List of North American settlements by year of foundation

This is a list of settlements in North America by founding year and present-day country.

Year	Settlement	Subdivision	Country	Notes
1500 BC	Kaminaljuyu	Guatemala	Guatemala
1400 BC	Nakbe	Petén	Guatemala
950 BC	Takalik AbajTikal	Retalhuleu	Guatemala
950 BC	El Mirador	Petén	Guatemala
950 BC	Uaxactun	Petén	Guatemala
700 BC	Ticul	Yucatán	Mexico
600 BC	Tikal	Petén	Guatemala
500 BC	Cholula	Puebla	Mexico	Possibly the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the Americas.
300 BC	Teotihuacan	México	Mexico	In the Valley of Mexico
200	Mitla	Oaxaca	Mexico
650	Cahokia	Illinois	United States
1000	Acoma Pueblo and Taos Pueblo	New Mexico	United States	Oldest continuously occupied communities in the USA. The Acoma Pueblo today is known as Sky City.
1003?	L'Anse aux Meadows	Newfoundland & Labrador	Canada	First European settlement in the Americas. The Norse explorer Leif Ericson established a settlement at 51°N on this site in 1003.
1050	Motul	Yucatán	Mexico
1054	Antiguo Cuscatlan	La Libertad	El Salvador	Cuscatlán was founded in 1054 by Topiltzin Atzil, last king of Tula of Anahuac. It was a city inhabited by ten thousand, with an additional twelve thousand people who lived in xacal, straw huts distributed at the edge of a maar (crater) which housed the sacred lake of Cuscatlan. In the contemporary Native language, Cuscatlán means Jewel City. On Saturday June 17, 1524, led by Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish conquistadors found the doors of Cuscatlan, capital of the Lordship of Cuscatlan.
1100	Oraibi	Arizona	United States (Hopi Reservation)
1325	Tenochtitlan	Distrito Federal	Mexico	Today this city is known as Mexico City
1450	Zuni Pueblo	New Mexico	United States
1498	Santo Domingo	Distrito Nacional	Dominican Republic	Capital of the Dominican Republic. Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in the Americas.
1508	Caparra	Puerto Rico
1509	Sevilla la Nueva	Seville, St. Ann's Bay	Jamaica	Established by Juan de Esquivel, the first Spanish Governor of Jamaica, St Ann's Bay became the third capital established by Spain in the Americas.
1510	Nombre de Dios	Colón	Panama	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Panama and continental America.
1511	Baracoa	Guantánamo	Cuba	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Cuba, former capital of Cuba.
1514	Santiago	Santiago	Cuba
1515	Havana	Havana	Cuba	Current Capital of Cuba
1519	La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, (Veracruz)	Veracruz	Mexico	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Mexico.
1519	Panama City		Panama	First European city on the Pacific coast of the Americas
1521	San Juan	Puerto Rico	United States (unincorporated territory)	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Puerto Rico.
1524	Quetzaltenango	Guatemala	Guatemala
1525	San Salvador	San Salvador Department	El Salvador	Diego de Holguín became the first mayor of San Salvador after the town was founded on April 1, 1525. Originally founded in what is now the archaeological site Ciudad Vieja, north of the present-day city, it was moved to the Valle de Las Hamacas or the Acelhuate Valley, named so due to the intense seismic activity that characterizes it. On January 2011 San Salvador was named the Iboeroamerican Capital of Culture because the first independent movements in Central America were played in San Salvador on November 5, 1811.
1524	Granada	Granada	Nicaragua	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Nicaragua.
1526	Acámbaro	Guanajuato	Mexico
1540	Compostela	Nayarit	Mexico	Known as Capital de la Nueva Galicia Compostela (1548-1560)
1527	San Miguel de Gualdape	Georgia	United States	First European settlement in the continental United States. It was abandoned after only 3 months.
1531	Mazatlán	Sinaloa	Mexico
1531	Culiacán	Sinaloa	Mexico
1532	Oaxaca	Oaxaca	Mexico
1534	Villa de la Vega	Parish of St. Catherine, County of Middlesex	Jamaica	After founding Seville in 1509, Spanish settlers moved to a new, healthier site, which they named Villa de la Vega. The English later renamed it Spanish Town when they conquered the island in 1655.
