Most letters in the combined name of a city or town (city name + state name)

Started by KCRoadFan, October 21, 2020, 10:51:44 PM

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GenExpwy

Quote from: webny99 on October 23, 2020, 10:53:12 PM
The best I can find here is Westhampton Beach, which comes oh-so-close at 23 total letters. Saratoga Springs, a better-known candidate, comes in close behind at 22.

There's the village with the odd name "Village of the Branch" . A pedantically correct, but absurd-sounding, sign would say:
VILLAGE OF
Village of
The Branch
Port Washington North, New York (26)
Village of the Branch, New York (25)
Great Neck Estates, New York (23)
West Hampton Dunes, New York (23)

- The following counts do not include hyphens:
Castleton-on-Hudson, New York (24)
Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (23)
Grand View-on-Hudson, New York (24)
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York (23)


TheHighwayMan3561

Quote from: DandyDan on October 24, 2020, 06:03:32 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on October 24, 2020, 12:48:12 AM
My guess for Minnesota is International Falls, at 27 letters.
My first instinct was Inver Grove Heights, but that is one less letter. Lake Saint Croix Beach, Minnesota appears to be the champion, at 28 letters. I do question whether it should be, because Saint is always abbreviated St.

Marine on St. Croix also checks in at either 27 or 24 depending on your point of view.
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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on October 24, 2020, 12:53:07 PM
Quote from: DandyDan on October 24, 2020, 06:03:32 AM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on October 24, 2020, 12:48:12 AM
My guess for Minnesota is International Falls, at 27 letters.
My first instinct was Inver Grove Heights, but that is one less letter. Lake Saint Croix Beach, Minnesota appears to be the champion, at 28 letters. I do question whether it should be, because Saint is always abbreviated St.

Marine on St. Croix also checks in at either 27 or 24 depending on your point of view.

Norwood Young America also has 28 letters.

More contenders from Minnesota:

Blooming Prairie (24)
Thief River Falls (24)
East Grand Forks (23)
Vadnais Heights (23)
Oak Park Heights (23)
Brooklyn Center (23)
Columbia Heights (24)
Saint Louis Park (24, if spelled out)
Spring Lake Park (24)

GenExpwy

A couple more that have occurred to me:

In the mid-1990s a little place popped up in the Rand McNally Atlas (I'm looking at it in the '96 edition) – on the Georgia map, north of Atlanta off I-75 – labeled "Industrial City of Gordon, Murray, and Whitfield Counties" . After a few years, the name became simply "Industrial City" .
I do not know whether it was an actual city which has since disincorporated (this was long before R McN distinguished incorporated and unincorporated places), or whether that was its official name.

Industrial City of Gordon, Murray, and Whitfield Counties, Georgia (55 letters)




I think it was in the Detroit Bridge thread here, that someone mentioned that there is a city (not village) in the suburbs of Detroit officially named "Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, A Michigan City" .

Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, A Michigan City, Michigan (48 letters)

CNGL-Leudimin

Too bad it is officially just S.N.P.J., otherwise we could have had Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, Pennsylvania at 42 letters.
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Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on October 25, 2020, 05:01:22 AM
Too bad it is officially just S.N.P.J., otherwise we could have had Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota, Pennsylvania at 42 letters.

Similarly, the community of Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra is known as New Vrindavan, West Virginia.  New Vrindavan is not as many characters as White Sulphur Springs, but it always seemed like too long of a name.

kphoger

Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 24, 2020, 10:16:19 PM
Norwood Young America also has 28 letters.

Oh yeah, how did I forget that one?  And it doesn't have any abbreviation-friendly words in its name either.

Some people will probably sneer at it because they think it should still be counted as two towns, but, you know.
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Quote from: michravera on October 24, 2020, 04:38:07 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 21, 2020, 10:51:44 PM
So, for whatever reason, I found myself thinking about the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - which, in turn, made me think of this question. I figured that the full, combined name of the town - the town name along with that of the state - has to be one of the longest such names in the country (if not the longest). As it stands, the name of that town comes in at 31 letters (as does that of nearby Green Sulphur Springs).

What other candidates for longest "town name plus the name of the state it's in" combinations might there be? Of course, the prime contenders for this prize are bound to be in the states that have the longest names - think Pennsylvania (12 letters), Massachusetts (13), Connecticut (11), Rhode Island (11), the two Carolinas (13), the two Dakotas (11), Mississippi (11), and Washington (10) - as well as, of course, the aforementioned West Virginia (12).

Which ones can you think of?

From California (not including spaces)
Skipping the official names of Los Angeles (named elsewhere) and Rancho Palos Verdes Estates (which I am told doesn't exist) which would be 34 letters.

