Town, West Virginia – Charles Washington (founder; younger brother of George Washington) Charleston, Maine – Charles Vaughan (settler) Charleston, Mississippi – King Charles II of England (indirectly, via Charleston, South Carolina) Charleston, South Carolina – King Charles II of England Charleston, West Virginia – Charles Clendenin (father of Colonel George Clendenin, a landholder who built Fort Lee here) Charlestown, New Hampshire – Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet of the British Royal Navy Charlestown, Rhode Island – King Charles II of England Charlevoix, Michigan – Francis X. Charlevoix (missionary) Charlotte, Maine – Charlotte Vance (wife of legislator William Vance) Charlotte, New York and Charlottesville, Virginia – Princess Charlotte of Wales Charlotte, North Carolina and Charlotte, Vermont – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (wife of King George III) Charlton, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Charlton, 2nd Baronet Chartiers Township, Pennsylvania – Peter Chartier (trader) Chatfield, Minnesota – Judge Andrew Chatfield Chatham, 4 places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Prime Minister of Great Britain) Chaumont, New York – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont (proprietor) Cheney, Kansas – P.B. Cheney (stockholder of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) Cheney, Washington – Benjamin P. Cheney (founder of the Northern Pacific Railway) Cheneyville, Louisiana – William Cheney (settler) Chester, Vermont – George IV of the United Kingdom, the Earl of Chester (eldest son of George III of the United Kingdom) Chesterfield, Massachusetts and Chesterfield, New Hampshire – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Chichester, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Earl of Chichester Childress, Texas – George Childress (Texian patriot) Chittenden, Vermont – Thomas Chittenden (one of the Green Mountain Boys and later governor) Chivington, Colorado – John Chivington (soldier and perpetrator of the Sand Creek massacre) Choteau, Montana – Auguste and Pierre Chouteau (founders of St. Louis, Missouri) (note the spelling) Christiana, Delaware and Christiana, Pennsylvania – Queen Christina of Sweden Churchville, New York – Samuel Church (settler) Cicero, Illinois – Cicero (indirectly, via Cicero, New York) Cicero, New York – Cicero Cincinnati, Ohio – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (indirectly, via the Society of the Cincinnati) Cincinnatus, New York – Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus Cisco, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad) Cisco Grove, California – John J. Cisco (treasurer of the railroad) Clanton, Alabama – James Holt Clanton (Confederate general) Clapper, Missouri – Henry Clapper (railroader) Claraville, California – Clara Munckton