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Map of the United States with Ohio highlighted. Ohio is a state located in the Midwestern United States. Cities in Ohio are municipalities whose population is no less than 5,000; smaller municipalities are called villages. Nonresident college students and incarcerated inmates do not count towards the city requirement of 5,000 residents. [1]
While some have been totally absorbed into cities or villages, becoming paper townships, the list does not give historic names for any that were renamed. The 2018-2019 Ohio Municipal, Township and School Board Roster (maintained by the Ohio Secretary of State ) lists 1,308 townships, with a 2010 population totaling 5,623,956. [ 1 ]
Chillicothe - Shawnee. Chalakatha, one of the Shawnee bands. [25] Chippewa Lake. Choctaw Lake - name of a tribe from Mississippi. Conneaut. Guyan - Shortened from French name for an Iroquoian Native tribe from West Virginia who were later absorbed into the Ohio Seneca—the Guyandotte (Also Little Mingo, Tiontatecaga.
Lampasas County, Texas. Laredo, Texas ("scree") (Laredo city in Cantabria) Lavaca County, Texas ("La vaca", literally "the cow") Leon County, Florida (named for Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León; it is his surname, which means lion, as well as the name of a Spanish city, León, Spain. Leon County, Texas.
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
The region of New England in the United States has numerous place names derived from the indigenous peoples of the area. New England is in the Northeastern United States, and comprises six states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
[1] [2] Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford). Washington, D.C. , the federal capital of the U.S., is named after the first U.S. President George Washington , whose surname was due to his family holding land in Washington, Tyne and Wear .
The administrative divisions of Ohio are counties, municipalities ( cities and villages ), townships, special districts, and school districts. Elections for county officials are held in even-numbered years, while elections for officials in the municipalities, townships, and local boards of education are held in odd-numbered years.