Initially used in the first half of the nineteenth century to designate particular portions of states where settlers grew corn (maize) in abundance and then expanded to link adjacent sections of multiple states, Corn Belt had become by the latter decades of the century a common expression in newspapers, popular magazines, and agricultural literature. As early as 1889 a business, Corn Belt Investment Company in Mitchell, Dakota Territory, began using the words to identify themselves. Other businesses and organizations followed, including Corn Belt Bank on 1 December 1891 in Bloomington, Illinois. The focus of the research here is on the early uses of Corn Belt (and other spellings) to denote American geographical regions, nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century naming of Corn Belt enterprises, use of the term in Bloomington-Normal as presented by city directories over the years, and distribution of modern enterprises across the United States that employ this powerful pair of words to name themselves. Dr. Sublett’s article entitled “Corn Belt as an Enterprise-Naming Custom in the United States” appeared in the November 2021 issue of Names: A Journal of Onomastics.