For example, downtown Phoenix, Arizona has east-west streets named for US presidents (Van Buren, Washington, Pierce and so forth), the Palm Springs area has streets named after famous celebrities that lived there (Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford); in Redondo Beach, California, the little side streets off Catalina Drive are named for gems (Opal, Emerald, Garnet, Ruby).
Does your town or section of town have themed street names? (Tree names are so common, perhaps we can skip those.)
There is a section of Nashville near the airport with planet named streets.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bna&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.240038,49.921875&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nashville+International+Airport+(BNA),+Nashville,+Davidson,+Tennessee+37214&ll=36.121878,-86.699102&spn=0.013138,0.012188&z=16
An area around Liberty Rd (MD 26) has Britain-themed streets near I-695 (i.e. Croydon, Essex, Buckingham).
There's a neighborhood in Norman, Oklahoma, where the theme of the north-south streets are assassinated U.S. presidents. There's Lincoln Ave., Garfield Ave., and McKinley Ave. However, they did not rename the next street over when Kennedy was assassinated...
There's a portion of Lincoln that has a few streets named after famous streets in Los Angeles-Hollywood Blvd., La Brea Ave., and Wilshire Blvd. Along with Vine St., which is a major street in the area, it creates an intersection of Hollywood and Vine-the traditional center of Hollywood.
The town of Santa Claus, IN has streets that all have Christmas-themed names.
Quote from: kj3400 on December 08, 2010, 12:42:46 PM
An area around Liberty Rd (MD 26) has Britain-themed streets near I-695 (i.e. Croydon, Essex, Buckingham).
I can't believe I forgot this one as I grew up in La Canada Flintridge, California: The "Flintridge" part has British-named streets (Oxford, Hampstead, Berkshire, Inverness, Wimbledon).
The Sacramento suburb of Arden-Arcade has several streets named after inventors - Howe, Watt, Whitney, Marconi, Fulton, Edison, and Bell. (There's also a Wright Street in there somewhere)
the Pacific Beach neighborhood in San Diego has east-west streets named after gemstones, in alphabetical order. Beryl, Chalcedony, Diamond, Emerald, Felspar (not Feldspar as it should be), Garnet, Hornblend (not Hornblende as it should be). There's also a random Missouri St between Diamond and Emerald. Never quite figured that one out...
further north of Beryl, there are out-of-order Agate, Tourmaline, Opal and I think several others that I do not remember. A map lookup of zip code 92109 should reveal all.
Within the city of Cupertino...
* August Ln - September Dr - October Way - November Dr
* Pumpkin Dr/Ct - Holly Oak Dr - Cranberry Dr/Cir
* Orange Blossom Dr - Peach Blossom Dr - Rose Blossom Dr
Northeast Minneapolis has streets named for the presidents in chronological order.
They go by last name except where there are duplicates, so there's a Quincy and a Benjamin instead of duplicate Adams or Harrison. There's already a Grant elsewhere in the city so that street is Ulysses. They run from Washington to Coolidge.
North of the Twin Cities there is a series of streets, again alphabetical, that are animals. After that they get into chemical elements. I think Dysprosium St is my favorite street name anywhere.
^^
My favorite in that suite is "Quagga St."
America's suburbs are crawling with themed subdivisions. In my profession, I've seen everything from flowers, deer and apples to geology, NASA and The Beatles. It seems like every town has its tree subdivision, its cuddly animals subdivision, its patriotic subdivision, its hunting subdivision, its place names from another state/country subdivision. Berries, Ivy League schools, military brass, sailing, the Civil War, horses, authors, fish, spices, jewels... When they run out of those, you can tell some developers are just naming streets after their kids. Oh and the puns; enough with the puns already. "Ha, ha, I know, let's name a road EASY STREET! HA, hA Ha!"
On Balboa Island, near Newport Beach & Costa Mesa, CA they also do have streets named after gemstones (however Colllins Ave, Marine Ave & Abalone Ave appear in the middle of the development).
Eg. Emerald, Garnet, Pearl, Agate, Opal Topaz, Turqouise, Ruby, Diamond, Sapphire, Coral, Apolena (?), Amethyst, Onyx, Crystal & Jade.
In Kimmell, Indiana, you could live at the corner of Lincoln St. and Hitler St. : http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=hitler+st,+kimmell,+in&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=N+Hitler+St,+Kimmell,+Noble,+Indiana+46760&z=16
The SF Valley has many streets named after people... Julie, Darryn, Randiwood, Sherman, Vanowen, Nordhoff, Sepulveda, etc.
My neighborhood has streets named after cities in Texas. I live near the intersection of Allendale and Fort Worth.
Elsewhere, Hampton is FULL of Nautical-themed street names, and near the waterfront along the James River in Old Wythe, the streets are named after Virginia rivers.
This part of Norman, however, has streets named after Southern cities. There is a Beaumont, Biloxi, Nashville, Vicksburg, and Memphis, amontg others. I had a pizza guy get confused when he mixed up two streets that were both named after Tennessee cities.
Quote from: kurumi on December 08, 2010, 04:52:13 PM
In Kimmell, Indiana, you could live at the corner of Lincoln St. and Hitler St. : http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=hitler+st,+kimmell,+in&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=N+Hitler+St,+Kimmell,+Noble,+Indiana+46760&z=16
There's a Hitler St.?? I assume it's pre-war, but you'd think someone'd rename it....
The only notable ones I can remember right now are Wolfe St. and Montcalm St. in Montreal, near the Beaudry subway station.
See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=rue+Wolfe+et+rue+Ste-Catherine,+Montr%C3%A9al&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=31.197308,88.505859&ll=45.519459,-73.557372&spn=0.008254,0.021608&z=16
Quote from: Coelacanth on December 08, 2010, 03:11:18 PM
North of the Twin Cities there is a series of streets, again alphabetical, that are animals. After that they get into chemical elements. I think Dysprosium St is my favorite street name anywhere.
I love the sound of that! It will be on my bucket list.
Christmas, FL does the reindeer names.
This could/could not be considered a theme but Palm Coast, FL organizes their neighborhood/minor roads by alphabetical order (all the A-named streets are in one section, and so on).
Tallahassee, FL has streets named after all the counties in Florida.
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
Quote from: mightyace on December 08, 2010, 12:24:01 PM
There is a section of Nashville near the airport with planet named streets.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bna&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.240038,49.921875&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nashville+International+Airport+(BNA),+Nashville,+Davidson,+Tennessee+37214&ll=36.121878,-86.699102&spn=0.013138,0.012188&z=16
There is also a section of West Nashville where the streets are named after Ford/Lincoln/Mercury automobiles that were produced in the 50s and 60s (Fairlane, Galaxie, Thunderbird, Capri, Continental, Comet, Starliner, Ranchero, Marauder, Sunliner, Edsel, Futura), and other Ford-related names (Henry Ford, River Rouge, Grosse Point, Landau, Fordomatic, Foundry). This neighborhood (Charlotte Park) was mostly built around the time the nearby Ford glass plant was built in the 50s.
Also in Hermitage, east of Nashville, there is one neighborhood with state capitals (Des Moines, Raleigh, Trenton, Baton Rouge, Phoenix, Frankfort, Atlanta, St. Paul, Albany, Denver, Topeka, Concord, Columbus, Juneau). They also have a neighborhood with every street named Bonna-something (Bonnawood, Bonnaspring, Bonnacroft, Bonnalynn, Bonnaridge, etc.)
College Hills, here in Angelo:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Angelo,+Tom+Green,+Texas&ll=31.439831,-100.478811&spn=0.024239,0.061798&t=h&z=15
I guess these all are like "country things"?
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Angelo,+Tom+Green,+Texas&ll=31.432142,-100.486965&spn=0.024241,0.061798&t=h&z=15
Capitol Heights, in Angelo (state names...) :
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Angelo,+Tom+Green,+Texas&ll=31.41623,-100.463104&spn=0.012123,0.030899&t=h&z=16
A lot of them in Angelo are president names, that cross river named streets:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Angelo,+Tom+Green,+Texas&ll=31.452572,-100.472159&spn=0.024236,0.061798&t=h&z=15
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The neighborhood in which I live has an abundance of military-themed street names. Considering the area was once part of Fort Custer, this should be expected. In Lansing, a large number of east-west streets which run through downtown are named for the state's counties, although I'm quite certain that not all 83 are represented.
Stamford has relatively little themed naming, but there are a few distinct examples.
1) a subdivision known as "Sherwood Forest" (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=New+York&ll=41.10778,-73.512697&spn=0.007502,0.021136&z=16), consisting of "Robin Hood Road", "Friar Tuck Lane", "Nottingham Drive", "Little John Lane", and "Camelot Court".
2) "Colonial Road", "Mayflower Avenue", "Puritan Lane", "Plymouth Road", and "Pilgrim Walk" (yes, "Walk"). (here) (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=New+York&ll=41.069128,-73.529091&spn=0.003753,0.010568&z=17)
3) "Rippowam Road", "Iroqois Road", "Mohegan Avenue", "Ponus Avenue", "Algonquin Avenue", and "Wampanaw Avenue", all named after indian tribes. (here) (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=New+York&ll=41.037761,-73.525153&spn=0.003755,0.010568&z=17)
There's an area of Brooklyn east and southeast of Prospect Park, bounded approximately by Nostrand Avenue on the west and Kings Highway on the east, which has avenues every three blocks named after cities in New York state:
New York Avenue
Brooklyn Avenue (OK, Brooklyn isn't a city now, but it was once)
Albany Avenue
Troy Avenue
Schenectady Avenue
Utica Avenue
There's an industrial park west of Columbus (near Hilliard) that uses shoe brands for street names.
In Baton Rouge there are a bunch of street themes.
Between the LSU campus and DT BR you have president named streets followed by state names for streets.
You also have the Saint streets in Beauroguard Town (another named district between the business district and LSU)
Just SE of the LSU campus is the Tigertown subdivision which uses other university names for the streets
Space Theme (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.938791,-1.450936&spn=0.005476,0.013733&z=17): Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter, Orion, Gemini, Pegasus, Andromeda.
The Flowers Estate, Southampton (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.940596,-1.387475&spn=0.010952,0.027466&z=16): Violet, Primrose, Pansy, Iris, Begonia, Honeysuckle, Dahlia, Lilac, Daisy, Bluebell, Tulip, Aster, Laburnum, Lobelia, Carnation, Poppy, Lupin
There's lots of pairs and triplets of themed names in Southampton (eg Nile, Khartoum and Omdurman - the two largest cities in the Sudan and the river that separates them), but there's not many larger chunks at all (AFAICS), even in new build bits. Partially because there's lots of randomness, partially because extra roads have been added, and partially because the themes are rather general - there's a industrial estate that's all seas and cruise ships, but I would struggle to call that a single theme.
Everest Rd, Hillary Rd, Tenzing Drive (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.627755,-0.725055&spn=0.010789,0.027466&z=16)
Cathedral Cities (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.670263,-0.592264&spn=0.002695,0.006866&z=18): Lincoln, Salisbury, Ely, Winchester, Canterbury, York
Milton Keynes, being a new town (it shockingly has numbered streets in the centre - 14th being the highest, as well as a large grid pattern of major roads surrounding 1km-ish sort of squares - simply not English!), mostly built in the last 35 years, one large estate at a time is rife with them, though there's probably more I haven't spotted. Themed estates being the in-thing while a lot of it was being built, and there being a lot of estates. Composers (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.016387,-0.678728&spn=0.010697,0.027466&z=16) (though I've not heard of a lot of these), Abbeys (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.035571,-0.700378&spn=0.010692,0.027466&z=16)(?), Places in Middlesex (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.033274,-0.712245&spn=0.010693,0.027466&z=16) (mostly tube stations), Science and Engineering (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.017562,-0.775416&spn=0.010696,0.027466&z=16) (?), 20th Century Entertainers (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.027914,-0.799277&spn=0.010694,0.027466&z=16) (Most are musicians, but there are some which are comedians - Laurel and Chaplin, for instance), Palaces (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.034792,-0.792904&spn=0.010692,0.027466&z=16), Places in Cornwall (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.035848,-0.74559&spn=0.010692,0.027466&z=16), Cricket (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.031202,-0.755246&spn=0.010693,0.027466&z=16), Places in Bucks, (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.046123,-0.769054&spn=0.005345,0.013733&z=17) South London sort of area (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.043774,-0.769966&spn=0.005345,0.013733&z=17) and a random mixture (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.044744,-0.774482&spn=0.005345,0.013733&z=17) (Dorney, Brill and Maidenhead are all localish, the others I have no idea what they are doing there) form another estate based on places, Poets and Authors (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.086745,-0.743144&spn=0.01068,0.027466&z=16), Lakes (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.978959,-0.723467&spn=0.021411,0.054932&z=15) (or at least there's a lot of lakes there), Places in Devon (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.011038,-0.757585&spn=0.021396,0.054932&z=15). That's 10 estates, so that'll do!
Quote from: english si on December 09, 2010, 08:27:48 AM. . . eg Nile, Khartoum and Omdurman . . .
I'm kind of surprised there isn't a "Gordon" nearby.
There is (sort of - it's some way away, especially compared to the short length of the roads with the Sudan theme), but it's completely unrelated. map (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.926816,-1.399984&spn=0.010955,0.01929&z=16)
Quote from: hm insulators on December 08, 2010, 12:20:54 PM
For example, downtown Phoenix, Arizona has east-west streets named for US presidents (Van Buren, Washington, Pierce and so forth), the Palm Springs area has streets named after famous celebrities that lived there (Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Gerald Ford); in Redondo Beach, California, the little side streets off Catalina Drive are named for gems (Opal, Emerald, Garnet, Ruby).
Does your town or section of town have themed street names? (Tree names are so common, perhaps we can skip those.)
The Cedar Hills neighborhood on the Westside of Jacksonville has streets named after nursery rhyme/fairytail characters. Such as Miss Muffett Lane, Tinkerbell, Cinderella Dr etc. A man would have to be very secure in his masculinity to live on some of those roads
There's a subdivision (early 1960s vintage) near here that has the following street names: Eastline, Westline, Meridian, Vesta, Satellite, and Nuclear. Yes, Nuclear.
There is a neighborhood nearby in Concord, Ca that is referred to as "The Fruitbowl" because all of the streets are named after various fruits (Apple, Peach, Pear, etc). In San Francisco the east-west streets out in the Sunset district are alphabetical from north to south. This gives you "Irving, Judah, Kirkham,etc ....." finishing at "...Uloa, Vicente, Wawona, Yorba"
All the street names in Lake Parsippany (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lake+parsippany+nj&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.977057,76.464844&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Lake+Parsippany,+Morris+Plains,+Morris,+New+Jersey&ll=40.853131,-74.432287&spn=0.014899,0.037336&z=15) are towns or communities in NJ. There are several alphabetical sets starting with A and running to a random letter before resetting.
Wildwood Crest, NJ's E-W streets are named for American cities.
The entire eastern half of Cape May, NJ is named N-S for various cities in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region, and the E-W's are named for states.
And, Atlantic City's streets are named after the Monopoly board! :sombrero:
Many of Dover NJ's streets in the center of town are named for the counties in New Jersey
Quote from: mightyace on December 09, 2010, 08:13:31 PM
And, Atlantic City's streets are named after the Monopoly board! :sombrero:
No, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. :|
There's a section of Ingleside Rd. between US 40 and I-70 in Baltimore County that has the names of Maryland's counties.
Quote from: kj3400 on December 10, 2010, 11:30:54 AM
Quote from: mightyace on December 09, 2010, 08:13:31 PM
And, Atlantic City's streets are named after the Monopoly board! :sombrero:
No, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. :|
I know that, hence the :sombrero:!
Quote from: mightyace on December 10, 2010, 11:32:00 AM
Quote from: kj3400 on December 10, 2010, 11:30:54 AM
Quote from: mightyace on December 09, 2010, 08:13:31 PM
And, Atlantic City's streets are named after the Monopoly board! :sombrero:
No, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. :|
I know that, hence the :sombrero:!
Something told me you did. :P
In downtown Albuquerque, all of the east - west streets are named after minerals : Iron Ave, Coal Ave, Lead Ave.,Gold Ave., Copper Ave. you get the picture. Many other cities in NM followed this patern with naming the streets after minerals. In the fifties, builders would name the streets with women's names in new subdivisions.
Quote from: sandiaman on December 10, 2010, 04:11:22 PM
In downtown Albuquerque, all of the east - west streets are named after minerals : Iron Ave, Coal Ave, Lead Ave.,Gold Ave., Copper Ave. you get the picture. Many other cities in NM followed this patern with naming the streets after minerals. In the fifties, builders would name the streets with women's names in new subdivisions.
The same happens in Butte, MT (eg. I-115 transitioning into Iron St)
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Butte,+MT,+United+States&sll=39.361096,-74.445698&sspn=0.00735,0.013711&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Butte,+Silver+Bow,+Montana,+United+States&ll=46.009005,-112.548537&spn=0.013204,0.043774&z=15 (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Butte,+MT,+United+States&sll=39.361096,-74.445698&sspn=0.00735,0.013711&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Butte,+Silver+Bow,+Montana,+United+States&ll=46.009005,-112.548537&spn=0.013204,0.043774&z=15)
Quote from: jdbx on December 09, 2010, 06:02:46 PM
There is a neighborhood nearby in Concord, Ca that is referred to as "The Fruitbowl" because all of the streets are named after various fruits (Apple, Peach, Pear, etc). In San Francisco the east-west streets out in the Sunset district are alphabetical from north to south. This gives you "Irving, Judah, Kirkham,etc ....." finishing at "...Uloa, Vicente, Wawona, Yorba"
There's also a similar thing around 3rd St at Hunters Point where it starts at Amador, Burke, Custer, Davidson, Evans...etc..then finishes with Thomas, Underwood, Van Dyke, Wallace & Yosemite.
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Hunters+Point,+San+Francisco,+CA,+United+States&sll=37.73098,-122.385378&sspn=0.015036,0.027423&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hunters+Point,+San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ll=37.733763,-122.394819&spn=0.015035,0.043774&z=15 (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Hunters+Point,+San+Francisco,+CA,+United+States&sll=37.73098,-122.385378&sspn=0.015036,0.027423&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hunters+Point,+San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&ll=37.733763,-122.394819&spn=0.015035,0.043774&z=15)
What, no mention of King Arthur's Court? :sombrero:
Sauk City also has a haphazard arrangement of US Presidents.
The streets around the center of Madison, WI are generally named after the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Quote from: Adam Smith on December 09, 2010, 12:15:46 AM
There's an industrial park west of Columbus (near Hilliard) that uses shoe brands for street names.
In Baton Rouge there are a bunch of street themes.
Between the LSU campus and DT BR you have president named streets followed by state names for streets.
