List of American Places Named After People - P

P

• Pacheco, California – Salvio Pacheco
• Paducah, Kentucky and Paducah, Texas – Chief Paduke
• Painesville, Ohio – General Edward Paine (early settler)
• Parkman, Maine – Samuel Parkman (proprietor)
• Parkston, South Dakota – R.S. Parke (landowner) (note spelling)
• Parlier, California – I.N. Parlier (first postmaster)
• Parsonsfield, Maine – Thomas Parsons (proprietor)
• Pasco County, Florida – Samuel Pasco, United States Senator from Florida
• Paterson, New Jersey – William Paterson
• Patten, Maine – Amos Patten (settler)
• Patterson, New York – Matthew Paterson (early farmer) (note spelling)
• Patton Township, Pennsylvania – Colonel John Patton (co-owner)
• Paulsboro, New Jersey – Samuel Phillip Paul (son of a settler)
• Pawling, New York – Catherine Pauling (a misprint caused the U to change to a W and the name stuck)
• Payson, Arizona – Levi Joseph Payson (Illinois congressman)
• Peabody, Massachusetts – George Peabody (philanthropist)
• Pelham, Massachusetts – Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
• Pelham, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
• Pelham, New York – Pelham Burton (tutor of Thomas Pell)
• Pembroke, Georgia – Pembroke Whitfield Williams (early resident)
• Pembroke, New Hampshire – Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke
• Pendleton, Oregon – George H. Pendleton (Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 presidential campaign)
• Pennsylvania – William Penn (Penn's Woods)
• Pentz, California – Manoah Pence (founder, first postmaster)
• Pepperell, Massachusetts – Sir William Pepperrell (hero of the Battle of Louisburg)
• Perkins Township, Maine – Thomas Handasyd Perkins
• Perris, California – Fred T. Perris
• Perry, Maine and Perry, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (hero of the War of 1812)
• Perry, Florida – Madison Stark Perry, fourth Governor of the State of Florida, Confederate States Army colonel
• Perrysburg, Ohio – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
• Perth Amboy, New Jersey – James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (The article The Amboys contains the etymology)
• Peterborough, New Hampshire – Lieutenant Peter Prescott (land speculator)
• Petersburg, Alaska – Peter Buschmann (Norwegian immigrant)
• Petersburg, California – Peter Gardett (early merchant)
• Petersburgh, New York – Peter Simmons (early settler)
• Phillips, California – Joseph Wells Davis Phillips (founder)
• Phillips, Maine – Jonathan Phillips (grantee)
• Philipsburg, Montana – Philip Deidesheimer (mining engineer)
• Philipsburg, Pennsylvania – James and Henry Philips (settlers)
• Phillipston, Massachusetts – William Phillips, Jr. (lieutenant governor of Massachusetts)
• Phillipsville, California – George Stump Philipps (early settler)
• Phippsburg, Maine – Sir William Phips (colonial governor of Massachusetts) (note spelling)
• Piercy, California – Sam Piercy (early settler)
• Pierre, South Dakota – Pierre Chouteau, Jr.
• Pieta, California – Chief Pieta (local chief)
• Pike, New Hampshire – Alonzo Pike (producer of sharpening stones and tool and cutter grinders)
• Pikesville, Maryland – Zebulon Pike (American soldier and explorer)
• Pine Hill, California – Safford E. Pine (local dairy farmer)
• Pittsburg, New Hampshire – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittsfield, 4 places in Maine/Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittsfield, Illinois and Pittsfield, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, via Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
• Pittsford, New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (indirectly, named by Colonel Caleb Hopkins after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont)
• Pittsford, Vermont – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
• Pittston, Maine – John Pitt (settler)
• Plant City, Florida – Henry B. Plant
• Plattsburgh (city), New York and Plattsburgh (town), New York – Zephaniah Platt (landowner)
• Pleasanton, California – Alfred Pleasonton (Union Army general)
• Pocatello, Idaho – Chief Pocatello
• Poland, Maine – Chief Poland
• Polk County, Florida – 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk
• Pomfret, Vermont – Earl of Pomfret
• Pomins, California – Frank J. Pomin (first postmaster)
• Pontiac, Illinois and Pontiac, Michigan – Chief Pontiac
• Pooler, Georgia – Robert William Pooler (railroad employee)
• Pope Valley, California – William Pope (land grantee)
• Port Arthur, Texas – Arthur Edward Stilwell (founder)
• Port Kenyon, California – John Gardner Kenyon (founder)
• Port Jervis, New York – John Bloomfield Jervis (engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Canal)
• Port Richey, Florida – Captain Aaron M. Richey
• Porter, Indiana – Commodore David Porter
• Porter, Maine – Dr. Aaron Porter (proprietor)
• Portola, California – Gaspar de Portolà
• Portola Valley, California – Gaspar de Portolà
• Post Falls, Idaho – Frederick Post (lumber mill builder)
• Posts, California – William Brainard Post (homesteader)
• Potter, California – Richard R. Potter (first postmaster)
• Potter Valley, California – William and Thomas Potter (early settlers)
• Poultney, Vermont – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling)
• Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler)
• Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling)
• Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher)
• Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner)
• Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler)
• Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright)
• Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts)
• Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince
• Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor
• Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader)
• Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost
• Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia/Illinois/New York/Tennessee/Virginia/Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
• Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero)
• Pullman, 3 places in Michigan/Washington/West Virginia – George Pullman
• Pullman, Chicago – George Pullman and Solon S. Beman
• Purser, California – Edward T. Purser (rancher)
• Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam
• Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society
• Pylema, California – Mary R. Pyle (early settler and postmaster)
• Prince's Lakes, Indiana Howard Prince Founder