City names you can play in Scrabble

[pumpkineater2]

And how it is possible nobody mentioned Phoenix?

Look at reply #10

Some more in Arizona:
Why
Valentine
Sentinel
Surprise!
Superior
Globe
Oracle
Mammoth
Tombstone
Snowflake
Congress
Hillside
Cottonwood
Alpine
Cherry
Strawberry
Pine
Young
Anthem
Page
Yucca

[Takumi]

Thinking about Virginia, some place names that come to mind...

Also Triangle, which I often hear about on traffic reports (I-95, with the express lanes, goes through there).

There's Orange and Sterling, though those were already mentioned in other states.  I-66 and B.R. US-17 go through Marshall.

Colony
Ford
Bayside
Pope
Gypsy
Midway
Possibly Subletts

[empirestate]

Anchorage
Barrow
Nome (sp)
Chicken

And for the bonus, would "maine" be permitted as is, being an archaic spelling of "main"?


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[bassoon1986]

Louisiana:

Arcadia
Baker
Ball
Banks Springs
Baton Rouge
Bayou Blue
Bayou Cane
Bayou Vista
Belle Chasse
Belle Rose
Boutte (sp)
Branch
Breaux (sp) Bridge
Bridge City
Castor
Center Point
Central
Church Point
Convent
Converse
Cotton Valley
Cut Off
Delta
Denham (sp) Springs
Dry Creek
Dry Prong
Empire
Fifth Ward
Forest
Forest Hill
Golden Meadow
Grand Cane
Grand Isle
Gray
Hall Summit
Independence
Iota
Junction City
Kinder
Lucky
Many
Mound

[rawmustard]

Michigan:

Alma
Auburn
Flint
Flushing
Grayling
Hart (archaic word for "stag")
Hastings
Ironwood
Mason
Midland
Perry
Portage
Saline
Walker
Warren
Yale

[DandyDan]

In Nebraska (only a partial list):
Alliance
Auburn
Aurora
Burr
Butte
Colon
Dodge
Eagle
Friend
Funk
Gibbon
Grant
Hooper
Imperial
Laurel
Mead
Orchard (one I BINGO'd with in Words With Friends just today)
Pierce
Superior
Valentine
Valley
Western

[davewiecking]

Peculiar, MO, assuming "liar" was already on the table.

[Jardine]

I doubt this would fly, but in the 1960s, the IAU ruled "Moscow" was a state of mind.

[PHLBOS]

Some of these may be repeats.

Normal, IL
Boring, OR
Reading, many states
Mars, PA ("mars" being a form of the verb "mar")
Bear, DE
Hull, MA
Orange, many states
Penguin, Tasmania, Australia
Epsom, NH
Intercourse, PA (eleven letters, though...)
Bend, OR
Aurora, IL and CO (and apparently many others)
Phoenix, AZ
Mesa, AZ
Butte, MT
Mobile, AL
Flint, MI
Newton, MA (SI unit of force)
Caribou, ME
Bow, NH
Union, NH
Freedom, NH
Rye, NH
Sandwich, MA and NH

Three PA ones to add to the list: Media, Prospect Park & Bucks (the latter being a county).

[paulthemapguy]

There are so many towns that are named after plants, landforms, and objects that these lists could go on forever.

--The Illinois list--
In Illinois, there's several towns named after trees.  E.g. Walnut, Sycamore, Cherry, Cypress, & Magnolia.

Others:  Joy, Countryside, Galena (it's a mineral), Liberty, Equality, Highland, Golden, Hull, Viola, Kings, Mounds, Cave-In-Rock, Olive Branch, and who could forget...Sandwich.  Also is "gays" in the dictionary?  Because Gays, IL is a thing 

Then there are the prissy suburban-sounding towns that are two natural features put together.  Like Oak Lawn, Oak Brook, Oak Park, Oak Forest, Park Forest, Forest Park, Lake Forest, River Forest, Maple Park, Willow Springs, Lake Villa, Wood River, University Park, Wood Dale, and Beach Park.  This doesn't even include the ones expressed as a compound word like Brookfield and Elmhurst.

Towns ending in City or Lake: Round Lake, Fox Lake, Wonder Lake, Farmer City, Pearl City, Coal City, Mound City, Granite City.