Julia Pfeifer-Burns 27 + a hyphen
Fort Hunter-Liggett 27 + a hyphen
Rancho Cucamonga 26
Rancho Palos Verdes 26
Palos Verdes Estates 26
Hallelujah Junction 26
San Buenaventura 25
Desert Hot Springs 25
Huntington Beach 25
Coalinga Junction 24
Lake Nacimiento 24
Hacienda Heights 24
Manhattan Beach 24
Rough and Ready 24
Carmel-by-the-sea 24+3hyphens
San Bernardino 23

I'm sure that I will come up with a 30-letter name as soon as I press {Post}


Rolling Hills Estates 29
La Cañada Flintridge 28
San Juan Capistrano 27
South San Francisco 27
Twentynine Palms 25
Hawaiian Gardens 25
Santa Fe Springs 24

There may be some recognized unincorporated developments with a directional prefix or suffix or communities with "Beach", "Heights", "Rancho", "Hills" or "Estates" as part of their names that I have overlooked, but it appears that "Rolling Hills Estates, California" is the longest-named incorporated city or town in California.

KCRoadFan

Quote from: michravera on October 26, 2020, 03:43:21 PM
Quote from: michravera on October 24, 2020, 04:38:07 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 21, 2020, 10:51:44 PM
So, for whatever reason, I found myself thinking about the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - which, in turn, made me think of this question. I figured that the full, combined name of the town - the town name along with that of the state - has to be one of the longest such names in the country (if not the longest). As it stands, the name of that town comes in at 31 letters (as does that of nearby Green Sulphur Springs).

What other candidates for longest "town name plus the name of the state it's in" combinations might there be? Of course, the prime contenders for this prize are bound to be in the states that have the longest names - think Pennsylvania (12 letters), Massachusetts (13), Connecticut (11), Rhode Island (11), the two Carolinas (13), the two Dakotas (11), Mississippi (11), and Washington (10) - as well as, of course, the aforementioned West Virginia (12).

Which ones can you think of?

From California (not including spaces)
Skipping the official names of Los Angeles (named elsewhere) and Rancho Palos Verdes Estates (which I am told doesn't exist) which would be 34 letters.

Julia Pfeifer-Burns 27 + a hyphen
Fort Hunter-Liggett 27 + a hyphen
Rancho Cucamonga 26
Rancho Palos Verdes 26
Palos Verdes Estates 26
Hallelujah Junction 26
San Buenaventura 25
Desert Hot Springs 25
Huntington Beach 25
Coalinga Junction 24
Lake Nacimiento 24
Hacienda Heights 24
Manhattan Beach 24
Rough and Ready 24
Carmel-by-the-sea 24+3hyphens
San Bernardino 23

I'm sure that I will come up with a 30-letter name as soon as I press {Post}


Rolling Hills Estates 29
La Cañada Flintridge 28
San Juan Capistrano 27
South San Francisco 27
Twentynine Palms 25
Hawaiian Gardens 25
Santa Fe Springs 24

There may be some recognized unincorporated developments with a directional prefix or suffix or communities with "Beach", "Heights", "Rancho", "Hills" or "Estates" as part of their names that I have overlooked, but it appears that "Rolling Hills Estates, California" is the longest-named incorporated city or town in California.

San Luis Obispo has 23.

michravera

Quote from: michravera on October 24, 2020, 04:38:07 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 21, 2020, 10:51:44 PM
So, for whatever reason, I found myself thinking about the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - which, in turn, made me think of this question. I figured that the full, combined name of the town - the town name along with that of the state - has to be one of the longest such names in the country (if not the longest). As it stands, the name of that town comes in at 31 letters (as does that of nearby Green Sulphur Springs).

What other candidates for longest "town name plus the name of the state it's in" combinations might there be? Of course, the prime contenders for this prize are bound to be in the states that have the longest names - think Pennsylvania (12 letters), Massachusetts (13), Connecticut (11), Rhode Island (11), the two Carolinas (13), the two Dakotas (11), Mississippi (11), and Washington (10) - as well as, of course, the aforementioned West Virginia (12).

Which ones can you think of?

From California (not including spaces)
Skipping the official names of Los Angeles (named elsewhere) and Rancho Palos Verdes Estates (which I am told doesn't exist) which would be 34 letters.

