264 PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. r bull. 258. 
Ripley; town in Jackson County, West Virginia, named for a resident. 
Ripon; city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, named from the town in England. 
Rippey; town in Greene County, Iowa, named for Capt. C. M. Rippey, an old 
settler. 
Rising" City; village in Butler County, Nebraska, named for the owners of the town 
site, A. W. and S. W. Rising. 
Rising- Sun; village in Dearborn County, Indiana, so named by its founder, John 
James, when viewing the sunrise from that location. 
Ritchie; county in West Virginia, named for Thomas Ritchie, editor of the Richmond 
Enquirer. 
Rivanna; river and township in Virginia, named for Queen Anne, of England. 
Rivera; town in Los Angeles County, California. The Spanish form of "river." 
River Falls; city in Pierce County, Wisconsin, so named because of its situation 
near the falls of the Kinnikinnic River. 
Riverhead; town in Suffolk County, New York, so named because of its location 
near the head of the Peconic River. 
Riverside; county, and town in same county, in California, town in Washington 
County, Iowa, and forty other places, being usually so named on account of 
their location. 
Rivoli; town in Mercer County, Illinois, named from the town in Italy. 
Roach; creek in Humboldt County, California, named for a pioneer who was drowned 
in it. 
Roan; plateau in Colorado, so named on account of the color of the cliffs rising from 
the Grand River Valley. 
Roan; mountain in North Carolina, so named on account of the color of the laurel 
growing upon its summit. 
Roane; county in Tennessee, named for Governor Archibald Roane. 
Roane; county in West Virginia, named for Spencer Roane, judge of the supreme 
court of the State in its early days. 
Roanoke; towns in Randolph County, Alabama, Howard County, Missouri, and 
Genesee County, New York, named from the home of John Randolph in Vir- 
ginia. 
Roanoke; township and village in Woodford County, Illinois, named from Roanoke, 
Virginia, the home of its founders. 
Roanoke; town in Huntington County, Indiana; county, and city in same county, 
in Virginia; and river in Virginia and North Carolina. An Indian word desig- 
nating a kind of shell used for money. 
Roaring; mountain in Yellowstone Park, so named on account of the shrill sound 
made by the steam escaping from a vent in its summit. 
Roaring- Fork; branch of the Grand River in Colorado, so named from its steep 
and rapid descent. 
Robbinston; town in Washington County, Maine, named for its original owners, 
Edward H. and Nathaniel J. Robbins. 
Roberts; county in South Dakota, named for Moses Robert (Robar), a fur trader. 
Roberts; county in Texas, named for Oran M. Roberts, former governor of the State. 
Robertson; county in Kentucky, named for ex-Chief Justice George Robertson, a 
leading pioneer. 
Robertson; county in Tennessee, named for Gen. James Robertson, a pioneer. 
Robertson; county in Texas, named for Sterling C. Robertson, who received a colo- 
nization grant from Mexico. 
Robeson; county in North Carolina, named for Col. Thomas Robeson, of the North 
Carolina Revolutionary Militia. 
Robinson; town in Summit County, Colorado, named for George B. Robinson, 
former lieutenant-governor of the State. 