P.S. Honorable mention should go to the town of Happy, Texas 

[empirestate]

This seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone of the one-word rule.

[formulanone]

Florida:

Alderman
Alliance
Archer
Argyle
Auburn
Aurora
Bailey
Baker
Balm
Bamboo
Bass
Baxter
Bell
Berry
Bland
Blocker
Childs
Cocoa
Confer
Coronet
Cove
Cypress
Day
Dell
Ebb
Fellowship
Flamingo
Foley
Gaskin
Golf
Gross
Harp
Harper
Hero
Highland
Holiday
Hull
Jay
Kent
Lakeland
Largo
Lee
Liberty
Lily
Lotus
Mango
Martel
Martin
Mason
Mayo
Medley
Midway
Mott
Oak
Olive
Orange
Oriole
Pace
Parkland
Pecan
Peck
Pierce
Plummer
Providence
Relay
Rex
Riverside
Roan
Rodman
Rose
Royal
Rye
Sandy
Sawdust
Shady
Sills
Spray
Spuds
Stern
Sunrise
Sunset
Surf
Tangerine
Tarpon
Trinity
Tropic
Victor
Vista
Ward
Woods

[hotdogPi]

Rodman

I initially read that as "Roadman".

[Pete from Boston]

Others in Mass.:

Canton
Concord
Gill
Lee
Palmer
Savoy
Somerset
Stow
Sterling
Ware

These check out in the Scrabble dictionary.  I'm sure there are others.  Leverett has one T too many.

[lepidopteran]

Also in PA, the greater Pittsburgh area has (to the east, south, west, and north, in order):

- Homestead (borough)
- Library (unincorportated. Gotta wonder what they call their public venue for lending books)
- Moon (township, near the airport)
- Cranberry (township, home of a former Breezewood situation between the Turnpike and I-79)

There is also a Cranbury in NJ, but with the (sp) qualifier.

[empirestate]

Hmm, in New York you have:

Chili
Gates
Speculator (hard to play, though; you'd need "tor" already on the board)
Arena
Accord
Amity
Friendship
Willing
Independence (very unlikely)
Freedom
Victory
Victor
Triangle
Rose

That's just a few off the top of my head...

[Pete from Boston]

Speculator (hard to play, though; you'd need "tor" already on the board)

If there were more women here, someone by now would have pointed out that you can also build that off "specula."

[empirestate]

Speculator (hard to play, though; you'd need "tor" already on the board)

If there were more women here, someone by now would have pointed out that you can also build that off "specula."

Well I had thought of "speculum", but I suspect that coming up with its Latin plural has less to do with being a woman and more with being a–well, a person like us.

[sandwalk]

Cities in Ohio that meet the criteria:

alliance
aurora
canton
defiance
green
heath
independence
mason
mentor
reading
riverside
stow
union
vermilion
warren

[hm insulators]

A few from California:

Auburn
Riverside
Volcano
Weed
Palm Springs (of course that would be two separate plays)

[CNGL-Leudimin]

And many more when playing Scrabble in Spanish: Fresno, Sacramento, Salinas, Paso Robles, Novato,  Escondido, Arroyo Grande, El Centro, El Cajon, Carpinteria, Calabasas (sp), etc. Oh, and Los Angeles.

[GenExpwy]

Four in a row along NY 39 in Wyoming County, NY:

Arcade
Eagle
Bliss
Pike

[Darkchylde]

A few I can think of, which may or may not already be listed, or duplicated from other states:

Mission (KS)
Gardener (KS)
Prairie Village (KS, as two plays)
Rifle (CO)
Reserve (LA)
Liberty (MO)
Pearl River (LA, as two separate plays)
Port Sulphur (LA, as two separate plays)
Sun (LA)
Bush (LA)
Hickory (LA)
Oak Grove (MO, as two separate plays)
Grain Valley (MO, as two separate plays)
Monument (CO)
Fountain (CO)

[1995hoo]

Two from Europe:

Fucking
Wank

[allniter89]

Cantonment, FL
Century, FL
Plantation, FL
Laurel, DE
Magnolia, DE
Sparks, NV
Flowers, MS
Petal, MS