Julia Pfeifer-Burns 27 + a hyphen
Fort Hunter-Liggett 27 + a hyphen
Rancho Cucamonga 26
Rancho Palos Verdes 26
Palos Verdes Estates 26
Hallelujah Junction 26
San Buenaventura 25
Desert Hot Springs 25
Huntington Beach 25
Coalinga Junction 24
Lake Nacimiento 24
Hacienda Heights 24
Manhattan Beach 24
Rough and Ready 24
Carmel-by-the-sea 24+3hyphens
San Bernardino 23

I'm sure that I will come up with a 30-letter name as soon as I press {Post}
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 27, 2020, 09:10:41 PM
Quote from: michravera on October 26, 2020, 03:43:21 PM
Quote from: michravera on October 24, 2020, 04:38:07 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on October 21, 2020, 10:51:44 PM
So, for whatever reason, I found myself thinking about the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia - which, in turn, made me think of this question. I figured that the full, combined name of the town - the town name along with that of the state - has to be one of the longest such names in the country (if not the longest). As it stands, the name of that town comes in at 31 letters (as does that of nearby Green Sulphur Springs).

What other candidates for longest "town name plus the name of the state it's in" combinations might there be? Of course, the prime contenders for this prize are bound to be in the states that have the longest names - think Pennsylvania (12 letters), Massachusetts (13), Connecticut (11), Rhode Island (11), the two Carolinas (13), the two Dakotas (11), Mississippi (11), and Washington (10) - as well as, of course, the aforementioned West Virginia (12).

Which ones can you think of?

From California (not including spaces)
Skipping the official names of Los Angeles (named elsewhere) and Rancho Palos Verdes Estates (which I am told doesn't exist) which would be 34 letters.

Julia Pfeifer-Burns 27 + a hyphen
Fort Hunter-Liggett 27 + a hyphen
Rancho Cucamonga 26
Rancho Palos Verdes 26
Palos Verdes Estates 26
Hallelujah Junction 26
San Buenaventura 25
Desert Hot Springs 25
Huntington Beach 25
Coalinga Junction 24
Lake Nacimiento 24
Hacienda Heights 24
Manhattan Beach 24
Rough and Ready 24
Carmel-by-the-sea 24+3hyphens
San Bernardino 23

I'm sure that I will come up with a 30-letter name as soon as I press {Post}


Rolling Hills Estates 29
La Cañada Flintridge 28
San Juan Capistrano 27
South San Francisco 27
Twentynine Palms 25
Hawaiian Gardens 25
Santa Fe Springs 24

There may be some recognized unincorporated developments with a directional prefix or suffix or communities with "Beach", "Heights", "Rancho", "Hills" or "Estates" as part of their names that I have overlooked, but it appears that "Rolling Hills Estates, California" is the longest-named incorporated city or town in California.

San Luis Obispo has 23.

I specifically didn't include San Luis Obispo. I know from my early work in IT that "San Luis Obispo", at 15 characters including spaces, was the longest county in California. I figured that anything that wasn't longer than that wasn't interesting.

As for unincorporated, but recognized, communities:
Lemoore Naval Air Station is 32, but that is always styled "Lemoore NAS". The same goes for a number of other military installations that serve as communities.


index

Necro bump - King and Queen Court House, Virginia is a contender despite Virginia's relatively short name, as well as Cape May Court House, New Jersey, coming in at 31 and 26 characters respectively. King and Queen Court House probably has one of the longest names in the US, word count-wise, if not the longest or tied for such.

Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina comes in at 32.
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Quote from: GenExpwy on October 22, 2020, 06:04:52 AM
East Providence, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (49)  :bigass:

Fortunately, this game waited for Rhode Island to officially shorten its name.
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Longest in WI is probably Fontana-On-Geneva-Lake at 29 letters and 3 hyphens. Longest that doesn't sound stupid is a 3-way at 25 tie between Wisconsin Rapids, Lauderdale Lakes, and Boulder Junction.

Ted$8roadFan

I remember watching the news a while back and Hillsborough, New Hampshire and North Attleboro(ugh), Massachusetts were among he longest, at least in New England. There could be others.

triplemultiplex

A twist on this idea:
The most unique letters you can get out of a placename, state combo.  So the absolute winner could only have 26 (well, for the English language).
Probably want to keep this version to America.
That levels the playing field for places in long-named states with lots of repeat letters so now your Ohios and your Iowas can compete with your Mississippis and Massachussetses.

So Madison, Wisconsin would get a score of 9.
Black River Falls, Wisconsin would get a score of 14.
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bassoon1986

I saw Pointe a la Hache mentioned earlier for Louisiana, but going just off the list of incorporated towns, villages, and cities, our longest is 25: French Settlement, Louisiana.


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Quote from: CoreySamson on October 22, 2020, 01:40:30 PM
For Arkansas I thought Helena-West Helena (16 letters) plus 8 in Arkansas is 22. (This may be skirting the rules a bit, though)

Texas's could be Bolivar Peninsula which is 21 including the letters of Texas.

Louisiana's probably is West Pointe A La Hache, at 18 letters. Combined with Louisiana, this is 27 letters long (It might have the most words though, at 6!).
Dalworthington Gardens is the leader among incorporated municipalities. Combined with Texas, that is 26 letters.



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