1536	San Pedro Sula	Cortés	Honduras
1540	Childersburg	Alabama	United States	Recently purported to be one of the oldest cities in the Continental United States.[1]
1540	Campeche	Campeche	Mexico
1541	Morelia	Michoacan	Mexico
1541	Charlesbourg-Royal	Quebec	Canada	First French settlement (short lived)
1542	Yuriria	Guanajuato	Mexico
1542	Mérida	Yucatán	Mexico	Founded by Francisco de Montejo over the ruins of the Maya city of T'ho.
1542	Guadalajara	Jalisco	Mexico
1542	San Miguel de Allende	Guanajuato	Mexico
1543	Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Antigua Guatemala)	Guatemala	Guatemala
1550	Acapulco	Guerrero	Mexico	Discovered by Cortés in 1531; settlement founded in 1550.[2]
1559	Pensacola	Florida	United States	Spanish explorer Tristán de Luna founded a short-lived settlement in 1559.
1563	Cartago	Cartago	Costa Rica	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement Costa Rica.
1564	Villa Hermosa de San Juan Bautista	Tabasco	México	The city was founded on June 24, 1564 (day of San Juan Bautista, hence its original name) by the Spanish Don Diego de Quijada
1565	Saint Augustine	Florida	United States	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in the Continental United States.
1573	San Germán		Puerto Rico
1575	Saltillo	Coahuila	Mexico	Oldest post-conquest settlement in northern Mexico.[3]
1575	Aguascalientes	Aguascalientes	Mexico
1576	León	Guanajuato	Mexico
1583	St. John's[4]	Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	Oldest English-founded city in North America.[5]
1583	Harbour Grace[6]	Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada
1585	Roanoke Colony	Colony of Virginia	United States	Settlers first left on island August 17, 1585.[7]
1596	Monterrey	Nuevo León	Mexico
1597	Portobelo	Colón	Panama
1598	Parras	Coahuila	Mexico
1599	Tadoussac	Quebec	Canada	Oldest continuously inhabited French established settlement in the Americas, oldest European established settlement in Quebec.
1603	Salamanca	Guanajuato	Mexico
1604	Canso	Nova Scotia	Canada	Founded in 1604, setting began in 1518 by European Fur Traders and Fisherman. Canso and the surrounding Islands were involved in the French and English struggles to gain control of the area.
1604	Saint Croix Island	Maine	United States	Established in the summer of 1604 by a French expedition led by Pierre Dugua that included Samuel de Champlain. After the winter of 1604-1605 the survivors relocated and founded Port Royal, Nova Scotia.[8]
1605	Port Royal	Nova Scotia	Canada	Established in the summer of 1605 by French colonizing explorers Pierre du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain who, in 1608, would establish Quebec City.
1607	Jamestown	Virginia	United States	Oldest settlement in the original thirteen colonies comprising the United States of America
1607	Popham Colony	Maine	United States	Short lived settlement; project of the Plymouth Company
1607	Santa Fe	New Mexico	United States	Oldest continuously inhabited state capital in the US.
1608	Québec	Quebec	Canada	Original settlement on this site was established by Jacques Cartier in 1535 but abandoned in 1536. He returned in 1541 but abandoned the site again. Samuel de Champlain established a permanent settlement on July 3–4, 1608. Only completely garrison-walled city north of Mexico.
1610	Cupids	Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	Oldest continuously occupied English settlement in Canada.
1610	Hampton	Virginia	United States	Oldest continuously occupied English settlement in the United States.
1610	Kecoughtan	Virginia	United States
1611	Henricus	Virginia	United States
1612	St. George's		Bermuda	Oldest continuously inhabited European established settlement in Bermuda.
1613	Newport News, Virginia	Virginia	United States
1614	Albany, New York	New York	United States	Oldest settlement in the United States north of Virginia
1620	Plymouth	Massachusetts	United States	The oldest town in New England. Settled by pilgrims of The Mayflower
1622	Weymouth	Massachusetts	United States	As Wessagussett, resettled and renamed in 1623
1623	Dover	New Hampshire	United States	oldest settlement in New Hampshire
1623	Portsmouth	New Hampshire	United States	oldest City in New Hampshire
1623	Gloucester	Massachusetts	United States
1624	Burlington	New Jersey	United States
1624	Chelsea	Massachusetts	United States	originally called Winnisimmet
1625	New Amsterdam	New York	United States	Now New York City. Was settled 1624 on Governors Island, moved to Manhattan 1625.
