(first settlers) Knights Landing, California – Dr. William Knight (early settler) Knightsen, California – George W. Knight (town founder) and his wife Christina Christensen Knightsville, Indiana – A.W. Knight (founder) Knowles, California – F.E. Knowles (granite quarry owner) Knox, Maine – General Henry Knox Knoxville, California – Ranar B. Knox, first postmaster Knoxville, 4 places in Georgia, Mississippi, Albany County, New York, and Tennessee – Henry Knox Knoxville, Pennsylvania – John C. Knox (judge) Kokomo, Indiana – Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo (Miami tribal chief) Kortright, New York – Lawrence Kortright (patentee) Kosciusko, Mississippi – Tadeusz Kościuszko Kossuth, Mississippi and Kossuth, Ohio – Lajos Kossuth Kotzebue, Alaska – Otto von Kotzebue Kountze, Texas – Herman and Augustus Kountze (financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad) Kranzburg, South Dakota – Nicholas Friedrich Wilhelm, Johann, Mathais, and Paul Ferdinand Kranz (settlers) Kyle, Texas – Captain Fergus Kyle (founder) L Laceyville, Ohio – Maj. John S. Lacey Laclede, Missouri – Pierre Laclède (founder of St. Louis) La Conner, Washington – J.J. Connor (settler) (note the spelling) Laddonia, Missouri – Amos Ladd (settler) Laddville, California – Alphonso Ladd (founder) Lafayette, Colorado – Lafayette Miller (settler and husband of Mary Miller, who platted the town) Lairds Landing, California – George and Charles Laird (early settlers) Lairdsville, New York – Samuel Laird (settler) Lake Ann, Michigan – Ann Wheelock (settler's wife) Lake Charles, Louisiana – Charles Sallier Lake Helen, Florida – Helen DeLand (founder's daughter) Lake Lanier (Georgia) – Sidney Lanier (poet) Lake Wilson, Minnesota – Jonathan E. Wilson (landowner) Lakin, Kansas – David L. Lakin (resident of Topeka) Lamar, 3 places in Colorado, Missouri, and Mississippi – L.Q.C. Lamar Lamar River (Wyoming) – L.Q.C. Lamar Lamartine, Wisconsin – Alphonse de Lamartine (French historian) Lambertville, New Jersey – John Lambert (settler) Lamoine, Maine – DeLamoine (early landowner) Lamy, New Mexico – Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy Lanare, California – L.A. Nares (developer) Landaff, New Hampshire – Bishop of Llandaff (Llandaff is the spelling of the name on the town charter) Landisburg, Pennsylvania – James Landis (founder) Lanesborough, Massachusetts – James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough Lanesboro, Pennsylvania – Martin Lane (settler) Langdon, New Hampshire – Governor John Langdon Langhorne, Pennsylvania – Jeremiah Langhorne (jurist) Lanier, Georgia – Clement Lanier Lansingburgh, New York – Abraham Lansing (founder) Laramie River (Ohio) – Pierre-Louis de Lorimier (French fur trader) Laramie, Wyoming – Jacques La Ramée (French-Canadian fur trader) Larned, Kansas – Gen. B.F. Larned