You also have the Saint streets in Beauroguard Town (another named district between the business district and LSU)
Just SE of the LSU campus is the Tigertown subdivision which uses other university names for the streets
Virtually every subdivision in BR has one theme or another. Besides the above, the ones of note:
- Streets with business terminology names in the Old Jefferson subdivision: Vice-President, Profit, Treasurer, Debt, Dividend, Quorum, Chairman, Board, Commission, Director, et al.
- Obligatory Sherwood Forest subdivision street names: Robin Hood, Little John, Archery
- Streets named after Louisiana parishes in Capitol Heights
- The Garden District's streets are all names of types of flowering trees
- Melrose Place streets use names of Mississippi River plantations: Parlange, Hermitage, Rosedown, Asphodel (one of many plantation themed subdivisions in EBR Parish)
- Several parts of town have presidential streets; the parish has had to remove duplicate names in the past (and we still have two streets named for Washington)
- Tigerland has streets named for famous LSU athletes; other universities' names are used for streets in College Town
- Civil War themed names in Shenandoah Estates (southeast EBRP)
- Trees and Civil War generals in Southdowns (Lee, Pickett, Stuart), with street names duplicated elsewhere replaced by Scottish city names (Glasgow, Edinburgh)
- The area east of the University Lakes has streets all ending in -dale
- Off Perkins Road near City Park is a small subdivision with streets named after ancient poets and philosophers (Horace, Vigil, Pliny, etc.)
- And just west of University Lake off Darylmple, Lake Crest subd. has streets named for the months of March-July
- Indian/Native American themed names in Istrouma (North Baton Rouge adjacent to the refinery)
- Revolutionary War theme in Concord Estates (bounded by I-10, College, Perkins, and the Rural Life Museum property)
- My personal favorite: names of long-extinct automobile makes (with the exception of Ford and Cadillac) in the Zion City area (on the east side of Plank Road just south of Hooper)
This of course does not include the innumerable look-alike, sound-alike subdivision streets with names evoking nature (trees, water, or a combination thereof) or somehow mirroring the major street in its immediate vicinity (Highland Oaks, Jefferson Park, Bluebonnet Centre, ad nauseum).
Don't get me started on the number of streets with "Wood", "Lake", or "Park" in their name within EBR Parish alone. The number is somewhere in the hundreds. Trust me on this, I have checked.
Huntington WV, has a numbered grid system. Streets run towards the river, avenues run parallel to it. You omit the "E" on the east side of the grid, but not for the west side. Thus 1st Street and 1st Street West are one block apart, while 30th Street and 30th Street West are 60 blocks appart. You can determine the location by the street number, such as 1560 7th Avenue would be the block between 15th and 16th Streets. Anyway, the avenues are numbered in the east, but are the presidents in order in the west, skipping the duplicates and resetting to account for a bend in the river. 3rd thus becomes Washington, 4th Adams, etc. You can still determine location in the same manner.
I do not know the origin, but a housing development in Jefferson County, WV, has streets named after Ayn Rand. Both her and other persons in the Objectivist movement, and characters in Atlas Shruged and The Fountainhead. Main street is John Gault.
In College Park (GA), many of the streets east-west streets (avenues) are named after colleges and universities: Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Oxford, Oglethorpe (decommissioned), Harvard, and Cambridge.
Also, many streets in the Atlanta area are named Peachtree; too many to name or count. :-D
Be well,
Bryant
The EW county roads in Woods County, OK are all named after the other 76 counties in the state.
Philadelphia E-W streets intersecting Broad are named after PA counties...
Tulsa, OK, has a series of north-south streets named for US cities.
There's a section of Chicago where most of the streets begin with the letter K. Kedzie Avenue is one of them. I've always heard it referred to as K-Town.
There's a subdivision in Jackson in which the streets are named for presidents. The subdivision is named Presidential Hills.
Quote from: golden eagle on December 12, 2010, 11:37:27 PM
There's a section of Chicago where most of the streets begin with the letter K. Kedzie Avenue is one of them. I've always heard it referred to as K-Town.
Chicago's avenues (in the city only) have areas where they progress westward through the alphabet. There's a section that starts with K, another with M, another with N, and so on and so on.
My favorite street name ever is on the Westside of Jacksonville
Noroad
Street themes for Lawrence:
The city is divided east and west by Massachusetts Street. To the east are: New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland.
Going west, the street names are in the order of admission, starting with Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, and so on, until you get to Florida. After Florida, the state name pattern continues out of order: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, and Iowa.
Quote from: jwolfer on December 14, 2010, 01:59:52 PM
My favorite street name ever is on the Westside of Jacksonville
Noroad
there's an old route 3 alignment in Alaska that has been cut off called Nooutlet Road.
Lots of good ones! Thank you, and keep 'em coming! :D
In Royal Oak, MI, there is an intersection where Lincoln and Wilson Avenues intersect and there is also a Lincoln-Vermont Avenues intersection to the west.
On Detroit's southwest side, around the Livernois Avenue/I-75 area, many of the residential streets have military-related names (Calvary, Dragoon, Army, Infantry, Musket, Cadet, Regular, Navy, there's even a Military Street, ironic), this is because they all are near old Fort Wayne in some way or another.
A good example is Wyandotte, MI's east-west streets. South of Northline, all of the east-west streets are named after trees (it starts at Spruce and ends at Grove), south of there, the east-west streets are named after Michigan towns.
A trailer park in Romulus, MI has airplane-related names (Airborne, Panam, Turbo, Aircoach, Piper, Bonanza, Metro).
I lost track of where I was, somewhere in South Jersey I think, there were a bunch of presidential streets, and in the midst of them was a Clinton St. (and this was clearly the case for many, many years). Foreshadowing?
Quote from: AlpsROADS on December 24, 2010, 07:53:20 PM
I lost track of where I was, somewhere in South Jersey I think, there were a bunch of presidential streets, and in the midst of them was a Clinton St. (and this was clearly the case for many, many years). Foreshadowing?
Well there is that neighborhood in I believe Piscataway that has a bunch of patriotic street names (e.g. Freedom, Democracy). It might be in the same general area.
Oh yeah, in Buffalo NY,, there is a triangular section formed by major streets: William, Jefferson, Clinton. Foreshadowing?
Wall St (http://maps.google.com/?q=wall+st+04103), Broadway, and a few numbered streets in an inconspicuous corner of Portland.
How about Presidential streets in New Square, NY? Interestingly, they ran out of room (probably), which results in streets like "Washington Bush"
:hmmm: Is'nt Washingtons' Bush MArtha?
US Presidents in SoPo
http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.620707,-70.271838&spn=0.003635,0.006899
There's a couple of Grand Prix racing drivers named on a collection of dirt roads (and mobile homes) outside of Venus, Florida. Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, David Hobbs, Jackie Oliver, Stirling Moss, Dan Gurney, and Rodger Penske. What an odd location for that collection, to be honest...although the CR 731 around it is rather fun to drive on. As a racing fan and road geek, I made the pilgrimage; it turns out Grand Prix Drive was renamed for Dale Earnhardt and another road was renamed for Alan Kulwicki, both fallen NASCAR champs, which at least validates the names of the other streets (sort of).
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=venus,+florida&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.126202,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Venus,+Highlands,+Florida&ll=27.053775,-81.437445&spn=0.012651,0.027595&z=15
Actually when i went to college in St Paul, the streets west of Downtown Minneapolis that go N-S are in alphabetical order.
Quote from: formulanone on February 10, 2011, 10:36:15 PM
There's a couple of Grand Prix racing drivers named on a collection of dirt roads (and mobile homes) outside of Venus, Florida. Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, David Hobbs, Jackie Oliver, Stirling Moss, Dan Gurney, and Rodger Penske. What an odd location for that collection, to be honest...although the CR 731 around it is rather fun to drive on. As a racing fan and road geek, I made the pilgrimage; it turns out Grand Prix Drive was renamed for Dale Earnhardt and another road was renamed for Alan Kulwicki, both fallen NASCAR champs, which at least validates the names of the other streets (sort of).
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=venus,+florida&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.126202,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Venus,+Highlands,+Florida&ll=27.053775,-81.437445&spn=0.012651,0.027595&z=15
In California, a similar thing exists in Moreno Valley not far from where Riverside International Raceway used to be, and in Ontario near the site of the now-demolished Ontario Motor Speedway.
In Brossard, QC, street names are grouped by initial letter and laid out in a roughly alphabetical order.
Someone is obviously a Star Trek fan :-D
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http://g.co/maps/2q2tk
Quote from: US71 on December 27, 2011, 09:22:02 PM
Someone is obviously a Star Trek fan :-D
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http://g.co/maps/2q2tk
Bring on the Borg, The Vulcan and the Ferangie. :)
Quote from: hobsini2 on December 28, 2011, 03:17:38 PM
Bring on the Borg, The Vulcan and the Ferengi. :)
Would you settle for Picard Ln and Crusher Ave?
http://g.co/maps/fr96t
Or maybe Warp Drive and Impulse Ln?
http://g.co/maps/avu3x
Gary, IN is pretty simple. West of Broadway are the presidents in order and east of Broadway are the states in (almost) order of statehood date. The first nine streets (13 colonies) are out of order and some were skipped. East-west roads are numbers starting at the steel mills and going south.
Lake Station, IN has alphabetical counties of Indiana, but some were skipped. I'd assume the more recent counties.
No mention of the District of Columbia in this thread.
Most of the Avenues run at least somewhat on a diagonal and are named for the states. Only exception is Ohio, which has a Drive. Used to be that Washington had a Circle (which it still does), but it also has an Avenue now.
Numbered streets run N-S and get higher as one gets away from North and South Capitol Streets.
Lettered streets run E-W and start with A (just north and south of East Capitol Street and the National Mall) and work up to W Street (no J, X, Y or Z). Then there's the two-syllable "alphabet" streets, then three-syllable and then along 16th Street, N.W. there are streets named for trees and shrubs.
Streets in the "new town" of Columbia, Howard County, Maryland were named after things found in English-language literature.
Some of my favorites include:
Broken Staff
Kilimanjaro
Sunny Spring
Cradlerock
Lasting Light
Golden Rod
Spring Water
Oshkosh WI. has east-west numbers, and north-south states on the south side of the fox river, as well as an east-west presidents area, and a tree themed area.
Quote from: pianocello on December 28, 2011, 10:10:42 PM
Gary, IN is pretty simple. West of Broadway are the presidents in order and east of Broadway are the states in (almost) order of statehood date. The first nine streets (13 colonies) are out of order and some were skipped. East-west roads are numbers starting at the steel mills and going south.
Lake Station, IN has alphabetical counties of Indiana, but some were skipped. I'd assume the more recent counties.
I believe the reason why some of the counties are skipped is because their names are used elsewhere, such as for Harrison, Washington, and Ohio. Since those names are already being used, there is no use in repeating it again.
There's a very small subdivision in Jeffersonville, Indiana that is squeezed between the hospital and the sewage plant that consists of Martin Circle, Luther Circle, and King Circle - http://g.co/maps/uwrcz
Quote from: tdindy88 on December 28, 2011, 11:36:35 PM
Quote from: pianocello on December 28, 2011, 10:10:42 PM
Gary, IN is pretty simple. West of Broadway are the presidents in order and east of Broadway are the states in (almost) order of statehood date. The first nine streets (13 colonies) are out of order and some were skipped. East-west roads are numbers starting at the steel mills and going south.
Lake Station, IN has alphabetical counties of Indiana, but some were skipped. I'd assume the more recent counties.
I believe the reason why some of the counties are skipped is because their names are used elsewhere, such as for Harrison, Washington, and Ohio. Since those names are already being used, there is no use in repeating it again.
The president-named streets end with Roosevelt, I think. In other words, they never renamed N-S streets for new presidents when they took office. E-W roads are "avenues" and N-S roads are "streets". This naming system also applies in Merrillville and some other areas south (parts of Crown Point and Winfield). I am not sure who the people for the streets to the west of the presidents (Taney, Marshall, Whitcomb, etc.) were.
The nice thing about standards is that you can choose from so many different ones. Just across Cline Avenue, Hammond uses the Chicago Street numbering system so 15th Avenue becomes 169th street. Like the eastern part of Lake County, most western Lake County suburbs to the south of Hammond (except for Dyer) use the Gary road numbering system.
Allen County (Fort Wayne area) has a system that I think is unique. The roads going through the center of each township are named <township name> Center Road. For example, Lafayette Center Rd., St. Joe Center Rd., Washington Center Rd., etc. The roads change name as they enter a new township.
Of more note, most Indiana counties use a common road naming scheme: one mile west of the dividing road is 100W, two miles west is 200W and so on. Same applies for the other directions, of course. So you know that 1250S is 12.5 miles south of the center of the county and you know when numbers change from S to N that you entered a new county. I am not sure you can call that a "theme", but it actually is a pretty good system for a state that is largely built on a grid.
^^
South Dakota uses a similar 'grid' for naming rural roads, except that it is statewide and the baselines are two of its state lines.
Mike
The Friendly Village of Dulles (http://g.co/maps/5wtc7) in Virginia–all the streets are named for airlines, many of them defunct.
A couple of streets in Fairfax County are named after characters in the Chronicles of Narnia. (http://g.co/maps/79c4n) Odd that there's no Aslan Court.
An area near where froggie lives has a bunch of streets named for colleges or universities followed by "Drive" (e.g., "Duke Drive," "Vanderbilt Drive," "Tulane Drive"). (http://g.co/maps/ytzq5)
As for the streets to the west of the presidential streets in Lake County, they are either vice presidents or governors, though I'm leaning toward vice presidents, in order of when they took office (minus the ones who became presidents later whose names are already in the system.)
I suppose another county's unique system would be St. Joseph County, where the north-south roads are named for trees and are in alphabetical order from the east going west. The east-west roads are named, I believe, just for people in general, since there is a mix of presidential and non-presidential names in there. But that system starts in the north and heads south. Marshall County to the immediate south continues the "tree" themed streets though it seems they change a few of the names to that of other trees. The east-west roads there are simply numbered roads that start from the north with 1st Road at the one-mile mark south of the county line and continue to 20B Road near the southern county line.
Amarillo has presidential N-S streets from Washington to Cleveland in their downtown area; numbered avenues south of a downtown railroad yard are labeled SW-SE (most locals call them 'west' or 'east' instead) from 1st to 58th (with a few outlying extra exceptions), then another set north of the railroad yard are NW-NE avenues from 1st to 24th (a few different-named exceptions sneak in here and there). No more NW or NE 8th, it was renamed years ago to Amarillo Blvd. (the historic US 66 routing). The Sleepy Hollow area on the west side of town, and surrounding neighborhood to the south, has several east coast/northeast/New England -inspired names (Stuyvesant Ave., White Plains Ave., Catskill Ave., Golden Pond Ct., Tarrytown Ave., Pilgrim Dr., Tappan Zee St., Plymouth Dr., Lexington Square, etc).
Dallas has several groupings; one has several streets that start with 'M' and locals actually call the area the 'M Streets' neighborhood; another is dubbed the 'Disney Streets' neighborhood (Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dwarfs Cir., etc).
Highland Park and University Park have several streets named for well-known universities (Drexel, St. John's, Cornell, Colgate, Tulane, Dartmouth, Princeton, etc)
Jacksonville has several streets named for other Texas cities (El Paso, Fort Worth, Nacogdoches, Tyler, San Antonio, Dallas, etc).
Lubbock has lettered N-S avenues A-X in the downtown area, numbered E-W streets 1 to over 100, and several sets of alphabetical streets (2 on the north side, both run E-W, neither are full sets; others west of Ave. X are N-S and look more like organized full sets).
Plano has lettered N-S avenues E-R (which were originally named streets, not sure when or why the names changed) and E-W numbered streets 10th-22nd (which were also originally named streets).
Wylie has a trailer park with streets all named for characters on Dallas; the trailer park is about 2-3 miles away from the actual Southfork Ranch.
A series of streets in Boone, IA, is named for the counties along US 30 -- from Harrison eastward to Clinton, in order.
The Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey (Down Neck) has streets named after presidents of the US except Washington (cause there is a Washington Street elsewhere in the city) and Adams has both between Monroe and Jackson for father and son.
St. Cloud, FL has state named streets, but no New Jersey as it is called "Jersey" and Columbia Avenue for the Nations Capital. No kind of order though.
Garwood, New Jersey has Avenues named after trees.
Clydesdale Dr and Hops Dr lead to a local beer distributor in Fayetteville, AR :)
Quote from: hobsini2 on February 17, 2011, 01:00:04 PM
Actually when i went to college in St Paul, the streets west of Downtown Minneapolis that go N-S are in alphabetical order.
There are at least five trips through the alphabet as you go west from Downtown, much of the way through Hennepin County. The names get real quirky when trying to create a name beginning with "Q" or "X". Think "Xylon" or "Ximines".
In my hometown of Lincoln, NE we have both numbered and lettered streets(numbered N-S and lettered E-W except for I and Z streets which don't exist). In the older parts of town where streets follow the grid pattern, there are also other E-W streets most of which don't follow any particular naming pattern. In many newer neighborhoods(and a few older ones) where streets are curved and have short circles or courts off of other streets, there are many different themes used for naming streets. Here's a few of them and some examples that fit the categories:
Pilgrims:(Plymouth, Mayflower, Winthrop, Alden, Puritan)
Minerals:(Topaz, Jade, Jasper, Onyx, Agate)
Famous Authors:(Faulkner, Shelley, Kipling, Dickens, Orwell)
Virginia(Old Dominion, Potomac, Blue Ridge, Williamsburg, Lynchburg)
Arizona:(Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Tempe, Scottsdale)
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on January 01, 2012, 03:00:05 AM
In my hometown of Lincoln, NE we have both numbered and lettered streets(numbered N-S and lettered E-W except for I and Z streets which don't exist). In the older parts of town where streets follow the grid pattern, there are also other E-W streets most of which don't follow any particular naming pattern. In many newer neighborhoods(and a few older ones) where streets are curved and have short circles or courts off of other streets, there are many different themes used for naming streets. Here's a few of them and some examples that fit the categories:
Pilgrims:(Plymouth, Mayflower, Winthrop, Alden, Puritan)
Minerals:(Topaz, Jade, Jasper, Onyx, Agate)
Famous Authors:(Faulkner, Shelley, Kipling, Dickens, Orwell)
Virginia(Old Dominion, Potomac, Blue Ridge, Williamsburg, Lynchburg)
Arizona:(Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Tempe, Scottsdale)
No Nebraska themed streets?
Colonial Heights has a brief run of parallel avenues that are named after other Virginia cities. From north to south: Richmond, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lynchburg, and Danville. The first three are 3-block long residential streets, Lynchburg is a through route ending at the middle school, and Danville has two segments but also ends at the middle school (actually behind it). There's also a Roanoke Ave on the other side of US 1/301, just north of Richmond.
