Image Sources: All images from NationalEclipse.com, eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov, Google, INEGI, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Also: eclipse2024.org.
Texas:
A — Abbott, Adamsville, Albion, Aledo (powerful and complete), Amaya (mother city, mother capital, heavenly valley, the top, the end, night rain), Amaya Colonia, Angler, Angus, Antioch (Delta Co), Antioch (Henderson Co), Arlington, Art, Athens, Arthur City, Atlas, Austin, Avalon.
B — Battle, Bells, Ben Franklin, Ben Hur, Bethlehem, Beverly Hill, Beverly Hills, Birthright, Blackfoot, Bogata, Bonanza, Boston, Brandon, Brazos Point, Broadway, Buckingham, Bunker Hill, Byrd.
C — Cain City, Calvary, Cannon, Carbondale, Carta Valley, Cash, Castroville, Center Point, Cherokee, Chicota (Spanish: strong girl), China Spring, China Springs, Clearwater, Clinton, Comanche, Comfort, Commerce, Coolidge, Cross Mountain, Cross Roads (Denton Co.), Cross Roads (Henderson Co.), Cuba, Cyclone.
D — Dallas, Democrat, Deport, Desert, DeSoto, Detroit, Devine, Dial, Diana, Ding Dong, Direct, Dominion, Dresden, Dublin.
E — Eagle Pass, Ebenezer, Edom, Egan, Energy, English, Enoch, Ensign, Eulogy, Eureka, Eustace, Evant, Everman, Ewell, Eylau.
F — Fairland, Fairview, Fairy, Fallon, Fate, Faught, Fouke, Fort Worth, Fredonia, Freestone, Friendship, Frisco.
G — Gandy, Garland, Gatesville, Georgetown, Georgia, Globe, Glory, Godley, Grandview, Grapevine, Grice, Grit, Gun Barrel City.
H — Hail, Hamilton, Harvard, Heartland, Hebron, Hiram, Hoard, Hollywood Park, Hopewell, Hunt, Huron, Hurst.
I — Ida, Ike, India, Ireland, Italy.
J — Jacobia, Jonah, Jonestown, Josephine, Joshua, Jubilee Springs, Junction.
K — Kemp, King, Kingsland, Kingston, Klondike (Chapman Lake).
L — Lafayette, Levi, Liberty Grove, Liberty Hill, Lincoln Park, Little Hope, Locker, London, Lone Star, Loyal Valley.
M — Mahomet, Malta, Marietta, Mason, Medina, Mercury, Meridian, Merit, Middle Crossing, Midlothian (area in southeastern Scotland), Monticello (name of the home of Thomas Jefferson), Mount Calm, Mount Joy, Mount Pleasant, Mount Sylvan, Mount Vernon (name of the home of George Washington), Mountain Peak.
N — Nameless, Navarro, Nemo, Nevada, New Boston, New Colony (Bell Co.), New Colony (Cass Co.), New Harmony, New Hope, New Sweden, New York, Newburg, Newsome, Nix, Nobility, Noble, Normandy.
O — Oak Ridge, Ocee, Odom, Old Boston, Old Union, Osage, Oxford.
P — Paris, Pleasant Point, Pleasant Valley (Dallas), Poetry, Point Enterprise, Point Venture, Powell, Princeton, Prosper, Providence, Providence Village.
R — Radar Base, Rainbow, Raleigh, Randolph, Rankin (DFW), Ratibor (fighting a war; eager to fight), Reagan, Reagan Wells, Red Ranger, Reno, Rice, Roanoke, Robinson, Roosevelt (Kimble Co.).
S — Saginaw, San Gabriel, San Geronimo, Sardis, Sharp, Shiloh, Sisterdale, St. Paul, Stampede, Stranger, Sunrise Shores, Sunset Valley, Sunshine, Swan.
