hi! there's lot of room for more information to cover various regions and waves of explorers/immigrants, but you can get started on a few previous posts

• How much is actually known about the naming of US cities and towns after European cities? Did they really just give the city the same name as the place they came from?

• I have seen many places/cities in the UK and USA share the same name. Was there any purpose behind this? How were the people not confused by this naming convention?

• Why do American cities have British names

• How New York got its name?

• Why do so many Upstate New York cities have Greek names?

• Why are there so many towns in the Southern Illinois area that are named after Middle-Eastern locations?

• why did the people of memphis, tennesee decide to name their city after the city of memphis, egypt?

• Why are many cities in Missouri, United States named after ancient cities? (Troy, MO, Carthage, MO, Sparta, MO)