Quote from: tdindy88 on January 01, 2012, 10:40:04 AM
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on January 01, 2012, 03:00:05 AM
In my hometown of Lincoln, NE we have both numbered and lettered streets(numbered N-S and lettered E-W except for I and Z streets which don't exist). In the older parts of town where streets follow the grid pattern, there are also other E-W streets most of which don't follow any particular naming pattern. In many newer neighborhoods(and a few older ones) where streets are curved and have short circles or courts off of other streets, there are many different themes used for naming streets. Here's a few of them and some examples that fit the categories:
Pilgrims:(Plymouth, Mayflower, Winthrop, Alden, Puritan)
Minerals:(Topaz, Jade, Jasper, Onyx, Agate)
Famous Authors:(Faulkner, Shelley, Kipling, Dickens, Orwell)
Virginia(Old Dominion, Potomac, Blue Ridge, Williamsburg, Lynchburg)
Arizona:(Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Tempe, Scottsdale)
No Nebraska themed streets?
We have that too-on the north side of town there are a lot of streets that are counties in Nebraska. Also you will find various other Nebraska-themed streets scattered around, plus Cornhusker Highway, which is the major street in north Lincoln(carries US 6).
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 29, 2011, 03:10:13 PM
The Friendly Village of Dulles (http://g.co/maps/5wtc7) in Virginia—all the streets are named for airlines, many of them defunct..[/url]
I was in Columbus, Georgia a few months back, and near the airport was a residential neighborhood with many of the roads named for different aircraft brands (http://maps.google.com/maps?&hl=en&ll=32.523911,-84.944057&spn=0.015415,0.027595&sll=38.897746,-77.450609&sspn=0.014228,0.027595&vpsrc=6&t=m&z=15). My nav system wanted me to wind through there (after I'd made a couple of wrong turns), which gave me a chuckle...
I was just outside of Huntsville, Alabama during the holidays, and found a neighborhood of streets comprised of Ford car model names (http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=34.848396,-86.719165&spn=0.007502,0.013797&sll=34.848396,-86.719165&sspn=0.007502,0.013797&vpsrc=6&t=m&z=16). Another one, not far to the west, are a couple of streets named for computing terms, like Memory Lane and Disk Drive (http://maps.google.com/maps?&hl=en&ll=34.782139,-86.76959&spn=0.007508,0.013797&sll=34.672412,-86.7455&sspn=0.007518,0.013797&vpsrc=6&t=m&z=16).
The only place in Florida that I can think of that uses its county names for streets is at Florida Atlantic University (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=26.368936,-80.103292&spn=0.00819,0.013797&sll=34.740766,-86.808472&sspn=0.120184,0.220757&vpsrc=6&t=m&z=16)...but only a couple of them (not all 67).
At one point, I came up with my own system of street names:
Common first names in the U.S. and Britain, alphabetical order
Major cities worldwide, alphabetical order
Selected popes (chronological order)
Presidents (chronological order)
I was rather proud of the popes idea: you end up with cool street names like Clement, Pius, Cornelius, Sylvester, Innocent, Anastasius, Leo, Benedict, Zachary, Valentine, Paschal, Nicholas, Julius.....which, IMHO, have more character than Elm and Cypress.
I dispatch for cable installers in northwestern Arkansas. Bella Vista has an area of streets names after geographical places in Scotland. Often, when I call a customer, I try and look up the pronunciation of their street name on the internet, because I just have no clue...
Vancouver, WA has a neighborhood with state names and cities. Monterey Way and Pasadena Way intersect California St.
In the Alphabet District of Portland, OR, the streets go up in alphabetical order.
Ankeny St.
Burnside St.
Couch St.
Davis St.
Everett St.
Flanders St.
Glisan St.
Hoyt St.
Irving St.
Johnson St.
Kearney St.
Lovejoy St.
Marshall St.
Northrup St.
Overton St.
Pettygrove St.
Quimby St.
Raleigh St.
Savier St.
Thurman St.
Upshur St.
Vaughn St.
Wilson St.
Roosevelt St. (No X...)
York St.
Reed St. (No Z...)
Vancouver does something similar in its downtown, but it's not really too complete.
Columbia St.
Daniels St.
Esther St.
Franklin St.
Grant St.
Harney St.
Kauffman Ave.
Lincoln Ave.
San Francisco's multiple street grids include several with themed names...
the classic "downtown" grid (north of Market Street) involves a mix of local notables (i.e. O'Farrell, Van Ness) and former presidents (Washington, Fillmore) and other historic figures (Columbus). The Richmond/Sunset "Outer Lands" areas received a grid of local notables (Irving, Noriega, et al.) in alphabetical order, save for Fulton and Lincoln (the former of which is part of the downtown grid, as is Geary and California)
the Excelsior neighborhood is full of streets with names of foreign locales (Geneva, Persia, Russia, Prague, France, Edinburgh et al.)
Quote from: KEK Inc. on January 03, 2012, 10:12:34 PM
Vancouver, WA has a neighborhood with state names and cities. Monterey Way and Pasadena Way intersect California St.
In the Alphabet District of Portland, OR, the streets go up in alphabetical order.
Ankeny St.
Burnside St.
Couch St.
Davis St.
Everett St.
Flanders St.
Glisan St.
Hoyt St.
Irving St.
Johnson St.
Kearney St.
Lovejoy St.
Marshall St.
Northrup St.
Overton St.
Pettygrove St.
Quimby St.
Raleigh St.
Savier St.
Thurman St.
Upshur St.
Vaughn St.
Wilson St.
Roosevelt St. (No X...)
York St.
Reed St. (No Z...)
Vancouver does something similar in its downtown, but it's not really too complete.
Columbia St.
Daniels St.
Esther St.
Franklin St.
Grant St.
Harney St.
Kauffman Ave.
Lincoln Ave.
And you Simpsons fans will recognize many of the Portland street names, as those were the basis for many of the Simpsons characters: Reverend Lovejoy, Mayor Quimby, Ned Flanders, etc
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
I was just noticing that Brownsville, TX does this as well, along with a few other cities mentioned downthread. What are some other cities that have the presidents-in-order naming theme? And who is the most recent president to be represented in this fashion (that is, as part of a sequential system, not just an isolated instance)? And no, you can't count LBJ if the street is named for Andrew Johnson. :-)
Discovered a few weeks ago that a subdivision in Sebring, Florida (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=27.505892,-81.504951&spn=0.011248,0.01929&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.003738,79.013672&t=h&z=16) uses an automotive and racing marque theme (http://www.formulanone.org/2012/02/where-the-streets-have-cool-names/) as well. There's Porsche, Ferrari, Mercedes, Corvette, Jaguar, Lotus, but also some other automotive brands like Volvo, Lexus, Bentley, Fiat, Aston-Martin, Renault, Lancia and others. What I really smiled at was the obscure stuff like Riley, OSCA, Vanwall, Alpine, Lola, et al making an appearance. :)
West Palm Beach has a dual-theme for its downtown core (http://g.co/maps/7egu2): Floral/tree names arranged alphabetically...Banyan, Clematis, Datura, Evernia, Fern, Gardenia, Hibiscus, and Iris.
There is a Four Seasons neighborhood in the Odenton, MD area with street names like Fall Ridge Way, Summer Hill Drive and Autumn Valley Lane.
Quote from: akotchi on February 15, 2012, 09:56:53 PM
There is a Four Seasons neighborhood in the Odenton, MD area with street names like Fall Ridge Way, Summer Hill Drive and Autumn Valley Lane.
When I saw "Four Seasons" I pictured Sherry Street, Walk Like a Man Way, Valli Boulevard .....
Something is afoot in Fort Walton Beach, FL - Sherlock Holmes themed streets.
http://g.co/maps/wss8b (http://g.co/maps/wss8b)
Holmes Blvd
Watson Dr
Moriarty St
Baker Ave
Long Island has a bunch of themed street names. Montauk Beach in Suffolk County uses the theme of famous Americans (Hamilton, Jay, Cleveland, Houston, McKinley, Stuyvesant, Edison, Harding, Hudson, Taft, Arnold, Revere, Sherman, Wood, Coolidge, Tyler, Hoover, Grant, Adams, Roosevelt, Arthur, Hayes, Bryan, Madison, Franklin, Jackson, Monroe, Easton, Lee, Webster, Washington, Harrison, Jefferson, Lincoln). Montauk itself has three sections: a section of D street names, E street names, and F street names. Mastic uses place names around LI along with famous American names as well. A neighborhood in East Ridge uses Indian Tribal names such as Cherokee, Setauket, and Wauwepex. If you go up to Sound Beach, every street name is named after a town on Long Island (including neighborhoods in Brooklyn & Queens). In South Stony Brook, there are development areas that have designated street names by letter (M section, P section, S section, B section). North Bay Shore uses state names and major cities as their theme on east-west streets and some north-south streets. That theme is also repeated in West Babylon and Lindenhurst (they use NY county names). In Nassau County, a popular names theme is used in Massapequa Park and a cities/states theme is used in Massapequa. Point Lookout uses place names in Nassau County, West Garden City i believe uses British place names (I'm guessing), Atlantic Beach (west of 878) uses popular beach names while the eastern side uses New York county names in alphabetical order (no Z), East Atlantic Beach uses New York state cities and western Long Beach uses state names on their north-south streets. And the area of Great Neck, Kings Point, and University Heights seem to have a recurring theme of British place names on their streets.
Right now I'm putting a development into my county's GIS where the streets have a Peter Pan theme: Carrick Court and Honey Locust Drive carry over from neighboring developments, but the other streets are Moira Drive, Neverland Drive, Barrie Road, Smee Road, Banning Drive, Whitebird Drive, Tiger Lily Drive, Starkey Road, Tinker Road, Darling Drive, Starcatcher Drive, Nana Road, and Hook Drive.
Quote from: Roadmaestro95 on February 16, 2012, 06:00:57 AM
.... And the area of Great Neck, Kings Point, and University Heights seem to have a recurring theme of British place names on their streets.
British names seem to be a fairly common theme in my observation. I can think of a neighborhood near us (Kings Park) that has names like Cromwell, Piccadilly, Trafalgar, Parliament, Victoria, etc..... The builders probably weren't satisfied because nearby there's a Kings Park West with names like Commonwealth, Constable, Claridge, Llewellyn, Dundalk, etc.
(As an aside, how would you like to live on a street with a Welsh name like "Llewellyn" and have to deal with giving your address to delivery drivers who seem to have trouble with even simple names?)
I've always thought that there seems to be a notion that British names and the like are perceived as "elegant" and I've long assumed that's a major reason for that sort of theme. My community (Kingstowne) is nominally British-themed, though it shows through in some areas more than others (one portion of the community is called "Yorkshire," another is "Edinburgh," and there are streets with names like Joust , Liverpool, and Norham).
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 16, 2012, 09:42:55 AM
(As an aside, how would you like to live on a street with a Welsh name like "Llewellyn" and have to deal with giving your address to delivery drivers who seem to have trouble with even simple names?)
Oh god. My girlfriend lives on a street with a simple name that happens to include the word "Glen" (as in the geographical feature). Her W2 came with it spelled "Glan", and she's gotten the spelling "Glenn" (like John Glenn) as well.
I live in a part of town with Southern city themed streets, specifically on Nashville Dr., and had a pizza driver attempt to deliver to a house on Memphis Dr. instead. Wrong part of Tennessee! Fortunately there is no house with my number on Memphis Drive and he called me for clarification.
Wichita has done what a town should NOT do: put Minneapolis one block apart. I work for a cable company, and I remember one time when one of our techs went to the right house number on the wrong street (Minneapolis/Minnesota). The person living there let him come on inside and hook everything up. I later got an email that the customer wondered where their installer was. No big deal, an honest mistake, we'll be right over there, right? Except that he also had to go back to the wrong house and disconnect that lady's services. Man, she was seriously pissed off....funny, since she hadn't ordered cable service.
I once came across a map of Chicago from around 1900 with some interesting names that i am sure confused people back then. There were 3 Lincoln Aves, Michigan Ave crossed Michigan St, 2 Columbus Aves, and 4 Grands with different suffixes. The city changed a number of the street names to end to confusion and said there can't be any duplications in the name with one exception, there still is Columbus Dr in Downtown and Columbus Ave that heads southwest and becomes Southwest Hwy. at Pulaski Rd.
Highland Park, the town I live in, has an interesting setup that's had to be adjusted a lot since 1888.
The "North side" of town, uses North 2nd, North 3rd, North 4th all the way up to North 11th. (North 8th being an anomaly because when North Eighth crosses the border into Edison Township, it retains its name until the Northeast Corridor tracks.) However, when Watson Whittlesey built the Livingston Manor portion of the North Side, none of these streets boasted these names until they came under borough control. (Such as North 2nd being known as Highland Avenue at the time. (http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HighlandPark/HP_43.jpg) There is currently a Highland Avenue further up the North Side.)
The "South side" of town is similar, having boasted the original First Avenue, Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue and Fifth Avenue. If you figure the North side is North 2nd to North 11th, the South side has South First — Fifth (the original First Avenue — Fifth Avenue). South 6th, South 7th and South 8th soon joined it the normal way. However, South 9th, South 10th and South 11th were interesting situations. Around 1923, one portion of South 11th was Tierce Avenue, one portion of South 10th was Brieger Street, and one portion of South 9th was South 9th. (The current day Volkert Street was a 2nd Cherry Street.) However, South 9th, South 10th and South 11th have another problem, considering they also run through the part of town I live in, The Triangle (which runs between NJ 27 and CR 514). For whatever reason the developer around the Triangle (then the RaceTrack district), started a 2nd set of numbered streets through the area. So South 9th in the Triangle was 1st Street, South 10th was 2nd, South 11th was 3rd (4th, 5th and 6th were a little more divided up on the named streets area).
If that wasn't confusing enough, Highland Park has three distinctive areas with name choices for streets. A lot of the Livingston Manor portion of the North side does the presidential thing, but with no clear pattern. Lincoln, Grant, Harrison, Madison, Cleveland (and Jackson, which was added later on) were the 5 original streets. But the north side has no clear pattern currently, didn't really then either:
The North Side from River Road (CR 622) to North 5th currently looks like this in order: RARITAN AVENUE (NJ 27, the main drag), DENISON STREET, MONTGOMERY STREET, WAYNE STREET, then a bend into Livingston Manor, where its LAWRENCE AVENUE (a violation of the presidential system), LINCOLN AVENUE, GRANT AVENUE, HARRISON AVENUE, CLEVELAND AVENUE, JACKSON AVENUE (a small connector between North 2nd and Janeway) then all of a sudden, the last street before the RR tracks, HUBELI STREET (currently closed) violates the president system once again. (There are proposals to build new developments along Hubeli, so this name might see the light of day again.)
On the Triangle district, noticeably obvious is the numerous amount of Universities given prominence. Harvard Street, Barnard Street, Columbia Avenue, Amherst Street, Dartmouth Avenue and Exeter Street all boast names of Universities. My guess to why Rutgers is not represented is that Lincoln Avenue on the North side had a portion called Rutgers Place that was just absorbed into Lincoln, and the road existed under that name when these existed. The 1st-6th Streets are long gone, thankfully from the Triangle though. None of the other streets in the Triangle fit within any system pardoning the South 9th, South 10th and South 11th extensions.
Although technically not really an "area", several of our former mayors have their name plastered on a street somewhere. Eden Avenue, Volkert Street (on the South Side), the four disconnected Johnson Streets (on the south side), Archer Place (a shrimpy little street on the North side) all represent names of former mayors of Highland Park.
This has probably gone past TLDR at this point, but considering how confusing this history is, I'm not surprised its this long.
[Fixed dashes. -S.]
Spotted in Galveston, TX:
Fish-themed streets (http://maps.google.com/?ll=29.320193,-94.77092&z=16)
Quote from: empirestate on February 15, 2012, 02:55:16 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
I was just noticing that Brownsville, TX does this as well, along with a few other cities mentioned downthread. What are some other cities that have the presidents-in-order naming theme? And who is the most recent president to be represented in this fashion (that is, as part of a sequential system, not just an isolated instance)? And no, you can't count LBJ if the street is named for Andrew Johnson. :-)
No takers? I guess Coolidge wins the prize??
Quote from: empirestate on March 04, 2012, 12:35:30 PM
Quote from: empirestate on February 15, 2012, 02:55:16 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
I was just noticing that Brownsville, TX does this as well, along with a few other cities mentioned downthread. What are some other cities that have the presidents-in-order naming theme? And who is the most recent president to be represented in this fashion (that is, as part of a sequential system, not just an isolated instance)? And no, you can't count LBJ if the street is named for Andrew Johnson. :-)
No takers? I guess Coolidge wins the prize??
I, too, have mused about some city with a lengthy consecutive run of numbered streets renaming them in order for presidents, skipping duplicate names. Duplicate names that would have to be skipped in such a 'run' include Adams, Johnson, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Bush.
Mike
There's a subdivision on the south side of Sapulpa, OK that has streets named after Ford cars (Thunderbird, Fairlane, etc.) Here's a link:
http://g.co/maps/37fmf
Quote from: mgk920 on March 04, 2012, 01:09:35 PM
Quote from: empirestate on March 04, 2012, 12:35:30 PM
Quote from: empirestate on February 15, 2012, 02:55:16 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
I was just noticing that Brownsville, TX does this as well, along with a few other cities mentioned downthread. What are some other cities that have the presidents-in-order naming theme? And who is the most recent president to be represented in this fashion (that is, as part of a sequential system, not just an isolated instance)? And no, you can't count LBJ if the street is named for Andrew Johnson. :-)
No takers? I guess Coolidge wins the prize??
I, too, have mused about some city with a lengthy consecutive run of numbered streets renaming them in order for presidents, skipping duplicate names. Duplicate names that would have to be skipped in such a 'run' include Adams, Johnson, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Bush.
Mike
Yeah, although the Hollywood, FL example stops at Coolidge, there are certainly areas of the country still being built out, many of them already with orderly gridded road systems that could easily be renamed. I'm surprised, then, that some more recently built area hasn't gotten farther down the list than Coolidge.
But perhaps it's more due to a shift in values, such that naming streets after presidents stopped being in vogue during the 20th century. Or perhaps, it's still in vogue but is more represented now by honoring individual presidents (or other local heroes) rather than the egalitarian approach of honoring them all in a named sequence?
There is a section of Riverside, CA, that is called "Wood Streets". It's an older neighborhood (nice, tree-lined streets), probably dating from the 1910s-1920s, where the east-west (technically WNW-ESE) streets have names like Larchwood, Beechwood, Elmwood, Linwood, Oakwood, Rosewood, Edgewood, Brentwood, & Maplewood.
There's also a Presidential theme in Corona, unincorporated Home Gardens, and west Riverside, where every half mile for streets going ENE-WSW are, from the east, Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, then La Sierra Ave, then continuing with Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, then out of order (McKinley instead of Johnson...maybe because he was impeached?), then Grant. Every 2-3 of these streets (starting with Madison) have interchanges with the Riverside Freeway (SR 91).
