Cochran, Georgia – Arthur E. Cochran (judge) Cockeysville, Maryland – Thomas Cockey (settler) Coeymans, New York – Barent Peterse Coeymans (landowner) Coffeeville, Mississippi – Gen. John Coffee Coffeyville, Kansas – A.M. Coffey (state legislator) Cokesbury, South Carolina – Bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury Colby, Kansas – J.R. Colby (settler) Colby, Wisconsin – Charles Colby (president of the Wisconsin Central Railroad) Colchester, Vermont – Earl of Colchester Colden, New York – Cadwallader D. Colden (state legislator) Colebrook, New Hampshire – Sir George Colebrooke (landowner) (note the spelling) Coleman, Texas – R.M. Coleman (Texas Ranger) Coleville, California – Cornelius Cole (US Senator) Colesville, New York – Nathaniel Cole (settler) Colfax, 5 places in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and Washington – Schuyler Colfax (US Vice President) Collettsville, North Carolina – Colletts family (residents) Collier County, Florida – Barron Collier Collinsville, Illinois – Collins brothers (founders) Colrain, Massachusetts – Lord Coleraine (note spelling) Colquitt, Georgia and Colquitt County, Georgia – U.S. Senator Walter T. Colquitt Colton, New York – Jesse Colton Higley (settler) Columbia, South Carolina – Christopher Columbus Columbus, Georgia and Columbus, Ohio – Christopher Columbus (Italian explorer) Communipaw, New Jersey – Michael Reyniersz Pauw (director of the Dutch West India Company) (note the spelling) Compton, California – Griffith D. Compton (settler) Conklin, New York – Judge John Conklin Connellsville, Pennsylvania – Zachariah Connell (founder) Connersville, Indiana – John Conner (founder) Connersville, Kentucky – Lewis Conner Conroe, Texas – Isaac Conroe (Union Cavalry officer) Constable, New York and Constableville, New York – William Constable (proprietor) Conway, Arkansas – Henry Wharton Conway (territorial delegate to Congress) Conway, Massachusetts and Conway, New Hampshire – General Henry Seymour Conway (Commander in Chief of the British Army) Conway, South Carolina – Gen. Robert Conway (resident) Cooksburg, New York – Thomas B. Cook (landowner) Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper Cooperstown, Pennsylvania – William Cooper (founder) Coopersville, Clinton County, New York – Ebenezer Cooper (mill owner) Cope, Colorado – Jonathan Cope (founder) Cope, South Carolina – J. Martin Cope (founder) Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Cora Watson (wife of landowner)