Largo, California – Lemuel F. Long (early settler; Largo is Spanish for Long) Larrabee, Iowa – Gov. William Larrabee LaSalle, Illinois – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (explorer) Lassen Peak (California) – Peter Lassen (explorer) Latrobe, California and Latrobe, Pennsylvania – Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II Latty, Ohio – A.S. Latty (settler) Lauderdale, Mississippi – Col. James Lauderdale Laughlin, California – James H. Laughlin, Jr. (landowner) Laughlin, Nevada – Don Laughlin (founder) Laurens, South Carolina – Henry Laurens Lavers' Crossing, California – David Lavers (founder) Lawrence, Kansas – Amos Lawrence Lawrence, Massachusetts – Abbott Lawrence (founder) Lawrenceburg, Tennessee – Capt. James Lawrence Lawrenceville, Georgia – Capt. James Lawrence Lawson, Colorado – Alexander Lawson (innkeeper) Lawton, Michigan – Nathaniel Lawton (landowner) Laytonville, California – F.B. Layton (founder) Le Claire, Iowa – Antoine Le Claire (founder of Davenport) Le Grand, California – William Legrand Dickinson Le Mars, Iowa – Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds (the first initials of six women aboard on a railroad excursion) Le Ray, New York – Le Ray Chaumont Le Raysville, Pennsylvania – Vincent le Ray (landowner's son) Leakesville, Mississippi – Gov. Walter Leake Leavenworth, Kansas – Gen. Henry Leavenworth (indirectly, via Fort Leavenworth) Leavitt, California – May F. Leavitt (first postmaster) Lebec, California – Peter Lebeck (killed by a bear nearby in 1837) Lecompton, Kansas – Judge D.S. Lecompte Ledyard, Connecticut – Col. William Ledyard (state militiaman) Ledyard, New York – Benjamin Ledyard (land agent) Lee, California – Dick Lee (discoverer of gold at the site) Lee, Maine – Stephen Lee (settler) Lee, Massachusetts, Lee, New Hampshire, and Lee, New York – General Charles Lee Leechburg, Pennsylvania – David Leech Lee Vining, California – Leroy Vining (founder) Leesville, California – Lee Harl (local landowner) Leicester, Massachusetts – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester Leitchfield, Kentucky – Maj. David Leitch Leland, Illinois – Edwin S. Leland Lemoore, California – Dr. Lovern Lee Moore (early settler) Lempster, New Hampshire – from one of the titles of Sir Thomas Farmer of a "Lempster" in England Lennox, South Dakota – Ben Lennox (railroad official) Lenoir, North Carolina – Gen. William Lenoir Lenora, Kansas – Lenora Hauser Lenox, Massachusetts – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (note the spelling) Leon, Kansas – Juan Ponce de León Leonard, Michigan – Leonard Rowland Leonardville, Kansas – Leonard T. Smith (railroader) Leopold, Indiana – Leopold I of