Sources: All images from NationalEclipse.com, eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov, Google, INEGI, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Also: eclipse2024.org.
New York:
A — Abbotts, Adams, Adams Center, Akron, Akwesasne (Mohawk word meaning “Land where the partridge drums”), Alabama, Albion, Albion Center, Alden (British, Old English, meaning: wise old friend), Alden Center, Aldrich (meaning: wise ruler), Alexander, Alexandria, Alexandria Bay, Alexandria Center, Allen, Allen Center, Aloquin, Alton (meaning: old town), Amherst, Angelica, Angola, Angus, Antwerp, Arcadia (any place of rural peace and simplicity), Aristotle, Armor, Arthur, Ashantee (a tribe in West Africa), Atlanta, Attica, Attica Center, Avon.
B — Bagdad, Bangor, Barcelona, Batavia (an ancient district of the Netherlands, on an island at the mouth of the Rhine; an archaic or literary name for Holland), Bates, Belfast, Belfort, Belgium, Belleview, Bellevue, Bellmont, Bellmont Center, Benedict Beach, Bennington, Bethany, Beulah, Bombay, Boston, Brandon, Brandon Center, Bristol, Bristol Center, Brown Center, Brownsville, Brownville, Brutus, Buffalo, Bunker, Burke, Burke Center, Burma Woods, Burt, Butler, Butler Center, Byron.
C — Caledonia, Cambria (Latinized form of the Welsh name “Cymru,” which means Wales), Cambria Center, Camden, Camillus (Latin meaning: a priest's assistant, or temple servant in ancient Rome), Canandaigua (Seneca word meaning “the chosen spot”), Canaseraga (Seneca word meaning “among the milkweeds” or “among the elms”), Canawaugus (Seneca word meaning “smelly waters” because of the sulfur springs there), Caneadea (Seneca word meaning “where the heavens rest upon the earth”), Canoga (meaning: "place of the sweet water"), Canton, Carnegie, Carthage, Castile, Castorland, Catherineville, Cattaraugus (Seneca word meaning “bad smell”), Cayuga, Cedar Swamp, Centerfield, Centerville, Central Square, Centralia, Champion, Charlotte, Charlotte Center, Chateaugay (meaning: one who bears flame or light), Cheshire, Chesterfield, Childs, Cicero, Cicero Center, Clarence, Clarence Center, Cleveland, Cleveland Hill, Clinton Mills, Coffins Mills, Coldwater, Colegrave, Colonial Village, Concord, Conquest, Constable, Converse, Copenhagen, Cordova, Corfu, County Line, Covington (an Old English name), Cross Roads, Crown Point, Crown Point Center, Crowningshield, Curriers.
D — Dadville, Dalton, Darien, Darien Center, Dayton, De Kalb Junction, Denmark, Depew, Derby, Devereaux, Diana, Diana Center, Dillen, Dodge, Driftwood, Dublin, Dunkirk, Dutch Settlement.
E — East Amherst, East Avon, East Bennington, East Bethany, East Concord, East Eden, East Gaines, East Geneva, East Palermo, East Palmyra (an ancient city northeast of Damascus, in the eastern part of the Levant, now in the center of modern Syria), East Part, East Rochester, East Seneca, East Steuben, East Syracuse, East Victor, Eben, Ebenezer, Eden, Eden Valley, Edwards, Edwardsville, Egypt, Elizabethtown, Elpis (Greek mythology, meaning: the spirit of hope; also, New Testament Greek Lexicon: expectation of evil, fear), Emerson, Essex, Euclid, Evans, Evans Center.
F — Fair Haven, Fairdale, Fairmount, Fairville, Falconer, Fargo, Farmersville, Farmersville Station, Farmington, Fayette, Fine, Floridaville, Forest, Forest City, Forest Lawn, Forest Park, Forestdale, Forestville, Fort Drum, Fort Jackson, Fredonia, Freedom, Freeman Mill, Friend, Fruit Valley, Fulton.
