The port was used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and a creek close to Dartmouth Castle is supposed by some to be named for the vast fleets which assembled there ( Warfleet Creek ).

The settlement was named for St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, but was also commonly known as " Mission Dolores " owing to the presence of a nearby creek named Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning " Our Lady of Sorrows Creek.

In 1873, A. D. Ferron, the surveyor, named this creek after himself, but prior to this time it was known as Rafael.

It was named for the small creek called Tague Fork.

The creek probably was so named because it, and the ridges on either side, " cut off " the western part of the region from the eastern portion.

A small creek winding through Campton, Swift Creek, is named after Jonathan Swift of the legend of Swift's silver mine.

The first white man known to arrive was a German, Johann Schoonover, who lived for a short time on the creek later named for him to trade with the Indians, about 1820.

He knew the terrain to be crossed ( a steep ravine containing a creek named Dill Branch ) was extremely difficult and Grant's defensive line was heavy with massed artillery.

Both the town and creek were named for Samuel Anderson, who built a gristmill along the creek in the early 19th century.

The town was first settled around 1825 and was named Andersons Creek for the afore mentioned creek.

A small creek named Big Nance Creek runs through the town.

The creek was named for a Cherokee Indian chief who lived in the area upon arrival of the first European settlers.

The Community was originally known as Beaver Creek as ranchers and farmers settled along the banks of the creek named for the prolific numbers of beavers found there.

A small creek, named after the founder, Sager Creek, flows through the downtown area.

The town was named for the painfully prickly greenbriar vines which grew along the creek through the town ; removing these dense and thorny thickets was apparently a memorable experience for the founders.

Hartford was incorporated in 1900 and as a result, the old original town of Hartford, about one and a half miles west and named for a creek crossing belonging to the Hart family, is now generally referred to as " Old Town " or " West Hartford ".

The Concow region is 20 miles north of the city of Oroville ( an Anglo-Hispanic compound meaning ' gold-town ') and about the same distance east of the town of Chico ( named for Rancho Arroyo Chico — meaning ' little creek ranch ' -- which was established through a land-grant from the Mexican authorities in 1844, two years before California was invaded by United States forces, an indication that there was some Mexican presence near the Concow region.

The town was named after Bishop Creek, flowing out of the Sierra Nevada: the creek was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, a settler in the Owens Valley.

The land encompassed present day Marinwood and a creek which was later named Miller Creek.

The creek had been named by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's cartographer, who named it after Saint Joseph of Cupertino.

The first western inhabitants named the creek and settlement after the Lenape chief who occupied the region.

Subsequently, a British leader named Vortigern is supposed to have invited continental mercenaries to help fight the Picts who were attacking from the north.

Posidonia Shale ), Amaltheenton ( Amalthean Clay ), Numismalismergel ( Numismalis Marl ) and Obtususton ( Obtusus Clay, named after Asteroceras obtusum ) succeeding from south to north, all belonging to the Jurassic and being rich in fossils.

There is a proposal to develop some of the roads running from the SW to the NE to create an all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia ( north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory to Winton, in Queensland.

The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.

Appear mostly occupying favorable areas named geographically Umbrias, this is north hillsides or slopes of the mountainous areas that are oriented behind the sun, be cause the islands are in the northern hemisphere, between 600 and 1500 meters, thus benefiting from the humidity provided by the trade winds to form such a sea of clouds.

The first such prehistoric lake is named " Lake Amora ", which was a freshwater or brackish lake that extended at least south of the current southern end of the Dead Sea and north, well above the present Hula Depression.

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

In September 2005 Dennis Schmitt discovered an island north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland which he named Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for " warming island ".

Several great cities were built in the region named " Alexandria ," including: Alexandria-of-the-Arians ( modern-day Herat ); Alexandria-on-the-Tarnak ( near Kandahar ); Alexandria-ad-Caucasum ( near Begram, at Bordj-i-Abdullah ); and finally, Alexandria-Eschate ( near Kojend ), in the north.

The region to the north was administered separately by the BSAC and later named Northern Rhodesia ( now Zambia ).

Towards evening Robert tried to retreat but was captured by Henry's men at a place three kilometres ( just under two miles ) north of Tinchebray where a farm named " Prise " ( grip or capture ) stands today on the D22 road.

It is bounded by Asia — including India, after which the ocean is named — on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean ( or, depending on definition, by Antarctica.

In 1943, the Americans established a radio locating station named Atlantic City in the north to try to locate German radio bases in Greenland.

The Cambridge elementary school north of Harvard University was named in his honor and the surrounding neighborhood became known as " Agassiz " as a result.

The name Nuevo México was first used by a seeker of gold mines named Francisco de Ibarra who explored far to the north of Mexico in 1563 and reported his findings as being in " a New Mexico ".

Whether the Etruscan encampment was so named because it was round, like a shield, or whether its situation was a shield against the Gauls to the north, is uncertain.

This road, both north and south of the platz, was named Königgrätzer Straße after the Prussian victory over Austria at the Battle of Königgrätz on 3 July 1866, in the Austro-Prussian War.

* The first recorded submarine fatality in history occurred in the Sound in June 1774, when a carpenter named John Day perished north of Drake's Island while testing a wooden diving chamber attached to the sloop Maria.

Just north of the Crystal Springs reservoir is San Andreas Lake after which the famous geologic fault was named.

However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish explorers led Saint Kitts to be named San Cristobal ( Saint Christopher ), a name originally applied to Saba 20 miles north.

The first non-Spanish settlement attempt in the Caribbean occurred on Saint Kitts, when French Huguenot refugees from the fishing town of Dieppe established a town on a harbour on the island's north coast, which they also named Dieppe, in 1538.

" Peckinpah Meadow and Peckinpah Creek, where the family ran a lumber mill on a mountain in the High Sierra north of Coarsegold, California, have been officially named on U. S. geographical maps.

They named Saint Kitts " Liamuiga " meaning " fertile island ", and would likely have expanded further north if not for the arrival of Europeans.

By the 5th century the Angles, after whom East Anglia and England itself are named, had established control of the region and later became the " north folk " and the " south folk ", hence, " Norfolk " and " Suffolk ".

Roosevelt built a second ranch, which he named Elk Horn, thirty-five miles ( 56 km ) north of the boomtown of Medora, North Dakota.