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[edit]Wells
- An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a well or a spring.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A small cathedral city in Somerset, England.
- A small town in Norfolk, England, officially Wells-next-the-Sea.
- A town in British Columbia, Canada.
- A locale in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for founder James Oscar Wells.
- An unincorporated community in Kansas.
- A town in Maine; named for the city in England.
- A city in Minnesota; named for J. W. Wells, father-in-law of Canadian-American Minnesota politician Clark W. Thompson.
- An unincorporated community in Mississippi.
- A city in Elko County, Nevada.
- A town in New York; named for land agent Joshua Wells.
- A town in Texas; named for railroad engineer Maj. E. H. Wells.
- A town in Vermont.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin; named for early settler James Wells.
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