Francis Depau (proprietor) Depew, New York – Chauncey Depew De Peyster, New York – Frederic de Peyster DeSabla, California – Eugene De Sabla (engineer) De Smet, Idaho and De Smet, South Dakota – Pierre-Jean De Smet (missionary) DeSoto, 4 places in Florida (county), Georgia, Louisiana (parish), and Mississippi (county) – Hernando de Soto Devens, Massachusetts – Charles Devens (Civil War general and jurist) Devine, Texas – Thomas J. Devine (prominent resident of San Antonio) Dewees, Texas – Thomas Dewees and John O. Dewees, Texas cattlemen Deweyville, Texas – Admiral George Dewey (victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay) DeWitt, Illinois and De Witt, Missouri – DeWitt Clinton (governor of New York) DeWitt, New York – Major Moses DeWitt (judge and soldier) Dexter, Maine – Samuel Dexter (early statesman) Dexter, Michigan – Samuel W. Dexter (settler) Dexter, Minnesota – Dexter Parrity (early settler) Dexter, New York – S. Newton Dexter (businessman from Whitesboro, New York) D'Hanis, Texas – William D'Hanis (land agent for Henri Castro) Di Giorgio, California – Joseph Di Giorgio (agricultural entrepreneur) Diamondville, California – James Diamond Dickey, North Dakota – George H. Dickey (state legislator) Dickinson, North Dakota – W.S. Dickinson (founder) Dickson, Tennessee – William Dickson Dighton, Kansas – Francis Deighton (surveyor) (note the spelling) Dighton, Massachusetts – Frances Dighton Williams (wife of Richard Williams, town elder) Diller, Nebraska – H.H. Diller (settler) Dillon, Montana – Sidney Dillon (railroader) Dillon Beach, California – George Dillon (founder) Dillsboro, Indiana – Gen. James Dill (settler) Dillsboro, North Carolina – George W. Dill (settler) Dimond, California – Hugh Dimond (Gold Rush miner and landowner) Dinwiddie, Virginia – Robert Dinwiddie (colonial governor) District of Columbia – Christopher Columbus Dixfield, Maine and Dixmont, Maine – Dr. Elijah Dix (landowner) Dixon, California – Thomas Dickson (donor of land for a railroad depot) (error in the address of the first rail shipment to here [Dicksonville] stuck) Dixon, Illinois – John Dixon (founder) Dixon, Kentucky – Archibald Dixon Dixville, New Hampshire – Timothy Dix, Jr. (grantee) Dobbins, California – William M. and Mark D. Dobbins (early settlers) Dobson, North Carolina – W.P. Dobson (state legislator) Dodge Center, Minnesota and Dodgeville, Wisconsin – Gov. Henry Dodge Dolph, Oregon – Joseph N. Dolph (U.S. Senator) Donaldsonville, Louisiana – William Donaldson Doniphan, 3 places in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska – Col. Alexander William Doniphan Donner, California – Donner Party (ill-fated emigrant group) Doral, Florida – Alfred Kaskel and