List of places named for Thomas Jefferson
This is a list of places in the United States named for Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States and the author of the United States Declaration of Independence.
High schools
Lists of high schools named after Jefferson:
- Thomas Jefferson High School (disambiguation)
- Jefferson High School (disambiguation)
- Bellarmine-Jefferson High School
- Jefferson City
Elementary schools
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary, Anaheim, California
- Thomas Jefferson Elementary II, Anaheim California
- Jefferson Elementary, Huntington, New York
- Jefferson School, Union City, New Jersey
- Thomas Jefferson, Baltimore, Maryland
- Jefferson-Barnes Elementary, Westland, Michigan (Closed)
Universities and colleges
- Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
- Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
Streets
- Jefferson Highway, running from New Orleans to Winnipeg
- Jefferson Road, Metro Detroit, Michigan
- Jefferson Blvd. in Los Angeles
- Jefferson Drive on the National Mall, Washington, DC
- Jefferson Street in Miami Beach, Florida
- Jefferson Ave. Newport News, Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson Parkway. Charlottesville, Virginia
- Jefferson Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Cities
- Jefferson, New Hampshire, first municipality named for Jefferson
- Jefferson, Maine
- Jefferson, Texas
- Jefferson, Wisconsin
- Jefferson City, Missouri, state capital
- Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania
- Jefferson City, Tennessee
- Jefferson Township, New Jersey
- Jeffersontown, Kentucky
- Jefferson, South Dakota
- Port Jefferson, New York
- Jefferson, Oregon
- Jefferson, Georgia
Counties
- Jefferson County, Alabama
- Jefferson County, Colorado
- Jefferson County, Iowa
- Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Jefferson County, Missouri
- Jefferson County, Montana
- Jefferson County, New York
- Jefferson County, Ohio
- Jefferson County, Oklahoma
- Jefferson County, Oregon
- Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
- Jefferson County, Tennessee
- Jefferson County, Washington
- Jefferson County, West Virginia
- Jefferson County, Wisconsin
- Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
- Jefferson County, Georgia
It is notable that Jefferson County in Virginia became part of West Virginia as a result of the American Civil War. Virginia sued West Virginia to regain it, but lost the case before the United States Supreme Court when it was decided in 1871.
Mountains
- Mount Jefferson (list of mountains named after Jefferson)
Other
- Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia
- Jefferson Hotel in Washington, D.C.
- Jefferson (Mountain state), 1859 proposal
- Jefferson (South state), 1915 proposal
- Jefferson (Pacific state), 1941 proposal
- Jefferson Territory
- Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Thomas Jefferson Library, University of Missouri-St.Louis
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis
- Jefferson Park, Chicago, one of Chicago's 77 community areas on the city's Northwest Side
- Jefferson Park (Chicago), a historic park listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Chicago community area of the same name
- Jefferson Pools, the oldest US spa buildings, where President Jefferson bathed, in Warm Springs, Virginia
- Thomas Jefferson Hall, a residence hall at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church - Unitarian Universalist, Charlottesville, Virginia
See also
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