G — Gainesville, Galen (name of a Greek anatomist, physician, and philosopher), Galilee, Gardenville, Garland, Gas Spring, Gasport, Gates, Gates Center, Geneva, German Village, Golah (refers to the Jewish diaspora community), Goldsmith, Grantville, Greece, Grenell, Grover Cleveland Terrace,
H — Halfway, Hamburg, Hamlet, Hamlin (variant of German word meaning “home”), Hammond (From the Norse Viking name “Hamundr”; introduced from Germany during the Norman Conquest in 1066; meaning “home protector”), Hannibal (meaning: Grace of Baal; Baal is an ancient Canaanite-Phoenician god, made famous by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who led the forces of Carthage against Rome in the Second Punic War), Hannibal Center, Hanover (name of the British family that ruled from 1714 to 1901), Hanover Center, Harkness (Old English word for altar, temple or grove), Harmony, Hartland, Hastings (name of a port in East Sussex on the English Channel, near the site of the Battle of Hastings during the Norman Conquest in 1066, in which William the Conqueror defeated King Harold), Hastings Center, Helena (Greek origin, meaning “shining light” or “torch”), Hemlock, Hermitage, Holland, Honeoye (Seneca word meaning: lying finger, or “the place where the little finger lies on the ground”; from a local story of a Native American whose finger was bitten by a rattlesnake and then cut off his finger with a tomahawk), Honeoye Falls, Honeoye Park, Honest Hill, Hooker, Hopewell, Hopewell Center, Hume, Hunt.
I — Idaho, Inverness, Ionia (region on the western coast of Anatolia, south of present-day İzmir, Turkey; a group of twelve Ionian cities formed the earliest union of city-states in the area, called the Ionian League; also: The Ionian school of philosophy focused on non-supernatural explanations for natural phenomena and a search for rational explanations of the universe, thereby laying the foundation for scientific inquiry and rational thought), Ira, Irish Settlement, Irishtown, Irondequoit (Iroquois word meaning “where the land meets the water”), Ironton, Ironville, Iroquois, Ischua (a Iroquoian language of the Seneca meaning “floating nettle”; Ischua Creek, in Cattaraugus Co., is believed to have been a route on the Underground Railroad.), Italy, Italy Hill, Ivory.
J — Jamestown, Jamestown West, Java, Java Center, Java Village, Jerusalem, Jewettville (Americanized form of the French surname Jouet / Jouët / Jouett), Jordan, Joy, Junius (Hebrew meaning “young”; Latin meaning “born in June”),
K — Kellogg, Kendaia (a Seneca village, part of the Cayuga Nations of Iroquois, destroyed by Sullivan’s Army on Sept, 17, 1779; located in what is now the town of Romulus, NY; alternative spellings: Thendara, Candaia, Conday, or Kendae), Kennedy.
L — La Salle, Lackawanna (from a Lenape term meaning “stream that forks”), Laidlaw (Scottish surname; derives from the town of Ludlow, Shropshire), Lake Bonaparte, Lake Clear, Lake Placid, Lancaster, Leicester, Levant, Lewis, Libertypole, Lima, Limerick, Linwood, Lisbon, Little America, Little Canada, Little France, Little Rapids, Little Rock City, Little Utica, Liverpool, Livonia (a former Russian province on the Baltic Sea, north of Lithuania: became Russian in 1721; divided between Estonia and Latvia in 1918), Livonia Center, Lock Berlin, Long View, Loon Lake, Lost Village, Louisville, Loveland, Lowville, Lyme, Lyndon, Lyndonville, Lyons, Lyons Falls, Lyonsdale, Lysander (meaning: “liberator”), Lysander New Community,
M — MacDougall, Madrid, Malone, Manchester, Manchester Center, Marcellus (Latin meaning: “young warrior”; associated with the Roman deity Mars), Marcellus Falls, Marion, Markhams (English surname; derives from the Old English word “mearc,” meaning: to “mark” a boundary, plus “village homestead” or “meadow”), Maxwell, Medina, Melrose Park, Memphis, Mendon (from the Welsh word “Mendeen,” meaning: “unwavering” or the “wall that will never crumble“), Mendon Center, Meridian, Mexico, Michigan Mills, Middlebury, Middleport, Middlesex, Minerva, Minoa, Model City, Mohawk Hill, Moira (Greek meaning: destiny, share, or fate; Gaelic meaning: bitter, beloved; Anglicized form of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary), Montague, Montezuma, Moriah (Hebrew: a place name in the Old Testament; a mountainous region in southern Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac; a site usually identified with Zion, where Solomon built the Temple; Land chosen by Yahweh; land of myrrh; bitterness of the Lord; Greek meaning: star of the sea, or sacred olive tree), Moriah Center, Morse, Mount Arab.
