– Utah – Washington Monroe City, Indiana – Monroe Alton (founder) Monroeville, California – U.P. Monroe (founder) Monroeville, New Jersey – Rev. S.T. Monroe Monroeville, Pennsylvania – Joel Monroe (first postmaster) Monson, Maine – Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (indirectly, via Monson, Massachusetts) Monson, Massachusetts – Sir John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson Montague, Massachusetts – Capt. William Montague Monterey, California – Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (colonial governor) Monterey, Massachusetts – Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey (indirectly, via Monterrey, Mexico) (The town was named during the Mexican War to commemorate the battle fought there). Montezuma, Colorado – Moctezuma I (note the spelling) Montgomery, 4 places in Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York – General Richard Montgomery Montgomery, Indiana – Valentine B. Montgomery (founder) Montgomery, Texas – Andrew J. Montgomery (trading post establisher) Montrose, Pennsylvania – Dr. Robert H. Rose Mooers, New York – Gen. Benjamin Mooers Mooney Flat, California – Thomas Mooney (trading post and hotel establisher) Moorcroft, Wyoming – Alexander Moorcroft (settler) Moorefield, West Virginia – Conrad Moore Moores Flat, California – H.M. Moore (first settler) Mooresville, Indiana – Samuel Moore (founder) Mooresville, Missouri – W.B. Moore (founder) Moorhead, Minnesota – Gen. James K. Moorhead Moorhead, Montana – W.G. Moorehead (railroader) (note the spelling) Moosup, Connecticut and Moosup River (Connecticut) – Moosup (Native American chief) Moraga, California – Joaquin Moraga (explorer and landowner) Moran, Kansas – Daniel Moran (businessman) Moreau, New York – Jean Victor Marie Moreau (French general) Morehead, Kentucky – Gov. James Turner Morehead Morehead City, North Carolina – Gov. John Motley Morehead Moreno Valley, California – Frank E Brown (Moreno is Spanish for brown); Land developer Morgan, Utah – Jedediah Morgan Grant (a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Morgan, Vermont – John Morgan (landholder) Morganfield, Kentucky – Gen. Daniel Morgan Morganton, North Carolina – Gen. Daniel Morgan Morgan's Point, Texas – Emily West Morgan (known as The Yellow Rose of Texas) Morgantown, West Virginia – Zackquill Morgan (landowner) Morganville, Kansas – Ebenezer Morgan (founder) Morrill, Kansas – Gov. Edmund Needham Morrill Morrill, Maine – Anson P. Morrill (governor of Maine) Morrilton, Arkansas – E.J. and George H. Morrill (settlers) (note the spelling) Morris, Connecticut – James Morris III (Revolutionary War soldier) Morris, New York – General Jacob Morris (son of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence) Morrisania, New York, New York – Lewis