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President William McKinley no longer has a mountain named after him but he's still connected to dozens of creeks, parks, post offices and government buildings throughout the nation.

In Utah, there are two McKinley schools (one in Salt Lake County, another in Box Elder County).

Following President Barack Obama's decision to change the name of Alaska's Mount McKinley to Denali, GateHouse Media reporter Peter Urban compiled the list of features named McKinley using data from the U.S. Board of Geographic Names (yes, that's a real thing). The renaming is a popular move in Alaska, a nod to indigenous people there. It's not as well received in Ohio, where the 25th president was born.

Urban's data pull got us thinking. What in Utah is named after presidents, or even better, what presidents have nothing named after them in the Beehive State?

The board has a list of 32,491 geographic features in Utah, everything from cities to cemeteries, bluffs to streams, and some are clearly named after presidents. Washington County. The city of Fillmore. Schools for John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower. There are 21 things named for Lincoln, 15 for the Roosevelts, six for Jefferson, 15 for Monroe.

The last names of just about every president are on the list, though it is not clear if the features have any connection to the former commander in chief. For example, there are plenty of things named for Jackson and Johnson, but that doesn't mean they are for the president. Bush is a word that describes a plant, two presidents and a small tract of land in Box Elder County. Clinton was the name of a city in Davis County far before Bill Clinton entered the Oval Office.

And yet the last names of only six presidents are not on the list. Barack Obama is one of them, which shouldn't shock anyone since 1) he's still in office and 2) this is conservative Utah we're talking about. Obama's name is used in three states — Maryland, Minnesota and New York — where it is attached to elementary schools.

The other five snubbed presidents are: Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge and ... Ronald Reagan.

That last one is a bit surprising, isn't it?

It's hard to find a state more Republican than Utah, and Ronald Reagan's presidency is often considered a major turning point. Before he assumed office in 1981, Utah had Democratic governors and senators. But it hasn't since and the state has only become increasingly Republican in the last few decades. Reagan is a revered name in Republican circles.

At least 25 other states have geographic features carrying his name. It seems unfathomable there isn't a school, canyon, creek or town that carries the Gipper's name in Utah.

It turns out the Board of Geographic Names isn't as definitive as we thought. They missed the Ronald Reagan Academy, a charter school in Springville created in 2004.

Don't expect Buchanan to get off the snubbed list anytime soon. He was the president who ousted Brigham Young as Utah's territorial governor in 1857, which led to the short Utah War.