258 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. [bull. 258. 
Randolph; counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Missouri; towns in Coos: 
County, New Hampshire, Cattaraugus County, New York, and Orange County, 
Vermont; named for John Randolph, of Roanoke, Virginia. 
Randolph; county in Illinois, named for Beverly Randolph, governor of Virginia, 
1788-1791. 
Randolph; township in McLean County, Illinois, named for Gardner Randolph, an 
early settler. 
Randolph; county in Indiana, named for Thomas Randolph, killed at Tippecanoe. 
Randolph; town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and county in North Carolina, 
named for Peyton Randolph, of Virginia. 
Randolph; village in Dakota County, Nebraska, named for the first mail carrier 
between Sioux City and Elkhorn Valley — Jasper Randolph. 
Randolph; township in Portage County, Ohio, named for Henry Randolph Storrs, 
its original proprietor. 
Randolph; county in West Virginia, named for Edmund Randolph, an early 
governor. 
Randsburg; mining town in Kern County, California, named from the town in 
South Africa. 
Rangeley ; town and plantation in Franklin County, and chain of lakes in Franklin 
and Oxford counties, Maine, named for an Englishman, an early settler and 
large landowner. 
Rankin; county in Mississippi, named for Christopher Rankin, congressman from 
that State. 
Ransom; village in Lasalle County, Illinois, named for Gen. Thomas E. G. Ransom, 
an Illinois officer of the civil war. 
Ransom; village in Hillsdale County, Michigan, named for Epaphroditus Ransom, 
former governor of the State. 
Ransom; county in North Dakota, named for Fort Ransom. 
Ransomville; village in Niagara County, New York, named for Clark Ransom, one 
of the first settlers. 
Rantoul; township and village in Champaign County, Illinois, named for Robert 
Rantoul, a railroad incorporator. 
Rapho; township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A corruption of an Indian 
word, meaning "a fort of tents." 
Rapidan; river in Virginia, named for Anne, Queen of England, "rapid Anne." 
Rapides; parish in Louisiana. A French word meaning "rapids," and given this 
parish on account of the rapids or falls in the Red River. 
Rappahannock; river and county in Virginia. An Indian word meaning "stream 
with an ebb and flow," or "river of quick-rising water." 
Raquette; river in Hamilton County, New York, from the French word meaning 
"snowshoe." 
Raritan; stream and a towm in Somerset County, New Jersey. An Indian word 
meaning ' ' forked river. ' ' 
Raspberry; island, one of the Apostles, in Lake Superior. A translation of an 
Indian word, meaning "raspberries are plentiful here." 
Rathbone; town in Steuben County, New York, named for Gen. Ransom Rath- 
bone, an early settler. 
Raton; village in Las Animas County, Colorado. A Spanish word meaning 
"mouse." 
Raumaug; lake in Litchfield County, Connecticut, A corruption of the Indian 
word wonkemaug, meaning "crooked fishing place." 
Ravalli; county in Montana, named for the noted Jesuit missionary. 
Ravenna; village in Portage County, Ohio, named for the city in Italy. 