The Denver/Aurora area is full of themed alphabetical street names. Pretty much every N-S street west of Broadway and east of Colorado Blvd is alphabetical in nature, and with Yosemite St (which is the traditional eastern border of Denver and western border of Aurora), the streets are double (for instance, the first two streets east of Yosemite are Akron & Alton). The two Xs in this sequence are Xanadu & Xapary.
This pattern is sometimes broken by a major arterial, but oftentimes not.
Quote from: empirestate on March 05, 2012, 01:57:07 AM
Quote from: mgk920 on March 04, 2012, 01:09:35 PM
Quote from: empirestate on March 04, 2012, 12:35:30 PM
Quote from: empirestate on February 15, 2012, 02:55:16 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
I was just noticing that Brownsville, TX does this as well, along with a few other cities mentioned downthread. What are some other cities that have the presidents-in-order naming theme? And who is the most recent president to be represented in this fashion (that is, as part of a sequential system, not just an isolated instance)? And no, you can't count LBJ if the street is named for Andrew Johnson. :-)
No takers? I guess Coolidge wins the prize??
I, too, have mused about some city with a lengthy consecutive run of numbered streets renaming them in order for presidents, skipping duplicate names. Duplicate names that would have to be skipped in such a 'run' include Adams, Johnson, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Bush.
Mike
Yeah, although the Hollywood, FL example stops at Coolidge, there are certainly areas of the country still being built out, many of them already with orderly gridded road systems that could easily be renamed. I'm surprised, then, that some more recently built area hasn't gotten farther down the list than Coolidge.
But perhaps it's more due to a shift in values, such that naming streets after presidents stopped being in vogue during the 20th century. Or perhaps, it's still in vogue but is more represented now by honoring individual presidents (or other local heroes) rather than the egalitarian approach of honoring them all in a named sequence?
Well, naming streets in new developments for Presidents more recent that Franklin Roosevelt is not entirely unheard of. For example, here in the Appleton area, some of the streets in a commercial/industrial park area that was developed in the mid to late 1970s in the suburban Village of Kimberly are named 'Truman', 'Eisenhower', 'Kennedy', 'Ford' and 'Carter' (for some reason they skipped 'Nixon'). Of those, 'Kennedy' is now an important collector street that extends into a residential area well to the east and 'Eisenhower' is now a major arterial street that extends well to the south, including though a newly developing part of the City of Appleton.
See:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=44.260292,-88.346944&spn=0.017519,0.027595&t=m&z=15
Mike
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 16, 2012, 09:42:55 AM
Quote from: Roadmaestro95 on February 16, 2012, 06:00:57 AM
British names seem to be a fairly common theme in my observation. I can think of a neighborhood near us (Kings Park) that has names like Cromwell, Piccadilly, Trafalgar, Parliament, Victoria, etc..... The builders probably weren't satisfied because nearby there's a Kings Park West with names like Commonwealth, Constable, Claridge, Llewellyn, Dundalk, etc.
I've always thought that there seems to be a notion that British names and the like are perceived as "elegant" and I've long assumed that's a major reason for that sort of theme. My community (Kingstowne) is nominally British-themed, though it shows through in some areas more than others (one portion of the community is called "Yorkshire," another is "Edinburgh," and there are streets with names like Joust , Liverpool, and Norham).
As mentioned before, I grew up in a tony Los Angeles suburb called La Canada (Lah Can-YAH-dah) Flintridge. Although politically it's one entity, in reality, it's still split into two parts: The part called La Canada is on a valley floor, tucked in between the San Gabriel Mountains and the San Rafael Hills. La Canada is definitely upper-middle class, but the part called Flintridge, in the San Rafael Hills, is
really ritzy. The streets in Flintridge are winding streets frequently lined with huge live oaks, and many of them have British names: Oxford, Hampstead, Chevy Chase, Inverness, Berkshire, Dover and a bunch of others.
Quote from: formulanone on February 15, 2012, 08:54:07 PM
Discovered a few weeks ago that a subdivision in Sebring, Florida (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=27.505892,-81.504951&spn=0.011248,0.01929&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.003738,79.013672&t=h&z=16) uses an automotive and racing marque theme (http://www.formulanone.org/2012/02/where-the-streets-have-cool-names/) as well. There's Porsche, Ferrari, Mercedes, Corvette, Jaguar, Lotus, but also some other automotive brands like Volvo, Lexus, Bentley, Fiat, Aston-Martin, Renault, Lancia and others. What I really smiled at was the obscure stuff like Riley, OSCA, Vanwall, Alpine, Lola, et al making an appearance. :)
At the south side of that there's a Thunderbird Dr. but it also runs parallel to bird named streets (Eagle, Lark, Wren, etc.) but the Thunderbird is mythological, not real.
Maybe it was someone's idea to have a street that kinds of fits both themes.
Quote from: mgk920 on March 07, 2012, 10:39:36 AM
Quote from: empirestate on March 05, 2012, 01:57:07 AM
Quote from: mgk920 on March 04, 2012, 01:09:35 PM
Quote from: empirestate on March 04, 2012, 12:35:30 PM
Quote from: empirestate on February 15, 2012, 02:55:16 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
I was just noticing that Brownsville, TX does this as well, along with a few other cities mentioned downthread. What are some other cities that have the presidents-in-order naming theme? And who is the most recent president to be represented in this fashion (that is, as part of a sequential system, not just an isolated instance)? And no, you can't count LBJ if the street is named for Andrew Johnson. :-)
No takers? I guess Coolidge wins the prize??
I, too, have mused about some city with a lengthy consecutive run of numbered streets renaming them in order for presidents, skipping duplicate names. Duplicate names that would have to be skipped in such a 'run' include Adams, Johnson, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Bush.
Mike
Yeah, although the Hollywood, FL example stops at Coolidge, there are certainly areas of the country still being built out, many of them already with orderly gridded road systems that could easily be renamed. I'm surprised, then, that some more recently built area hasn't gotten farther down the list than Coolidge.
But perhaps it's more due to a shift in values, such that naming streets after presidents stopped being in vogue during the 20th century. Or perhaps, it's still in vogue but is more represented now by honoring individual presidents (or other local heroes) rather than the egalitarian approach of honoring them all in a named sequence?
Well, naming streets in new developments for Presidents more recent that Franklin Roosevelt is not entirely unheard of. For example, here in the Appleton area, some of the streets in a commercial/industrial park area that was developed in the mid to late 1970s in the suburban Village of Kimberly are named 'Truman', 'Eisenhower', 'Kennedy', 'Ford' and 'Carter' (for some reason they skipped 'Nixon'). Of those, 'Kennedy' is now an important collector street that extends into a residential area well to the east and 'Eisenhower' is now a major arterial street that extends well to the south, including though a newly developing part of the City of Appleton.
Does "Bush Street" lead to a sewage treatment plant?
^^^
or does Clinton Street lead to a brothel? :bigass:
Quote from: hm insulators on March 07, 2012, 11:35:36 AMmany of them have British names: Oxford, Hampstead, Chevy Chase, Inverness, Berkshire, Dover and a bunch of others.
Chevy Chase isn't a British name, but boy there are a lot of others there: Somerset, Dorset, Cambridge, Antrim, Braemar, Putney (they realise that is an area that has never been fashionable, right?), Finchley, Euston, Wendover, Berwick, Sherwood, Kirkham, Ashington, Erin, Dublin, Windermere, Keswick, Stratford, Windsor, Durham, Penbury, Beresford, Cathcart, Chatham, Dartmouth, Wimbledon, Charing Cross, Buckingham, Cornwall, Coventry, Kennington, Whitehall, Greenwich, Leith, Solway.
A real mix of different types of places and everything there.
OK, there's also Normandy and Roanoke that aren't in the British isles, plus some more Spanish road names and some generic ones.
Quote from: english si on March 07, 2012, 07:54:50 PM
Chevy Chase isn't a British name ....
According to West Virginia University's football radio announcers, it's a General Motors—related name. (A few years ago the University of Maryland sold the naming rights to the playing surface at their football stadium to Chevy Chase Bank: Chevy Chase Bank Field at Byrd Stadium. It's now Capital One Bank. Anyway, when WVU played at Maryland that year, their radio guys kept pronouncing "Chevy Chase" as the make of car, as in "Ford or Chevy?")
I've noticed that Bella Vista, AR, has a lot of streets named after Scottish place names. However, they have about a bazillion streets and none of them seem to have 'normal' names. I haven't made any attempt to track down the etymology of most of them.
I used to live in a neighborhood with astronomy-themed street names.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=41.405165,-73.055627&spn=0.005359,0.011362&t=m&z=17
Seymour, CT
It would have been cool had Hershey, PA continued the chocolate theme on more than just the main streets. Then again, I'm not sure how many different ways one could say chocolate.....
Quote from: Super Mateo on March 09, 2012, 04:02:27 AM
It would have been cool had Hershey, PA continued the chocolate theme on more than just the main streets. Then again, I'm not sure how many different ways one could say chocolate.....
They did. Chocolate Ave. intersects Cocoa Ave. in the middle of town.
But I'm more interested in the theme, if any, behind the streets parallel to Chocolate...you have Caracas, Granada, Areba and Bahia (and then you get into regular tree names). I first wondered if these were places from which chocolate was imported...Caracas being in Venezuela, Granada in Spain, Bahia in Brazil, and I don't know what Areba is.
It also seems the Areba is used as the base of a rather abortive alphabetical sequence...Areba, Beech, Cedar, Maple (?), Elm...and that's as far as it ever gets.
Also interestingly, Hershey has numbered and lettered streets, but these apply to the alleys between the main streets, and the pattern is quite sporadic.
I always thought Areba would be the ideal street on which to speed: Areba, Areba! Andele! Andele!
Areba might be a misspelling of Aruba. Just a guess, mind you.
Salinas has several parts with themed street names.
-Wines
-Places in the UK
-Colonial America
-Desert Plants
-Wildlife
-Places in Italy
-Trees
-San Francisco
I'm working on a project for Mn/DOT in the small town of Cosmos, MN where the streets are named after constellations, planets, and other space-related things. Apparently they also have a water tower in the shape of a rocket (though I haven't personally seen it)!
Fresno, CA has a section near downtown named after the California counties.
This one's cool but flawed: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=28.602712,-81.437032&spn=0.004295,0.008256&gl=us&t=m&z=18
What idiot put Haiti south of the equator?
Quote from: NE2 on March 20, 2013, 03:47:02 AM
This one's cool but flawed: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=28.602712,-81.437032&spn=0.004295,0.008256&gl=us&t=m&z=18
What idiot put Haiti south of the equator?
more terrible: none of the routes named "circle" are actually circles, and three out of four change names just for crossing the equator. terrible design.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 20, 2013, 09:16:52 AM
none of the routes named "circle" are actually circles
They're circles with sticks, and all the driveways are on the circular parts.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 20, 2013, 09:16:52 AM
three out of four change names just for crossing the equator
All four do (Bermuda Circle is across from Easter). I think you missed what I was saying - all the islands are in the correct place WRT the equator except Haiti.
Quote from: NE2 on March 20, 2013, 09:54:26 AM
They're circles with sticks, and all the driveways are on the circular parts.
aka a dead-end with a cul-de-sac. I don't suppose "Lollipop" is a standard road name suffix? they should probably be "Court", which seems to be a fairly standard way of referring to a small dead-end street.
QuoteAll four do (Bermuda Circle is across from Easter). I think you missed what I was saying - all the islands are in the correct place WRT the equator except Haiti.
oh, I got that. I was just noting that, from the perspective of making addresses easy to find, this entire thing was a failure. even if we replaced Haiti with Pitcairn Island we'd be navigationally boned.
I think they probably meant Tahiti but had a complete brain fart.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 20, 2013, 10:00:55 AM
Quote from: NE2 on March 20, 2013, 09:54:26 AM
They're circles with sticks, and all the driveways are on the circular parts.
aka a dead-end with a cul-de-sac. I don't suppose "Lollipop" is a standard road name suffix? they should probably be "Court", which seems to be a fairly standard way of referring to a small dead-end street.
The cul-de-sac has a huge circular island in the middle, large enough that the distance around the circle is longer than the rest of the street.
Ross Township, Ohio has an area where streets are named after Birds.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.313611,-84.645&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=39.313611,-84.645
Quote from: agentsteel53 on March 20, 2013, 10:00:55 AMoh, I got that. I was just noting that, from the perspective of making addresses easy to find, this entire thing was a failure. even if we replaced Haiti with Pitcairn Island we'd be navigationally boned.
Surely it makes them easier to find an address? I arrive on Equator Road, heading for an address on Borneo Close. After passing Papua and Sulawesi (Sumatra being the 4th one at the end of Equator Road - added bonus of correct E-W order!), I see that Borneo is in both directions - which way do I go: left or right?
Of course, you can put what numbers are on which side on the sign, but far quicker to read and process would be if each of the 8 little closes/courts/circles had different names. Sure, if we're talking about through routes, then a random name change will be annoying, but these are cul-de-sacs and having the same name for opposite cul-de-sacs is just unnecessarily complicating matters.
Now that this topic has been fully necroed: a neighborhood in Mishawaka, IN that was built after World War II is filled with names of WWII locales: Leyte, Bastogne, Palau, Normandy, etc. I suppose the builder felt all those vets with GI Bill money to spend would feel at home.
Quote from: JustDrive on March 24, 2012, 01:57:13 PM
Fresno, CA has a section near downtown named after the California counties.
This is quite common in Virginia. More than a few places around the Commonwealth have neighborhoods with street names for some of its counties, including Springfield in Fairfax County.
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
Quote from: yakra on May 03, 2013, 06:55:48 PM
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
Dike Road should be "Levee Road", then...
Quote from: formulanone on May 06, 2013, 08:37:06 PM
Quote from: yakra on May 03, 2013, 06:55:48 PM
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
Dike Road should be "Levee Road", then...
I don't get it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=plant+page
Quote from: empirestate on May 06, 2013, 11:44:04 PM
Quote from: formulanone on May 06, 2013, 08:37:06 PM
Quote from: yakra on May 03, 2013, 06:55:48 PM
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
Dike Road should be "Levee Road", then...
I don't get it.
We apologize for leaving you dazed and confused (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin).
Quote from: yakra on May 03, 2013, 06:55:48 PM
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
This one should also be posted in the ironic street name thread as it is quite an amazement.
I'll bet it was intentional. if not by the subdivision owner, then by someone who noticed that the two small connector roads needed names...
Quote from: roadman65 on May 07, 2013, 03:38:45 PM
Quote from: yakra on May 03, 2013, 06:55:48 PM
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
This one should also be posted in the ironic street name thread as it is quite an amazement.
Amazing, but not ironic. It's not my intention to start yet another dicussion of the meaning of "ironic." Check that thread for more than enough of that.
Quote from: theline on May 07, 2013, 07:31:18 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on May 07, 2013, 03:38:45 PM
Quote from: yakra on May 03, 2013, 06:55:48 PM
I don't think this was intentional, but nonetheless:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=43.913609,-69.823834&t=h&z=20 :clap:
This one should also be posted in the ironic street name thread as it is quite an amazement.
Amazing, but not ironic. It's not my intention to start yet another dicussion of the meaning of "ironic." Check that thread for more than enough of that.
They also misspelled nearby 'Center St'.
:-P
Mike
In the core of Downtown Toledo, the N-S streets are named for the Great Lakes, including mini lake St. Clair (Between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie). The E-W streets are named for U.S. Presidents, though not in order. Indeed, the main thoroughfare for West Toledo is Monroe St. (OH-51, former US-223) The cardinal directions are off by about 30°, since the street grid is at an angle.
Quote from: lepidopteran on May 08, 2013, 10:16:02 PM
In the core of Downtown Toledo, the N-S streets are named for the Great Lakes, including mini lake St. Clair (Between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie).
Hmm, including St. Clair? That would make seven names, wouldn't it? Superior, Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, Erie, Ontario, and Champlain. :evilgrin:
Oh wait...I was making a joke there, but it turns out there actually is a Champlain St. in that series. I guess Toledo is on board with the Great Lake status for Champlain movement!
I came here to post this anyway, imagine my surprise to see Great Lakes being discussed!
But Bellingham -- nowhere near the Great Lakes -- has a sequence of Superior, Michigan, Ontario, St. Clair, Huron, Erie. (Yes, ironically, it has a St. Clair, but no Champlain. Also ironically, St. Clair is the longest of the six.)
In the same area, there are streets named after states: Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia, Carolina, Texas, Alabama, North (?), Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Oregon.
These are perpendicular, so that Michigan (named after the lake) intersects about seven of the streets named after states.
There's also a Nevada Street (not part of a theme, but is part of an alphabet) west of the Great Lake streets that intersects several of the state streets.
Geldrop, Netherlands.
http://goo.gl/maps/i1J1w
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps.googleapis.com%2Fmaps%2Fapi%2Fstaticmap%3Fcenter%3D42.886326%2C-70.815618%26amp%3Bzoom%3D16%26amp%3Bsize%3D500x500%26amp%3Bsensor%3Dfalse&hash=b5811206ff76606323f49a8a8d61712a6520b94a)
All names of towns. This extends past this map's borders.
Seabrook, New Hampshire. That is the Atlantic Ocean to the right.
In Indio CA, my childhood home section had streets named for 3 gems (Emerald, Ruby and Tourmaline) and there are streets of Lemon Grove, Orange Grove, Deglet Noor (a variety of date palm), Oleander and Cactus. The north side of town was built in phases in the 1950s and 60s indicated a slower mode of growth at the time before the Indio-Palm Springs area experienced faster, wider-area growth in later decades. Newer parts of the area have Spanish-named streets starting with "Avenida, Calle, Camino and Via" such as the La Quinta Cove neighborhood named for images and traits of Mexico or Spain, since CA owes its colonial past to them.
A subdivision SW of Omaha has street names all from US astronauts. Crippen, Young, Grissom, Lovell, Armstrong, etc.
It's really kinda fun driving around, the neighborhood is large, and there are many streets.
BTW, don't know if this is a widespread problem or not, but in Omaha, for instance, there are several names derived from adjacent streets, but they are confusing. For instance, there are several 136th Circles off of 136th street. Without watching house numbers very closely, it can be difficult to find the correct 136th Circle. Maybe the UPS and FedEx guys are smarter than me, but I've had problems with it.
Streeterville, the Mag Mile, and River North areas in downtown Chicago have the Great Lakes (Michigan, Superior, Erie, Ontario, and Huron)
Conde, SD has streets named after Union Civil War generals: Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and McClellan.
Quote from: MDOTFanFB on December 24, 2010, 10:02:04 AM
In Royal Oak, MI, there is an intersection where Lincoln and Wilson Avenues intersect and there is also a Lincoln-Vermont Avenues intersection to the west.