1625	Quincy	Massachusetts	United States
1626	Salem	Massachusetts	United States
1627	Scituate	Massachusetts	United States	Scituate, Massachusetts
1627	Basseterre		Saint Kitts and Nevis
1628	Bridgetown		Barbados
1629	Lynn	Massachusetts	United States
1629	Charlestown	Massachusetts	United States
1630	Berwick	Maine	United States	Oldest continuously settled town in Maine.[9]
1630	Jersey City, New Jersey	New Jersey	United States	Pavonia, first Dutch settlement in New Jersey
1630	Medford	Massachusetts	United States	Settled on the "Ford" by Meadow
1630	Boston	Massachusetts	United States
1631	Saint John	New Brunswick	Canada	Oldest incorporated city in Canada.
1631	Lewes	Delaware	United States	Because Lewes was the earliest town founded in the state, and because Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution, the town refers to itself as "The first town in the first state."
1631	Cambridge	Massachusetts	United States	Drake, Samuel Adams (1880). History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 1. Boston: Estes and Lauriat. pp. 305–16. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
1632	Williamsburg	Virginia	United States
1633	Ipswich	Massachusetts	United States
1632	St. John's		Antigua and Barbuda
1633	Windsor	Connecticut	United States	First English settlement in Connecticut.[10]
1634	Beauport	Quebec	Canada	[11] Became a borough of Québec in January, 2002.
1634	Green Bay	Wisconsin	United States
1634	St. Mary's City	Maryland	United States
1634	Trois-Rivières	Quebec	Canada
1634	Willemstad	Curaçao	Kingdom of the Netherlands	Formerly Part of the now dissolved Netherlands Antilles, now autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Not to be confused with one of its constituent countries, the Netherlands)
1635	Concord	Massachusetts	United States
1635	Newbury	Massachusetts	United States
1636	Springfield	Massachusetts	United States	The Massachusetts Bay Colony's first Connecticut River port - and, by far, its westernmost settlement, sitting 85 miles west of the colonial capital at Boston.
1636	Providence	Rhode Island	United States	Oldest settlement in Rhode Island
1637	Hartford	Connecticut	United States
1637	Taunton	Massachusetts	United States
1637	Sandwich	Massachusetts	United States	Oldest town on Cape Cod
1638	Rowley	Massachusetts	United States
1638	Exeter	New Hampshire	United States	One of the four original towns of New Hampshire. Revolutionary War Capital of New Hampshire and site of the ratification of the first state constitution in the North American colonies in January 1776.
1638	Sillery	Quebec	Canada	[12] Now part of Québec
1638	Swedesboro	New Jersey	United States	Nucleus of the New Sweden colony that spread along the Delaware River into Pennsylvania and Delaware.
1638	New Haven	Connecticut	United States
1638	Sainte-Foy	Quebec	Canada	[11] Merged with the City of Québec in 2002.
1638	Wilmington	Delaware	United States	Grew from Fort Christina, part of the New Sweden colony. Originally called Willington.
1639 (prior to)	St. Marks	Florida	United States
1639	Stratford	Connecticut	United States
1639	Newport	Rhode Island	United States
1639	Sudbury	Massachusetts	United States
1640	Woburn	Massachusetts	United States	First settled in 1640, incorporated in 1642
1641	Haverhill	Massachusetts	United States	First settled in 1640, incorporated 1641
1642	Montréal	Quebec	Canada
1642	Lexington	Massachusetts	United States
1642	Sorel	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Now known as Sorel-Tracy.
1643	Basse-Terre		Guadeloupe	Territorial capital.
1643	Dolores Hidalgo	Guanajuato	Mexico
1643	Guilford	Connecticut	United States
1643	Rehoboth, Massachusetts		United States	Settled 1636. Incorporated 1643.
1644	Longmeadow	Massachusetts	United States	Settled in 1644. Incorporated October 17, 1783.
1644	Salvatierra	Guanajuato	Mexico
1645	Vlissingen	New York	United States	Now Flushing, New York.
1646	Andover	Massachusetts	United States	The original Andover, founded by Simon and Anne Bradstreet along with the Barker, Osgood, Stevens, Woodbridge and other families, broke into two separate towns April 7, 1855.
1646	Château-Richer	Quebec	Canada	[13]
1646	New London	Connecticut	United States
1647	Kittery	Maine	United States	Oldest incorporated town in Maine.[14]
1647	La Prairie	Quebec	Canada	[11] La Prairie was established as a mission by the Jesuits in 1647. The first parish was founded in 1667.
