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JeffersonJefferson is any of several places in the United States named for Thomas Jefferson: - small towns in Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Texas;
- counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin;
- a parish in Louisiana;
- a township in Pennsylvania; and
- a territory in present-day Colorado and a proposed state overlapping Oregon and California.
Two counties were indirectly named for Jefferson:
There are several places not necessarily named for him: - small towns in Iowa, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, and Oregon.
- a section of a town, Jefferson, in Holden, Massachusetts
- counties in Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, and Washington; and
- townships in Michigan and New Jersey.
Several cities named Jefferson City were named after him, including the capital of Missouri and small towns in Montana, and Tennessee. The Jefferson City in Tennessee may or may not be named in his honor.
There is also a Jeffersonville, Indiana.
The county seat of William Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi is named Jefferson.
The Jeffersons was an American sitcom broadcast on the CBS network from January 18, 1975 until July 23, 1985.
People named Jefferson:
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