As I understand, Wilson used to be called Mt Vernon. It had to be renamed when that section was annexed to the City, because there already was another Mt Vernon in Royal Oak. Too bad they named it after the farmer who used to own the land, instead of calling it Oriental. Because the the next two parallel streets are Connecticut and Vermont.
And in neighboring Madison Heights, there used to be a subdivision with street names Frank, Lloyd and Wright.
My area has several:
People who have won the Masters: (Jack) Nicklaus Dr, (Sam) Snead Dr, (Gary) Player Ln, etc. - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1148957,-76.4808372,440m/data=!3m1!1e3
General Golf Terms: Backspin Ct., Birdie Ln, Drivers Ln, etc. - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1148957,-76.4808372,440m/data=!3m1!1e3
19th Century American Writers: Bret Harte Dr, (Walt) Whitman Rd, (Nathaniel) Hawthorne Dr, (Ralph Waldo) Emerson Cir, Mark Twain Dr, etc. - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1113064,-76.5277475,880m/data=!3m1!1e3
Powhatan/Indian names - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1158849,-76.4233068,1760m/data=!3m1!1e3
Members of a championship football team - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1158849,-76.4233068,1760m/data=!3m1!1e3
Legal Terms (Ironic, IMO, because I hear this is a pretty bad part of town) - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1158849,-76.4233068,1760m/data=!3m1!1e3
Gratiot County, Michigan uses the presidential theme for almost all of its east-west mile roads, although unfortunately it doesn't always adhere to the correct order. It starts with Adams near the north end of the county, then Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, but then it skips to Jackson and then Lincoln, and Washington Rd. seems to be the north-south dividing line for the county. The last one before crossing into Clinton County is Wilson. However, there's a twist when it comes to the north-south mile roads: these are all named after governors of Michigan. The grid is imperfect and not all governors appear to have made the cut, but it starts with Mason Rd., named for Michigan's first governor Stevens T. Mason, at the east end of the county and goes up to Ferris Rd., named for Woodbridge Nathan Ferris who served from 1913 to 1917, at the west end. The order of governors looks to be followed more closely than with the presidents, although as mentioned, not all are there. The east-west dividing line for the county seems to run along State Rd. Personally, I much prefer this approach to the numbered roads that are used in many of the state's counties. http://goo.gl/maps/KstMT
Quote from: Thing 342 on February 09, 2014, 05:54:34 PM
My area has several:
General Golf Terms: Backspin Ct., Birdie Ln, Drivers Ln, etc. - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1148957,-76.4808372,440m/data=!3m1!1e3
19th Century American Writers: Bret Harte Dr, (Walt) Whitman Rd, (Nathaniel) Hawthorne Dr, (Ralph Waldo) Emerson Cir, Mark Twain Dr, etc. - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1113064,-76.5277475,880m/data=!3m1!1e3
No Brassie Court, Niblick Avenue, or Stymie Street? I'm disappointed.
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Legal Terms (Ironic, IMO, because I hear this is a pretty bad part of town) - https://www.google.com/maps/preview/@37.1158849,-76.4233068,1760m/data=!3m1!1e3
I'm not seeing them, except maybe Victory?
IIRC, many of the streets in the central isthmus/Capitol area of Madison, WI are named after signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Mike
In Verona, WI, there is a "milky Way." It leads to the "intergalactic" headquarters of Epic Systems, a major healthcare software vendor and former employer of mine. The campus has an alphabetic astronomical theme (Andromeda, Borealis, Cassiopeia, etc.) They also have a Northern Lights Rd.
I have several from Louisiana that are forthcoming.
Quote from: wriddle082 on December 08, 2010, 08:52:51 PM
Quote from: mightyace on December 08, 2010, 12:24:01 PM
There is a section of Nashville near the airport with planet named streets.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bna&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.240038,49.921875&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nashville+International+Airport+(BNA),+Nashville,+Davidson,+Tennessee+37214&ll=36.121878,-86.699102&spn=0.013138,0.012188&z=16
There is also a section of West Nashville where the streets are named after Ford/Lincoln/Mercury automobiles that were produced in the 50s and 60s (Fairlane, Galaxie, Thunderbird, Capri, Continental, Comet, Starliner, Ranchero, Marauder, Sunliner, Edsel, Futura), and other Ford-related names (Henry Ford, River Rouge, Grosse Point, Landau, Fordomatic, Foundry). This neighborhood (Charlotte Park) was mostly built around the time the nearby Ford glass plant was built in the 50s.
Also in Hermitage, east of Nashville, there is one neighborhood with state capitals (Des Moines, Raleigh, Trenton, Baton Rouge, Phoenix, Frankfort, Atlanta, St. Paul, Albany, Denver, Topeka, Concord, Columbus, Juneau). They also have a neighborhood with every street named Bonna-something (Bonnawood, Bonnaspring, Bonnacroft, Bonnalynn, Bonnaridge, etc.)
I think the Bonna thing had to do with the builder. I think it was his daughter's name.
Albuquerque is crazy about theme named streets. The avenues run east-west and are named after minerals downtown, Copper, Lead , Gold, Silver ,Lead, Coal & Iron Avenues. By the University of NM, logically, are other college named streets: Harvard ,Stanford, Yale, Tulane. Overall, the most popular named streets are , with lady's names: Edith ,Mary Ellen, Katherine. This started with land developers naming streets after wives, daughters etc.
Lafayette, LA, has an area known as "Saints Streets" where many of the streets are named after Catholic saints. There are at least two other clusters of streets named for saints around town. (Not surprising for an area with a strong Catholic culture.)
Other themes in Lafayette
- Astronauts (around the airport)
- Cities in France
- Famous Greek names
- Planets
- Presidents (downtown, with an incidental Clinton St right there)
- States (I grew up in this area)
Independence, LA, where I currently live, has several roads with Italian names. But that's largely because the town was founded by Italian immigrants and still has a strong Italian heritage.
Quote from: ET21 on February 08, 2014, 07:59:49 PM
Streeterville, the Mag Mile, and River North areas in downtown Chicago have the Great Lakes (Michigan, Superior, Erie, Ontario, and Huron)
And on the flip side, in the Loop, are a number of Presidents (Washington, Jackson, Madison, Monroe).
Then there's Wacker...north, south, east, and west, not to mention lower.
Vandenberg Village area of Lompoc, CA has many streets named after astronomy-related objects. The main street through the development is known as Constellation. South of CA-1, many streets are named after planets. North of CA-1, many streets are named after zodiac signs and stars.
The area is near Vandenberg Air Force Base, which has many space related projects going on.
Quote from: Jardine on February 08, 2014, 07:02:31 PM
A subdivision SW of Omaha has street names all from US astronauts. Crippen, Young, Grissom, Lovell, Armstrong, etc.
It's really kinda fun driving around, the neighborhood is large, and there are many streets.
Saw something similar in either Austin or San Antonio a few years ago retracing former US 81. As I remember all the names were pre-STS and it was not a large neighborhood, but still made me take a brief side-trip.
Edit: Found it. North Austin off Lamar near Rundberg. It's actually only the Mercury astronauts.
...but my search made me remember one I should have thought of earlier. The N-S streets in downtown Austin are named for rivers in Texas. They are roughly in geographic order from E to W.
The town where I grew up (Port Washington, NY) has a couple of areas with themed street names. Manorhaven has trees in alphabetical order (Ashwood, Boxwood, Cottonwood, ..., Norwood, Oldwood). Salem has its street named after towns in Massachusetts. There's also an area of the town where most of the streets are named after early presidents (Washington through Monroe, and then they throw in Van Buren and Lincoln).
A relatively recent McMansion development in my town (that replaced the East Windsor Speedway due to noise complaints from residents who moved in long after the construction of it, but that's another thread) has a Space Shuttle name theme: https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.25707,-74.536464&spn=0.007041,0.013937&t=m&z=17
Columbia was likely skipped due to the presence of a nearby Columbia Avenue (likely not named after the shuttle) but Atlantis was forgotten as well. I would have taken the eastern half of Endeavor Blvd. (which was not the name of the actual shuttle which used the British spelling, Endeavour) and named it Atlantis so at least you wouldn't have the situation of Endeavor Blvd. intersecting Endeavor Blvd.
A neighborhood in my Chicago suburb has Lori Lyn Ln, Terri Lyn Ln, etc.
Hillsborough, NJ has a handful of streets in a development named after Tolkien references:
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.508628,-74.668601&spn=0.005514,0.013078&t=m&z=17 (https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.508628,-74.668601&spn=0.005514,0.013078&t=m&z=17)
Different sections of Willingboro, NJ (a Levittown development) have their street names all start with the same letter:
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.026793,-74.875817&spn=0.022215,0.052314&t=m&z=15 (https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.026793,-74.875817&spn=0.022215,0.052314&t=m&z=15)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown)
I hear Manhattan seems to have a number theme going on... :sombrero:
Quote from: dgolub on June 22, 2014, 09:10:41 AM
Manorhaven has trees in alphabetical order (Ashwood, Boxwood, Cottonwood, ..., Norwood, Oldwood). Salem has its street named after towns in Massachusetts.
Is the M street named... Morningwood? [insert Beavis & Butthead laughter here] :spin:
The Orlando suburb of Casselberry has a neighborhood named Camelot with such street names as...
Merlin Ct.
Galahad Dr.
Roundtable Dr.
Excalibur Dr.
Guinivere Dr.
and, my personal favorite, King Arthur Ct.
https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.666602,-81.314278&spn=0.00145,0.002411&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=28.666494,-81.314799&panoid=i11G9_QERcB0yEhdkqZ5Jg&cbp=13,274.95,,0,9.49 (https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.666602,-81.314278&spn=0.00145,0.002411&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=28.666494,-81.314799&panoid=i11G9_QERcB0yEhdkqZ5Jg&cbp=13,274.95,,0,9.49)
It's only a model!
Most streets in Ocean Acres, a development in Stafford Township, New Jersey, are named for nautical terms.
The southern end of Brigantine has a handful of streets named for fish, Canadian provinces, and other nautical terms. The northern end has streets named after legendary golfers (there's a massive golf course there).
Quote from: jbnv on June 22, 2014, 06:23:45 PM
Quote from: dgolub on June 22, 2014, 09:10:41 AM
Manorhaven has trees in alphabetical order (Ashwood, Boxwood, Cottonwood, ..., Norwood, Oldwood). Salem has its street named after towns in Massachusetts.
Is the M street named... Morningwood? [insert Beavis & Butthead laughter here] :spin:
How appropriate you mention that term and Beavis and Butt-head together. (Also appropriate that your comment follows after a reference to Massachusetts, seeing as how Beavis and Butt-head sing a portion of "More Than a Feeling" during this episode.)
Quote from: yakra on June 23, 2014, 12:26:41 AM
It's only a model!
Speed limit signs for both African and European Swallows, by chance?
The "theme" for the streets in Fort Scott, Kansas, only make sense if you know the history of the town. All the streets west of Main were named for pro-slavery people while the ones east of it were named for the Free State backers. At one point, this included what is now National Avenue, which was originally named Jones Avenue. The story I've heard is that the town leaders decided that when U.S. 69 was going to be routed down that street, it would be bad form to have the city's main thoroughfare named for a pro-slave person.
There is a section of streets in Pittsburg, Kansas, named for presidents but some of them are out of order.
Pittsburg's order ---> Actual order
Washington ---> Washington
Adams ---> Adams
Jefferson ---> Jefferson
Monroe ---> Madison
Madison ---> Monroe
Jackson ---> Quincy (as in John Quincy Adams)
Quincy ---> Jackson
These were featured on a recent local TV station's piece on how some of the streets in the area were named but no one had an explanation for how Pittsburg's president streets were named in the wrong order.
Reviving, sorry.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.1757577,-115.5696823,17z?hl=en
Animal themed streets.
My hometown of Marysville, WA has four of its north-south streets (squeezed between I-5 and old US 99) whose names alternate between trees and geographic features...sort of. It goes Ash, Beach, Cedar, Delta...
Seattle's downtown streets are named in pairs: Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike, Pine. The mnemonic "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" (JCMSUP) was created to help people remember. The pairs work especially well because our buses use skip-stop spacing and will thus skip one street in each pair.
Quote from: jemacedo9 on December 11, 2010, 09:19:46 PM
Philadelphia E-W streets intersecting Broad are named after PA counties...
North of Market St outside of the original grid (Vine St) yes. E-W south of Market up to South St are named after trees.
The borough of Swarthmore outside of Philly has a bunch streets named after local and Ivy League universities.
Media, PA also has a series of streets named after Founding Fathers and presidents.
Eau Claire, WI has quite a few. There are:
-Numbered Streets
-Numbered Avenues
-Planets/Space Themed
-U.S. Generals
-Trees
Just to name a few.
Google Maps don't show them (all) here, but here in Bethel, we've got an entire subdivision named after apples, and that's just naming one of them. https://www.google.com/maps/place/6+Cortland+Dr,+Bethel,+CT+06801/@41.4004742,-73.384962,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e7febb603ede25:0xcf0af2a161f944f2
Downtown Phoenix has several street (both major and minor) named for presidents:
from N-S:
Roosevelt
Garfield
McKinley
Pierce
Fillmore
Taylor
Polk
Van Buren
Monroe
Adams
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Jackson
Harrison
Buchanan
Lincoln
Grant
Going more south, there are ones named after Native American tribes:
Yavapai
Yuma
Papago (this one really should be changed but I think people have too much trouble pronouncing Tohono O'odham...)
Pima
Cocopah
Mohave
Apache
to the north of downtown there are streets named for place names/landmarks (Pinnacle Peak, Deer Valley, Union Hills, Glendale, Camelback, Missouri, Bethany Home, Indian School, Cave Creek and then Scottsdale, among others) as well as people (Bell, Greenway, etc)
The "avenues" in Highland Springs, VA (all but one of which intersect VA 33 and have "north" and "south" prefixes) are named after trees or flowers: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, etc...
A subdivision in western Henrico County near the intersection of North Parham Road and US 250 has streets all named for Santa's reindeer: Comet Rd, Dasher Rd, Dancer Rd, Donder Rd, and three streets named after Rudolph (Rd, Ct, Terrace).
I just noticed that in the College Park section of Orlando, FL that the streets running E-W are named after universities. For example Princeton Street in Orlando is part of a same theme as Harvard Street, Yale Street, Darthmouth Street, etc.
I never payed close attention to that part of town, but I have always seen Princeton Street, though as that extends outside of the neighborhood as a primary arterial in Orlando which is out of the theme area.
Quote from: roadman65 on August 19, 2015, 11:44:16 AM
I just noticed that in the College Park section of Orlando, FL that the streets running E-W are named after universities. For example Princeton Street in Orlando is part of a same theme as Harvard Street, Yale Street, Darthmouth Street, etc.
I never payed close attention to that part of town, but I have always seen Princeton Street, though as that extends outside of the neighborhood as a primary arterial in Orlando which is out of the theme area.
There's an area like that near where I live too. Note roughly the center of the map. (http://g.co/maps/ytzq5) I've always found the use of "Cavalier Drive" a bit interesting, but presuming it's intended as a reference to the University of Virginia, I have to guess Virginia Drive a few miles away (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Virginia+Dr,+Springfield,+VA+22153/@38.7434271,-77.2126057,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b652ded8525e69:0xf35ffb08c9609403) may have been there first.
El Paso's historic core has a largely in-tact, tightly gridded street network. As you might imagine, it includes some great sets of themed names.
Central El Paso's president streets are incredibly out of order. From north to south: Hayes Ave., Johnson Ave., Lincoln Ave., Truman Ave., Pierce Ave., Fillmore Ave., Taylor Ave., Polk Ave., Tyler Ave., Harrison Ave., Van Buren Ave., Monroe Ave., Jefferson Ave., Jackson Ave., McKinley Ave., (skip a few streets with other names), Hamilton Ave.
After that, streets get into a fascinating listing of southern cities: Mobile Ave., Memphis Ave., Frankfort Ave., Savannah Ave., Richmond Ave., and Louisville Ave.
Further south, around Memorial Park (long ago, the site of the Federal Copper Smelter) you run into Federal Ave., Copper Ave., Silver Ave., Gold Ave., and Bronze Way.
South of the park, several streets are named after Arizona mining towns: Morenci Ave., Bisbee Ave., Douglas Ave.
To the east in the Government Hill and Austin Terrace neighborhoods E-W avenues take on an incredibly British feel: Manchester Ave., Hastings Ave., Cambridge Ave., Cumberland Ave., Chester Ave, and Oxford Ave. Meanwhile, N-S streets are named for heroes of Texas history: Travis Street, Houston Street, Boone Street, and Lamar Street.
Closer to Downtown, in Downtown, and near UT El Paso you get a hodge-podge of last names, trees, cities and states. Numbered streets ascend toward the Rio Grande in South El Paso.
Quote from: mwb1848 on August 19, 2015, 12:07:11 PM
El Paso's historic core has a largely in-tact, tightly gridded street network. As you might imagine, it includes some great sets of themed names.
Central El Paso's president streets are incredibly out of order. From north to south: Hayes Ave., Johnson Ave., Lincoln Ave., Truman Ave., Pierce Ave., Fillmore Ave., Taylor Ave., Polk Ave., Tyler Ave., Harrison Ave., Van Buren Ave., Monroe Ave., Jefferson Ave., Jackson Ave., McKinley Ave., (skip a few streets with other names), Hamilton Ave.
Except Hamilton was never president!
Quote from: JCinSummerfield on August 19, 2015, 01:10:03 PM
Quote from: mwb1848 on August 19, 2015, 12:07:11 PM
El Paso's historic core has a largely in-tact, tightly gridded street network. As you might imagine, it includes some great sets of themed names.
Central El Paso's president streets are incredibly out of order. From north to south: Hayes Ave., Johnson Ave., Lincoln Ave., Truman Ave., Pierce Ave., Fillmore Ave., Taylor Ave., Polk Ave., Tyler Ave., Harrison Ave., Van Buren Ave., Monroe Ave., Jefferson Ave., Jackson Ave., McKinley Ave., (skip a few streets with other names), Hamilton Ave.
Except Hamilton was never president!
Correct. He was in Washington's cabinet.
Dang it! Good eye!!
All the other stuff is correct. I think.
:-D
The streets in the different NCO housing areas of MCAS Cherry Point are the names of North Carolina counties, and names of presidents back in O-country.
Green Bay, WI names streets after Presidents from Washington to Van Buren, and they named the next street after Daniel Webster because the community was very confident that he was going to win the election against William Henry Harrison. When Harrison won, they decided to abandon the theme.
Utica, N.Y. has a bunch of streets named after the Proctor (one of the founders of the city) sisters. Charlotte, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth and Blandina.
Coos Bay OR uses the traditional 1st/2nd/3rd and A/B/C system with a twist. On the A/B/C's, the streets on the southside of the grid are named after local people of historical interest to the letter L. Going north the street names deal with woods and related names up to Y with Q missing.