1649	Annapolis	Maryland	United States
1650	Saint-Ours	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1650	Kingston	New York	United States	Settled by the Dutch as Esopus, renamed in 1664 by the English
1651	Cap-de-la-Madeleine	Quebec	Canada	[12] Became a borough of Trois-Rivières in January, 2002.
1651	Medfield	Massachusetts	United States	http://www.town.medfield.net/index.cfm?pid=12391
1651	New Castle	Delaware	United States	Grew from Fort Casimir
1651	Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1653	Lancaster	Massachusetts	United States
1654	Pelham	New York	United States	Founded by Thomas Pell who purchased 9000 acres from Siwanoy Indians and received a land grant from the English Crown
1655	Cap-Saint-Ignace	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1655	Chelmsford	Massachusetts	United States	Founded by settlers from Concord. The area currently encompassed by Chelmsford, Lowell, Westford, Carlisle and to a certain extent Dracut, were all originally part of Chelmsford. Westford seceded in 1729. Carlisle fully became a part of Concord in 1780, seceding from that town in 1805. Lowell would be formed under extraordinary circumstances when the Boston Associates purchased East Chelmsford to serve as a planned factory town, incorporated as Lowell in 1826. Dracut's relationship to Chelmsford is less clear cut, however the relationship of the two towns in the 17th century resembles a slightly imperial one as Dracut, while a separate entity, was largely dependent on Chelmsford, particularly the West Dracut area, near the old boundary of East Chelmsford.
1655	Groton	Massachusetts	United States
1655	Billerica	Massachusetts	United States
1657	Longueuil	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1659	Hadley	Massachusetts	United States	Settled 1659. Incorporated 1661.
1659	Ciudad Juárez	Chihuahua	Mexico
1659	Jamestown		Saint Helena
1660	Placentia	Newfoundland	Canada	French Capital until 1713, originally called Plaisance
1660	Rye	New York	United States
1661	Schenectady	New York	United States
1662	Uxbridge	Massachusetts	United States
1664	L'Ange-Gardien	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1665	Chambly	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1665	Port-de-Paix	Nord-Ouest Department	Haiti
1666	Charlesbourg	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Became a borough within the City of Québec in 2002.
1666	Newark	New Jersey	United States
1666	Piscatawaytown	New Jersey	United States	One of the first five New Jersey settlements. Now part of Edison, NJ
1666	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Grew from Fort Saint-Jean.
1667	Boucherville	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1667	Mendon	Massachusetts	United States	Netmocke Plantation 1662
1668	Amesbury	Massachusetts	United States
1668	Saint-Nicolas	Quebec	Canada	[11] Merged with the City of Lévis, Quebec in 2002.
1668	Sault Ste. Marie	Michigan	United States	, oldest city in Michigan.
1669	Neuville	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1669	Westfield	Massachusetts	United States
1669	Middleborough	Massachusetts	United States
1670	Charleston	South Carolina	United States
1670	Repentigny	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1670	Wallingford	Connecticut	United States
1672	Varennes	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1672	Verchères	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1673	Kingston	Ontario	Canada	Grew from Fort Frontenac.
1673	L'Ancienne-Lorette	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1673	Worcester, Massachusetts	Massachusetts	United States	Incorporated as city in 1848.
1674	Pointe-aux-Trembles	Quebec	Canada	[12] Now part of Montréal, Québec.
1674	Waterbury	Connecticut	United States
1675	Lachine	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Lachine was merged into the City of Montréal in 2002.
1675	Lavaltrie	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1676	Contrecoeur	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1676	Loretteville	Quebec	Canada	[11] Loretteville merged with the city of Québec in 2002.
1677	Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1678	La Pocatière	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1678	Montmagny	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1679	Lévis	Quebec	Canada	[12] The first settlement was formerly known as Lauzon, which merged with Lévis in 1989.
