Clayton

plural Claytons

1. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of Barbour County, Alabama; named for Georgia jurist and congressman Augustin Smith Clayton.
   2. countableuncountableA city in Contra Costa County, California; named for founder Joel Henry Clayton.

      Synonyms: Clayton's, Claytonville

   3. countableuncountableA town in Kent County and New Castle County, Delaware; named for John M. Clayton.
   4. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Rabun County, Georgia; named for Augustin Smith Clayton.
   5. countableuncountableA minor city in Custer County, Idaho; the smallest city in the United States, named for early settler Clayton Smith.
   6. countableuncountableA village and township in Adams County, Illinois; named for Henry Clay.
   7. countableuncountableA town in Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana; named for Kentucky statesman Henry Clay.
   8. countableuncountableA minor city in Clayton County, Iowa.
   9. countableuncountableA minor city in Decatur County and Norton County, Kansas; named for the clay in the area.
   10. countableuncountableA town in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.
   11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
   12. countableuncountableA community in the town of New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
   13. countableuncountableA village in Hudson Township and Dover Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.
   14. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Tunica County, Mississippi.
   15. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri; named for landowner Ralph Clayton.
   16. countableuncountableA borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
   17. countableuncountableA town, the county seat of Union County, New Mexico; named for Clayton Dorsey, son of Arkansas statesman Stephen Wallace Dorsey.
   18. countableuncountableA town and village in Jefferson County, New York; named for lawyer and politician John M. Clayton.
   19. countableuncountableA town in Johnston County, North Carolina.
   20. countableuncountableA city in Montgomery County, Ohio; named for John Clayton, a War of 1812 veteran.
   21. countableuncountableA town in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma; named for the city in Missouri.
   22. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Hereford Township and Washington Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
   23. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas.
   24. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Stevens County, Washington.
   25. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia.
   26. countableuncountableA town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
   27. countableuncountableA town and village in Polk County, Wisconsin; named for Clayton Rogers, the foreman of the town's sawmill.
   28. countableuncountableA town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
   29. countableuncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Clayton Township.
   30. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Clayton County.
   31. countableuncountableA community in the town of Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario.
   32. countableuncountableA rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Clayton No. 333) in east Saskatchewan.
   33. countableuncountableA suburb of the city of Manchester, Greater Manchester; named for the Clayton family which owned land nearby (OS grid ref SJ8898).
   34. countableuncountableA village in Clayton with Frickley parish, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE4507).
   35. countableuncountableA suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8544).
   36. countableuncountableA village in Hassocks parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ2914).
   37. countableuncountableA suburban village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1231).
   38. countableuncountableA village south-west of Guardbridge, north-east Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4318)
   39. countableuncountableA suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; named for proprietor John Hughes Clayton.
2. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.
3. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.