T — Tehuacana (Treaty of Tehuacana Creek or the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Commerce), Telegraph, Telephone, Temple, Tennessee Colony, The Colony, Thelma, Theon (Greek: strong hunter; Godly, God’s gift, God’s name), Texarkana, Thomas, Three Points, Tow, Troy, Tyler.
U — Union Grove, Union Hill, Union Valley, Unity, Utopia, Uvalde.
V & W — Venus. Waco, Warlock, Warsaw, Waterloo, Welcome Valley, Welfare, Wentworth, Westminster, Wheatland, White Hall, White Settlement, Whitehall, Whiterock, Whiteway, Whitewright, Windsor, Wise, Woodstock.
Oklahoma:
Albany, America, Bennington, Bethel, Broken Bow, Cloudy, Crossroads, Divide, Eagletown, Gay, Glendale, Golden, Goodlake, Goodland, Goodwater, Grant, Harris, Heavener, Hiawatha, High Hill, Hill Chapel, Howe, Idabel (Spanish: work oath), Independence, Kemp, Loving, Monroe, Moon, Mount Zion, Moyers, Muse, Nani-chito (Choctaw: whale, or big hill; chito means enormous), Nashoba (Choctaw: wolf), North Pole, Oberlin, Oleta (small winged one; or truth), Page, Pleasant Hill, Poteau (meaning: goalpost), Rattan, Reichert (French, English, Dutch and German: meaning a brave and powerful person, ruler or army), Sawyer, Sherwood, Shinewell, Slim, Smacker, Smith-Lee, Smithville, Snow, Sobol, Speer, Tom, Ultima Thule (An island north of Britain. Latin: the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be farthest north in the world; the northernmost or farthest point; the limit of any journey; the highest degree attainable; a remote goal or aim.), Valliant, Victor, Virgil, Wade, Watson, Weeks, Zoe (life, soul, vitality).
Arkansas:
A — Abbott, Adona (meaning: My lord is Yahweh), Advance, Aetna, Agnos (meaning: one who doesn’t know; ignorant; agnostic; innocent), Alamo, Albion (poetic or literary term for Britain or England), Alexander, Alpha, Aly (strong, dedicated, supreme, exalted, noble; partner or friend; short for Alice and Alison), American Manor, Amity, Antioch (Beebe), Antioch (Jonesboro), Apex, Arden (A gender neutral name from the Hebrew word for the garden of Eden, meaning a place of solitude and great beauty; other meanings: high; valley of the eagle; strong and straightforward. Locational origin: The Forest of Arden in the UK. Shakespeare used this name in one of his plays, in respect for his mother, Mary Arden.), Arkadelphia, Arkana (Latin arcanum, meaning: secret knowledge), Armstrong, Arthur, Ashdown, Athens, Attica, Austin, Auvergne.
B — Bard, Battlefield, Bauxite, Ben Hur, Beirne (Old Norse word meaning bear, sharp or pointed), Bend, Ben Hur, Bethel (meaning: house of god; location where Abraham built an altar), Bethesda (house of mercy; house of grace), Bethlehem, Bismarck, Black Jack, Black Rock, Bloomer, Bonanza, Booster, Boston, Branch, Brittain, Bunker Hill, Burnt Hill, Byron.
C — Calamine, Calvin, Carbon City, Casa, Cash, Catholic Point, Center, Center Hill, Center Point, Center Ridge, Center Valley, Centerville, Central, Central City, Chapel Hill, Charleston, Charlotte, Cherokee Village, Choctaw, Cleveland, Clinton, Columbus, Comet, Concord, Congo, Cotton Belt, Cotton Town, Cravens, Current View, Curtis.
D — Dallas, Damascus, Dave, Day, De Queen, Deer, Delaware, Delight, Dennard (Saxon for the area known as Kent; meaning a clever mind, good business judgment, a sense of responsibility), Denmark, Desha (African American and Sanskrit word meaning: source of immense happiness; also dedicated, stubborn, determined, devoted, committed), Donaldson, Dorothy, Dublin.