1679	L'Islet	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1679	Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1680	Ysleta	Texas	United States
1680	South Orange	New Jersey	United States	Grew from Newark (later Orange).
1680	Peoria	Illinois	United States	First European settlement in Illinois.[15] Originally Fort Crevecoeur, later Fort Clark (1813), renamed Peoria in 1823.[16]
1681	Baie-Saint-Paul	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1681	Berthierville	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1681	Cockburn Town		Turks and Caicos Islands
1681	Bridgewater		United States
1681	Saint-François (Laval)	Quebec	Canada	[12] Integrated to the City of Laval, Quebec in 1965.
1682	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States
1682	Norfolk	Virginia	United States
1683	Dover	Delaware	United States
1683	Lachenaie	Quebec	Canada	[11] In 2001, the town of Lachenaie merged with the neighbouring city of Terrebonne.
1682	Rivière-du-Loup	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1684	Bécancour	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1685	Prairie du Chien	Wisconsin	United States
1686	Arkansas Post	Arkansas	United States
1687	New Britain	Connecticut	United States
1687	Rivière-des-Prairies	Quebec	Canada	[12] Rivière-des-Prairies is now part of the Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles borough of the City of Montréal.
1690	Oka	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1693	Glastonbury	Connecticut	United States	Settled 1636, Incorporated 1693 (as Glassenbury. Known as Glastenbury from about 1785 until 1870.)
1693	Kingston		Jamaica
1694	Newark	Delaware	United States
1696	Rimouski	Quebec	Canada
1696	Sault-au-Récollet	Quebec	Canada	[11] Sault-au-Récollet is now part of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough of the City of Montreal
1698	Pensacola	Florida	United States	First established by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano in 1559; abandoned in 1561. Permanently established in 1698 .
1699	Biloxi	Mississippi	United States
1700	Mascouche	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1701	Detroit	Michigan	United States
1701	Nicolet	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1702	Mobile	Alabama	United States
1703	Kaskaskia	Illinois	United States
1703	Saint-Sulpice	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1705	Bath	North Carolina	United States	Oldest incorporated town in North Carolina.
1706	Albuquerque	New Mexico	United States
1709	Chihuahua	Chihuahua	Mexico
1710	Chatham	New Jersey	United States	On land purchased in 1680.
1710	New Bern	North Carolina	United States	Settled initially by German-Swiss immigrants.
1711	Needham	Massachusetts	United States
1711	Pointe-Claire	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1711	Beaufort	South Carolina	United States
1714	Natchitoches	Louisiana	United States	Oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
1714	Freehold	New Jersey	United States	Originally called Monmouth Courthouse, the site of the Battle of Monmouth
1715 (prior to)	Kekionga	Indiana	United States	Capital of the Miami tribe.
1715	Les Cèdres	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1716	Kahnawake	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Homeland of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680).
1716	Nacogdoches	Texas	United States	Spanish mission established about 1716 in a much older Caddo village.[17]
1716	Natchez	Mississippi	United States	Dates to the founding of Fort Rosalie by the French.
1717	L'Assomption	Quebec	Canada	[11] The territory was settled from 1647.
1718	New Orleans	Louisiana	United States
1718	San Antonio	Texas	United States
1719	Longue-Pointe	Quebec	Canada	[11] Now part of Montréal.
1719	Trenton	New Jersey	United States
1719	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	United States
1720	Saint-Laurent	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] The City of Saint-Laurent merged with Montréal in 2002.
1721	Cortazar	Guanajuato	Mexico
1721	Saint-Jean-Port-Joli	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1722	Prairie Du Rocher	Illinois	United States
1722	Louiseville	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1723	Beaufort	North Carolina	United States
1723	Terrebonne	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1725	Concord	New Hampshire	United States
1728	Fredericksburg	Virginia	United States
1729	Baltimore	Maryland	United States
1729	Pabos	Quebec	Canada	[11] Now part of Chandler, Quebec.
1732	Lanoraie	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1732	Vincennes	Indiana	United States
1733	Richmond	Virginia	United States	History - Richmond (VA) website Economic History - Richmond (VA) website
1733	Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Laval)	Quebec	Canada	[12] Integrated to the City of Laval in 1965.
1733	Savannah	Georgia	United States
1735	Ste. Genevieve	Missouri	United States	French-Colonial settlement. Oldest continually-inhabited settlement in Missouri.
1736	Châteauguay	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1736	Gorham	Maine	United States
1736	Augusta	Georgia	United States	Augusta,Ga History nps.Gov
1738	Fort Rouge	Manitoba	Canada	Now Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1738	Pointe-du-Lac	Quebec	Canada	[12] Merged with the City of Trois-Rivières in 2002.
