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This is a list of county name etymologies for the U.S. state of Iowa.
[edit] Counties, by first letter
Those 26 Iowa counties which have a name borne by no other county in the United States are indicated.
- Adair County, Iowa: Adair is named for John Adair, a general in the War of 1812 and eighth governor of Kentucky.
- Adams County, Iowa: Adams is named for either John Adams, the second president of the United States, or his son, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
- Allamakee County, Iowa: Allamakee is named for either Allan Makee, a trapper and trader, or is of Native American origin. (Unique county name)
- Appanoose County, Iowa: Appanoose is named for Appanoose, a chief of the Sac and Fox Native American tribes who headed the peace party during the Black Hawk War. (Unique county name)
- Audubon County, Iowa: Audubon is named for John James Audubon, the famous naturalist and painter. (Unique county name)
- Benton County, Iowa: Benton is named for Thomas Hart Benton, a senator from Missouri who pushed for westward expansion of the United States.
- Black Hawk County, Iowa: Black Hawk is named for Black Hawk, the Sac and Fox Native American chief who led a revolt against resettlement of his tribe in the Black Hawk War. (Unique county name)
- Boone County, Iowa: Boone is named for Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman, and his son, Daniel Nathan Boone, a colonel in the U. S. Dragoons.
- Bremer County, Iowa: Bremer is named for Fredricka Bremer, a Swedish novelist. (Unique county name)
- Buchanan County, Iowa: Buchanan is named for James Buchanan, the fifteenth president of the United States.
- Buena Vista County, Iowa: Buena Vista is named for the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican-American War. (Unique county name)
- Butler County, Iowa: Butler is named for William Orlando Butler, a Kentucky candidate for the vice presidency and general in the Mexican-American War.
- Calhoun County, Iowa: Calhoun is named for John Caldwell Calhoun, the seventh vice president of the United States.
- Carroll County, Iowa: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Cass County, Iowa: Cass is named for Lewis Cass, a senator and presidential candidate from Michigan.
- Cedar County, Iowa: Cedar is named for the Cedar River.
- Cerro Gordo County, Iowa: Cerro Gordo is named for the Battle of Cerro Gordo in the Mexican-American War. (Unique county name)
- Cherokee County, Iowa: Cherokee is named for the Cherokee Native American tribe.
- Chickasaw County, Iowa: Chickasaw is named for the Chickasaw Native American tribe.
- Clarke County, Iowa: Clarke is named for James Clarke, a territorial governor of Iowa.
- Clay County, Iowa: Clay is named for Henry Clay, Jr., a general who died during the Mexican-American War and the son of Henry Clay, the famous U.S. statesman.
- Clayton County, Iowa: Clayton is named for John M. Clayton, a Delaware senator and the eighteenth United States Secretary of State.
- Clinton County, Iowa: Clinton is named for DeWitt Clinton, the seventh and ninth governor of New York and presidential candidate in 1812.
- Crawford County, Iowa: Crawford is named for William Harris Crawford, a presidential candidate as well as United States Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of War.
- Dallas County, Iowa: Dallas is named for George Mifflin Dallas, the eleventh vice president of the United States.
- Davis County, Iowa: Davis is named for Garrett Davis, a United States Representative from Kentucky.
- Decatur County, Iowa: Decatur is named for Stephen Decatur, a naval hero of the War of 1812.
- Delaware County, Iowa: Delaware is named for either the state of Delaware or Delaware County, New York.
- Des Moines County, Iowa: Des Moines is named for the Des Moines River. (Unique county name)
- Dickinson County, Iowa: Dickinson is named for Daniel Stevens Dickinson, a United States senator from New York.
- Dubuque County, Iowa: Dubuque is named for Julien Dubuque, the first European settler of Iowa. (Unique county name)
- Fayette County, Iowa: Fayette is named for Marie-Joseph-Paul-Roch-Yves-Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, the French general in the American Revolutionary War.
- Floyd County, Iowa: Floyd is named for either William Floyd, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, or Charles Floyd, the only man to die on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Franklin County, Iowa: Franklin is named for Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father, printer, scientist, and statesman.
- Fremont County, Iowa: Fremont is named for John Charles Frémont, the U. S. general, explorer, and presidential candidate.
- Hamilton County, Iowa: Hamilton is named for William W. Hamilton, a president of the Iowa state senate who was influential in the creation of the county.
- Hancock County, Iowa: Hancock is named for John Hancock, the American patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- Hardin County, Iowa: Hardin is named for John J. Hardin, a soldier in the Black Hawk War and Mexican-American War in which he lost his life.
