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Non-Road Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: roadman65 on August 18, 2018, 08:01:13 PM
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I would say that Clinton and Columbia are quite popular.
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With google, it's hard to stump the band.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-common-town-and-city-names-in-the-u-s-a.html (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-common-town-and-city-names-in-the-u-s-a.html)
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With google, it's hard to stump the band.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-common-town-and-city-names-in-the-u-s-a.html (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-common-town-and-city-names-in-the-u-s-a.html)
I don't see Columbia, Troy, nor Eureka on that list.
This website may be helpful for this question:https://us.geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Eureka&all=all&part=exact (https://us.geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Eureka&all=all&part=exact)
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Jackson and Lincoln pop up frequently.
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At the other end of popularity are names that are unique.
Front Royal, VA is the only instance of that name (at least in the U.S.)
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There are quite a few with 'Jacksonville'.
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With google, it's hard to stump the band.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-common-town-and-city-names-in-the-u-s-a.html (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-common-town-and-city-names-in-the-u-s-a.html)
I'm not sure how that's counting them. There shouldn't be more than one Washington per state, since "Washington Township" isn't being included (the number would be over 100 if it was).
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Greenville, Liberty, and Independence are fairly popular.
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Paris is decently frequent. Not as frequent as Washington though.
LG-TP260
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I'm not sure how that's counting them. There shouldn't be more than one Washington per state, since "Washington Township" isn't being included (the number would be over 100 if it was).
"Occurrences of Place Name Nationwide"
Cities and towns, counties, and townships. Virginia doesn't have townships, but there are a number of cases where a county has the same name as a city or town.
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I'm not sure how that's counting them. There shouldn't be more than one Washington per state, since "Washington Township" isn't being included (the number would be over 100 if it was).
"Occurrences of Place Name Nationwide"
Cities and towns, counties, and townships. Virginia doesn't have townships, but there are a number of cases where a county has the same name as a city or town.
That's true in North Carolina as well, among others, and like in Virginia, the county isn't necessarily near the city or town with the same name–Richmond County, Virginia, is on the Northern Neck, for example, and in North Carolina Rockingham County is up on the Virginia state line while the city of Rockingham (where the lamented NASCAR speedway is located) is down near the South Carolina state line in (amusingly, given my Virginia example) Richmond County.
Come to think of it, Virginia has a Washington County in far Southwest Virginia (county seat is Abingdon), quite far away from the small town (population 135 as of the last census) of Washington, Virginia, that's the county seat of Rappahannock County and is better known as "Little Washington" due both to the proximity to the Nation's Capital and to the absolutely outstanding Inn at Little Washington located in town.
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Penn Township is pretty popular in Pennsylvania.
Fairfield is pretty popular. Also many that are named after places in the UK such as Manchester, Windsor, Bristol, Middletown, Albany, Plymouth, Chester, Woodbury to name a few
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Of notable places, Bloomington. MN, IL, and IN (and more) all have Bloomingtons that have a regional draw.
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For repeating place names in one state, look at the lists of townships in Indiana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indiana_townships) and Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_townships_in_Ohio).
For example, I count 28 Jefferson Townships in Indiana and 24 in Ohio.
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I've seen lots of Concords, Portlands and Wilmingtons on the map as well.
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Lots of towns use city as part of the name
Kansas City, Iowa City, Lowry City, Y City, etc
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Highland Park seems to be popular too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park
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I'm not sure how that's counting them. There shouldn't be more than one Washington per state, since "Washington Township" isn't being included (the number would be over 100 if it was).
"Occurrences of Place Name Nationwide"
Cities and towns, counties, and townships. Virginia doesn't have townships, but there are a number of cases where a county has the same name as a city or town.
That's true in North Carolina as well, among others, and like in Virginia, the county isn't necessarily near the city or town with the same name–Richmond County, Virginia, is on the Northern Neck, for example, and in North Carolina Rockingham County is up on the Virginia state line while the city of Rockingham (where the lamented NASCAR speedway is located) is down near the South Carolina state line in (amusingly, given my Virginia example) Richmond County.