E — East Pocahontas, Echo, Economy, Edna, Edwards, Egypt, Elizabeth, Elba, El Paso, Enright (meaning: attacker; signifies defence or protection, often representing Faith or Christian beliefs, possibly relating to the Crusades), Eros, Etna, Euclid, Evening Star.
F — Fairbanks, Fairman, Fallsville, Fannie, Fender, Fifty-Six, Flag, Fort Douglas, Forty-Four, Fox, Fox Hill, Franklin, French, Friendship, Fulton.
G — Garland Springs, Garlandville, Garrett, Geneva, Genoa, Gobblers Point, Gold Creek, Gold Lake Estates, Golden City, Goodman, Goodrich, Grubbs, Guy.
H — Halfway, Hanover, Happy, Happy Bend, Hardy, Harmony, Harness, Hasty, Havana, Heart, Highland, Hiram, Holland, Hollywood, Homewood, Hope, Hopewell (Norfork), Hopewell (Rose Bud), Houston, Hurricane Grove.
I — Ida, Index, Ingram, Ink, Ione (meanings: electrically charged atoms; a molecule with a positive or negative charge created by adding or removing an electron; sea nymph in greek mythology), Island, Island Town, Iron Springs, Ironton.
J — Jamestown, Jeffrey, Jerusalem, Jesup, Jethro, Jewell, Joan, Jonesboro, Jordan, Joy, Jumbo.
K — Kalamazoo (from the Potawatomi tribe, meaning: boiling water, mirage, reflecting river, smothered, the area where animals wounded by Indians crawl to die), Kentucky, King.
L — Lake Catherine, Lake Hamilton, Langley, Lebanon, Lewisburg, Liberty, Liberty Valley, Lindsey, Little Italy, Little Rock, Little Texas, Loafer, Lodi, London, Lone Star, Lorado.
M — Macey, Magazine, Marshall, Mayflower, Midway (Diaz), Midway (Mountain Home), Monarch, Montana, Montreal, Morning Star, Morning Sun, Mount Carmel, Mount Vernon, Mount George, Mount Ida, Mount Judea, Mount Moriah, Mount Olive, Mount Pilgrim, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Mountain Fork, Mountain Top, Mt. Sherman.
N — Nail, Nance, Nashville, Nathan, Natural Steps, Needmore, Nemo, New Dixie, Newark, Newburg, Newhope, Newport, Nimrod, Noahs.
O — Oden, Oil Trough, Okay, Okolona (good people, peaceful water, calm, still, clear; site of influential battles such as the Battle of Elkin's Ferry during the Civil War.), Old Austin, Old Joe, Old Lexington, Oxford, Ozark, Ozone.
P — Paradise, Paris, Parks, Parthenon, Philadelphia, Pinnacle, Plainview, Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Hill, Pleasant Plains, Pleasant Valley, Pleasant View, Pocahontas, Poughkeepsie, Powell, Powers, Powhatan, Prescott, Prosperity, Providence, Provo.
R — Ranger, Reform, Republican, Rockwell, Rocky, Romance, Roosevelt, Rose Bud, Rosetta, Royal, Rubicon, Rush, Rushing, Russell.
S — Salem (Fulton Co.), Salem (Saline Co.), Sardis, Scotland, Scranton, Sellers Store, Shady Grove, Shark, Sherwood, Shiloh [meaning: tranquil, abundance; one of the main centers of Israelite worship during the pre-monarchic period, before the First Temple in Jerusalem was built. After the Israelite conquest of Canaan, the Tabernacle was moved to Shiloh, and remained there during the period of the biblical judges.], Silver, Social Hill, St. Francis, Stanford, Strangers Home, Success, Summit, Sunnyside, Sunshine, Supply, Sweet Home.
T — Temple, Three Brothers, Tuckerman, Turkey, Twentythree.
U — Umpire, Union, Union Hill, Union Valley, Unity.