1738	Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1739	Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1740	L'Île-Perrot and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1741	Bethlehem	Pennsylvania	United States
1741	Sainte-Geneviève and Pierrrefonds	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Those cities merged with Montréal in 2002.
1742	Les Écureuils	Quebec	Canada	[11][12] Now Donnacona, Quebec
1745	Sainte-Marie	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1745	Sainte-Rose (Laval)	Quebec	Canada	[12] Integrated to the City of Laval, Quebec in 1965.
1746	Saint-Henri	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1749	Alexandria	Virginia	United States
1749	Port-au-Prince	Ouest	Haiti
1749	Halifax	Nova Scotia	Canada
1749	Windsor	Ontario	Canada	Oldest continually-inhabited settlement in Canada west of Montréal
1750	Erie	Pennsylvania	United States	Grew from the French Fort Presque Isle.
1750	Rock Island	Illinois	United States	Originally Saukenuk[18]
1751	Georgetown	Maryland	United States	Originally in Maryland; became part of the District of Columbia when the District was organized in 1801. Georgetown and its government were incorporated into the District government in 1871.
1752	Akwesasne	Quebec, Ontario and New York	Canada, United States	[11] First known as Saint-Régis.
1752	Saint-Constant	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1753	Saint-Philippe	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1754	Augusta	Maine	United States
1755	Charlotte	North Carolina	United States
1757	Saint-Hyacinthe	Quebec	Canada	[11]
1758	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	United States
1761	Charlottesville	Virginia	United States
1762	Shepherdstown	West Virginia	United States	Originally known as Mecklenburg.
1762	Allentown	Pennsylvania	United States	Incorporated as Northamptontown.
1763	St. Louis	Missouri	United States
1763	Burlington	Vermont	United States
1764	Amherst	Nova Scotia	Canada[19]
1765	St. Charles	Missouri	United States	[20]
1766	Moncton	New Brunswick	Canada
1768	Beloeil	Quebec	Canada	[12]
1768	L'Acadie	Quebec	Canada	[11] In 2001, the town of L'Acadie merged with the neighbouring city of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
1768	New Smyrna Beach	Florida	United States	Scottish entrepreneur Dr. Turnbull established a colony of 1,225 immigrants at New Smyrna which was the largest colonization attempt in the US.[21]
1768	Saint-Eustache	Quebec	Canada	[11][12]
1769	Santa Cruz	California	United States
1769	San Diego	California	United States	Grew from Presidio of San Diego.
1770	Monterey	California	United States	Grew from Presidio of Monterey. Original capital of California
1770	San Blas	Nayarit	Mexico	Spanish Naval Department headquarters established at San Blas.[22]
1771	Greenville	North Carolina	United States	Settled and founded as Martinsborough. Renamed to Greenville in 1786.
1772	Ellicott City	Maryland	United States
1773	Guatemala City		Guatemala
1774	Unalaska	Alaska	United States	Oldest Russian settlement of Aleutian Islands, dating to the 1760s.[23] Permanent trading post established in 1774.[24]
1774	Orizaba	Veracruz	Mexico	In 1174, Charles IV grants the title of Villa, but the city was already a Spanish settlement since times of Cortez
1775	Tucson	Arizona	United States	The town of Tucson had existed for over 2000 years at this point but this is the date the Spanish built a presidio and formally recognized the town
1775	Lexington	Kentucky	United States
1775	Boonesborough	Kentucky	United States	Grew from Fort Boonesborough, built by pioneer Daniel Boone.
1776	San Francisco	California	United States
1777	San Jose	California	United States	Originally known as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, which later became Alta California.
1778	Louisville	Kentucky	United States	Grew from Fort Nelson, established by explorer George Rogers Clark.
1779	Jonesborough	Tennessee	United States	Later organized as the lost State of Franklin with Jonesborough as capital 1784.[25]
1779	Nashville	Tennessee	United States	Grew from Fort Nashborough
1781	Montpelier	Vermont	United States
1781	Los Angeles	California	United States
1784	Cornwall	Ontario	Canada	Founded on June 6, 1784 by a group of United Empire Loyalists led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet.[26]
1784	Frenchtown	Michigan	United States	Third French settlement in Michigan
1785	Harrisburg	Pennsylvania	United States
1785	Asheville	North Carolina	United States
1785	Dubuque	Iowa	United States	Oldest city in Iowa, among oldest European settlements west of the Mississippi River.[27]
