Chaves County, New Mexico (similar to "llaves"-"Keys").Cerro Gordo County, Iowa ("Fat/large Mountain").Calaveras County, California (named after the Calaveras River Spanish word for "Skulls").Bexar County, Texas ( Béxar is an ancient form for Béjar).Baca County, Colorado (named in honor of pioneer and Colorado territorial legislator Felipe Baca).Archuleta County, Colorado (From "Archuleta," a Spanish surname).Angelina County, Texas (From "Angelina," a Spanish given name.
Amador County, California (named for José María Amador, amador is a Spanish word for "lover", not widely used).Alamosa County, Colorado ("Shaded with Poplars or Cottonwoods").Alameda County, California ("Boulevard with Poplars").Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins), shortened to las Vírgenes (the Virgins)) US Virgin Islands ( Christopher Columbus named the Virgin Islands after Santa Ursula y las Once mil Virgenes (English: St.North Mariana Islands (after queen Mariana, regent at the time).The Utes refer to themselves as Noochee, which in Spanish was changed to Yuta. Utah derives from the Spanish name given to the Ute People by early explorers to the area.Texas, from the Spanish name for the Caddo, derived from the word táyshaʼ meaning 'friend'.Oregon comes from "Orejón", "big ear" or could come from "Aragón".New Mexico, named after the Valley of Mexico.Nevada comes from the Spanish Sierra Nevada (which is also a mountain range in Spain), meaning snowy mountain range (Nevada is the Spanish feminine form of snowy).Montana from Latinized Spanish meaning "mountainous", also in Spanish "montaña" is the name of "mountain".Florida Meaning ""Flowery" or "Florid", because it was discovered by Ponce de León on Easter Sunday, called Pascua Florida to distinguish this holiday, which occurs in springtime when flowers are abundant, from other Christian holidays called Pascua in Spanish, such as Christmas and Epiphany.Named after Colorado City now called Old Colorado City.) Colorado (meaning "red ", "ruddy" or "colored" in masculine form.California (from the name of a fictional island country in Las sergas de Esplandián, a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Mon talvo).Arizona Either from árida zona, meaning "Arid Zone", or from a Spanish word of Basque origin meaning "The Good Oak".Faux: Fabricated Spanish place names, typically by non-Spanish speakers.Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.(Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places.(Ex: Los Angeles, Salamanca, or California) Colonial: Spanish names that were given during the Spanish colonial period, or adaptations of names originally given in the colonial period to the same place or to nearby related places.Spanish-sounding place names are classified into four categories: Not all Spanish place name etymologies in the United States originate from the Spanish colonial period or from the Spanish language. 9.9 Wildlife refuges and protected areas.9.3 Mountains, hills, rock, ranges, caves and volcanos.5.3 Census-designated places (CDP) and unincorporated communities.
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