Rick
random neighborhood in Fishers, IN streets named after nfl teams: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9751581,-85.9519361,16.5z
The roads on the University of Washington campus are named after WA's 39 counties, with the exception of Memorial Way and George Washington Lane.
At first glance, it seems like it was named for presidents, but there's just a good number of counties named for presidents out here.
There's quite a few in Missoula with a bit of history tied to them.
Higgins Avenue - named after Christopher P. Higgins)
Francis, Maurice, Arthur, Helen, Hilda, Ronald, and Gerald Avenue - all named after Higgins' seven children
One thing to note: Gerald Avenue replaced what was supposed to be Hammond Avenue named after Higgins' rival, A.B. Hammond.
Mullan Road (or colloquially the Mullan Trail) - named after Lieutenant John Mullan of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Grant Creek Road - named after Richard Grant
Russell Street - possibly named after Charles M. Russell
Clark Fork Drive/Lane/Way - named after the one half of the Western frontier explorers, William Clark
Great Northern Ave/Loop - named after the Great Northern railroad
Milwaukee Way - colloquially named after the Milwaukee Road rail line, also one of the foot trails along the Clark Fork Riverfront trail system. It roughly follows the old path of the railroad and many railroad relics can be seen along the pathway to date including the original train depot.
I live amongst the presidents in my neighborhood.
Around Massachusetts, there are a few towns (Lexington comes to mind) that have a cluster of roads named after all the early 19th century authors from the Boston area. There are many towns (Peabody and Beverly come to mind) that have clusters themed for colleges, mostly the ivy leaguers with some sub-ivy schools included.
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but Buffalo has the Fruit Belt:
"Maple," "Mulberry," "Locust," "Lemon," "Orange," "Peach," "Grape."
Quote from: Buffaboy on September 03, 2015, 05:33:01 PM
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but Buffalo has the Fruit Belt:
"Maple," ... "Locust,"
Fruit?
Cosmos, MN (pop. 470) - E/W streets are generally named after constellations, and N/S streets are generally named after planets. The northern city line is Northern Cross Ave. and the southern line is Southern Cross Ave.
They skip Uranus St and go right from Saturn St to Neptune St, so I wonder if they skipped that to begin with or if they had problems with sign thefts.
Quote from: GaryV on September 03, 2015, 08:57:53 PM
Quote from: Buffaboy on September 03, 2015, 05:33:01 PM
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but Buffalo has the Fruit Belt:
"Maple," ... "Locust,"
Fruit?
Yeah I don't know, in this "belt" those are just the other names.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8980361,-78.8574613,1168m/data=!3m1!1e3
(Thread revival)
There's a part of Renton, WA (the Highlands neighborhood (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.4979537,-122.1793267,2966m/data=!3m1!1e3)) where the north-south streets are named after counties and other cities in Washington, including other suburbs of Seattle.
From west to east (between I-405 and 156th Avenue SE): Aberdeen, Kennewick, Blaine, Camas, Dayton, Edmonds, Ferndale, Harrington, Index, Jefferson (County), Kirkland, Lynnwood, Monroe, Newport, Olympia, Pierce (County), Redmond, Shelton, Tacoma, Union, Vashon, Anacortes, Bremerton, Chelan, Duvall, Graham, Hoquiaum, Ilwaco, Kitsap (County), Lyons, Mount Baker, Nile, Orcas, Pasco, Quincy, and Rosario (Island).
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using “Quincy” for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
But IMO, the best naming theme is in Dinosaur CO, where streets are named for...you guessed it, dinosaurs. The vast majority of streets are alliterative: US 40 runs through on Brontosaurus Blvd, and the N/S streets include Triceratops Terrace, Antrodemus Alley, Plateosaurus Place, Ceratosaurus Circle, Brachiosaurus Bypass, Camptosaurus Crescent, Diplodicus Drive, and Tyrannosaurus Triangle. There’s also Stegosaurus Freeway (carrying CO 64) and Allosaurus Lane.
Fort Smith uses city names for its E-W streets starting at the 2700 South block , except for Z which is Zero.
North of there, it's alphabet up.
Going north for downtown, it goes up to U St, but aligned NW-SE
North-South Streets are mostly enumerated starting with 2nd.
Quote from: wriddle082 on December 08, 2010, 08:52:51 PM
Quote from: mightyace on December 08, 2010, 12:24:01 PM
There is a section of Nashville near the airport with planet named streets.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bna&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.240038,49.921875&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Nashville+International+Airport+(BNA),+Nashville,+Davidson,+Tennessee+37214&ll=36.121878,-86.699102&spn=0.013138,0.012188&z=16
There is also a section of West Nashville where the streets are named after Ford/Lincoln/Mercury automobiles that were produced in the 50s and 60s (Fairlane, Galaxie, Thunderbird, Capri, Continental, Comet, Starliner, Ranchero, Marauder, Sunliner, Edsel, Futura), and other Ford-related names (Henry Ford, River Rouge, Grosse Point, Landau, Fordomatic, Foundry). This neighborhood (Charlotte Park) was mostly built around the time the nearby Ford glass plant was built in the 50s.
Also in Hermitage, east of Nashville, there is one neighborhood with state capitals (Des Moines, Raleigh, Trenton, Baton Rouge, Phoenix, Frankfort, Atlanta, St. Paul, Albany, Denver, Topeka, Concord, Columbus, Juneau). They also have a neighborhood with every street named Bonna-something (Bonnawood, Bonnaspring, Bonnacroft, Bonnalynn, Bonnaridge, etc.)
The capital themed street neighborhood is nicknamed "The Nations."
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using "Quincy" for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
QuoteBut IMO, the best naming theme is in Dinosaur CO, where streets are named for...you guessed it, dinosaurs. The vast majority of streets are alliterative: US 40 runs through on Brontosaurus Blvd, and the N/S streets include Triceratops Terrace, Antrodemus Alley, Plateosaurus Place, Ceratosaurus Circle, Brachiosaurus Bypass, Camptosaurus Crescent, Diplodicus Drive, and Tyrannosaurus Triangle. There's also Stegosaurus Freeway (carrying CO 64) and Allosaurus Lane.
Must be phone giving one's address over the phone!
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Must be phone giving one's address over the phone fun!
FTFY
My hometown of Wyoming, Ohio, has pretty generic names in the older part (settled in late 1800s), like Maple, Elm, Clark, Washington, etc. But in the 50s and 60s some new subdivisions were built and some of the street names are all Western-themed (though not specific to Wyoming): Laramie Trail, Cody Pass, Flagstaff Dr, Abilene Trail, Morts Pass, Cochise Ct, etc....
Our high school team is the Cowboys.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a neighborhood whose streets were all named after assassins and serial killers?
Quote from: peterj920 on August 19, 2015, 06:21:38 PM
Green Bay, WI names streets after Presidents from Washington to Van Buren, and they named the next street after Daniel Webster because the community was very confident that he was going to win the election against William Henry Harrison. When Harrison won, they decided to abandon the theme.
LOL. :-D Thanks. I grew up in Allouez and never knew why it went to Webster (followed by Clay) before jumping back to presidents one time with Roosevelt.
Quote from: Mark68 on March 07, 2012, 04:46:48 AM
There is a section of Riverside, CA, that is called "Wood Streets". It's an older neighborhood (nice, tree-lined streets), probably dating from the 1910s-1920s, where the east-west (technically WNW-ESE) streets have names like Larchwood, Beechwood, Elmwood, Linwood, Oakwood, Rosewood, Edgewood, Brentwood, & Maplewood.
Sounds like a section of my old town of Eastpointe MI. There was a Elmwood, Linwood, Maplewood, Birchwood, Beachwood, Cresentwood, Oakwood, and Firwood. All was located near Hayes.
Both Warren and Roseville MI had a section named for Car makers (Brands) of the 1920s.
https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4291964279_8098dd6de3.jpg
Disney Way because of Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim, CA.
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using "Quincy" for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
1 - Washington
2 - Adams
3 - Jefferson
4 - Madison
5 - Monroe
(5.1 - John Quincy Adams)
6 - Jackson
7 - Van Buren
8 - Harrison
9 - Tyler
10 - Polk
11 - Taylor
12 - Fillmore
13 - Pierce
14 - Buchanon
15 - Lincoln
16 - Johnson
17 - Grant
18 - Hayes
19 - Garfield
20 - Arthur
21 - Cleveland
(21.1 - Benjamin Harrison)
(21.2 - Cleveland - 2nd term)
22 - McKinley
23 - Roosevelt
24 - Taft
25 - Wilson
26 - Harding
27 - Coolidge
28 - Hoover
(28.1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
29 - Truman
30 - Eisenhower
31 - Kennedy
(31.1 - Lyndon B. Johnson)
32 - Nixon
33 - Ford
34 - Carter
35 - Reagan
36 - Bush
37 - Clinton
(37.1 - George W. Bush)
38 - Obama
39 - Trump
I can see the potential for confusions between Tyler and Taylor, though. :meh:
Mike
The neighborhood I grew up in had streets named after famous universities. I lived on Cambridge, and there was Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Oxford, and Princeton.
My in-laws in Australia live in a subdivision with streets named after famous cricketers. Bradman, Benaud, Simpson, Hassett, Chappell, Border are a few of them.
Oddly enough there is a subdivision in Highlands Ranch (CO) where the streets are Australian cities and towns - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Townsville, Hobart, Darwin, Newcastle, Perth, Rockhampton, Launceston, etc..
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
[snipped]
Right. Since, for 5.1, they've used "Qunicy", I wonder what name they'd use for 21.1, 28.1 (probably "Delano"), 31.1 and 37.1
(I'm guessing they wouldn't need one for 21.2, since the streets are likely named for the presidents, not the presidencies.)
Quote from: empirestate on April 17, 2019, 11:43:47 AM
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
[snipped]
Right. Since, for 5.1, they've used "Qunicy", I wonder what name they'd use for 21.1, 28.1 (probably "Delano"), 31.1 and 37.1
(I'm guessing they wouldn't need one for 21.2, since the streets are likely named for the presidents, not the presidencies.)
Hmmmmm. Interesting question.
21.1 - 'Benjamin'?
31.1 - 'Lyndon'?
37.1 - 'Walker'?
:hmmm:
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on April 17, 2019, 08:18:30 PM
37.1 - 'Walker'?
I immediately thought of someone else – and you're the one that's from Wisconsin!
Joliet, IL has a section where the streets are all named after....rocks. This gives a whole new meaning to the name it calls itself on the billboards--"The City of Excitement" LMAO
The most heavily travelled of these east-west "rock" streets is the street IL-53 uses to cross the Des Plaines River: Ruby Street. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.53649,-88.0880702,17.33z
In Rapid City, SD, in the space of East North Street, East Boulevard North, Lacrosse Street, and SD 44, the east-west streets are named after populous cities in the US (New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis), while the north-south streets seem to be named after cities in Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Racine, Waterloo, Lacrosse)
Seems a little weird to me that not all of the streets are named after presidents, considering the proximity to Mount Rushmore.
Quote from: X99 on April 29, 2019, 10:58:56 AM
In Rapid City, SD, in the space of East North Street, East Boulevard North, Lacrosse Street, and SD 44, the east-west streets are named after populous cities in the US (New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis), while the north-south streets seem to be named after cities in Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Racine, Waterloo, Lacrosse)
Seems a little weird to me that not all of the streets are named after presidents, considering the proximity to Mount Rushmore.
The part that seems weird to me is that Rapid City has all the presidential statues on downtown street corners, with none of the streets named after presidents.
Quote from: Mark68 on April 29, 2019, 01:27:46 PM
Quote from: X99 on April 29, 2019, 10:58:56 AM
In Rapid City, SD, in the space of East North Street, East Boulevard North, Lacrosse Street, and SD 44, the east-west streets are named after populous cities in the US (New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis), while the north-south streets seem to be named after cities in Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Racine, Waterloo, Lacrosse)
Seems a little weird to me that not all of the streets are named after presidents, considering the proximity to Mount Rushmore.
The part that seems weird to me is that Rapid City has all the presidential statues on downtown street corners, with none of the streets named after presidents.
Well, when were the streets named? Mt. Rushmore isn't all that old of a monument, and Rapid City isn't particularly associated with presidents otherwise, is it?
Quote from: empirestate on April 29, 2019, 02:12:37 PM
Quote from: Mark68 on April 29, 2019, 01:27:46 PM
Quote from: X99 on April 29, 2019, 10:58:56 AM
In Rapid City, SD, in the space of East North Street, East Boulevard North, Lacrosse Street, and SD 44, the east-west streets are named after populous cities in the US (New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis), while the north-south streets seem to be named after cities in Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Racine, Waterloo, Lacrosse)
Seems a little weird to me that not all of the streets are named after presidents, considering the proximity to Mount Rushmore.
The part that seems weird to me is that Rapid City has all the presidential statues on downtown street corners, with none of the streets named after presidents.
Well, when were the streets named? Mt. Rushmore isn't all that old of a monument, and Rapid City isn't particularly associated with presidents otherwise, is it?
So you're saying you can't rename streets?
Quote from: X99 on April 29, 2019, 02:24:57 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 29, 2019, 02:12:37 PM
Quote from: Mark68 on April 29, 2019, 01:27:46 PM
Quote from: X99 on April 29, 2019, 10:58:56 AM
In Rapid City, SD, in the space of East North Street, East Boulevard North, Lacrosse Street, and SD 44, the east-west streets are named after populous cities in the US (New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Chicago, St. Louis), while the north-south streets seem to be named after cities in Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Racine, Waterloo, Lacrosse)
Seems a little weird to me that not all of the streets are named after presidents, considering the proximity to Mount Rushmore.
The part that seems weird to me is that Rapid City has all the presidential statues on downtown street corners, with none of the streets named after presidents.
Well, when were the streets named? Mt. Rushmore isn't all that old of a monument, and Rapid City isn't particularly associated with presidents otherwise, is it?
So you're saying you can't rename streets?
Depends on city rules. For example, in Portland, OR, there is a petition process, along with getting businesses along the street to agree, filling out forms, having hearings, and raising money; and it can only be done once per year. That is, unless you are the city, and they just changed street names willy-nilly (which is why Portland Ave became Rosa Parks Way, with no warning... or 39th Avenue became Cesar Chavez Way), and then block the legitimate attempts to rename street names (which is why 39th changed, instead of 42nd becoming Douglas Adams Blvd).
In cases where there is a limit to how much and how often they can enact changes, it may be easier to just not deal with it, and think about those sorts of things when new roads/streets are built.
I never realized this but in Orlando there is a Princeton Street. Just always thought coincidental that it was named after the city in NJ that a lot of you all hate being used as a control city on I-295 N Bound in Mercer County.
Then I drove Edgewater Drive in Orlando at Princeton Street and noticed the names of nearby streets such as Harvard and Yale along with Dartmouth Streets and being its neighborhood in Orlando is called College Park I then realized that Princeton was named after the New Jersey borough.
Quote from: X99 on April 29, 2019, 02:24:57 PM
Well, when were the streets named? Mt. Rushmore isn't all that old of a monument, and Rapid City isn't particularly associated with presidents otherwise, is it?
So you're saying you can't rename streets?
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No.
In the neighborhood in the northwest suburbs of Cincinnati, where my grandmother lived for more than 60 years, and other family members still live, streets are named after trees (Basswood, Sprucewood, Citrus) or cities in Florida (Tallahassee, Lauderdale, Key West)
In Cocoa Beach, FL streets are named after FL counties north of SR 520.
St Cloud, FL uses state names.
Garwood, NJ used trees as a theme.
Roselle, NJ used three streets with a common theme. Locust, Chestnut, and Walnut.
I can't think of any off hand here in Kalamazoo city or township, but the whole county is laid out in a grid where numbered streets go north-south and lettered avenues go east-west. Other neighboring counties have a similar grid layout.
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using "Quincy" for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
But IMO, the best naming theme is in Dinosaur CO, where streets are named for...you guessed it, dinosaurs. The vast majority of streets are alliterative: US 40 runs through on Brontosaurus Blvd, and the N/S streets include Triceratops Terrace, Antrodemus Alley, Plateosaurus Place, Ceratosaurus Circle, Brachiosaurus Bypass, Camptosaurus Crescent, Diplodicus Drive, and Tyrannosaurus Triangle. There's also Stegosaurus Freeway (carrying CO 64) and Allosaurus Lane.
Fun theme, but atrocious for the spelling-challenged.
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using "Quincy" for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
1 - Washington
2 - Adams
3 - Jefferson
4 - Madison
5 - Monroe
(5.1 - John Quincy Adams)
6 - Jackson
7 - Van Buren
8 - Harrison
9 - Tyler
10 - Polk
11 - Taylor
12 - Fillmore
13 - Pierce
14 - Buchanon
15 - Lincoln
16 - Johnson
17 - Grant
18 - Hayes
19 - Garfield
20 - Arthur
21 - Cleveland
(21.1 - Benjamin Harrison)
(21.2 - Cleveland - 2nd term)
22 - McKinley
23 - Roosevelt
24 - Taft
25 - Wilson
26 - Harding
27 - Coolidge
28 - Hoover
(28.1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
29 - Truman
30 - Eisenhower
31 - Kennedy
(31.1 - Lyndon B. Johnson)
32 - Nixon
33 - Ford
34 - Carter
35 - Reagan
36 - Bush
37 - Clinton
(37.1 - George W. Bush)
38 - Obama
39 - Trump
I can see the potential for confusions between Tyler and Taylor, though. :meh:
Mike
Does anybody know which city has the most presidents listed in a presidency themed street list?
Palm Springs-Indio-Coachella does pretty good. It names streets in presidential order, relatively main streets about 1 mile apart. There is no placeholder for JQA. Taylor is skipped in this pattern (but does exist within a golf course along with Eisenhower). The pattern seems to end with Cleveland. [Another street is named after Gerald R. Ford, but he lived in town for a long time after his presidency ended, again not named in the sequence.]
I can't imagine any current presidential theme street pattern that would have a street named after a president more recent than Kennedy, unless they are happy to rename a street with every election cycle.
Quote from: mrsman on June 02, 2019, 08:49:12 PM
I can't imagine any current presidential theme street pattern that would have a street named after a president more recent than Kennedy, unless they are happy to rename a street with every election cycle.
My hometown has a Nixon Street (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5717257,-93.2046538,18.08z). Of course, here it goes in alphabetical order, not in order of presidency, and with substitutions for D and E (Davis and Emerson–I assume the latter was named before Eisenhower was president.)
Quote from: mrsman on June 02, 2019, 08:49:12 PM
I can't imagine any current presidential theme street pattern that would have a street named after a president more recent than Kennedy, unless they are happy to rename a street with every election cycle.
Kimberly, WI (shares a common border with my hometown City of Appleton, WI) has a Ford St and a Carter Ct. They're in an industrial/commercial park that was developed in the 1980s.
https://goo.gl/maps/bakGTaBrukZVKUNS7
Mike
Lakeville, MN, has areas where every neighborhood street (not including main roads) starts with the same letter.