V, W, Y, Z — Valentine, Victor, Wade, Warsaw, Washington, Welcome, West Point, Wiseman, Wonderview, Woodrow, Yale, Zinc, Zion.
Missouri:
Advance, Aid, Alliance, Allbright, Arab, Arcadia, Avert, Barron, Bernie, Bertrand, Bismarck, Black, Bounds, Bragg City, Brian, Buchanan, Budapest, Bunker, Bunker Hill, Burbank, Burr, Caledonia, Calm, Carola (free woman), Cascade, Centerville, Chapel, Chicopee (violent waters); Cherokee Pass, Chicopee (Algonquian; meaning: violent waters or rapids), Chloride, Clearwater, Cobalt, Coldwater, Commerce, Copper Mine, Cotton Plant, Creek Nation, Cull, Current View, Delaware, Delta, Egypt Grove, Egypt Mills, Elijah, Eminence, Europa, Fagus [see note], Fairdealing, Fanchon (freedom), Farewell, Faro (card game, headlamp, lighthouse), Farrar (blacksmith), Fremont (noble protector of freedom), Frisco, Fruitland, Gideon, Guam, Hebron, Hiram, Hollywood, Homestown, Hunter, Hunterville, Hurricane, Iron Mountain, Irondale, Ironton, Jobe (Hebrew: respelling of Job, meaning “persecuted”), Junction City, Killarney Shores, Kinder, Kinsey, Kirk, Libertyville, Lithium, Locust, Lodi, Lone Hill, Lone Star, Lowndes, Luna, Mammoth, Matthews, Miner, Minimum, Mitchell, Monterey, Moody, Needmore, Netherlands, New Hamburg, New Liberty, New Madrid, New Wells, North Patton, Oak Ridge, Old Town, Peace Valley, Pocahontas, Point Pleasant, Point Rest, Ponder, Price Landing, Providence, Pulaski, Rat, Roosevelt, Ruble, Saint Mary, Seventysix, Stanley, Sturdivant (to leap forward in haste) [see note], Swift, Taft, Tecumseh, Tucker, Uniontown, Van Buren, Venice, Wardell (Old English: watchman's hill, or guardian's hill), Weingarten, Whitewater, Wilderness, Zion.
NOTE: Fagus was the Druid god of babies and child worship. Redheads were considered sacred to Fagus, and often his druids were red haired to signify his lust for the color red. Fagus was also prayed to in protection of a child's birth or for early termination.
NOTE: The Sturdivant Gang was a multi-generational, American family of counterfeiters, whose criminal activities took place over a fifty-year period, from the 1780s, in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Illinois:
America, Bush, Cairo, Carbondale, Choctaw, Christopher, Crossroads, Crossville, De Soto, Denmark, Diana, Divide, Du Bois, DuBois Center, Eden, Eden Park, Energy, Enterprise, Equality, Francis, Frisco, Funkhouser (Middle High German, meaning "spark"), Future City, Golconda (a rich mine; a source of great wealth), Golden Gate, Gross, Helena, Helm, Herald, Herod, Jacob, Johannisburg, Karnak, Kentucky, Klondike, Liberty Hill, Louisville, Makanda, Marshall, Marion, Mason, Moscow, Mound City, Mounds, Mount Carbon, Mt. Vernon, New Athens, New Columbia, New Hebron, New Hope, New Liberty, New Palestine, Odin, Oilfield, Omega, Palestine, Paris, Passport, Pittsburg, Pyramid, Rising Sun (Pope Co.), Rising Sun (White Co.), Salem, Sandusky [see note], Sparta, Sumner (summoner; one who serves summons), Thebes, Timothy, Unity, Vienna, West Salem, Williamsburg, Yale.
NOTE: Sandusky: 1) Native American: Wyandot (aka: Wendat) Indian word meaning “cold water” or “pure water.” 2) In the 1850s, Sandusky was the name of a location on the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves. 3) More recently, the word was adopted by homosexuals.