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Silver Springs, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida: artesian spring group in Marion County near Ocala forming the Silver River headwaters, discharging 796 cfs; famed glass bottom boat attraction from the 1870s, Ray and Davidson theme park era, underwater films, now Silver Springs State Park.
Šitbořice
Šitbořice (German Schüttboritz), a wine-growing village in Břeclav District, South Moravia, 25 km southeast of Brno; first recorded 1255 as Sdeboric, with a Roman-period cremation cemetery of 47 graves and a medieval fort site called Hradisko.
Six Nations of the Grand River
Six Nations of the Grand River is Canada's most populous First Nation (29,400 members, 2024), near Brantford, Ontario, home to all six Haudenosaunee nations, holding under 5% of its original 950,000-acre Haldimand Tract grant.
Skelmanthorpe
Skelmanthorpe, locally "Shat", a village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, built on fancy-cloth weaving; Field family mills, the 1819 Chartist Flag, and handlooms working into the 1930s.
Slab City, California
Slab City, also called the Last Free Place in America, is an off-grid squatter community of about 640 acres in Imperial County, California, on the concrete slabs of the former Camp Dunlap Marine base, with no utilities and state-owned land no resident can own.
Sládkovičovo
Sládkovičovo (Magyardiószeg, Diószeg) is a town in Galanta District, Slovakia, first attested in 1326, renamed from Velký Diosek in 1948, with Neolithic to Roman-period cemeteries and a 19th-century market-town history.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Sleepy Hollow, New York: Westchester County Hudson River village, formerly North Tarrytown, renamed by 1996 referendum after Washington Irving's 1820 tale; about 10,000-11,400 residents, former GM plant site, Philipsburg Manor and Old Dutch Church.
Snartemo
Snartemo: village and Sørlandsbanen station in Hægebostad, Agder, Norway, site of the Snartemofunnene, rich Migration Period (375–550 CE) chamber graves including the famous Snartemo sword from grave V.
Soyans
Soyans is the name of two communes in southeastern France: the better-documented Soyons, an Ardèche village on the right bank of the Rhône, and a smaller commune in the Drôme.
Sparsholt
Sparsholt, Hampshire: village near Winchester with the Sparsholt Roman villa (excavated 1965-72 by David Johnston, mosaics in Winchester City Museum), Butser reconstruction, and Grade II Sparsholt Manor (1922-23, Triggs and Unsworth).
Spring Hill, Florida
Spring Hill, Florida: unincorporated Hernando County census-designated place near Tampa, founded 1967 by the Deltona Corporation and Mackle Brothers; 113,568 residents (2020), Weeki Wachee Springs mermaid show, no city government.
Spring Valley, Nevada
Spring Valley, Nevada: an unincorporated Clark County town and census-designated place in the western Las Vegas Valley, west of the Strip. Population 215,597 (2020); home of the Spring Mountain Road Chinatown district.
Springfield
Springfield, a common English place name from Essex, England, names 14 incorporated US places of 1,000+ across 14 states and dozens more communities; largest is Springfield, Missouri, and it is The Simpsons' fictional hometown.
St-Andéol-le-Château
Saint-Andéol-le-Château (Sent-Anduér), former commune in the Rhône, France, 20 km southwest of Lyon; medieval fortified village, seigneurie of Lyon's canons from 984; merged into Beauvallon on 1 January 2018.
St-Béat (France)
Saint-Béat (Saint-Béat-Lez), Haute-Garonne, France: Pyrenean village on the Garonne, ancient Passus Lupi, famed for white marble quarries, 12th-century castle and Romanesque Saint-Privat church, royal city 1454, 'Clef de France'.
St-Beauzély
St-Beauzély (Sent-Bauzéli) is a commune in Aveyron, France, on the Causse Rouge near Millau; 624 inhabitants (2020), a 12th-century château housing a rural-life museum, the Grandmont priory of Comberoumal, and 10 dolmens.
St-Christophe-le-Chaudry
Saint-Christophe-le-Chaudry is a commune of about 96 inhabitants in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, central France, known for a Gallo-Roman sandstone quarry that made hand querns.
St-Cloud-en-Dunois
St-Cloud-en-Dunois, formerly Saint-Cloud (until 14 January 1983), a former commune of Eure-et-Loir, France, now part of Villemaury, site of a Gallo-Roman villa (BAtlas 11 B4) and a 2024-published fanum with marble oscilla.
St-Galmier
St-Galmier (Saint-Galmier), a commune in the Loire, France, at the meeting of the Monts du Lyonnais and the Forez plain. Gallo-Roman baths (Vicus Auditiacus), castle of the Counts of Forez, flamboyant Gothic church, and the Badoit mineral-water springs.
St-Martin-Bréthencourt
Saint-Martin-de-Bréthencourt (St-Martin-Bréthencourt), Yvelines commune, Île-de-France, INSEE 78564; 690 inhabitants, Orge river source, Romanesque priory church, 11th-century castle ruins.
St-Romain-de-Jalionas
Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas, Isère commune near Lyon, home of the Vernai archaeological site: a Gallo-Roman villa from about 40 BC with baths, hydraulic mill, and 2.5-hectare palace, plus a medieval castle.
St. Marie, Montana
St. Marie, Montana, a Valley County census-designated place also called Saint Marie, is the abandoned housing area of Glasgow Air Force Base, a Cold War ghost town of about 300-489 residents with a 13,500-foot Boeing test runway.
Staithes
Staithes, North Yorkshire: a former fishing village on the North York Moors coast, once the largest fishing station north of the Wash, linked to Captain Cook, the Staithes Group artists, and ongoing coastal erosion management.
Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire
Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire: village on the River Derwent about 7 miles east of York, site of the 1066 battle where Harold Godwineson defeated Harald Hardrada and Tostig; also Roman Derventio and a Registered Battlefield.
Stanitsa
Stanitsa (станица, stanytsia) was the principal administrative-territorial unit of the Cossack hosts of the Russian Empire, grouping villages and hamlets under an elected ataman until 1920.
Stanthorpe, Queensland
Stanthorpe, Queensland: Granite Belt town in the Southern Downs, elevation 811 m, founded on 1872 tin mining (stannum + thorpe), now a wine and fruit centre of about 5,286 people with recurring drought and Storm King Dam water restrictions.
Starachowice
Starachowice (formerly Wierzbnik), town in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, on the Kamienna river; founded 1624, 19th-century blast furnace works, STAR truck production, Jewish cemetery of 1891 with about 400 matzevot.
Staryi Uhryniv
Staryi Uhryniv (Старий Угринів) is a village in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1447 and known as the birthplace of OUN leader Stepan Bandera, with a memorial museum and monument on the family homestead.
Ste-Marguerite-sur-Mer
Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, formerly Caprimont and Quievremont, is a Normandy cliff-top commune on the Côte d'Albâtre 13 km from Dieppe, with a major Gallo-Roman villa and the 1942 No. 4 Commando Orange beach landing.
Stehekin, Washington
Stehekin, Washington: roadless unincorporated village at the head of 55-mile Lake Chelan in Lake Chelan NRA, reached only by ferry, barge, foot, or floatplane; about 80-104 year-round residents, hit by 2024 Pioneer Fire and December 2025 floods.