I feel like there must be some Spanish ones in California, or in the southwest anyway. (-ando, or -iendo). I can’t think of any though. There’s Escondido right near me, but that’s a past participle.
I think some of the respondents in this thread are unclear on the meaning of “present participle”. A present participle is not any verb form, it’s the form that ends in -ing. It is often used as an adjective and also has a few other uses.
I searched for “ing” in Wikipedia’s list of US counties and I don’t see any other examples apart from the ones that have already been mentioned upthread.
I don’t think we’ve mentioned King County, in WA and TX, the present participle of K.
I assume you can find your own way to Perth Airport.
From there you get a vehicle and take the Albany Highway (State Route 30).
Follow your nose for 182km (113miles) which should take you about 2 1/14 hours.
Curiously enough, on the way you will pass Canning and Wandering.
The town of Cuballing is the county seat of the Shire of Cuballing.
What you do there is up to you, but given Cuballing has a population of 460, it won’t take very long to do.
Obligatory link to what is allegedly the best-selling postcard of all time.
In California there is the city of Banning located in Banning Pass. But it has nothing to
do something being banned. It was named after Phineas Banning who was a stagecoach line owner.
I suspect that that’s the case for most, if not all, of the other examples in this thread: they aren’t named after an action (i.e., a present participle verb), but after a person whose surname ended in “-ing,” and whose name either (a) is also an actual verb, or (b) sounds like it could be.
For all fans of present participles and place names that sound like them:
At the risk of threadshitting I offer honorable mention to a town whose name doesn’t really qualify for thread: Humptulips, Washington.
Hocking isn’t a verb. It’s a noun phrase from the Lenape language: hakink means ‘in the land’. Haki ‘land’ = -nk locative suffix.
In a personal name it’s more likely the Old English suffix -ing ‘son of, belonging to’. The suffix -ling as in “earthling” is another form of it.