Among other honors, each of the men had his name given to a county in the new state of Ohio (1803): Van Wert County, bearing a common alternate spelling of the name, is in the northwest corner of the state.
Ludwig van Beethoven | County Durham | Orange County | Vincent van Gogh | County Cork | St. Louis County, Minnesota | Van Morrison | County Galway | County Mayo | county | Montgomery County | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Lancashire County Cricket Club | Van Halen | Westchester County, New York | Nassau County, New York | County Antrim | Rockland County, New York | County Down | Washington County | Hillsborough County | Derby County F.C. | County Meath | County Donegal | Erie County, New York | County Tyrone | County Tipperary | County Louth | County Armagh | Wayne County, Michigan |