List of things named after Henry Clay

Roads

• Henry Clay Avenue in New Orleans
• Henry Clay Boulevard and Clay Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky
• Henry Clay Boulevard in Ashland, Missouri
• Clay Streets in numerous cities, including New Haven, Connecticut, Richmond, Virginia, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.
• Ashland Ave. in Chicago, Illinois; Ashland, Virginia, Ashland County in Ohio and Wisconsin were named for his estate, as were the cities of Ashland in Kentucky, Alabama, and Pennsylvania.
• Henry Clay Court in The Landings on Skidaway Island, Georgia

Towns

• Ashland, Missouri, was named after Clay's Lexington, Kentucky estate, as was Ashland, Massachusetts.
• Clay, New York, Onondaga County, including the road Henry Clay Boulevard
• Clay, Kentucky, western Kentucky
• Clay, West Virginia
• Clay City, Indiana
• Henry Clay Village, or Breck's Mill Area, on the left bank of Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, factory and mill workers' residences
• The town of Claysburg, Pennsylvania
• Clay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse
• Clayville, New York, a town named after Clay during the late 1800s, a highly popular area with mills and factories
• Clayville, Illinois, an active settlement during the statesman's life
• Claysville, Alabama
• Clay-Ashland, Liberia, named after Henry Clay and his estate

Counties

• Sixteen Clay counties in the United States, in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.

Monuments

• Memorial column and statue at his tomb in Lexington, Kentucky
• Statue of Clay in the National Statuary Hall Collection, Capitol, Washington D.C.
• Henry Clay statue and portrait in Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia
• Henry Clay Monument in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
• In New Orleans, a 20-foot-tall monument was erected in 1860 at Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue/Royal Street, and moved to the center of Lafayette Square in 1901.
• Clay is one of the many senators honored with a cenotaph in the Congressional Cemetery.

Schools

• Clay Elementary in Rolando, San Diego
• Clay High School in South Bend, Indiana
• Henry Clay Elementary School in the Hegewisch neighborhood in Chicago
• Henry Clay Elementary School in his birthplace Ashland, Virginia.
• Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky,
• Henry Clay Middle School in Los Angeles
• Henry Clay School in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
• The Instituto Educacional Henry Clay in Caracas, Venezuela, a bilingual private school
• The Clay Dormitory at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky

Parks

• Clay Neighborhood Park in Rolando, San Diego, renamed in 2025 to Dr. Bertha O. Pendleton Park.
• In 2020, a Henry Clay Park in Arlington, Virginia, was renamed Zitkala-Ša Park during a wave of name changes in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd.
• Cooper's Rock State Forest in West Virginia features a preserved nineteenth century iron furnace named in commemoration of Henry Clay.
• Henry Clay Ball Fields in Ashland, Virginia, used by Ashland Little League.

Other

• Mount Clay in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire, since renamed Mount Reagan by the state legislature but not by the federal Board on Geographic Names
• The Lafayette class submarine USS Henry Clay (SSBN-625)
• The and, named for his estate
• Between 1870 and 1908, Clay was included appeared on American definitive postage stamps: he appeared on the 12¢ denomination in the issues of 1870, 1873 and 1879 and on the 15¢ denomination in the issues of 1890, 1894, 1898 and 1902. He has since been honored by the United States Postal Service with a 3¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
• The Henry Clay, an historic residential building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, formerly the city's YWCA building.