Washington
- Beaux Arts Village (from "fine arts")
- Bellevue ("Beautiful View")
- Belfair
- Belmont ("Beautiful Mountain")
- Blanchard (Old French for "Whitish")
- Boistfort
- Brier
- Coulee City
- Coupeville
- Decatur Island
- Deschutes ("of the Falls")
- Des Moines ("of the Monks")
- Doty
- Dupont
- Duvall
- Esperance ("Hope")
- Fauntleroy (Old French for "Child of the King")
- Guerrier ("Warrior")
- Grand Coulee (from coulée or couler, meaning "to flow")
- La Center
- La Crosse
- La Grande
- Lamont
- La Push (Clallam County, along the Quileute River on the Olympic Peninsula. Home to the Quileute Indian Tribe. From la bouche, meaning "mouth", as infused into Chinook trading jargon)
- Laurier (Named after Sil Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister)
- Loup Loup (from loup, "wolf")
- Malo
- Maury Island
- Mount Rainier (named after Captain Peter Rainier, grandson of the Huguenot refugee Daniel Regnier)
- Normandy (named after Normandy, France)
- North Bonneville (named after Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer)
- Ozette
- Palouse (from pelouse, meaning "lawn")
- Pend Oreille County (named after the Pend d'Oreilles tribe. French for "earring")
- Pomeroy (Old French for "Apple Orchard")
- Portage
- Portage Island
- Puget Sound named after Peter Puget, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
- Quinault
- Quinault River
- Roche Harbor
- Touchet
- Touchet River
- Vashon
- Vashon Island named after James Vashon, an officer in the Royal Navy of Huguenot descent
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of French Origin
Famous quotes containing the word washington:
“When you wish upon a star your dreams come true.”
—Ned Washington (190l–1976)
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomac ... and that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
—Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)