City/town names ending with state abbreviations

[hotdogPi]

Just thought of an obvious example: ALBANY, NY.

Read the first post.

[sammi]

Rome, ME

Rome (you can figure out the state)

[bassoon1986]

Morning Star, AR

[NE2]

I'm going to assume that nowhere in the US does a city/town end with 'NJ'. Actually, does any word end with J?

close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.N.P.J.,_Pennsylvania

[US81]

I don't think I'll bother looking for Texas examples....

[Duke87]

A less open-ended question would be how many states this exists for. Down the list, we've got so far:

Normal, AL
Kodiak, AK
Morning Star, AR
La Paz, AZ
Manteca, CA
Frisco, CO
Prospect, CT
Brookside, DE
FL - ?
Tennga, GA
Puhi, HI
Philadelphia, IA
ID - ?
Franklin, IN
Virgil, IL
St. Marks, KS
KY - ?
Bayou Golla, LA
MA - none incorporated
MD - ?
Rome, ME
MI - none incorporated
MN - ?
Claycomo, MO
Fort Adams, MS
MT - ?   
NC - ?
ND - ?
Wayne, NE
NH - ?
NJ - ?
NM - ?
NV - ?
Albany, NY
OH - ?
Skiatook, OK
OR - ?
Aliquippa, PA
RI - none incorporated
SC - ?
SD - ?
TN - ?
TX - ?
Hideout, UT
Reva, VA
VT - ?   
Mattawa, WA
WI - ?
WV - ?
WY - ?

A few more look promising but some of the question marks are obvious nos.

[NE2]

Potatoid, ID

[sammi]

Puhi, HI
Wayne, NE

No CDPs in MA, MI, RI end with the state abbreviation.

[J N Winkler]

None in Kansas--the closest is Weskan (Kan. being an old-style abbreviation).

[NE2]

None in Kansas--the closest is Weskan (Kan. being an old-style abbreviation).

St. Mark's, along 29th North southwest of Colwich. The church is St. Mark but the school is St. Mark's, and USGS omits the apostrophe to get St. Marks.

There's also Rooks County.

Ghost towns include Brooks, Point Rocks, and Sparks.

[bassoon1986]

Virgil, IL

[kurumi]

I'm going to assume that nowhere in the US does a city/town end with 'NJ'. Actually, does any word end with J?

No common words in English end with the letter j or the letter v.

"judge" should but doesn't; the beginning of the word even sets a precedent.

[sammi]

I'm going to assume that nowhere in the US does a city/town end with 'NJ'. Actually, does any word end with J?

No common words in English end with the letter j or the letter v.

Those that should end with -(d)ge or -ve, which strangely enough for English, is mostly consistent between words.

[NE2]

I'm going to assume that nowhere in the US does a city/town end with 'NJ'. Actually, does any word end with J?

No common words in English end with the letter j or the letter v.

Improv? Perv? Shiv?

[Takumi]

"judge" should but doesn't; the beginning of the word even sets a precedent.

I see what you did there.

[Duke87]

Updated above post, also added Skiatook, OK and Hideout, UT

[NE2]

Fort Adams, MS
Alabama, MA (it's where they posted those signs)
Katama, MA
Kenberma, MA
Wyoma, MA
It's hard to prove a negative.

[J N Winkler]

None in Kansas--the closest is Weskan (Kan. being an old-style abbreviation).

St. Mark's, along 29th North southwest of Colwich. The church is St. Mark but the school is St. Mark's, and USGS omits the apostrophe to get St. Marks.

There's also Rooks County.

Ghost towns include Brooks, Point Rocks, and Sparks.

Points taken--I didn't extend the search past incorporated municipalities.  In regard to St. Mark, there is conflicting evidence.  GNIS has both church and populated place as "Saint Marks" (registration dates of 1978 for town, 2008 for church), but the church website gives it as St. Mark.  The church itself, which was built using limestone salvaged from the Wichita Watch Factory (a failed 1870's/1880's attempt to establish the town as a world center for watchmaking), is on the National Register of Historic Places and as such has a Wikipedia stub article.  The NPS' NRHP database isn't coming up for me at the moment, but the Wikipedia article uses the form without final s.  Facebook has a place page (possibly autogenerated from GNIS) for "Saint Marks," but YP.com has "St. Mark."  The KDOT map for Sedgwick County has "St. Marks" for the town and "St. Mark's Cem." for the cemetery behind the church (where at least a dozen of my ancestors are buried).

In regard to Texas, I don't know of any CDPs that end in the two-letter postal abbreviation, but a Google search on {Andratx, TX} comes up with interesting placename results.

[NE2]

There's also this local business that uses St. Mark's.

In regard to Texas, I don't know of any CDPs that end in the two-letter postal abbreviation, but a Google search on {Andratx, TX} comes up with interesting placename results.

Looks like bogus results, perhaps from Majorca being both the island that Andratx is on and a restaurant in Houston?

[Duke87]

Katama, MA
Kenberma, MA
Wyoma, MA
It's hard to prove a negative.

None of these are incorporated places, so they aren't "City/town names" in the strictest sense. Since the list of incorporated places in any state is finite, it is easy to prove a negative for that simply by searching the list for the letter combination in question.

[J N Winkler]

This is a meta question, but what resources are people using to identify CDPs in particular states?

[Duke87]

This is a meta question, but what resources are people using to identify CDPs in particular states?

Wikipedia has lists. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census-designated_places_in_Oklahoma
Although this does not include the contents of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Oklahoma (where my example came from), or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Oklahoma

[bassoon1986]

Got another:
New England, ND

[PHLBOS]

Umm... because it doesn't exist? (If you could prove me wrong, that would be awesome)

Oops.  I didn't see the last line in the OP mentioning that the city/town had to be in the same state as its last 2-letters.  That's what I get for only glancing & typing too fast.

[Pete from Boston]

I'm going to assume that nowhere in the US does a city/town end with 'NJ'. Actually, does any word end with J?

East Oranj!