Governor Richard Bellingham Bellingham, Washington – Sir William Bellingham, 1st Baronet Bellmont, New York – William Bell (landowner) Bellows Falls, Vermont – Colonel Benjamin Bellows (landowner) Bellwood, Nebraska – D.J. Bell (landowner) Belmont, Missouri and Belmont, New Hampshire – August Belmont (financier) Belton, Texas – Governor Peter Hansborough Bell Beltrami, Minnesota – Giacomo Beltrami Belva, West Virginia – Belva Ann Lockwood Belzoni, Mississippi – Giovanni Battista Belzoni Bemis Heights, New York – Jonathan Bemis (innkeeper) Benedicta, Maine – Bishop Benedict Fenwick (landowner) Benicia, California – Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo (wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo) Benner Township, Pennsylvania – General Phillip Benner (ironmaster) Bennett, Iowa – Chet Bennett (railroader) Bennettville, California – Thomas Bennett (mining company president) Bennington, New Hampshire – colonial governor Benning Wentworth (indirectly, via Bennington, Vermont) Bennington, Vermont – colonial governor Benning Wentworth Benton, 7 places in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, and New Hampshire – Senator Thomas Hart Benton Benton, New York – Levi Benton (settler) Benton Hot Springs, California – Senator Thomas Hart Benton Bentonia, Mississippi – Bentonia Green (resident) Bentonville, Arkansas – Senator Thomas Hart Benton Benwood, West Virginia – Benjamin Latrobe II Beresford, South Dakota – Lord Charles Beresford Berkeley, California – Bishop George Berkeley Berkeley Springs, West Virginia – colonial governor William Berkeley Berkley, Massachusetts – Bishop George Berkeley (The extra 'e' was apparently dropped by mistake when officially registered by the State House) Berkley, Virginia – Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt Bermuda, 5 places in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee – Juan de Bermúdez (indirectly, after Bermuda) Bernards Township, New Jersey – Sir Francis Bernard of Nether Winchendon House, England Bernardston, Massachusetts – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet Berrien Township, Michigan – John M. Berrien Berryville, Arkansas – Governor James H. Berry Berthoud, Colorado – Edward L. Berthoud (railroad surveyor and engineer) Bessemer, Alabama, Bessemer, Michigan, and Bessemer City, North Carolina – Henry Bessemer (English inventor of a steel making process) Beveridge, California – John Beveridge Beverly, West Virginia – William Beverly (landowner) Bevier, Kentucky and Bevier, Missouri – Col. Robert Bevier Bexar, 4 places in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas (county) – Ferdinand VI of Spain (originally the Duke of Bexar) Bieber, California – Nathan Bieber (early settler and first postmaster) Bienville, Louisiana – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Billings, Montana – Frederick H. Billings Billingsport, New Jersey – Edward Byllynge (merchant and colonial governor) (note the