1786	Columbia	South Carolina	United States
1786	Florissant	Missouri	United States	Originally known as St. Ferdinand.
1786	Frankfort	Kentucky	United States
1786	Portland	Maine	United States
1786	Steubenville	Ohio	United States
1788	Marietta	Ohio	United States	First permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory
1788	Cincinnati	Ohio	United States
1788	Charleston	West Virginia	United States	Grew from Fort Lee.
1789	Buffalo	New York	United States
1790	Washington	District of Columbia	United States
1791	Monroe	Louisiana	United States	Originally known as Fort Miro.
1791	Kenai	Alaska	United States	Grew from Fort St. Nicholas of the Russian-American Company.[28]
1791	Knoxville	Tennessee	United States
1791	Bangor	Maine	United States
1792	Kodiak	Alaska	United States	Founded in 1792 by Alexander Baranov as the new site for at Three Saints Bay, originally founded in 1784.[29]
1792	Raleigh	North Carolina	United States
1793	York	Ontario	Canada	First established as Fort Rouillé; now Toronto.
1793	Ancaster	Ontario	Canada
1794	Fort Wayne	Indiana	United States
1795	Edmonton	Alberta	Canada	Grew from Fort Edmonton.
1796	Cleveland	Ohio	United States
1796	Youngstown	Ohio	United States
1797	Athens, Ohio	Ohio	United States
1797	Franklinton	Ohio	United States	Eventually absorbed by Columbus, Ohio.
1797	Mentor	Ohio	United States
1797	Zanesville	Ohio	United States
1798	Shepherdstown	West Virginia	United States	Formerly known as Mecklenburg.
1798	Warren	Ohio	United States
1799	Hudson	Ohio	United States
1799	Potosi	Missouri	United States	Town was founded by Moses Austin and was the sight of many small battles during the American Civil War.
1788	Ravenna	Ohio	United States
1799	Aurora	Ohio	United States
1799	Sitka	Alaska	United States	Original capital of Alaska, founded by the Russian-American Company in 1799, destroyed in 1802, reestablished in 1804.[30]
1800	Buffalo	New York	United States	"In 1800, it was a town of four log cabins.".[31]
1800	Hull	Quebec	Canada	Formerly known as Wrightville.
1803	Ashtabula	Ohio	United States
1803	Chicago	Illinois	United States	Grew from Fort Dearborn.
1803	Chillicothe	Ohio	United States
1804	Stow	Ohio	United States
1805	Huntsville	Alabama	United States
1807	Prince George	British Columbia	Canada	Grew from fur trading post of Fort George, established in 1807 by the North West Company.[32]
1810	Manchester	New Hampshire	United States
1810	San Bernardino	California	United States
1811	Astoria	Oregon	United States	Grew from Fort Astoria, founded by the Pacific Fur Company in 1811.[33]
1812	Columbus	Ohio	United States
1812	Kamloops	British Columbia	Canada	Grew from fur trading posts of Fort Cumcloups (Fort Kamloops) and Fort She-whaps (Shuswap), founded by the Pacific Fur Company and North West Company, both in 1812.[34]
1815	Hamilton	Ontario	Canada
1816	Chattanooga	Tennessee	United States	Originally named Ross's Landing.
1816	Cambridge	Ontario	Canada	Original settlement in 1816 named Shades Mill, ON, renamed Galt, ON in 1827. City of Galt amalgamated with the towns of Preston and Hespeler, village of Blair and parts of Waterloo township to form City of Cambridge in 1973. Oldest settled area of Regional Municipality of Waterloo.
1816	Saginaw	Michigan	United States
1817	Fort Smith	Arkansas	United States
1817	Milan	Ohio	United States
1818	Pontiac	Michigan	United States	The first settlers arrived in what is now the City of Pontiac in 1818. Two years later there were enough people there to form a village named after the famous Indian Chief Chief Pontiac Pontiac was Michigan's first inland settlement.The village was officially recognized by the state legislature in 1837 and it incorporated as a city in 1861.
1818	Medina	Ohio	United States
1818	Columbia	Missouri	United States
1819	Montgomery	Alabama	United States	State capital, grew from the 1540 French settlement Fort Toulouse.
1819	Springfield	Illinois	United States
1819	Memphis	Tennessee	United States	Near the site of the earlier French Fort Prudhomme.
1820	Hastings	Minnesota	United States	Near the confluence of the Mississippi, St. Croix, and Vermillion Rivers. In 1820, Oliver's Grove was established as a Trading Post community and a military detachment sent from Fort Snelling. However, until the Treaty of Mendota (1851), the community could not officially be noted for white settlement. In 1857, a year before Minnesota's admission to the union, the area was surveyed and incorporated as the city of Hastings and named the county seat of Dakota County.
