Hanford

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
• city, county seat Kings County (county) in central California (state) USA (country).
• (unincorporated) community Cerro Gordo County (county) Iowa (state).
• 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.
• village/and/civil parish Dorset (county) England (constituent country).
• village Staffordshire (county) England (constituent country).

Origin

• From hen (old) and ford (a way): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).