N — Nashville, Natural Bridge, Natural Dam, Naumburg (name of a town in Germany, dating back to 1012; Naumburg was a significant trading centre in the Middle Ages, known for its Romanesque and Gothic architecture), Nehasane (Native American word meaning “beaver crossing on a log”), New Albion, New Boston, New Bremen (Bremen is also a city in Germany), New Ebenezer (meaning of Ebenezer: a Hebrew name celebrating divine assistance; also, “stone of help” — “eben” means stone, and “ezer” means help), New Haven (harbor, safety, refuge), New Hudson, New London, New Oregon, New Russia, New Scriba (Scriba is a Latin word meaning scribe, secretary, clerk, notary, writer), Newark, Newburg, Newcomb, Niagara Falls, Niets Crest (Niet is Russian, Dutch, German; generally meaning “nothing”), Niobe (Greek Mythology: Niobe is a daughter of Tantalus, who boasted of her fourteen children, seven male and seven female, to the goddess Leto who only had two children, the twins Apollo and Artemis; because of Niobe’s hubris, she was punished by Leto, who sent her children Apollo and Artemis to slay all of Niobe’s children; then Niobe is turned into a stone from which tears continued to flow), Noble Shores, Norfolk, North Alexander, North Avon, North Bangor, North Boston, North Chili, North Chittenango (Chittenango is an Oneida word meaning “where waters run north”), North Cohocton (Cohocton is an Iroquois name, pronounced Ga-ha-to, meaning “log floating in the water” or “trees in the water”), North Constantia (Constantia meaning: steadiness, constancy, perseverance, harmony; having a steadfast, immovable, constant character), North Cuba, North Elba (a mountainous island off the W coast of Italy; Napoleon's first place of exile), North Gainesville, North Gates, North Greece, North Hamlin, North Harmony, North Hartland, North Hudson, North Huron, North Java, North Java Station, North Macedon (from the god Makedon, son of Zeus; ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the South Balkans, now divided among Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia, aka, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), North Manlius (Manlius was a heroic figure in ancient Rome, who defended the Capitoline Hill against Gallic invaders during the Battle of Allia), North Pole, North Scriba (Scriba is a Latin word for a notary or government clerk in the Roman government; also, a journalist), North Stockholm, North Syracuse, North Tonawanda (Tonawanda means “swift waters”; the name given to the area by Neuter and Erie Indians, the area's original inhabitants; probably refers to the Niagara River current), North Victory, Nottingham Estates, Number Four.
O — Oakland, Omar, Onchiota (an Indian name meaning rainbow), Onondaga (keepers of the Central Fire), Ontario, Ontario Center, Orlando, Orleans, Orwell, Osceola (meaning “black drink singer,” which is a phrase used to describe a Seminole warrior who drinks a black purgative liquid brewed from yaupon holly leaves during purification rites; also: the name of a Seminole leader who resisted the US government's removal of his people from Florida in the 1830s, and died in prison after being tricked into surrendering), Ossian (meaning “fawn”; also, a legendary Gaelic hero and poet), Oswegatchie (a Native American name meaning “black water”), Oswego (a Mohawk name meaning “flowing out”).
P — Palermo, Palmyra (an ancient city in the eastern part of the Levant, now in the center of modern Syria), Panama, Paradox, Parish, Parish Center, Parishville, Parishville Center, Parma, Parma Center, Pastime Park, Paul Smiths, Paul Smiths Easy Street, Pavilion, Pavilion Center, Pembroke (Celtic origin, meaning “bluff” or headland”; also, a breed of Welsh corgi), Pembroke Center, Pendleton, Pendleton Center, Peoria (from the Miami-Illinois and Central Algonquian languages, meaning: “Comes carrying a pack on his back”), Persia, Peru, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pickettville, Pierrepont, Pierrepont Manor, Pilgrimport, Pillar Point, Pitcairn, Pittsford, Plato, Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh West, Plessis (Old French, meaning: “a fence of interwoven branches”), Point Stockholm, Poland Center, Pope, Portland, Potsdam, Potter, Pre-emption, Protection, Prussian Settlement, Pulaski (a double-edged tool with an axe blade on one side and an adze on the other side; also, the name of a Polish general who aided American forces in the Revolutionary War).