Come to think of it, Virginia has a Washington County in far Southwest Virginia (county seat is Abingdon), quite far away from the small town (population 135 as of the last census) of Washington, Virginia, that's the county seat of Rappahannock County and is better known as "Little Washington" due both to the proximity to the Nation's Capital and to the absolutely outstanding Inn at Little Washington located in town.
Another North Carolina one:
There is an Ashe County, North Carolina but neither Asheville or Asheboro are located there. The fact that Nashville is located in Nash County seems to be an exception to the general rule in NC and Virginia.
South Carolina on the other hand is reasonably good about keeping towns in their same name counties. Dillon is in Dillon County, Florence is in Florence County, Darlington is in Darlington County, Marion is in Marion County.....etc.
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Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Lincoln
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield
Fairfield is a popular city name but California and Connecticut are the most notable examples using this name.
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Monroe is very, very popular for counties and towns. Less so for cities, though there are some.
Most former presidents - at least the significant ones - have multiple namesakes in every state.
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Most former presidents - at least the significant ones - have multiple namesakes in every state.
Some of them aren't named for the presidents though. (Lincoln MA and NH, every Clinton, and many others)
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Most former presidents - at least the significant ones - have multiple namesakes in every state.
Some of them aren't named for the presidents though. (Lincoln MA and NH, every Clinton, and many others)
Yes, coincidence in some cases. There were famous Clintons before the president, and Lincoln is a city in the UK.
It is pretty safe to assume most of the Washingtons, Jeffersons, Madisons, and Monroes are named for their respective Presidents.
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There are quite a few with 'Jacksonville'.
Or just "Jackson" or "Jackson xxx".
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Columbus
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I would say that Clinton and Columbia are quite popular.
With only 40 non-living presidents and 365 days of the year, more things get named for presidents than feast days. In the Latin World, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian explorers, after naming features for all of the important people in their parties, often resorted to naming features after the feast day on which they were discovered (or near which they were discovered or named). Nacimiento Lake was named for Christmas, Ano Neuvo Beach for New Year's Day, and San/ta almost-everything for the feast day.
This results in a lot of duplication amongst California, Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico or the Caribbean. Occasionally, there are masculine vs. feminine forms and mild shifts in local pronunciation owing to dialectical differences either at the time of naming or the progress of the local accent.
As an aside: A city in Texas and California sharing the last 8 letters in common that don't rhyme ....
Amarillo and Camarillo.
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There’s quite a few Decaturs.
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In Oregon as well as Minnesota, there is a Cottage Grove. In Oregon there is a Pleasant Hill. Go to Utah and see what happens when the names get mixed. You wind up with Pleasant Grove!
In Oregon, Springfield and Albany are larger (for our state) cities and they are 40 miles apart. Louisiana has the same two names but those are small towns only 6 miles apart.
In Oregon, Salem is the state capital. Utah's Salem is a small town.
Ontario is in Eastern Oregon. Ontario as a province is in Eastern Canada. Ontario as a large suburban (to LA) city is in SoCal.
Want the Bends? Oregon has a Bend and a North Bend. The first is in Central Oregon and the second is on the southern coast. Washington has a North Bend and it is in ski country. Nebraska has a North Bend along the Platte River as I recall. Indiana has a South Bend, home to Notre Dame's Fighting Irish.
If I had to guess which Oregon incorporated city names would be found the most outside the Beaver State, the two I would go with would be Lakeside and Lakeview. There are a lot of lakes in the USA after all!
Rick
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^^ There is also a Cottage Grove WI, along with West Bend in WI
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^^ There is also a Cottage Grove WI, along with West Bend in WI
Kewl beans! Wisconsin also has a Marshfield, which is the city of Coos Bay's original name (changed in 1943). Oregon's Milwaukie is a bit different than Wisconsin's Milwaukee. I wonder why they are spelled differently?
Rick
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Well there Pittsburgh, PA...along with Pittsburg, NH and Pittsburg, KS.
Connecticut is nearly uniform with each county having a town or city with the same name:
Litchfield
Hartford
Tolland
Windham
Fairfield
New Haven
Middlesex (closest match is Middletown)
New London
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I'd say Plainfield is fairly popular.
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I would say that Clinton and Columbia are quite popular.
Right but the Clinton has nothing to do with the President. They were named long before.
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Another one is Pulaski, with 7 counties and plenty of locations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski