• noun:   A Scottish and Northern English surname originating as a patronymic.
• noun:   A city in Arkansas.
• noun:   A city in Stanislaus County, California; named for an early landowning and business family.
• noun:   A city in Georgia; named for William Patterson, the proprietor of a local sawmill.
• noun:   A city in Iowa; named for early landowner Alexander Pattison.
• noun:   A city in Louisiana; named for early settler and trader John Patterson.
• noun:   A town in New York; named for early farmer Matthew Paterson.
• noun:   A village in Ohio; named for railroad official Robert Patterson.
• noun:   An unincorporated community in Idaho.
• noun:   An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for early settlers George and William Patterson.
• noun:   A ghost town in New Mexico; named for early settler Richard Chase Patterson.
• noun:   A neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; named for an early landowning family.

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