Towns in close proximity with names that are related and/or seem to go together?

[KCRoadFan]

Having driven I-271 around the east side of Cleveland, OH, I know that Shaker Heights is one of that city's main suburbs in that part of the metro. I also know that right down the road from Shaker Heights, just across 271, is Pepper Pike - something that I got a kick out of, given that the names with "Shaker" and "Pepper" go hand-in-hand, and that they're just a few miles apart from one another.

That, in turn, made me think of other sets of towns with related or similar names that are close to one another. Another example that comes to mind is in Rhode Island, just off US 1 near Kingston; there, two towns face one another across "The Breachway," called Jerusalem and Galilee.

Meanwhile, in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, Moon Township isn't too far from Mars - those two towns are just 23 miles apart. Of course, also in PA, there's arguably the most famous example of this phenomenon: namely, all those rather colorfully named towns in Lancaster County, with names like Bird-in-Hand, Blue Ball, Intercourse, Mount Joy, and Paradise.

Also, in Georgia, Stone Mountain is an Atlanta suburb, named for the nearby namesake mountain; near there is the town of Lithonia, whose name derives from the Greek root word "lithos," which means "stone."

Aside from what I mentioned above, what other examples can you think of, where there are two (or more) towns close to one another, whose names appear to complement one another or otherwise be related? I'm sure there are several.

[hotdogPi]

Derry, NH and Londonderry, NH.
Nashville, MI and Charlotte, MI. (They're much closer than their "real" counterparts are.)

Upstate New York has enough foreign city and country names that there are probably some near each other just by random chance.

New York has Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Belfast, Berlin, Bombay, Cairo, Copenhagen, Delhi, Dover, Florence, Geneva, Genoa, Hamburg, Jerusalem, Liverpool, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Naples, Odessa, Orleans, Paris, Potsdam, Rome, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw

Cuba, German, Greece, Holland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Persia, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Wales

Another example that comes to mind is in Rhode Island, just off US 1 near Kingston; there, two towns face one another across "The Breachway," called Jerusalem and Galilee.

Neither of these is a town.

[Dirt Roads]

Once upon a time:  Winston and Salem (now merged as Winston-Salem).  Both headlined as cigarette brands by the local tobacco company - R. J. Reynolds.

[vdeane]

Upstate New York has enough foreign city and country names that there are probably some near each other just by random chance.

New York has Amsterdam, Antwerp, Athens, Belfast, Berlin, Bombay, Cairo, Copenhagen, Delhi, Dover, Florence, Geneva, Genoa, Hamburg, Jerusalem, Liverpool, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Naples, Odessa, Orleans, Paris, Potsdam, Rome, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw

Cuba, German, Greece, Holland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Persia, Peru, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Wales

The Village of Poland is near of within the Town of Russia.  The Town of Norway is adjacent.  The City of Rome, Town of Vienna, and Town of Paris are all in Oneida County.

Out in Central NY, we have the adjacent towns of Victory and Conquest.  There's also an above average number of towns named after Romans in the area - there's Cicero, Brutus, and Cato.  Broadening out to other classical history figures, we have Lysander and Hannibal.

[Scott5114]

Once upon a time:  Winston and Salem (now merged as Winston-Salem).  Both headlined as cigarette brands by the local tobacco company - R. J. Reynolds.

Except those brands were probably named after the towns. So it's the other way around; the cigarette brands are related and seem to go together with towns in close proximity.

[Bruce]

Mountlake Terrace and Lake Forest Park: neighboring cities that each describe three natural features in their names.

The Coast Salish peoples of Western Washington shared a family of languages, so many placenames have the suffix -mish (Snohomish, Stillaguamish, Sammamish, Duwamish), which basically means "people of the X river".

[roadman65]

Scotch Plains, NJ and Plainfield, NJ.  They currently border each other (Terrell Road is the border) and both were derived from the plains that were of the area at one time.

[cpzilliacus]

County seat of Prince George's County, Maryland is in this incorporated town:

Upper Marlboro, Maryland

About 17 miles south (by road) and in a different county is this unincorporated but still historic place (complete with historical marker):

Lower Marlboro, Maryland

[TheStranger]

Samoa and Manila both in the far northwest corner of California, all seaside areas

Calexico/Mexicali along the Baja border

Claremont/Montclair at the LA County/San Bernardino County border

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Had all of them survived, it would be funny to enter Kansas from Colorado on KS 96 and find Colokan, Kanco, Cokan and Kanado all in close sucession . Too bad the only such portmanteau to survive to this day (Kanorado) is 60 miles to the North on I-70 instead...

