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Briarcliff Manor, New York
Briarcliff Manor is a village in Westchester County, New York, north of Manhattan along the Hudson River, incorporated in 1902 with 7,569 residents at the 2020 census.
Brienz
Brienz names two Swiss Alpine villages: Brienz BE, a Bernese Oberland woodcarving and tourist resort on Lake Brienz hit by a 2024 debris flow, and Brienz/Brinzauls GR, a Graubünden village repeatedly evacuated over an active rockslide.
Brigstock
Brigstock, Northamptonshire village and civil parish, also a Romano-British temple site (Pleiades 79356): Saxon royal estate, mid-15th-century market, Roman shrine complex with 278 coins and horse-and-rider figurines, Iron Age enclosure excavated 1979-81.
Brixworth
Brixworth, Northamptonshire: village six miles north of Northampton, known for the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon All Saints' Church, a Roman villa (70-400 AD), Saxon settlements, ironstone quarries, and Pitsford Reservoir.
Bronxville, New York
Bronxville is an incorporated village in the Town of Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, about 16 miles from midtown Manhattan; incorporated 1898, population 6,656 (2020), on the Metro-North Harlem Line.
Bruderhof Communities
Bruderhof Communities: Anabaptist communal Christian movement founded 1920 by Eberhard Arnold in Sannerz, Germany; shares all property (common purse), related to but separate from the Hutterites, with communities on four continents.
Buchs
Buchs: name of several Swiss localities, notably Buchs AG (Aargau, ~8,700 residents, Roman villa on the Bühlrain) and Buchs SG (Werdenberg town, first recorded 765 as Pogio). Name from Latin buxum, boxwood.
Budta
Budta (Будта) is a populated place in Northern Kabuntalan, Maguindanao del Norte, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, at 7.2042 N, 124.4397 E; GeoNames lists 1,273,715 people, ranking it 6th among Philippine places, near Malingao and Cotabato City.
Buduburam refugee camp
Buduburam refugee camp, created in 1990 in Ghana's Central Region for Liberians fleeing civil war, grew to about 50,000 residents before traditional authorities demolished it in February 2024.
Bunda
Bunda is a district (and town council) in Mara Region, Tanzania, on Lake Victoria near Serengeti National Park. Population 335,061 (2012); subsistence agriculture, livestock, fishing, and cotton dominate the economy.
Burkittsville, Maryland
Burkittsville, Maryland, a town of 142 in Frederick County at South Mountain's base, founded 1824 as Harley's Post Office, renamed for Henry Burkitt; site of the 1862 Battle of Crampton's Gap and filming location of The Blair Witch Project.
Butcher Hollow, Kentucky
Butcher Hollow (locally "Butcher Holler") is a small community in Johnson County, eastern Kentucky, near Van Lear, known as the birthplace of Loretta Lynn and childhood home of Crystal Gayle, with Lynn's cabin open for tours.
Caerwent
Caerwent, in Welsh Caer-went, is a Monmouthshire village in southeast Wales built on Venta Silurum, the administrative capital of the Silures and the most important civilian Roman settlement in Wales.
Caistor
Caistor, from Latin castra (camp), names two English places: Caistor in Lincolnshire, a Roman walled town and Royal Mint 970-1042, and Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk, site of the Roman Iceni capital Venta Icenorum.
Calumet Historic District
Calumet Historic District: National Register-listed and National Historic Landmark downtown district of Calumet, Michigan, within Keweenaw National Historical Park; locally designated in 2002 with HDC review, endangered-building concerns, and ongoing Bring Back Calumet preservation projects.
Campoverde
Campoverde, frazione of Aprilia in the province of Latina, Lazio, Italy, in the Agro Pontino near Anzio; known for a 1968 water-cult votive deposit and a Pleistocene fossil and lithic site defining the 36 m Campoverde complex marine terrace.
Canwick
Canwick is a village and civil parish in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, 1 mile south of Lincoln, population 324 (2011). Also called Canewic in Domesday Book; known for a Roman villa under All Saints church, Sheepwash Grange, and the Sibthorp family's Canwick Hall.
Car Colston
Car Colston (Domesday Colestone) is a Nottinghamshire village east of the Fosse Way with a scheduled monument combining a winged-corridor Roman villa, moat, six fishponds, and shrunken medieval village earthworks; home of antiquary Robert Thoroton.
Carcross
Carcross, Yukon, formerly Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated village on the Bennett–Nares lakes narrows, home of the self-governing Carcross/Tagish First Nation and a White Pass and Yukon Route railway town.
Carmichael, California
Carmichael, California: an unincorporated census-designated place in Sacramento County, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Sacramento along the American River; 79,793 residents (2020), San Juan Unified schools, median household income $85,914.
Cărpiniş
Cărpiniş (Gertianosch, Gyertyámos) names several Romanian localities: a Timiș commune re-founded 1769-1770 by German colonists, a Simeria village with a Roman quarry and Marmosim travertine quarry, an Alba village, and a Sarmatian geological formation.
Carroll, IA Micro Area
Carroll, IA Micro Area (CBSA 16140) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Carroll County, Iowa, centered on the city of Carroll; population 20,760 in 2020, declining to an estimated 20,303 by July 2025.
Carsington
Carsington is a village and parish in Derbyshire Dales, England, near Wirksworth, with a Roman settlement and villa beneath Carsington Water, a candidate for the Roman lead center Lutudarum, scheduled lead mines on Carsington Pasture, and Neolithic and Iron Age cave burials.
Carvoeiro (Lagoa)
Carvoeiro (Praia do Carvoeiro), a former fishing village turned cliff-top resort town in Lagoa municipality, central Algarve, Portugal; name from Arab-medieval Caboiere, parish 1985, merged 2013, about 60% of Lagoa's tourist capacity.
Castaic, California
Castaic, California: unincorporated Santa Clarita Valley CDP in Los Angeles County on I-5; Tataviam name Kashtuk ("eyes"); 18,937 people (2020); Ridge Route 1915; Castaic Lake State Water Project terminal.
Castel Fiorentino
Castel Fiorentino (Fiorentinum) is an abandoned medieval Byzantine-founded town near Torremaggiore, Foggia, Apulia, where Emperor Frederick II died on 13 December 1250; destroyed in 1255, excavated since the 1980s. Distinct from Castelfiorentino, Tuscany.
Castle Combe
Castle Combe is a limestone village on the southern Cotswolds edge in Wiltshire, England, near Bath. Known as the Prettiest Village in England (1962), it grew on By Brook cloth mills, a 1140 motte-and-bailey castle, film locations like Doctor Dolittle and War Horse, and the Castle Combe racing circuit.
Census-designated place
Census-designated place (CDP): a U.S. Census Bureau statistical geography for closely settled, unincorporated communities with no legal boundary or government; used for decennial census, ACS, and Economic Census tabulation.
Centralia mine fire
Centralia mine fire: underground anthracite coal fire burning since May 1962 beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, ignited at a landfill; it depopulated the town, cost $48.8 million, and still burns.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia, Pennsylvania, is a borough in Columbia County that was largely abandoned after a coal-seam fire ignited in May 1962 and still burns beneath it today.