- Harrison County, Iowa: Harrison is named for William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States.
- Henry County, Iowa: Henry is named for Henry Dodge, a governor of the Wisconsin Territory (which included present-day Iowa) and later U. S. senator from Wisconsin.
- Howard County, Iowa: Howard is named for Tilghman Ashurst Howard, an U.S. senator from Indiana and general in Tennessee and Indiana.
- Humboldt County, Iowa: Humboldt is named for Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, the famous German scientist, explorer and statesman.
- Jackson County, Iowa: Jackson is named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
- Jasper County, Iowa: Jasper is named for William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.
- Jefferson County, Iowa: Jefferson is named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
- Johnson County, Iowa: Johnson is named for Richard Mentor Johnson, the ninth vice president of the United States.
- Jones County, Iowa: Jones is named for George Wallace Jones, an U.S. senator from Iowa.
- Lee County, Iowa: Lee is named for probably William Elliot Lee, a land dealer who owned an area of Iowa that included the future county.
- Linn County, Iowa: Linn is named for Lewis Fields Linn, an U.S. senator from Missouri.
- Louisa County, Iowa: Louisa is named for either Louisa Massey of Dubuque, Iowa, who, according to legend, killed the murderer of her brother; or Louisa County, Virginia.
- Lucas County, Iowa: Lucas is named for Robert Lucas, the first governor of the Iowa Territory and the twelfth governor of Ohio.
- Lyon County, Iowa: Lyon is named for Nathaniel Lyon, an Iowan soldier who was the first United States general killed in the American Civil War.
- Madison County, Iowa: Madison is named for James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
- Mahaska County, Iowa: Mahaska is named for Mahaska, a chief of the Iowa Native American tribe. (Unique county name)
- Marion County, Iowa: Marion is named for either Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" general of the American Revolutionary War, or a leading pioneer whose name is not recorded.
- Marshall County, Iowa: Marshall is named for John Marshall, the Chief Justice of the United States.
- Mills County, Iowa: Mills is named for Frederick Mills, a major from Iowa killed in the Mexican-American War.
- Mitchell County, Iowa: Mitchell is named for either John Mitchel, an Irish patriot, or John Mitchell, an early surveyor.
- Monona County, Iowa: Monona is named for a word of uncertain Native American meaning. (Unique county name)
- Monroe County, Iowa: Monroe is named for James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States.
- Montgomery County, Iowa: Montgomery is named for Richard Montgomery, an U.S. general killed in the American Revolutionary War.
- Muscatine County, Iowa: Muscatine is named for either the Muscatine Native American tribe, the Native American word for prairie, or Muscatine Island in the Mississippi River. (Unique county name)
- Page County, Iowa: Page is named for John Page, a captain in the Mexican-American War.
- Palo Alto County, Iowa: Palo Alto is named for the Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican-American War. (Unique county name)
- Plymouth County, Iowa: Plymouth is named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first settlement of the Pilgrims in 1620.
- Pocahontas County, Iowa: Pocahontas is named for Pocahontas, the famous Native American who played a leading role in the history of the first permanent English settlements in North America.
- Polk County, Iowa: Polk is named for James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States.
- Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Pottawattamie is named for the Potawatomi (Pottawattamie) Native American people. (Unique county name)
- Poweshiek County, Iowa: Poweshiek is named for Poweshiek, a Fox chief that supported peace in the Black Hawk War. (Unique county name)
- Wapello County, Iowa: Wapello is named for Wapello, a Native American chief in the Black Hawk War. (Unique county name)
- Warren County, Iowa: Warren is named for Joseph Warren, the patriot who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
- Washington County, Iowa: Washington is named for George Washington, the first president of the United States.
- Wayne County, Iowa: Wayne is named for Anthony Wayne, the American Revolutionary War general.
- Webster County, Iowa: Webster is named for Daniel Webster, the statesman, senator, and United States Secretary of State.
- Winnebago County, Iowa: Winnebago is named for the Winnebago Native American tribe.
- Winneshiek County, Iowa: Winneshiek is named for Winneshiek, a chief of the Winnebago Native American tribe. (Unique county name)
- Woodbury County, Iowa: Woodbury is named for Levi Woodbury, a governor of New Hampshire, United States Secretary of the Navy, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Justice of the United States Supreme Court. (Unique county name)
- Worth County, Iowa: Worth is named for William Jenkins Worth, a general in the Black Hawk War and Mexican-American War.
- Wright County, Iowa: Wright is named for Silas Wright, an U. S. senator from New York and sixteenth governor of New York; and Joseph A. Wright, an U. S. senator from Indiana.
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