Cities with "Mount" in Their Name

Top 10 States by City Count

Cities by U.S. Region

Most Common Name Patterns

Mountain View, California sits at the center of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. Google's Googleplex, the sprawling global headquarters of Alphabet Inc., dominates the city's landscape and economy. The city is also home to the Computer History Museum, which holds the world's largest collection of computing artifacts, and NASA Ames Research Center.

Mount Carmel, Illinois sits on the Wabash River at the Indiana border and was founded by Methodists in 1818. It became home to a significant Italian immigrant community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn by coal mining in the surrounding Wabash Valley. The Wabash Valley still holds some of Illinois's deepest coal seams.

Mount Pleasant, Iowa is home to Iowa Wesleyan University, one of the oldest colleges west of the Mississippi. The name Mount Pleasant was widely adopted in the 19th century for its positive associations — a pleasant mount or hill near a new settlement. It appears in at least 26 states, reflecting how early settlers often chose optimistic descriptive names.

Mount Vernon, New York is the most populous city bearing the name, a dense suburb immediately north of the Bronx. But the name belongs to all 27 American towns that adopted it as a tribute to George Washington's Virginia plantation after his death in 1799, making it one of the most replicated place names in the United States.

Mount Holly is the county seat of Burlington County, New Jersey, and one of the oldest settlements in the state. During the Revolutionary War, British forces under General Charles Cornwallis used the town as a headquarters. The Burlington County Prison Museum, one of the oldest jails in the U.S., still stands and tours are open to visitors. John Woolman, the influential Quaker abolitionist, is closely associated with the town.

Mount Sterling sits in Montgomery County, Kentucky, at the edge of the Bluegrass region where it gives way to the Appalachian foothills. It's the nearest town of size to the Red River Gorge Geological Area, one of Kentucky's most beloved outdoor destinations known for its sandstone arches, cliff faces, and rock climbing. The town has roots going back to the earliest Kentucky settlements.

Mount Lebanon is an upscale suburb immediately southwest of Pittsburgh, consistently ranked among the top school districts in Pennsylvania and the nation. It developed as a streetcar suburb in the early 20th century and retains a pedestrian-friendly village center with independent shops and restaurants. Its stable, tree-lined neighborhoods have made it one of the most desirable addresses in the Pittsburgh region for over a century.

Mountville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, sitting along the historic Lincoln Highway — the first transcontinental road in the United States, designated in 1913. The surrounding Lancaster County is one of the most productive agricultural counties in the northeast, home to large Plain community settlements including Old Order Amish and Mennonite farmers.

Mount Airy, North Carolina is the hometown of Andy Griffith and widely recognized as the inspiration for the fictional town of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show. The town leans fully into this identity — Floyd's Barbershop, the squad car, and Snappy Lunch diner are genuine local institutions. The surrounding Surry County is also a growing wine region in the North Carolina foothills.

Mount Juliet has been one of Tennessee's fastest-growing cities for over a decade, riding Nashville's explosive suburban expansion east along I-40. Wilson County's rolling hills and lower cost of living relative to Nashville proper have drawn tens of thousands of new residents. The city sits about 17 miles east of downtown Nashville and has grown its population several times over since 2000.