minister)
• Denver, Colorado – James W. Denver
• DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer)
• DeSoto County, Florida – Hernando de Soto
• Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist)
• Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay)
• DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier)
• Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman)
• Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler)
• Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur)
• Diamondville, California – James Diamond
• Dickenson, California – William Legrand Dickinson
• Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, a town elder)
• Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder)
• Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner)
• Dixfield, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
• Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner)
• Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here stuck)
• Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee)
• Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers)
• Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group)
• Dougherty, California – James Witt Dougherty (founder)
• Douglas, Massachusetts – Dr. William Douglas (Boston physician)
• Douglas, Wyoming – Stephen A. Douglas
• Douglas Flat, California – Tom Douglas (early merchant)
• Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – Joseph E. Foxcroft (proprietor)
• Downers Grove, Illinois – Pierce Downer (settler)
• Downey, California – John G. Downey
• Doyle, Lassen County, California – Oscar Doyle (landowner)
• Drakesbad, California – Edward R. Drake (settler & lodge owner)
• Dresbach Township, Minnesota – George B. Dresbach (founder)
• Duanesburg, New York – James Duane (grantee)
• Dubuque, Iowa – Julien Dubuque (early resident)
• Dudley, Georgia – Dudley Mays Hughes (U.S. Representative)
• Dudley, Massachusetts – Paul and William Dudley (landowners)
• Duluth, Minnesota – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
• Dummer, New Hampshire – William Dummer (Massachusetts Governor)
• Dummerston, Vermont – William Dummer
• Dunlap, California – George Dunlap Moss (teacher)
• Dunnigan, California – A. W. Dunnigan (early settler)
• Durham, California – W.W. Durham (member of the California State Assembly)
• Durham, North Carolina – Bartlett S. Durham
• Duval County, Florida – William Pope DuVal, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834