U.S. Cities by Letter - H-K

The most populous city in Texas.

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The government of Florida’s most populous city proper consolidated with the government of Duval County in 1968. It is home to a naval station, a naval air station, and a U.S. Marine Corps command.

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The capital and most populous city of Indiana.

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The largest and most populous city of Missouri sounds like it belongs to another state.

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The capital and most populous city of Hawaii.

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The second largest city in Nevada. It shares its name with actress Florence (d. 2016) of The Brady Bunch fame.

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Home to a campus of the University of California, it is also the headquarters for LA Fitness, In-N-Out Burger, and Taco Bell … among many others.

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The second most populous city in New Jersey.

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The thirteenth most populous city in Texas shares its name with the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

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The most populous city proper in Alabama. The first syllable of its name describes what someone wearing an orange vest probably does in the woods.

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Florida’s sixth largest city is 94% Hispanic, and the only industrial city in the U.S. that continues to grow. Its name has four syllables. The first two are a homophone of a friendly greeting. The second two spell the name of Jacob’s wife in the Christian Bible.

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The third largest city in Tennessee, it is named after the first U.S. Secretary of War, whose name also graces the army installation that is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository.

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There was a time when buying a complete set of encyclopedias for $126 would also get you a free parcel of land in this California coastal city. It shares part of its name with a disease that causes the degeneration of nerves in the brain.

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The economy of the seventeenth most populous city in Texas is directly dependent on the activities at adjacent Fort Cavazos. The first syllable of the city’s name is a synonym for the verb “murder.” The second (final) syllable is an archaic/poetic contraction of “even” or “evening.”

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This city was named after a squatter who migrated to California during the gold rush. The city (and the squatter) share a name with classic film actress Susan (d. 1975), who appeared in With a Song in My Heart, I’ll Cry Tomorrow, I Want to Live!, and Back Street.

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Strangely, this Kansas city is a suburb of a Missouri city of the same name.

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This Florida city shares its name with a Los Angeles neighborhood where film studios are located.

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This city, the third largest in Illinois, is named after a French-Canadian explorer who, with the Jesuit missionary Père Jacques Marquette, was the first non-indigenous person to explore and map the Upper Mississippi River.

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The capital and most populous city of Mississippi was named after a man who distinguished himself in the Battle of New Orleans and who later became the seventh U.S. President.

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A river of the same name lies entirely within this seventh most populous city of Virginia. The city shares its name with American jazz musician Lionel.

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This Washington city shares its name with Superman’s secret identity.

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The fifth largest city in Missouri was named in honor of the document that severed political connections between the 13 American colonies and Great Britain.

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The capital of Connecticut shares its name with an insurance company.

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Dependent on the furniture, textile, and bus manufacturing businesses, the ninth most populous city in North Carolina has a two-word name. The first word is an antonym of “low.” The second is how you might pronounce the single non-numeric character when reading aloud the value of pi (approximately 3.14159).

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The meaning of this California city’s name is uncertain. Its name has two words, the second of which is a common word used to describe “a low area of land between hills or mountains.” The first word may be derived from the name of a village that lay on the same site and that was inhabited by the indigenous Serrano people: Hurumpa.

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This Oregon city used to be named East Tualatin Plains, then Columbia, then Hillsborough. Some time after 1850, three letters were dropped from its name.

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A California city and Los Angeles suburb whose land was once divided between two rancho grants. To work out the pronunciation of the city’s name, combine the following.

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This is a tough one. In Greek mythology, the name of this California city can refer to one of the Hesperides (possibly a daughter of Hesperus) or the “western land” we now call Italy.

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