Redundant City Names

[xonhulu]

Spinning off the Redundant Street Names thread, what redundant city names are there in your state (or are anywhere you know of)?

Here in Oregon, we have Forest Grove, two words that both refer to a group of trees, although "forest" implies a larger collection.

Down in southern Oregon, there is the small town of Glendale.  "Glen" and "dale" basically both mean "valley."

Anybody else?

[agentsteel53]

Down in southern Oregon, there is the small town of Glendale.  "Glen" and "dale" basically both mean "valley."

there is a suburb of Los Angeles called Glendale as well.

[allniter89]

Down in southern Oregon, there is the small town of Glendale.  "Glen" and "dale" basically both mean "valley."

there is a suburb of Los Angeles called Glendale as well.

Glendale, Florida

[golden eagle]

Glendale, AZ

How about Oak Grove?

[allniter89]

Benton Harbor, michigan

[yanksfan6129]

Benton Harbor, michigan

I fail to see the redundancy.

[Landshark]

Walla Walla

[Brandon]

When using the official names, the Department of Redundancy Department rears its head in Illinois.

City of Granite City, IL
Village of Elk Grove Village, IL (IIRC)
Village of Libertyville, IL (ville = village)
City of Naperville (a bit of a contradiction)

[english si]

While not a city, Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria is literally 'hill hill hill Hill' - it seems that as times changed, the original meaning was lost so 'Hill' became 'Hill Pen' became 'Torpen Hill' became 'Torpenhow Hill'

'Ham' and 'Ton' both mean enclosure/farm/settlement, so Hampton (and Northampton, Southampton, Littlehampton, etc) is a perhaps a tautology.

[US71]

Helena-West Helena, AR

Formerly 2 separate communities, they merged several years ago

[xcellntbuy]

Fort Lauderdale, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, North Lauderdale, Lauderdale Lakes, Lauderhill, all in Broward County, Florida.

[Stephane Dumas]

In Detroit, there the Grosse Pointe area who have the following

Grosse Pointe Park, city
Grosse Pointe, city
Grosse Pointe Farms, city
Grosse Pointe Shores, city (incorporated in 2009 from the remnants of two townships, Grosse Pointe Township in Wayne County and Lake Township in Macomb County)
Grosse Pointe Woods

I saw at some other forums then Grosse Pointe Shores wants to left Wayne Co to Macomb Co and/or a amalgation of all the Pointes.

[xonhulu]

Helena-West Helena, AR

Formerly 2 separate communities, they merged several years ago

And they seriously couldn't just called the merged city "Helena?"

[formulanone]

There's an Earth, Texas.

And a Lorida, Florida, as well as lots of other (mostly suburban) towns/cities in the state that have no meaning to reality, they just sound tropical.

[SteveG1988]

Burlington coat factory, in Burlington, burlington county nj. Formerly the county seat, which moved to Mount Holly Township.

[Bryant5493]

Stone Mountain, Georgia - The park is in the city of the same name (or just outside of it).


Be well,

Bryant

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Cleveland, East Cleveland, and Cleveland Hts. All in Cuyahoga County.

[Bryant5493]

Dublin and East Dublin - both are in Laurens County, Georgia

Ellijay and East Ellijay - both are in Gilmer County, Georgia


Be well,

Bryant

[roadman65]

Washington is used too much in New Jersey!  There are three communities named that within 10 miles of each other in Northern New Jersey.  Two border each other and most do not know that they are two different corporations.  Washington Borough and Washington Township in Warren County are up the road from Washington Township in Morris County.

How many Springfields are there in the US?

[SteveG1988]

Cape May Court House NJ and Cape may NJ, two towns that are near each other, one sounds like the destination inside of the other.

or Moorestown and Morristown NJ, two different regions, if you talk to someone from north jersey and pronounce Moorestown wrong, you confuse them thinking you are talking about the town in north jersey, and not the town off 295/nj38 in south jersey.

Newark NJ, Newark Delaware, two cities with the same name, but different pronunciation.

[roadman65]

Newark NJ, Newark Delaware, two cities with the same name, but different pronunciation.


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Newoork or New Ark.

[Duke87]

Table Mesa, CO.

("mesa" is Spanish for "table")

[Alps]

Not redundant, but an oxymoron: Deerfield Beach, Florida. I know there exist Key Deer, but those are in the Keys. No deer on a beach, not to mention no fields on a beach.

My "favorite" state of PA has a Townville.

[formulanone]

Not redundant, but an oxymoron: Deerfield Beach, Florida. I know there exist Key Deer, but those are in the Keys. No deer on a beach, not to mention no fields on a beach.

There actually were a tiny handful of deer in the estuary along some of the shallow portions of the Intracoastal Waterway, but their numbers are quite small as to be insignificant. There were deer crossing signs by A1A, just south of SR 810, but admittedly, I haven't seen the sign in years, as most deer populations have pretty much moved to the Everglades.

[hobsini2]

Leeds and North Leeds WI are 2 unincorporated towns separated by 2 miles and all they are are junctions on US 51.

BTW, Oshkosh had at one point been 2 separate towns: Algoma (north of the Fox River) and Brooklyn (south) before the USPS made them change because there were already towns in WI with those names.