1821	Alexandria	British Columbia	Canada	Grew from fur trading posts of Fort Alexandria, founded by the North West Company in 1821.[35]
1821	Little Rock	Arkansas	United States
1821	Indianapolis	Indiana	United States
1822	Jacksonville	Florida	United States
1822	Jackson	Mississippi	United States
1823	Tampa	Florida	United States	Grew from earlier military post Fort Brooke.
1824	Tallahassee	Florida	United States
1825	Akron	Ohio	United States
1825	Vancouver	Washington	United States	Grew from Fort Vancouver.[36]
1825	Vicksburg	Mississippi	United States
1825	Grand Rapids	Michigan	United States
1825	Irapuato	Guanajuato	Mexico	Becomes villa in 1825 and ciudad in 1893.
1826	London	Ontario	Canada
1826	Wabasha	Minnesota	United States	Oldest city in Minnesota
1827	Guelph	Ontario	Canada
1827	St. Andrews	Florida	United States	Now part of Panama City
1827	Langley	British Columbia	Canada
1828	Key West	Florida	United States
1833	Milwaukee	Wisconsin	United States
1833	Kitchener	Ontario	Canada	Formerly Berlin ON, renamed Kitchener ON in 1916.
1835	Kenosha	Wisconsin	United States	Originally named Southport, renamed Kenosha in 1850.
1836	Shreveport	Louisiana	United States
1836	Madison	Wisconsin	United States
1837	Lansing	Michigan	United States
1837	Houston	Texas	United States
1837	Toledo	Ohio	United States
1839	Sacramento	California	United States
1841	Dallas	Texas	United States
1843	Atlanta	Georgia	United States	first known as "Terminus", and for a short time was renamed "Marthasville" to honor Governor Lumpkin's daughter.
1843	Victoria	British Columbia	Canada	Fort Victoria established in 1843; Victoria incorporated in 1862.
1844	Chagrin Falls	Ohio	United States
1847	Brantford	Ontario	Canada	Originally known as Brant's ford.
1847	Salt Lake City	Utah	United States	Originally known as Great Salt Lake City.
1847	Harrisburg	Illinois	United States
1850	Bytown	Ontario	Canada	Now Ottawa, Ontario.
1850	Phoenix	Oregon	United States
1851	La Crosse	Wisconsin	United States[37]
1851	Seattle	Washington	United States	[38]
1852	Oakland	California	United States
1854	Omaha	Nebraska	United States
1856	O'Fallon	Missouri	United States
1857	Appleton	Wisconsin	United States
1858	Denver	Colorado	United States
1858	New Westminster	British Columbia	Canada
1864	Salinas	California	United States
1867	Minneapolis	Minnesota	United States
1868	Phoenix	Arizona	United States
1870	Wichita	Kansas	United States
1871	Birmingham	Alabama	United States
1872	Anniston	Alabama	United States
1874	Pasadena	California	United States
1875	Orlando	Florida	United States
1875	Calgary	Alberta	Canada	Grew from Fort Calgary
1882	Regina	Saskatchewan	Canada
1883	Saskatoon	Saskatchewan	Canada
1886	Vancouver	British Columbia	Canada	Named after English explorer George Vancouver
1886	Nelson	British Columbia	Canada
1886	Takoma Park	Maryland	United States
1887	Gulfport	Mississippi	United States
1889	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	United States
1889	Tijuana	Baja California	Mexico	Tijuana derives from the Kumeyaay word Tiwan, meaning by-the-sea.
1893	Kamloops	British Columbia	Canada	From the Shuswap language "Tk'emlups" meaning meeting of the waters.
1896	Miami	Florida	United States
1905	Cranbrook	British Columbia	Canada
1905	Las Vegas	Nevada	United States
1911	The Pas	Manitoba	Canada	Grew from Fort Paskoyac
1915	Prince George	British Columbia	Canada	Grew from Fort George

See also

• List of American cities by year of foundation
• List of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts
• List of French forts in North America
• Former colonies and territories in Canada
• Timeline of the colonization of North America

References

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