United States in Lost

This is primarily a page on locations and characters from the United States in Lost. See also: United States for real life broadcast and fan information.

Main American Characters
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Important American Companies

(* born in the U.S., but lived overseas most of his life.)

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Characters/Locations by State

See world locations for the same listing (and locations in other countries) by city instead of state.

Alabama

• Sawyer, his mother, and father lived in Jasper, it is where Cooper conned the Fords out of $38,000 ("The Brig")

California

• Flight 815 was headed to Los Angeles. ("Pilot, Part 1")
• Locke worked and probably lived in Tustin. ("Walkabout")  ("The Man from Tallahassee")
• Hurley used to fish off the Santa Monica Pier with his dad. ("Walkabout")
• Shannon spends her summers in Malibu. ("The Moth")
• Jack lived in Los Angeles. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
• Scott is from Santa Cruz. ("Homecoming")
• Hurley lived in Los Angeles. ("Numbers")
• Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute is located in Santa Rosa. ("Numbers")
• The stadium where Desmond met Jack is in Los Angeles. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
• Ana Lucia and her mother work for the LAPD. ("Collision")
• Nadia lives or lived in Irvine (according to Alyssa Cole); later seen in Locke's flashback with a new house in the state. ("The Greater Good")  ("Lockdown")
• A picture of Joshua Tree National Park hung in the Swan. ("S.O.S.")
• Ana Lucia met Christian Shephard at LAX airport. ("Two for the Road")
• Locke's firearms license is from San Francisco. ("Further Instructions")
• The commune where Locke lived was in Eureka. ("Further Instructions")
• Nikki Fernandez has a pink T-shirt saying Los Angeles. ("Exposé")
• Sun has a Californian driver license. ("Buried Secrets")

Colorado

• Kate has a Colorado license plate. ("Born to Run")

Florida

• Sawyer worked a con with Hibbs here. ("Outlaws")
• Kate was going to run away to Tallahassee while she was a fugitive. ("What Kate Did")
• Sawyer contracted an STD while in Tallahassee. ("Lockdown")
• Ben refers to Locke's father as "the man from Tallahassee".
• Anthony Cooper was in a car accident in Tallahassee. This was the last thing he remembers before being brought to the island. ("The Brig")
• Sawyer was incarcerated here. ("Every Man for Himself")
• Munson moved his money to Sawgrass. ("Every Man for Himself")
• Kate lived with Kevin in Dade County for a time. ("I Do")
• Juliet received her B.S. in Biology from the Florida State University, which is located in Tallahassee and then lived in Miami with her sister Rachel Carlson before coming to the Island. ("Not in Portland")
• Richard Alpert broadcasts video footage from Acadia Park of Rachel and her son Julian to Juliet. He shows a recent copy of The Miami Journal to prove the video is being broadcast live. (Miami's actual newspaper is called The Miami Herald.) ("One of Us")
• Omar is from Florida ("The Constant")

Idaho

• Kate has an Idaho license plate. ("Born to Run")

Illinois

• Kate has an Illinois license plate. ("Born to Run")

Iowa

• Kate's apparent home; Tom Brennan says how "no self-respecting man in Iowa goes anywhere without beer". Thus, placing the location of Tom and Kate's time capsule in Iowa. ("Born to Run")
• St. Francis Hospital, where Tom worked, and Diane Janssen was hospitalized. ("Born to Run")
• U.S. Marshal Edward Mars mentions Iowa with respect to the murder of Wayne: "That jury back in Iowa sure ain't going to get hung up on pre-meditation. And a gas leak, come on, it's amateur hour from top to bottom,". ("What Kate Did")
• Sawyer's black Mercedes-Benz had Iowa plates. ("The Long Con")
• Sawyer tells Cassidy to meet him in Sioux City. ("The Long Con")
• Keith's Diner, where Kate's mother Diane Janssen works as a waitress. ("Left Behind")

Massachussetts

• Jae Lee studied at Harvard here. ("...And Found")
• Daniel Faraday was in Essex when he saw that flight 815 was found. ("Confirmed Dead")

Michigan

• The DeGroots studied at the University of Michigan here when they founded DHARMA. ("Orientation")
• Kate has a Michigan license plate. ("Born to Run")

Minnesota

• The real Henry Gale lived in Wayzata, as shown by his driver's license. ("Lockdown")

• Ben repeatedly lied and claimed this identity, saying that he owned a mining company from Minnesota.
• Set photos revealed that the hot air balloon had a sticker from the sponsor, Minnesota Metallurgy. (behind-the-scenes fan picture)

• Kate had a Minnesota license plate. ("Born to Run")
• In the polar bear cave, a Tonka truck was found on the ground by Locke. TONKA brand toys are made by the "Mound Metalcraft Company" in Mound, Minnesota. The word TONKA means "Great" in the Sioux language. ("Further Instructions")
• Nikki played a fictional character named Corvette, described as "the pride of St. Paul". ("Exposé")

Missouri

• Kate has a Missouri license plate. ("Born to Run")

Nebraska

• Kate changes her car's license plate from Nebraska to Ohio. ("Born to Run")

Nevada

• When David Reyes leaves Carmen and Hurley he says he is going to Las Vegas for a job. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• Keamy is from Las Vegas, Nevada ("The Constant")

New Mexico

• The bank that Kate robs is in Ruidoso. ("Whatever the Case May Be")  ("Exodus, Part 1")
• Clementine's bank account is created in Albuquerque. ("Every Man for Himself")
• Jin proposes that he and Sun move to Albuquerque to raise their baby ("Eggtown")

New York

• Rose lived in the Bronx. ("Pilot, Part 1")
• Michael lived in New York City. ("Special")
• Walt was born in New York City. ("Special")
• Boone lived here for a time. ("Abandoned")
• Shannon was admitted to an internship here but could not afford it. ("Abandoned")
• Bernard lived in New York City. ("S.O.S.")
• Bernard proposed to Rose at Niagara Falls. ("S.O.S.")
• Jack attended Columbia University here. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
• Frank Lapidus grew up in the Bronx. ("The Economist")

North Dakota

• Kate has a North Dakota license plate.("Born to Run")

Ohio

• Kate changes her car's license plate from Nebraska to Ohio. ("Born to Run")

Oregon

• Richard Alpert told Juliet that Mittelos Bioscience was located just outside Portland. ("Not in Portland")
• Ben was born near a highway outside of Portland. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")

Pennsylvania

• Kate's mugshot was taken at Harrison Valley. ("Tabula Rasa")

Tennessee

• Sawyer grew up in Knoxville. ("Confidence Man")

Vermont

• Libby broke her leg while skiing in Stowe. ("The Other 48 Days")

Washington

• Sam Austen was stationed at Fort Lewis and used to take Kate hunting here when she was young. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")

Wisconsin

• Kate has a Wisconsin license plate. ("Born to Run")

Employed by the US

• Edward Mars, Federal Marshal ("Tabula Rasa")
• Alyssa Cole, CIA ("The Greater Good")
• Ana Lucia Cortez, employed by the LAPD, and later the TSA ("Collision")
• Kelvin Joe Inman, employed by the DIA or CIA ("One of Them")
• Agent Freedman, US Treasury Dep't ("Every Man for Himself")

For members of the United States (and other) military, see

See also

• World locations - classification by worldwide cities, instead of state