R — Ransomville, Rapids, Rensselaer Falls, Rice Mill, Richland, Richmond, Richmond Center, Riga (derivative of medieval Greek rēgas, meaning “king”; also, the capital and largest city of Latvia), Roanoke, Robinson, Robinwood, Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, Romulus, Roosevelt Beach, Rooseveltown, Royalton, Rush, Rushford, Rushville, Russell, Rutland (the name of a small county in England bordered by Leicestershire, archaically called Rutlandshire, and referred to as Roteland in the Domesday Book, which is the record of the Great Survey of most of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror; the name Roteland means “land belonging to Rōta”; Rota in Latin means “wheel”; also meaning: a tribunal of the papal curia, the supreme ecclesiastical and secular court of the Roman Catholic Church, exercising jurisdiction especially in matrimonial cases appealed from diocesan courts; modern meaning of Rota: a fixed order of rotation of people to do a particular job), Rutland Center.
S — Sagamore (a lesser chief or great man in the Algonquian Indians, who offered wisdom, advice and guidance to the chief), Saintsville, Salamanca, Salina (Greek: moon goddess; sometimes considered equivalent to Artemis, the goddess of hunting and the moon), Sampson, Sandusky, Santa Clara, Saranac (Iroquois word meaning “Cluster of Stars”), Sardinia (name of the second-largest island in the Mediterranean; the name has pre-Latin roots), Savannah, Sawens (French name found in the Ardennes mountains; Iraq, Kurdish name meaning “Mountain clever”), Scranton, Scriba (Latin: a public notary, scribe, private secretary or clerk), Seneca, Seneca Falls, Seneca Hill, Seneca Knolls, Severance, Shawnee, Sheridan, Sherman, Shermans Bay, Sherwood Knolls, Silver Springs, Sinclairville, Somerset, South Alabama, South Attica, South Avon, South Bombay, South Bristol, South Chili, South Cuba, South Greece, South Hannibal, South Lima, South Livonia (Livonia is a former Russian province on the Baltic, north of Lithuania: became Russian in 1721; divided between Estonia and Latvia in 1918), South New Haven, South Scriba, South Stockton, South Wales, South Warsaw, Southwest Oswego (from the Mohawk word osh-we-geh, meaning “pouring-out place”), Sparta, Standish, Stanley, Stanley Manor, State Line, Stedman, Stockholm, Stockholm Center, Sucker Brook, Sun, Swastika, Sweden, Sweden Center, Syracuse.
T — Tahawus (the original name of Mount Marcy, meaning: cloud-splitter; an Adirondack mining town, now a ghost town), Texas, Theresa, Trudeau, Turin (name of the capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy), Tuscarora (one of the original Six Nations of the Iroquois),
U — Union Falls, Union Hill, Union Settlement, Union Springs.
V — Valcour (name of an Island that was instrumental in the American Revolution, following the American retreat from Canada: The Battle of Valcour Island resulted in a tactical victory for the British, however, it proved to be a strategic victory for the American quest for independence. Some say that it was one of Benedict Arnold’s finest achievements.), Van Buren, Van Buren Bay, Van Buren Point, Vandalia (Name of a proposed British colony along the Ohio River in the late 1700s. It was never approved by the British Crown and had no colonial government, although some Virginians and Pennsylvanians had already settled there. After the American Revolutionary War, the Vandalia settlers sought unsuccessfully to be admitted as a state called Westsylvania. However, they had no legal title to the land, and the governments of Virginia and Pennsylvania both claimed the area as their own under colonial charters. Ultimately the federal government split the area between Pennsylvania and Virginia according to the Mason–Dixon line.), Varick (Germanic name, meaning Honorable Defender, a ruler or king of the journey), Versailles, Victor, Victoria, Victory, Vienna, Village Green, Villenova, Vincent, Vineyard, Volusia (meaning “Land of the Euchee,” from the Euchee Indians).
W, Y, Z — Wadsworth, Walden Cliffs, Wales, Wales Center, Wales Hollow, Warrens Corners, Warsaw, Waterloo, Watson, Webster, Websters Corners, Websters Crossing, West Alabama, West Bangor, West Batavia, West Bethany, West Carthage, West Chili, West Falls, West Gaines, West Greece, West Junius, West Monroe, West Phoenix, West Pierrepont, West Portland, West Potsdam, West Rush, West Seneca, West Somerset, West Sparta, West Stockholm, West Sweden, West Turin, Westminster Park, Wheatfield, Wheatland, Wheatland Center, Wheatville, White City, Whiteface, Whitelaw, Whites, Wilson, Winchester, Worth, Worth Center, Yale, Yaleville, York, York Hamlet, Yorkshire, Youngstown, Zurich.