[DandyDan]

Three of the small towns near Mason City are Rock Falls, Rockford and Rockwell.

[jmd41280]

Mifflin and Mifflintown, PA: Neighboring communities in Juniata County, PA that are separated by the Juniata River

[NWI_Irish96]

Miami County Indiana has a Mexico and a Peru.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Another chain of similarly named-communities I remembered, this time all of them are extant: Oakview, Oakwood Park, Oakwood and Oaks, all small suburbs of Kansas City.

In addition, any similarly named pairs of towns straddling a border should count, like Valga, Estonia and Valka, Latvia; or Karesuando, Sweden and Kaaresuvanto, Finland. Even though in their native languages the "foreign" one of the pair is spelt exactly as the "domestic" one.

[KCRoadFan]

Mifflin and Mifflintown, PA: Neighboring communities in Juniata County, PA that are separated by the Juniata River

There's also Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine.

[jp the roadgeek]

An old boyfriend of my mom when driving back to NYC from CT always used to say as they drove on I-84 "We're going through the Bury's"  because you have Water-bury, Middle-bury, and South-bury all in a row, with Wood-bury nearby.

Speaking of Waterbury, Watertown is right next door, and Waterville is a neighborhood on CT 73 between the two. 

Then you have the Lyme's (regular, Old, and East) right across the Connecticut River from the brook's (Old Say, West, and the Center portion of Essex). 

[kphoger]

An old boyfriend of my mom when driving back to NYC from CT always used to say as they drove on I-84 "We're going through the Bury's"  because you have Water-bury, Middle-bury, and South-bury all in a row, with Wood-bury nearby.

In a similar vein but not town-related...  I was once driving back to Wichita from KC, and my dad called and asked where I was.  I replied that I was in "the four-letter creek stretch".  He knew exactly where I was.

Here is the stretch of named bridges, all in a row:  Rock Creek, Coal Creek, Long Creek, Frog Creek.

[Big John]

Neenah-Menasha WI.  I hear them more together than as separate cities.

[frankenroad]

Here in southwestern Ohio, where we have the Great Miami River and the Little Miami River, the following towns exist:

Miamiville
Miamitown
New Miami
Miami Township (multiple ones)
Miamisburg

not to mention, Miami University and Miami County

(for those wondering - the Miami Indians were among the tribes that lived in this area.  Not sure how the name got transferred to Florida).

[webny99]

In a similar vein but not town-related...  I was once driving back to Wichita from KC, and my dad called and asked where I was.  I replied that I was in "the four-letter creek stretch".  He knew exactly where I was.

In North Dakota, meanwhile, there's a single elevation change on I-29 between Grand Forks and the Canadian border, referred to by locals as "the hill".

As in: "Where you at?"
"Just coming over the hill"

[kphoger]

Yeah, local names are fun.  For example:

Similarly, there is no town of Rudaville in Rawlins County, Kansas.  Yet, if I tell someone from Rawlins County that so-and-so lives three miles east of Rudaville, they'll know exactly where I'm talking about.  It's three miles east of where the Ruda family has historically owned farmland.

(FWIW & IIRC, this is Rudaville.)

[mrsman]

Once upon a time:  Winston and Salem (now merged as Winston-Salem).  Both headlined as cigarette brands by the local tobacco company - R. J. Reynolds.

Except those brands were probably named after the towns. So it's the other way around; the cigarette brands are related and seem to go together with towns in close proximity.

And I would assume that's the same with Pontiac, MI and Cadillac, MI.

[mrsman]

Romeoville, IL with Joliet, IL.

[GaryV]

Once upon a time:  Winston and Salem (now merged as Winston-Salem).  Both headlined as cigarette brands by the local tobacco company - R. J. Reynolds.

Except those brands were probably named after the towns. So it's the other way around; the cigarette brands are related and seem to go together with towns in close proximity.

And I would assume that's the same with Pontiac, MI and Cadillac, MI.

Pontiac cars began in Pontiac, MI.  There was also a sister brand, Oakland.  (Pontiac is in Oakland County.)

Cadillac autos and the city have no relationship, other than both being named for the founder of Detroit, Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.

[Buck87]

In the Firelands region of Ohio there are a bunch of municipalities and townships named after places in Connecticut:

Norwalk
New London
New Haven
Greenwich
Norwich
Danbury
Groton
Fairfield
Ridgefield
Oxford
Berlin
Sherman
Hartland