William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (note spelling) Powellton, California – R.P. Powell (early settler) Powhattan, Kansas – Chief Powhatan (note the spelling) Pownal, Maine and Pownal, Vermont – Thomas Pownall (royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) (note spelling) Poynette, Wisconsin – Peter Paquette (The present name arose from a clerical error). Prather, California – Joseph L. Prather (early rancher) Pratt, Kansas – Caleb S. Pratt (Civil War soldier) Prattsburgh, New York – Capt. Joel Pratt (settler) Prattsville (town), New York – Zadock Pratt Preble, New York – Commodore Edward Preble Prentice, Wisconsin – Alexander Prentice (postmaster) Prentiss, Maine – Henry Prentiss (landowner) Prescott, Arizona – William H. Prescott (historian) Prescott, Kansas – C.H. Prescott (railroader) Prescott, Massachusetts – Col. William Prescott (Revolutionary War officer) Presho, South Dakota – J. S. Presho (early settler) Preston, Minnesota – Luther Preston (millwright) Preston Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania – Samuel Preston (judge and settler) Prestonsburg, Kentucky – James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia) Prestonville, Kentucky – James Patton Preston (governor of Virginia) Preston-Potter Hollow, New York – Preston family and Samuel Potter Pribilof Islands (Alaska) – Gavriil Pribylov (navigator) Prince Frederick, Maryland – Frederick, Prince of Wales Prince's Lakes, Indiana – Howard Prince (founder) Princeton, Indiana – William Prince Princeton, Maine – Rev. Thomas Prince (indirectly, via Princeton, Massachusetts) Princeton, Massachusetts – Rev. Thomas Prince Princetown, New York – John Prince (politician) Proctor, Kentucky – Rev. Joseph Proctor Proctor, Minnesota – J. Proctor Knott Proctor, Vermont – Senator Redfield Proctor Prophetstown, Illinois – Tenskwatawa (Native American leader called "the Shawnee Prophet") Prosser, Washington – Colonel William Farrand Prosser (homesteader) Provo, Utah – Étienne Provost Puget Sound (Washington) – Peter Puget (explorer) Pulaski, 6 places in Georgia, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Virginia, and Brown County, Wisconsin – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero) Pulaski Township, Ohio – Casimir Pulaski (Revolutionary War hero) Pullman, 3 places in Michigan, Washington, and West Virginia – George Pullman Pullman, Chicago – George Pullman and Solon S. Beman Pulteney, New York and Pultneyville, New York (note spelling) – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, British land speculator Putnam, Connecticut – Israel Putnam Putnam County, Florida – Benjamin A. Putnam, Florida legislator, first president – Florida Historic Society Q Quanah, Texas – Quanah Parker (the last Comanche chief) Queens, New York City – Catherine of Braganza Quenemo, Kansas – Quenemo (Native American resident) Quincy, Illinois and Quincy, Michigan – John Quincy