There are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L areas, and there may be more.
Quote from: mrsman on June 02, 2019, 08:49:12 PM
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using “Quincy” for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
1 - Washington
2 - Adams
3 - Jefferson
4 - Madison
5 - Monroe
(5.1 - John Quincy Adams)
6 - Jackson
7 - Van Buren
8 - Harrison
9 - Tyler
10 - Polk
11 - Taylor
12 - Fillmore
13 - Pierce
14 - Buchanon
15 - Lincoln
16 - Johnson
17 - Grant
18 - Hayes
19 - Garfield
20 - Arthur
21 - Cleveland
(21.1 - Benjamin Harrison)
(21.2 - Cleveland - 2nd term)
22 - McKinley
23 - Roosevelt
24 - Taft
25 - Wilson
26 - Harding
27 - Coolidge
28 - Hoover
(28.1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
29 - Truman
30 - Eisenhower
31 - Kennedy
(31.1 - Lyndon B. Johnson)
32 - Nixon
33 - Ford
34 - Carter
35 - Reagan
36 - Bush
37 - Clinton
(37.1 - George W. Bush)
38 - Obama
39 - Trump
I can see the potential for confusions between Tyler and Taylor, though. :meh:
Mike
Does anybody know which city has the most presidents listed in a presidency themed street list?
Palm Springs-Indio-Coachella does pretty good. It names streets in presidential order, relatively main streets about 1 mile apart. There is no placeholder for JQA. Taylor is skipped in this pattern (but does exist within a golf course along with Eisenhower). The pattern seems to end with Cleveland. [Another street is named after Gerald R. Ford, but he lived in town for a long time after his presidency ended, again not named in the sequence.]
I can't imagine any current presidential theme street pattern that would have a street named after a president more recent than Kennedy, unless they are happy to rename a street with every election cycle.
In Riverside & Home Gardens, they do the same thing, with the presidents being a half-mile apart. Starting with Washington thru Lincoln, skipping Taylor, which was named La Sierra Blvd, either for the part of Riverside it traverses, or for the satellite (La Sierra) campus of Loma Linda U. Then, one half mile west of Lincoln, there's McKinley St in Corona.
These were probably named by the county in the late 19th century--before the City of Riverside gobbled up most of that land.
This neighborhood in Calgary has streets that all use "Martin" at the beginning of their names. Yikes.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1176771,-113.9601348,1376m/data=!3m1!1e3
EDIT: Looks like the entire region of Calgary has these naming patterns for each subdivision.
There's a while neighborhood in my town where the streets are named after the American Revolution. You know, Minuteman Ct, Constitution Dr, Independence Dr...
Gratiot County, Michigan has almost all mile north-south roads named after Michigan Governor's and almost all mile east-west roads named after U.S. Presidents.
In Joliet, IL, there is an area where the streets are named after characters from Charles Dickens books - Harwood, Scribner, Little Dorrit, Krakar, Hebbard, Fairbanks, and Pickwick. There is even a Dickens Court.
Quote from: Alps on December 24, 2010, 07:53:20 PM
I lost track of where I was, somewhere in South Jersey I think, there were a bunch of presidential streets, and in the midst of them was a Clinton St. (and this was clearly the case for many, many years). Foreshadowing?
Something similar happened in Chicago - Presidential Towers, a retail and residential complex just west of downtown, built in the early 80s, is bordered by Madison, Monroe, Jefferson, and Clinton
Quote from: dmr37 on December 05, 2019, 10:09:00 AM
In Joliet, IL, there is an area where the streets are named after characters from Charles Dickens books - Harwood, Scribner, Little Dorrit, Krakar, Hebbard, Fairbanks, and Pickwick. There is even a Dickens Court.
Maclen Meadows, a neighborhood in Muskego, Wisconsin, has streets all named after famous authors.
Lakeland, FL has a state named theme in some parts of the city. Not as much as Atlantic City, NJ does, but in Downtown in addition to the main N-S arterial being Florida Ave. other states like Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Massachusetts are in succession to it. Then NJ has a road named after it further to the east from US 98 to Edgewood Drive, but not really part of the downtown them, but nonetheless in the city that has it.
My old hometown of Columbia, MO, is chock-full of themed subdivisions. Here are some examples:
Jungle/animals theme: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9903939,-92.3339003,16z
Kentucky Derby/horses: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.988405,-92.3166162,16z
Cities in North Carolina: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0032389,-92.3143202,17z
19th-century American authors: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9988533,-92.3066598,17z
Missouri counties: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9726296,-92.258498,17z
Indian tribes: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9765831,-92.2588092,17z
National parks: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9532602,-92.252795,17z
Sun/celestial theme: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9537692,-92.2220891,16z
Towns in New England: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9048514,-92.3489153,17z
Cities in Spain: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9122441,-92.3393023,17z
Scottish theme: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.894001,-92.358185,16z
Another Scottish-themed neighborhood: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9523835,-92.3762309,17z
Mountain ranges: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9503059,-92.3852861,17z
University of Missouri football/basketball coaches: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9517243,-92.393279,17z
Colonial theme: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.945796,-92.3820889,17z
Women's names: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9714187,-92.3461687,16z
Birds: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9363643,-92.2982859,17z
Flowers: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.9787752,-92.3769927,17z
Downtown STL has a brief tree theme (Spruce, Pine, Locust, Chestnut, Olive, etc.), in addition to the obligatory MLK Blvd. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6286107,-90.2014587,1665m/data=!3m1!1e3
The western burbs (eg Chesterfield) have upscale-sounding bullshit names like "Worthington Oaks" or "Oakleigh Woods."
The Genesee Gardens is a neighborhood in Bridgeport Township and all but two streets (Broadway and Eastlawn) are named for a fruit hince the Gardens part of the name and the streets going in the other direction are named after a state. The states are Kansas, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, California, Oregon, Virginia and Ohio with Eastlawn in between Oregon and Virginia. The fruits are Olive, Orange, Apple, Peach, Pear and Plum with Broadway being in between Plum and Dixie Hwy.
In Omaha, just north of Harrison St (Douglas-Sarpy County line) that has streets named after presidents: Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Monroe, Polk, Van Buren, Harrison (I think it's named after the president, but not sure), Hayes, Tyler.
The only exception is that there's a Drexel St in there. I could never figure out why that's in there when every other street is named after presidents.
Quote from: mvak36 on June 13, 2020, 02:35:05 PM
The only exception is that there's a Drexel St in there. I could never figure out why that's in there when every other street is named after presidents.
Future president (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_Drexel_%22Fudge%22_Hatcher), maybe? :-D
Quote from: webny99 on June 13, 2020, 05:39:09 PM
Quote from: mvak36 on June 13, 2020, 02:35:05 PM
The only exception is that there's a Drexel St in there. I could never figure out why that's in there when every other street is named after presidents.
Future president (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_Drexel_%22Fudge%22_Hatcher), maybe? :-D
I forgot all about that series until my kids were reading them.
Fudge would be about 50 in the present day, and would probably be excoriated by his opponents for swallowing that turtle.
Quote from: Bruce on June 13, 2019, 12:26:42 AM
This neighborhood in Calgary has streets that all use "Martin" at the beginning of their names. Yikes.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1176771,-113.9601348,1376m/data=!3m1!1e3
EDIT: Looks like the entire region of Calgary has these naming patterns for each subdivision.
Almost as bad as all the "Peachtree"s in Atlanta
The Binghamton area has a few of these:
- On the West Side of the city, there is a block named after famous composers and writers: Beethoven, Mendelsohn (sic), Hayden (sic), Haendel (sic), Mozart, Schubert, Goethe, Schiller (in addition to the misspellings, many of these have non-traditional pronunciations, such as BEE-tho-ven)
- In Endicott, many of the streets are named after Presidents: Fillmore, Harrison, Cleveland, Lincoln, Monroe, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Garfield, Grant, McKinley, Roosevelt, Adams, Arthur, Jackson, Hayes, Taft, Taylor, Harding, Wilson, Pierce
- Two areas of the town of Vestal have streets named after colleges: Oxford, Dickinson, Lehigh, Salem, Madison, Duke, Pratt, Amherst, Marshall, Radcliffe, Taylor, Baylor, Drexel, Marietta, Carnegie, Hamilton, Emerson, (the last four of which branch off of Campus Dr), Hartwick, Siena, Belmont, Cambridge, Cornell, Tulane, Princeton, Purdue, Clarkson, Fordham, Colgate, Briarcliff, Dartmouth, Cortland, Harvard
- In the town of Union, streets named after other cities in upstate New York: Buffalo, Rochester, Auburn, Utica, Syracuse, Elmira
The town of Orange City, IA (which, BTW, is where Pizza Ranch is based) has an alphabetical series of streets named for state capital cities.
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
I was recently reminded of some subdivisions around the Indianapolis metro area that were unique.
In the aptly named town of Avon, named for the river for which a town was home to Shakespeare there's one subdivision called Stratford of Avon named after characters from his plays. With Romeo Drive and Juliet Drive from the main east-west roads, the north-south roads go in order: Shakespeare, Horatio, Claudius, Ophelia, Caesar, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and Keeler (I'm not sure about that last one.)
In Fishers, there's a football themed subdivision with the following names: Bengals, Bills, Raiders, Vikings, Bears, Rams, Cowboys, Redskins, Jaguars, Buccaneers, Dolphins, Titans, Quarterback, Touchdown and End Zone. Oddly, no streets named after the Colts. The name of this subdivision? The Bristols.
Finally in southeast Indianapolis there's a subdivision with the names of Indiana state parks: Shakamak, Corydon, Shades, Clifty Falls, Harmonie, Patoka, Pokagon, Summit Lake and Dunes with a few other similar names.
Quote from: tdindy88 on June 29, 2020, 02:44:05 AM
Oddly, no streets named after the Colts.
When was it built? If it's pre-1984, the Colts would have still been in Baltimore.
Quote from: tdindy88 on June 29, 2020, 02:44:05 AM
In Fishers, there's a football themed subdivision with the following names: Bengals, Bills, Raiders, Vikings, Bears, Rams, Cowboys, Redskins, Jaguars, Buccaneers, Dolphins, Titans, Quarterback, Touchdown and End Zone. Oddly, no streets named after the Colts. The name of this subdivision? The Bristols.
What!? No Eagles??
Quote from: KCRoadFan on June 29, 2020, 10:54:44 PM
Quote from: tdindy88 on June 29, 2020, 02:44:05 AM
Oddly, no streets named after the Colts.
When was it built? If it's pre-1984, the Colts would have still been in Baltimore.
It includes the Jaguars, who entered the NFL in 1995. And the Titans, who changed their name in 1999.
Quote from: SGwithADD on June 27, 2020, 07:00:48 PM
The Binghamton area has a few of these:
- On the West Side of the city, there is a block named after famous composers and writers: Beethoven, Mendelsohn (sic), Hayden (sic), Haendel (sic), Mozart, Schubert, Goethe, Schiller (in addition to the misspellings, many of these have non-traditional pronunciations, such as BEE-tho-ven)
In the Zaragoza, Spain neighborhood of Rosales del Canal, where street are named after composers as well, Haendel is also spelt that way (the original being Händel and German allows to substitute ä for ae when no umlaut is available, however Spanish uses ü so I don't see why they didn't use ä on the street plates). On the other hand Haydn and Mendelssohn are spelt correctly. And Mozart is nowhere to be seen, since he already had a circle at the other end of the city.
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
This pattern covers all presidents between Washington and Coolidge. [No entry for JQA, but an entry for John Adams - no entry for Ben Harrison, but an entry for WH Harrison] Is there another presidential pattern somewhere that reaches more presidents, inclusive and in order?
Horse names in Lexington Ky
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Off US 50 just east of Union, MO, there is a subdivision with Beatles-themed street names: Let It Be Boulevard, Rigby Ridge, Strawberry Fields, Lennon Lane, Sergeant Pepper Street, Lucy Lane, Yesterday Way, and (of course) Abbey Road and Penny Lane. Here it is: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Union,+MO+63084/@38.4356534,-90.9619497,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x87d91be4cffbb007:0x5b772cad32cb5d99!8m2!3d38.4500517!4d-91.0084762
American Revolution/colonial (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1111483,-93.0802786,16.25z) themed
The RSL Academy in Herriman, UT has a neighboring development with several streets named for soccer players: Pele, Mia Hamm, Franz Beckenbauer, Lionel Messi, Hope Solo, and David Beckham. (Maps link (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4810899,-111.9749116,835m/data=!3m1!1e3))
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using "Quincy" for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
1 - Washington
2 - Adams
3 - Jefferson
4 - Madison
5 - Monroe
(5.1 - John Quincy Adams)
6 - Jackson
7 - Van Buren
8 - Harrison
9 - Tyler
10 - Polk
11 - Taylor
12 - Fillmore
13 - Pierce
14 - Buchanon
15 - Lincoln
16 - Johnson
17 - Grant
18 - Hayes
19 - Garfield
20 - Arthur
21 - Cleveland
(21.1 - Benjamin Harrison)
(21.2 - Cleveland - 2nd term)
22 - McKinley
23 - Roosevelt
24 - Taft
25 - Wilson
26 - Harding
27 - Coolidge
28 - Hoover
(28.1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
29 - Truman
30 - Eisenhower
31 - Kennedy
(31.1 - Lyndon B. Johnson)
32 - Nixon
33 - Ford
34 - Carter
35 - Reagan
36 - Bush
37 - Clinton
(37.1 - George W. Bush)
38 - Obama
39 - Trump
I can see the potential for confusions between Tyler and Taylor, though. :meh:
Mike
The eastern half of the Coachella Valley in California (from 78-97 miles from Riverside, going by 5 digit address numbers) has North-South streets named for Presidents' surnames: Washington to Cleveland, but there's no Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. The whole Coachella Valley has West to East streets, every mile you have an even number: From 8th to 86th Avenues. Would it be great to take a picture of 47th Ave. and Polk St. (87 miles from Riverside) which meet south of I-10 and the All-American (Coachella) canal is right there.
Murray, Kentucky has a few examples of themed road names.
One being the Kingswood subdivision, with names like Lancelot, Camelot, and Guinevere. https://www.google.com/maps/@36.5850108,-88.3400692,3a,34.5y,218.73h,84.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbZbyZI0lHsCRASgxvd0D7Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Another being the old part of town's east-west streets, which are named after trees (Poplar, Elm, Sycamore, etc.)
Lastly, the city cemetery's network of lanes are named after presidents. https://www.google.com/maps/@36.6173125,-88.3071231,3a,15y,2.53h,85.09t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1slVdoPKIxzOVy9pwAgSxEEw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DlVdoPKIxzOVy9pwAgSxEEw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D47.049946%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
But yeah, America is brimming with themed roads.
we have a bunch of space-themed streets in fort collins
https://goo.gl/maps/beUMi4kC5HSUoQNg8 (https://goo.gl/maps/beUMi4kC5HSUoQNg8)
I'm not sure if this has already been mentioned on the thread - but I know that in north Philadelphia, a lot of the east-west streets are named for various counties in Pennsylvania.
(Map of the area: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.997896,-75.168042,14z)
What other cities around the country have a series of streets named after counties throughout the state in which the city is located? I believe the example from Atlantic Beach, NY (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5881105,-73.732381,16z) was mentioned earlier on the thread - as a bonus, those streets are also arranged alphabetically, which I like.
The Chicago "K" , "L" , "M" , and "N" streets have been mentioned, but there's more to it. They're grouped one letter to the mile, and start at that mile from the Indiana-Illinois border. So "K" starts 11 miles from the border, "L" starts 12 miles from the border, etc.
I just noticed while driving today that, immediately north of the Textron/Hawker/Beechcraft complex here in Wichita, there is a neighborhood (https://goo.gl/maps/oucrzX3PqmWsYy8P8) with aviation-themed street names:
Chamberlin – pilot who carried the first transatlantic passenger
Beech – founder of Beech Aircraft Company
Byrd – first pilot to reach the North Pole (accomplishment disputed)
Goebel – competitive and aerobatic aviator, winner of the Dole Air Race
Von Thaden – aviation record holder, first female winner of the Bendix trophy
Mellor – co-founder of Beech Aircraft Company, wife of Walter Beech
Hoyt – along with Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna and George Lyle, formed what is basically Spirit AeroSystems today
Quote from: Desert Man on October 26, 2020, 11:52:17 AM
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: empirestate on April 12, 2019, 01:35:29 PM
Quote from: US 89 on April 12, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
In a unique move for Utah cities, Ogden names its grid north-south streets for presidents. US 89 through downtown is Washington Blvd, and the names go up in order east of there, using "Quincy" for the 6th president. The city runs out of room past Buchanan, but the names restart on the other side of Washington, skipping Johnson possibly because he was impeached.
Wonder would they do/would do for the Harrisons, or the Bushes?
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
1 - Washington
2 - Adams
3 - Jefferson
4 - Madison
5 - Monroe
(5.1 - John Quincy Adams)
6 - Jackson
7 - Van Buren
8 - Harrison
9 - Tyler
10 - Polk
11 - Taylor
12 - Fillmore
13 - Pierce
14 - Buchanon
15 - Lincoln
16 - Johnson
17 - Grant
18 - Hayes
19 - Garfield
20 - Arthur
21 - Cleveland
(21.1 - Benjamin Harrison)
(21.2 - Cleveland - 2nd term)
22 - McKinley
23 - Roosevelt
24 - Taft
25 - Wilson
26 - Harding
27 - Coolidge
28 - Hoover
(28.1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
29 - Truman
30 - Eisenhower
31 - Kennedy
(31.1 - Lyndon B. Johnson)
32 - Nixon
33 - Ford
34 - Carter
35 - Reagan
36 - Bush
37 - Clinton
(37.1 - George W. Bush)
38 - Obama
39 - Trump
I can see the potential for confusions between Tyler and Taylor, though. :meh:
Mike
The eastern half of the Coachella Valley in California (from 78-97 miles from Riverside, going by 5 digit address numbers) has North-South streets named for Presidents' surnames: Washington to Cleveland, but there's no Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. The whole Coachella Valley has West to East streets, every mile you have an even number: From 8th to 86th Avenues. Would it be great to take a picture of 47th Ave. and Polk St. (87 miles from Riverside) which meet south of I-10 and the All-American (Coachella) canal is right there.
This trailer park in Illinois has a whole bunch of presidents listed in alphabetical order from Adams to Van Buren. One president per letter and some letters get skipped. They have a Franklin Rd which could either be for FDR or Ben Franklin (who wasn't a president).
Some presidents are named in other parts of the trailer park.
