Floating Cities

It's time for an entry from Aaron's Big Book O' Useless Lists.

The United States Navy uses a wide range of American symbolism in naming its various vessels, usually designating specific types of Americana for different types of ships. Past battles, counties, mountains, various officers, other people, states, cities, rivers, islands, Native American tribes, etc. One set of ships is named for California missions.

There are also others named for constellations and foreign ports and rocks and flora and fauna and semi-random words maybe or maybe not relating to the ship type and then there were those ships that got loaned out by commercial owners during World War 1 that never got renamed, leading to names like the USS High Ball. But let's conveniently ignore that.

What I've done is make, to the best of my ability and I'll bet anything partially incomplete (though closer than anything else I've seen), a list of the American cities used to name US Naval ships at some point in time. This is regardless of how much or how little action was seen, or if it got scrapped before it was even completed. We're not going to designate what type of ship each city got; just the fact that the city got a ship named after it. The full list of ships can be found at Wikipedia.

One note: we're only counting cities that are a direct namesake, not cities that share the name with a namesake county or person or whatever. Also, note that several cities can be a mutual namesake. Again, this is all but certainly not perfect, but it's reasonably close.

Hi, USS Watertown.

Alabama: Andalusia, Birmingham, Eufaula, Huntsville, Jasper, Mobile, Montgomery, Opelika, Tuscaloosa, Tuscumbia, Tuskegee
Alaska: Anchorage, Galena, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak
Arizona: Bisbee, Douglas, Flagstaff, Kingman, Nogales, Phoenix, Prescott, Surprise, Tuscon
Arkansas: Little Rock, Van Buren
California: Alturas, Arcata, Banning, Bel Air, Benicia, Coronado, Escandido, Eureka, Fresno, Glendale, Hanford, La Jolla, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Marysville, Oakland, Oceanside, Pasadena, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Sausalito, Sunnyvale, Susanville, Ukiah, Vallejo
Colorado: Boulder, Denver, Durango, Lamar, Pueblo, Ridgway
Connecticut: Bridgeport, Farmington, Groton, Hartford, Naubuc, New Haven, Niantic, Stamford, Stratford, Watertown
Delaware: Dover, Elsmere, Wilmington
Florida: Apalachicola, Apopka, Crestview, Dania Beach, Key West, Lakeland, Miami, Ocala, Orlando, Palatka, Pensacola, St. Augustine, Tallahassee
Georgia: Atlanta, Augusta, Brunswick, Dahlonega, Forsyth, Macon, Marietta, Milledgeville, Savannah, winder
Hawaii: Hilo, Honolulu
Idaho: Arco, Boise, Pocatello, Rexburg
Illinois: Chicago, Columbia, Galena, Mascoutah, Metropolis, Olney, La Salle, Peoria, Rockford, Springfield, Vandalia
Indiana: Evansville, Gary, Indianapolis, Mishawaka, Rushville, Tipton, Worthington
Iowa: Burlington, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Glenwood, Grinnell, Hampton, Keokuk, Ottumwa, Sioux City, Waverly
Kansas: Abilene, Emporia, Fredonia, Galena, Hutchinson, Neodesha, Topeka, Wathena, Wichita
Kentucky: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Pikeville
Louisiana: Alexandria, Campti, Eunice, Houma, Natchitoches, New Orleans, Shreveport
Maine: Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Castine, Kittery, Machias, Portland, Presque Isle, Saco, Skowhegan
Maryland: Annapolis, Baltimore, Frederick, Frostburg, Galena, Olney, Rockville
