List of American Places Named After People - V

V

• Vacaville, California – Juan Manuel Vaca
• Vade, California – Sieera Nevada "Vade" Phillips (founder's daughter)
• Valdez, Alaska – Antonio Valdés y Basán (Spanish naval officer)
• Valdosta, Georgia – Augustus (indirectly, via Aosta, Italy)
• Vallejo, California – Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
• Van Buren, New York – Martin van Buren
• Van Nuys, California – Isaac Newton Van Nuys (landowner)
• Vanceboro, Maine – William Vance (landowner)
• Vaughn, California – Edward Vaughn (first postmaster)
• Veazie, Maine – General Samuel Veazie (businessman)
• Vergennes, Vermont – Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes
• Victoria, Texas – General Guadalupe Victoria (first president of Mexico)
• Victorville, California – Jacob Nash Victor
• Vidor, Texas – Charles Shelton Vidor (owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company)
• Vinalhaven, Maine – John Vinal (Boston merchant who helped settlers obtain title to the land)
• Vinton, California – Vinton Bowen (daughter of a railroad official)
• Virgil, New York – Virgil (Roman poet)
• Virgilia, California – Virgilia Bogue (daughter of railroad executive Virgil Bogue)
• Virginia – Virgin Queen
• Votaw, Texas – Clark M. Votaw (vice president of the Santa Fe Townsite Company, which laid out the town lots)