Lincoln - Definition and Overview

People

Lincoln is the surname of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham "Abe" Lincoln

Places

Places in the Commonwealth

Lincoln is a city in England—see Lincoln, England. It is also the name of several places in the Commonwealth of Nations:

• Port Lincoln, South Australia in Australia
• Lincoln, Ontario in Canada
• Lincoln, New Zealand

Places in the United States

In the United States, Lincoln is a name given to dozens of cities and towns, most memorializing President Lincoln. The largest of these is Lincoln, Nebraska; others include:

• Lincoln, Alabama
• Lincoln, Arkansas
• Lincoln, California
• Lincoln, Sussex County, Delaware
• Lincoln, Illinois
• Lincoln, Iowa
• Lincoln, Maine
• Lincoln, Massachusetts
• Lincoln, Michigan
• Lincoln, Missouri
• Lincoln, Montana
• Lincoln, Nebraska
• Lincoln, New Hampshire
• Lincoln, New York
• Lincoln, North Dakota
• Lincoln, Pennsylvania
• Lincoln, Rhode Island
• Lincoln, Vermont
• Lincoln, Loudoun County, Virginia
• Lincoln, Wisconsin (12)

Other places with Lincoln in their name:

• Lincoln Center, Kansas
• Lincoln City, Oregon
• Lincoln Heights, Ohio
• several Lincoln Parks
• Lincoln Township, Michigan (8)
• Lincoln Township, Minnesota (2)
• Lincoln Township, Pennsylvania (3)
• Lincoln Village, Ohio

There are also numerous counties in the U.S. named Lincoln.

Other things named Lincoln

There are also

• Lincoln, a brand of automobile
• Lincoln Highway
• State of Lincoln, a proposed state which, in 1901 would have merged the Idaho Panhandle and Eastern Washington
• Lincoln Records, a record label from the 1920s
• Lincoln, an album by the band They Might Be Giants
• two American ships, the USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) and the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
• Lincoln is a slang term for the United States five dollar bill, which bears the President's picture

In addition, there are several Lincoln universities and Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford.