Hanford
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Handford
Etymology
From hen (old) and ford (a way): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).
Proper noun
Hanford (plural Hanfords)
- A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
- A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
- A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
- A village and civil parish of Dorset, England.
- A village in Staffordshire, England.
Derived terms
- Hanfordite
References
- William Arthur: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York, NY: Sheldon, Blakeman & Co., 1857. p. 153.