AFAIK no streets named for Jefferson, JQA, either Harrison, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Johnson, Hayes, Arthur, Garfield, Cleveland, Wilson. Kennedy is the most recent president named.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Elmhurst+Rd,+Elk+Grove+Village,+IL/@42.0140236,-87.9355398,17.35z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x880fb0cedee6b801:0x1a2b56d3f1b8e478!8m2!3d42.0132943!4d-87.940461
Update for this:
Quote from: mgk920 on April 16, 2019, 08:15:10 PM
For a row of streets to be named in straight order after USA presidents, with no duplications, the list as of now would be:
1 - Washington
2 - Adams
3 - Jefferson
4 - Madison
5 - Monroe
(5.1 - John Quincy Adams)
6 - Jackson
7 - Van Buren
8 - Harrison
9 - Tyler
10 - Polk
11 - Taylor
12 - Fillmore
13 - Pierce
14 - Buchanon
15 - Lincoln
16 - Johnson
17 - Grant
18 - Hayes
19 - Garfield
20 - Arthur
21 - Cleveland
(21.1 - Benjamin Harrison)
(21.2 - Cleveland - 2nd term)
22 - McKinley
23 - Roosevelt
24 - Taft
25 - Wilson
26 - Harding
27 - Coolidge
28 - Hoover
(28.1 - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
29 - Truman
30 - Eisenhower
31 - Kennedy
(31.1 - Lyndon B. Johnson)
32 - Nixon
33 - Ford
34 - Carter
35 - Reagan
36 - Bush
37 - Clinton
(37.1 - George W. Bush)
38 - Obama
39 - Trump
I can see the potential for confusions between Tyler and Taylor, though. :meh:
Mike
40 - Biden
Because this thread was recently revived, I figured I would add my latest example - one from my area.
The town of Paola, Kansas - about 50 miles southwest of KC - is the county seat of Miami County, which derives its name from the Indian tribe of the same name. The street running west from the courthouse is named Miami Street, and the east-west streets to its north are named for various bands of the Miami tribe (Wea, Peoria, Piankishaw, Kaskaskia), whereas those to the south have the names of various other Indian tribes (Shawnee, Ottawa, Chippewa, Osage). Meanwhile, many north-south streets in Paola are named for minerals and gemstones (Diamond, Iron, Gold, Silver, Pearl, Agate) as well as trees (Walnut, Oak, Maple, Hickory, Mulberry).
Also in the greater KC area, the east-west streets in Leavenworth, Kansas, are likewise named for Indian tribes.
Needham has a few:
Tree themed:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2789663,-71.2259411,17z
Mayflower/Pilgrim themed:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.2862751,-71.2649139,17z
Wilmington, Delaware has a range of presidential streets, from Washington to Van Buren, with Adams in the John Quincy Adams position. (I-95 runs between Adams and Jackson.) There is a Lincoln Street (in a one-way pairing with Union Street) further west, and if the presidential theme had been stuck to, Lincoln would be in the right position.
Old Hickory, Tennessee has a neighborhood of streets with names that would be very familiar to northern New Castle County. My cousin and her family used to live on Barley Mill Road, and there's also Kennett, Montchanin, Brandywine, Rising Sun, and Rolling Mill.
Tewksbury, MA has a group of streets that are named after the 50 states e.g Florida, Maryland, Michigan etc.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5737387,-71.2050031,16z
This group of streets in Lynnfield, MA all end in "wood" e.g Pinewood, Maywood, Elmwood, etc.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.524816,-71.0224269,17z
I mentioned a example one town over earlier, but an unincorporated area across the county line from me has a Derby Circle, a Preakness Circle and a Belmont Circle with six termini along an FM road. They are "circles" after all.
Quote from: mrsman on September 02, 2020, 06:10:17 PM
Quote from: xcellntbuy on December 08, 2010, 08:47:15 PM
Hollywood, Florida uses a presidential theme on its east-west Streets beginning with Washington and ending with Coolidge. The city's gridiron was laid out in the 1920's.
This pattern covers all presidents between Washington and Coolidge. [No entry for JQA, but an entry for John Adams - no entry for Ben Harrison, but an entry for WH Harrison] Is there another presidential pattern somewhere that reaches more presidents, inclusive and in order?
Going west from Federal Avenue, Mason City gets up to Eisenhower Avenue (all of them are Avenues) but Teddy Roosevelt inexplicably gets skipped, JQ Adams is Quincy, Benjamin Harrison is Benjamin and Grover Cleveland is Grover. I don't think there is Truman, either.
Going east from Federal are Avenues named for states in order of admission to the union, but it's just Carolina Avenue. New Hampshire, New York and New Jersey get the New removed. I believe there are a bunch of missing states between Illinois Avenue and Iowa Avenue, which happens to be a minor street on the east edge of town, then there's California Avenue and that's it.
My personal favorite theme is in the Westmont subdivision in Sarpy County, Nebraska, they got streets named for the Mercury Seven.
In the Cloverleaf section of east Houston (NW corner of I-10 and the Sam Houston Tollway/Beltway 8), many of the east-west streets, running parallel to I-10, are named for various small and mid-sized cities in Texas, listed from north to south (the street names, that is, not the cities themselves): Gainesville, Longview, Texarkana, Eagle Pass, Victoria, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Laredo, Hillsboro, Waxahachie, Brownwood, Greenville, Bandera, and Bonham.
In Buffalo, NY, there are various streets named after states (Rhode Island, Delaware, Michigan, Vermont, Ohio, etc.) and after large US Cities (Fargo, Lexington, Chicago, Baltimore, etc.). They're sort of randomly scattered in amongst other streets throughout the neighborhoods south and west of downtown.
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but Fitzgerald, GA, has several interesting street patterns. It was founded as a planned city for Civil War veterans, so all the streets in the central area were named at the same time. (Disclaimer: I've never been there, only found it through random Google Mapping.)
Fitzgerald's origins explain why there are 7 north-south streets east of Main named for Union generals, starting with Grant St (the southbound lanes of US 129) and 7 north-south streets west of Main named for Confederate generals, starting with Lee St.
8 blocks east of Main (on the Union side) is Monitor Dr, and 8 blocks west (on the Confederate side) is Merrimack Dr, named for the most famous ironclad ship on each side in the Civil War.
East-west streets south of Central Ave are named for trees, and east-west streets north of Central Ave are named for local rivers, most of which have Native American names (Ocmulgee Ave, Altamaha Ave, Chattahoochee Ave, Suwannee Ave, etc.).
8 blocks north of Central (on the river side) is Sultana Dr, and 8 blocks south (on the tree side) is Roanoke Dr. These seem a bit random, but Wikipedia tells me they are also ships - the Sultana was a cotton freighter that exploded in 1865 while carrying released Union prisoners, causing the worst disaster in American maritime history, and the Roanoke was another Union ironclad.
Quote from: Road Hog on June 29, 2020, 01:43:40 AM
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
Where is the subdivision in question?
I didn't scroll through all 12 pages so I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but there's this neighbourhood in Toronto that has "Ben" as the theme. Named "Ben Jungle".
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ben+Jungle,+Toronto,+ON
(https://i.imgur.com/ZAXPBgF.png)
Quote from: Poiponen13 on October 23, 2022, 02:54:32 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on June 29, 2020, 01:43:40 AM
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
Where is the subdivision in question?
Not OP, but it's in Celina, Texas with the coordinates (33.3126760, -96.6655886)
Quote from: chrisdiaz on October 23, 2022, 09:57:18 PM
Quote from: Poiponen13 on October 23, 2022, 02:54:32 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on June 29, 2020, 01:43:40 AM
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
Where is the subdivision in question?
Not OP, but it's in Celina, Texas with the coordinates (33.3126760, -96.6655886)
Celina address but technically in the city of Weston. The subdivision is Van Buren Estates.
Quote from: Road Hog on October 23, 2022, 11:48:53 PM
Quote from: chrisdiaz on October 23, 2022, 09:57:18 PM
Quote from: Poiponen13 on October 23, 2022, 02:54:32 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on June 29, 2020, 01:43:40 AM
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
Where is the subdivision in question?
Not OP, but it's in Celina, Texas with the coordinates (33.3126760, -96.6655886)
Celina address but technically in the city of Weston. The subdivision is Van Buren Estates.
Glad to see South Carolina isn't the only place with the postal address being one town and being incorporated within another :-D
Quote from: chrisdiaz on October 24, 2022, 10:24:00 AM
Quote from: Road Hog on October 23, 2022, 11:48:53 PM
Quote from: chrisdiaz on October 23, 2022, 09:57:18 PM
Quote from: Poiponen13 on October 23, 2022, 02:54:32 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on June 29, 2020, 01:43:40 AM
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
Where is the subdivision in question?
Not OP, but it's in Celina, Texas with the coordinates (33.3126760, -96.6655886)
Celina address but technically in the city of Weston. The subdivision is Van Buren Estates.
Glad to see South Carolina isn't the only place with the postal address being one town and being incorporated within another :-D
Also, here in City of Appleton, WI (54915) there is a street (Schindler Pl, it's just NW of the US 10/WI 441/Oneida St interchange) where there are a couple of apartment buildings that are served by the Menasha, WI (54952) Post Office. It is really fun at election time.
Mike
Quote from: chrisdiaz on October 24, 2022, 10:24:00 AM
Quote from: Road Hog on October 23, 2022, 11:48:53 PM
Quote from: chrisdiaz on October 23, 2022, 09:57:18 PM
Quote from: Poiponen13 on October 23, 2022, 02:54:32 PM
Quote from: Road Hog on June 29, 2020, 01:43:40 AM
Regarding the naming of streets after presidents – there is a new subdivision the next town over that manages to do it alphabetically!
Adams
Buchanan
Coolidge
Delano
Eisenhower
Ford
Garfield
That's where it ends. I guess Harrison (both iterations) would be next. Followed by Johnson (twice as well), than Kennedy, Lincoln and a rock-paper-scissors among Madison, Monroe, Millard, McKinley and Milhous.
No I's unless you wanted to double up with an Ike.
Where is the subdivision in question?
Not OP, but it's in Celina, Texas with the coordinates (33.3126760, -96.6655886)
Celina address but technically in the city of Weston. The subdivision is Van Buren Estates.
Glad to see South Carolina isn't the only place with the postal address being one town and being incorporated within another :-D
You should see the "lake country" of Waukesha, WI. I have a friend who lives in the Town of Delafield, but his mailing address is Pewaukee and his kids are in the Hartland school district.
I know someone with a Freeland address, Freeland phone number and Hemlock schools and they live in Midland County. Freeland is in Saginaw County, so is Hemlock and both have their own school districts.
I didn't look at all the earlier posts, but I would be very surprised if this was mentioned.
Near me in Olney, MD there are a bunch of streets with Beatles-related names:
Quarrymen Terrace
Birthday Court
St. George Way/Court
St. Albert Drive/Terrace
Epstein Court
Abbey Manor Terrace/Drive
Starkey Drive/Terrace
Silver Hammer Way
Sutcliff Terrace
George is for George Harrison
Albert for the Paul McCartney song "Uncle Albert"
Sutcliff is missing an "e', should be Sutcliffe IIRC (Stuart Sutcliffe)
Hopefully the rest are more obvious.
Quote from: andrepoiy on October 23, 2022, 09:37:20 PM
I didn't scroll through all 12 pages so I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but there's this neighbourhood in Toronto that has "Ben" as the theme. Named "Ben Jungle".
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ben+Jungle,+Toronto,+ON
(https://i.imgur.com/ZAXPBgF.png)
Welcome to the jungle,
We've got Ben and Ben.
We've got everything you want,
As long as it starts with Ben.
Several neighborhoods in Raleigh have themed names - two near my first house there were Winnie-the-Pooh and the Beatles.
Quote from: elsmere241 on October 24, 2023, 11:54:08 AM
Several neighborhoods in Raleigh have themed names - two near my first house there were Winnie-the-Pooh and the Beatles.
Winnie-the-Pooh? :confused: I have never come across Pooh-themed streets, and I imagined lots of them when I was about 5 years old. Where are the Pooh streets?
There is a Harry Potter themed neighborhood in De Pere, WI. (I believe it's actually the Town of Lawrence.)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/De+Pere,+WI/@44.4272229,-88.1504364,16.5z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8802fc3a8795504f:0x43c09bf2c74137b6!8m2!3d44.4488805!4d-88.0603806!16zL20vMDEwXzJr?entry=ttu
While browsing maps around Communist China and its infamous departure from reality, I noticed several areas in which road names started with the same character. Now I cannot remember more exact details.
Quote from: tmoore952 on October 16, 2023, 03:58:31 PM
I didn't look at all the earlier posts, but I would be very surprised if this was mentioned.
Near me in Olney, MD there are a bunch of streets with Beatles-related names:
Quarrymen Terrace
Birthday Court
St. George Way/Court
St. Albert Drive/Terrace
Epstein Court
Abbey Manor Terrace/Drive
Starkey Drive/Terrace
Silver Hammer Way
Sutcliff Terrace
George is for George Harrison
Albert for the Paul McCartney song "Uncle Albert"
Sutcliff is missing an "e', should be Sutcliffe IIRC (Stuart Sutcliffe)
Hopefully the rest are more obvious.
There's a subdivision on the southeast side of Madison with a similar theme.
Yesterday Drive
Hey Jude Lane
Imagine Street
Honeypie Drive
Day Tripper Drive
And of course, Penny Lane
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on October 25, 2023, 12:49:48 PM
Quote from: tmoore952 on October 16, 2023, 03:58:31 PM
I didn't look at all the earlier posts, but I would be very surprised if this was mentioned.
Near me in Olney, MD there are a bunch of streets with Beatles-related names:
Quarrymen Terrace
Birthday Court
St. George Way/Court
St. Albert Drive/Terrace
Epstein Court
Abbey Manor Terrace/Drive
Starkey Drive/Terrace
Silver Hammer Way
Sutcliff Terrace
George is for George Harrison
Albert for the Paul McCartney song "Uncle Albert"
Sutcliff is missing an "e', should be Sutcliffe IIRC (Stuart Sutcliffe)
Hopefully the rest are more obvious.
There's a subdivision on the southeast side of Madison with a similar theme.
Yesterday Drive
Hey Jude Lane
Imagine Street
Honeypie Drive
Day Tripper Drive
And of course, Penny Lane
The ones in Maryland at least look like passable street names. The Madison names are just obnoxious.
Quote from: silverback1065 on August 20, 2015, 12:22:05 PM
random neighborhood in Fishers, IN streets named after nfl teams: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9751581,-85.9519361,16.5z
Perhaps it's time to rename Redskins Ave.
Quote from: Flint1979 on October 24, 2022, 04:26:41 PM
I know someone with a Freeland address, Freeland phone number and Hemlock schools and they live in Midland County. Freeland is in Saginaw County, so is Hemlock and both have their own school districts.
Let me blow your mind: There is a high school (Braswell) located in the city limits of Little Elm that is in Denton ISD, has an Aubrey mailing address and a Prosper phone number. And the main newspaper that covers them is in Pilot Point.
Quote from: Streetman on November 09, 2023, 03:30:48 PM
Perhaps it's time to rename Redskins Ave.
First it should be Football Team Ave. for two years :sombrero:.
Philadelphia generally has north-south streets with numbers, and there are some clusters of east-west streets. Names for east-west streets are as follows:
- downtown, trees (from north to south, these are Chestnut, Walnut, Locust, Spruce, Pine. Historically, also, Race, Arch, and South were Sassafras, Mulberry, and Cedar. West Philly has in addition Osage and Larchwood, and has kept Cedar.)
- South Philly: governors of Pennsylvania, in chronological order, with some omissions (and, inexplicably, Oregon Avenue)
- North Philly: counties of Pennsylvania, and I have no idea why they picked the ones they did.
The South Philly group is the least obvious because nobody knows their Pennsylvania governors from the nineteenth century.
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on November 10, 2023, 05:31:18 AM
Quote from: Streetman on November 09, 2023, 03:30:48 PM
Perhaps it's time to rename Redskins Ave.
First it should be Football Team Ave. for two years :sombrero:.
I checked the map, that development doesn't even have street with such a name. They don't even have a street named for the local Colts.
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on November 10, 2023, 12:13:31 PM
Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on November 10, 2023, 05:31:18 AM
Quote from: Streetman on November 09, 2023, 03:30:48 PM
Perhaps it's time to rename Redskins Ave.
First it should be Football Team Ave. for two years :sombrero:.
I checked the map, that development doesn't even have street with such a name. They don't even have a street named for the local Colts.
Mike
Zoom in a notch. It's between Vikings Ln. and Touchdown Ave.
In honor of Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day for the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918, I'd like to mention a group of four streets in my hometown, Hamden CT, connected to that war. Marne St. intersects Foch, Pershing, and Haig streets. French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, U.S. General John J. Pershing, an British Field Marshal Douglas Haig all commanded at the Battles of the Marne.
Within a half-mile of these streets are other groups of streets associated with particular wars. For the Spanish-American war there are Oregon, Manila, and Bagley avenues. The battleship USS Oregon was deployed in Manila Bay, and Worth Bagley was the only American naval officer killed in action in that war. There are Lexington and Concord streets, both sites of Revolutionary War battles, with Beacon St. between them, possibly a reference to Beacon Hill. Finally, and rather tenuously, there are Merrimac and Carrington streets. Henry B. Carrington, born in nearby Wallingford, was a Union general of relatively minor importance in the Civil War, and the USS Merrimack was rebuilt by the Confederacy to fight the USS Monitor in the first battle of ironclad ships.
All these streets are on this map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/41.35463/-72.92889
In southeast Huntsville, AL, there's a neighborhood that's got streets all named after King Arthur characters, in a neighborhood that is fittingly-named Camelot (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6244036,-86.5323867,16z?entry=ttu), except for Guenevere Avenue, which is quite clearly supposed to be Guinevere, but someone misspelled the name and it wasn't caught.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on November 11, 2023, 11:03:56 AM
In southeast Huntsville, AL, there's a neighborhood that's got streets all named after King Arthur characters, in a neighborhood that is fittingly-named Camelot (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6244036,-86.5323867,16z?entry=ttu), except for Guenevere Avenue, which is quite clearly supposed to be Guinevere, but someone misspelled the name and it wasn't caught.
According to this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinevere), it's just an alternate spelling, used for example in the musical
Camelot.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on November 11, 2023, 11:03:56 AM
In southeast Huntsville, AL, there's a neighborhood that's got streets all named after King Arthur characters, in a neighborhood that is fittingly-named Camelot (https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6244036,-86.5323867,16z?entry=ttu), except for Guenevere Avenue, which is quite clearly supposed to be Guinevere, but someone misspelled the name and it wasn't caught.
My hometown, Hamden CT, has a Guenevere Ct. (so spelled) and Lancelot Way in the Camelot Woods subdivision.
A new subdivision just down the road from me in McKinney off the east side of Lake Forest has an astronomical theme, which I can dig. Bordered by the Fox Ridge subdivision on the south and a McKinney FD fire station on the north.