North Carolina – Gov. David Settle Reid Reiff, California – John Reiff (first postmaster) Remsen, New York – Henry Remsen (patentee) Reno, Nevada – Jesse L. Reno Rensselaer, New York – Kiliaen van Rensselaer Revere, Massachusetts – Paul Revere Revillagigedo Islands (Alaska) – Count of Revilla Gigedo (Viceroy of New Spain) Reynoldsburg, Ohio – Jeremiah N. Reynolds (author and newspaper editor) Rhinebeck (village), New York – William Beekman (founder) (also named for Rhineland, Germany (Beekman's home)) Rheem, California – Donald I. Rheem (developer) Ricardo, California – Richard Hagen Richardson Springs, California – J.H. and Lee Richardson (early developers) Richburg, New York – Alvan Richardson (settler) Richland, Washington – Nelson Rich (state legislator and land developer) Richmond, Maine – Ludovic Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond Richmond, Massachusetts and Richmond, New Hampshire – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond Richmond, Rhode Island – Edward Richmond (colonial attorney general) Richville, New York – Salmon Rich (settler) Ridgway, Pennsylvania – John Jacob Ridgway (landowner) Ridleys Ferry, California – Thomas E. Ridley (ferry operator) Rienzi, Mississippi – Cola di Rienzo Rindge, New Hampshire – Captain Daniel Rindge (one of the original grant holders) Ripley, Maine and Ripley, New York – Brigadier General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (of the War of 1812) Rippey, Iowa – C.M. Rippey (settler) Rising City, Nebraska – A.W. and S.W. Rising (landowners) Rivanna River (Virginia) – Anne, Queen of Great Britain Ritzville, Washington – Philip Ritz (settler) Robbinston, Maine – Edward H. and Nathaniel J. Robbins (landowners) Robert Lee, Texas – Robert E. Lee (US Civil War General) Robidoux Pass (Nebraska) – Antoine Robidoux (trader) Robinson, Kansas – Gov. Charles L. Robinson Robstown, Texas – Robert Driscoll Jr. (landowner) Rochester, New Hampshire and Rochester, Ulster County, New York – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (brother-in-law to James II of England) Rochester, Minnesota – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester (indirectly, via Rochester, New York) Rochester, New York – Colonel Nathaniel Rochester Rockingham, Vermont – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Rockwood, California – Charles R. Rockwood (irrigation promoter) Rodman, New York – Daniel Rodman Rohnerville, California – Henry Rohner (founder) Rolfe, Iowa – John Rolfe (settler of Virginia) Rollinsford, New Hampshire – descendants of Judge Ichabod Rollins (first probate judge for New Hampshire) Rollinsville, Colorado – John Q.A. Rollins Romulus, Michigan and Romulus, New York – Romulus Roodhouse, Illinois – John Roodhouse (founder) Roosevelt, New Jersey – Franklin D. Roosevelt Root, New York –