Cities on a Border Where the Jursidiction Across the Border has a Similar City

[ethanhopkin14]

We all know Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri and Texarkana, Arkansas and Texas, but what about other instances where an adjacent jurisdiction names a town similar to the town on the other side of the border?  I say it like that because it could be state level or international.

I say Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas.

Just curious how many instances you can come up with.   

[hotdogPi]

Bristol, TN/VA
Sault Ste. Marie, MI/ON
Niagara Falls, NY/ON
Bluefield, WV/VA

[GaryV]

St. Louis and East St. Louis

[ethanhopkin14]

St. Louis and East St. Louis

That was actually the group that made me think of this.  It may not have the exact same name, but IL acknowledges the MO city.

[webny99]

Niagara Falls, NY/ON

We could devote an entire thread to whether or not those two cities are, in fact, similar. The name is about the extent of it.

[Scott5114]

Blue Eye, MO/AR

[wanderer2575]

Chicago IL, and East Chicago IN (which actually isn't right up to the border).

[frankenroad]

Harrison, OH / West Harrison, IN
College Corner, OH / West College Corner, IN
Union City, OH/IN

In two of those three cases, the telephone company switching station for both towns are co-located, even though they serve different prefixes in different area codes.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Grand Forks,ND/East Grand Forks, MN

[CNGL-Leudimin]

In before Lloydminster.

(I know it's actually one city in two provinces)

Some international ones:
Gorizia, Italy/Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Valga, Estonia/Valka, Latvia
Karesuando, Sweden/Karesuvanto, Finland

[Mapmikey]

Augusta GA and N Augusta SC
Waverly NY and S Waverly PA

[CapeCodder]

Flin Flon MB/SK

[oscar]

Flin Flon MB/SK

Like Lloydminster SK/AB, one city government in both provinces. Most of Flin Flon's population is in Manitoba, so not that similar.

They technically also have time zone differences. Flin Flon MB is on Central Time with DST, Flin Flon SK and Lloydminster SK are on Central Time with no DST, and Lloydminster AB is on Mountain Time with DST. As a practical matter, both Flin Flons operate on Manitoba time, and both Lloydminsters are on Alberta time.

[NWI_Irish96]

St. Louis and East St. Louis

Chicago, IL and East Chicago, IN [close but not adjacent] and New Chicago, IN [not adjacent to either]
Harrison, OH and West Harrison, IN
Union City OH and IN
Michiana Shores, IN and Michiana, MI

[hbelkins]

Williamson, WV, and South Williamson, KY.

Fulton, KY, and South Fulton, TN.

[jp the roadgeek]

New York, NY and West New York, NJ
Washington Crossing PA/NJ
Beebe, QC/Beebe Plain, VT

[CNGL-Leudimin]

They technically also have time zone differences. Flin Flon MB is on Central Time with DST, Flin Flon SK and Lloydminster SK are on Central Time with no DST, and Lloydminster AB is on Mountain Time with DST. As a practical matter, both Flin Flons operate on Manitoba time, and both Lloydminsters are on Alberta time.

The same is true with Karesuando, Sweden (Central Europe Time) and Karesuvanto, Finland (Eastern Europe Time, in both cases with DST, although useless since they are North of the Arctic Circle). IDK how they do in practice.

[Big John]

Dubuque IA and East Dubuque IL
Beloit WI and South Beloit IL

[ethanhopkin14]

Nogales, Arizona and Sonora
Progreso, Texas and Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas.
Anthony, Texas and New Mexico


My favorite might be Caliexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California.  They are basically opposites. 

[Rothman]

Paynesville, WV and VA.

[Bruce]

Instead of a similar name, how about a similar type of city?

Pullman, WA and Moscow, ID are both college towns surrounded by a whole lot of nothing.

[Henry]

Delmar, MD and DE

[Steve.S]

Memphis, TN and West Memphis, AR.

[STLmapboy]

Would Mexicali and Calexico count?

[oscar]

Would Mexicali and Calexico count?

Mentioned several replies above yours.

I don't think Tecate CA and Tecate, Baja California has been mentioned yet. Perhaps because the one in Mexico has about 300 times the population of the one in California.

Surprised no mention of El Paso TX and its Mexican counterpart Ciudad Juarez, both huge cities.

Also, San Luis AZ and its larger Mexican counterpart San Luis Rio Colorado.