Vermont:
A — Adamant, Addison (Old English given name whose etymological meaning is “son of Adam”), Albany, Albany Center, Alburg (Old High German and English, meanings include: noble, nobleman, aristocratic + castle, fortress, city, stronghold, temple, sanctuary), Alburg Center, Alburgh (meaning: old burial-mound or hill, or "Alda's” burial-mound or hill), Averill (Old English, meaning: a ferocious fighter, boar battle),
B — Bakersfield, Barnumtown, Barre, Barton (Old English origin, meaning: the home farm of a lord of a manor; a monastic farm or grange; a barley farm; modern meaning: a farmyard), Belvidere (meaning: "beautiful view"), Belvidere Center, Belvidere Junction, Berkshire, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bolton (Old English, meaning: settlement), Bridport, Brighton, Bristol, Brunswick, Burke, Burlington.
C — Cabot, Cambridge, Camp Grounds, Camp Maquam (in Algonquian: maquam means “beaver”), Canaan, Centerville, Charleston, Charlotte, Colchester, Concord, Coventry.
D — Danville, Derby, Derby Center, Derby Line, Downingville.
E — East Albany, East Alburg, East Berkshire, East Brighton, East Burke, East Calais, East Charleston, East Charlotte, East Concord, East Enosburg (Enosburgh is named after Roger Enos, who was a commander of the Vermont Forces in the American Revolution), East Fairfield, East Franklin, East Greensboro, East Haven, East Johnson, East Lyndon, East Montpelier, East Montpelier Center, East Warren, Ecole Champlain, Eden, Eden Mills, Egypt, Essex, Essex Junction.
F — Fairfax, Fairfax Falls, Fairfield, Fairfield Station, Ferdinand, Fletcher, Folsom, Fonda, Franklin.
G — Garfield, Georgia, Georgia Center, Georgia Plains, Gilberts Tannery, Guildhall.
H — Highgate, Holland, Huntington, Huntington Center, Hyde Park.
I — Irasburg, Irasville, Island Pond, Isle La Motte, Ithiel Falls [Biblical reference: Ithiel is mentioned in Nehemiah 11:7, and consists of two elements, the second being אל (El), which usually refers to Elohim, the prominent Canaanite deity whose name became applied to the God of Israel; Other meanings: God Is With Me; I Have Wearied Myself, O God].
J — Jay, Jeffersonville, Jericho, Jericho Center, Jerusalem, Johnson, Jonesville.
K — Kirby, Lincoln, Lindsay Beach, Lost Nation, Lyndon, Lyndon Center, Lyndonville.
M — Mechanicsville, Middlebury, Middlesex, Milton, Moccasin Mill, Montgomery, Montgomery Center, Montpelier, Moretown, Morgan, Morgan Center, Morristown, Morrisville, Morses Line, Moscow.
N — Nashville, New Haven, New Haven Mills, Newark, Newark Hollow, Newport, Newport Center, North Calais, North Cambridge, North Concord, North Danville, North Derby, North Duxbury, North Enosburg, North Fairfax, North Ferrisburgh, North Ferrisburgh Station, North Hero, North Hyde Park, North Montpelier, North Troy, Northfield.
O, P, R — Oakland, Orleans, Passumpsic (a Native American word meaning “clear running water”), Pearl, Perry, Plainfield, Pleasant Valley, Pottersville, Richmond, Rockville.
S — Saint Albans, Saint Johnsbury, Samsonville, Shawville, Sheffield, Sheffield Square, Shelburne, Shelburne Falls, Sheldon, Sheldon Springs, Shipman Hill, South Albany, South Alburg, South Burlington, South Cambridge, South Franklin, South Hero, South Lincoln, South Newport, South Walden, Stannard, Stowe, Sutton.
T, U, V — Texas, Tillotson Mill, Troy, Twin Orchards, Underhill, Underhill Center, Vergennes (named for Frenchman Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, who aided the rebel effort in the American Revolutionary War), Victory.
W — Walden, Walden Heights, Waltham (a Saxon surname), Warren, West Berlin, West Branch, West Charleston, West Charlotte, West Enosburg, West Georgia, West Hill, West Lincoln, West Milton, West Settlement, West View, Westfield, Winooski, Wolcott, Woodbury, Worcester.