84 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Clay City; village in Clay County, Illinois, and town in Clay County, Indiana, 
named for Henry Clay. 
Claymont; village in Newcastle County, Delaware, named from the character of the 
soil. 
Clayton; town in Contra Costa County, California, named from Clayton, Missouri. 
Clayton; town in Kent County, Delaware, named for Thomas Clayton, or his son, 
Col. Joshua Clayton. 
Clayton; county, and town in Rabun County, in Georgia, named for Augustin Smith 
Clayton. 
Clayton; township and village in Adams County, Illinois, named for Henry Clay. 
Clayton; village in St. Louis County, Missouri, named for Ralph Clayton. 
Clayton; county in Iowa, town in Jefferson County, New York, and town in John- 
ston County, North Carolina, named for John M. Clayton, Senator from Dela- 
ware. 
Clayton ville; town in Brown County, Kansas, named for Powell Clayton, United 
States Senator from Arkansas. 
Clear Creek; county in Colorado, so called because it is drained by Clear Creek, an 
affluent of the South Platte. 
Clearfield; creek in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, named from the clearings 
along its banks. 
Clearfield; county, and borough in same county, in Pennsylvania, named from the 
creek. 
Clear Lake; village in Polk County, Wisconsin, situated on a lake of that name 
A descriptive name. 
Clearwater; descriptive name given to a river in Idaho and to many smaller streams 
in the country, which in turn have given names to twelve post-offices. 
Clearwater; county and river in Minnesota. The name is a direct translation o: 
the Ojibwa word, descriptive of the*river. 
Cleburne; counties in Alabama and Arkansas, and town in Johnson County, Texas 
named for Gen. Patrick Cleburne. 
Clermont; county in Ohio, name probably derived from Clermont, France. 
Clermont; village in Columbia county, New York, named by Chancellor Living 
ston, a friend of Fulton, for the first American steamboat. 
Cleveland; counties in Arkansas and Oklahoma, named for President Grove: 
Cleveland. 
Cleveland; village in Oswego County, New York, named for James Cleveland, 
an early settler. 
Cleveland; county, and village in Rowan County, in North Carolina, named for Col 
Benjamin Cleveland. 
Cleveland; city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, named for Gen. Moses Cleveland, o 
the Connecticut Land Company, who surveyed it. 
Cleveland; town in Bradley County, Tennessee, named for John Cleveland, wh 
went there from North Carolina. 
Clifford; village in Lapeer County, Michigan, named for Clifford Lyman, the first 
child born in the settlement. 
Clifton; village in Iroquois County, Illinois, named from the Clifton Hotel i 
Chicago. 
Clifton; village in Greene County, Ohio, named from the cliffs which bound t 
river at that point. 
Clifton Springs; village in Ontario County, New York, so named because of th 
cliffs and springs in the neighborhood. 
Climax; village in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, so called because when Daniel B.i 
Eldred first visited the township he said, "This caps the climax." 
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