Massachusetts: Agawam, Amherst, Boston, Cambridge, Concord, Fall River, Gloucester, Groton, Hingham, Hyannis, Marblehead, Natick, New Bedford, Northampton, Plymouth, Provincetown, Quincy, Salem, Saugus, Somerset, Springfield, Watertown, Worcester
Michigan: Chesaning, Dearborn, Detroit, Flint, Grand Rapids, Grosse Pointe, Houghton, Kalamazoo, Lapeer, Ludington, Manistee, Mecosta, Muskegon, Munising, Petoskey, Saginaw
Minnesota: Anoka, Duluth, Glenwood, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, St. Paul, Worthington
Mississippi: Biloxi, Corinth, Gulfport, Iuka, Jackson, Natchez, Pascagoula, Vicksburg
Missouri: Columbia, Galena, Jefferson City, Kansas City, Moberly, Rolla, St. Louis
Montana: Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Missoula
Nebraska: Grand Island, Omaha
Nevada: Carson City, Las Vegas, Minden, Reno, Winnemucca
New Hampshire: Concord, Hampton, Manchester, Nashua, Portsmouth, Somersworth
New Jersey: Bayonne, Camden, Passaic, Metuchen, Newark, Princeton, Trenton, Wanamassa, Weehawken
New Mexico: Albuquerque, Alomogordo, Deming, Gallup, Santa Fe, Tucumcari
New York: Albany, Amsterdam, Attica, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Canandaigua, Canastota, Cooperstown, Larchmont, Manhattan, Massapequa, New York, Niagara Falls, Plainview, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Schenectady, Solvay, Tarrytown, Watertown, White Plains
North Carolina: Ahoskie, Albemarle, Asheboro, Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Edenton, Greensboro, High Point, Laurinburg, Kitty Hawk, Raleigh
North Dakota: Fargo, Grand Forks, Mandan
Ohio: Akron, Cadiz, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Conneaut, Dayton, Defiance, Galena, Gallipolis, Lorain, Marietta, Piqua, Port Clinton, Sandusky, Toledo, Tontogany, Vandalia, Wapakoneta, Wauseon, Worthington, Youngstown
Oklahoma: Altus, Bethany, Guymon, Muskogee, Oklahoma City, Okmulgee, Pawhuska, Tonkawa, Tulsa
Oregon: Astoria, Coquille, Eugene, Fairview, McMinnville, Oregon City, Portland
Pennsylvania: Allentown, Chester, Gettysburg, Gladwyne, Glenolden, Hollidaysburg, Honesdale, Kittanning, Lancaster, Malvern, Mars, Mechanicsburg, Nanticoke, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, Scranton, Tamaqua, Uniontown, Waynesburg, Wilkes-Barre
Puerto Rico: Ponce, San Juan
Rhode Island: Newport, Pawtucket, Providence, Westerly, Woonsocket
South Carolina: Batesburg-Leesville, Beaufort, Charleston, Cheraw, Clemson, Columbia, Hampton, Sumter
South Dakota: Huron, Pierre, Watertown
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Greeneville, Kingsport, Knoxville, McMinnville, Memphis, Nashville, Oak Ridge
Texas: Austin, Beaumont, Beeville, Brownsville, Burleson, Corpus Christi, Dalhart, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, Huntsville, Kerrville, Longview, Marfa, Olney, Orange, Plainview, San Antonio, San Marcos, Waxahachie
Utah: Ogden, Provo, Richfield, Salt Lake City, Santaquin, Tooele
Vermont: Bennington, Brattleboro, Montpelier
Virginia: Abingdon, Accomac, Alexandria, Arlington, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Hampton, Jamestown, Leedstown, Monrovia, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke, Williamsburg, Yorktown
Washington: Anacortes, Bremerton, Chehalis, Everett, Hoquiam, Kelso, Olympia, Pasco, Richland, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Wapato, Washtucna, Wenatchee
West Virginia: Charleston, Clarksburg, Elkins, Huntington, Wheeling
Wisconsin: Antigo, Chetek, Grafton, Green Bay, Kewaunee, Lake Geneva, Manitowoc, Marinette, Menasha, Milwaukee, Portage, Racine, Sheboygan, Sturgeon Bay, Watertown, Wauwatosa
Wyoming: Casper, Cheyenne, Worland