Themed street names

[empirestate]

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.

[Skye]

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)

[roadman65]

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. 

[ce929wax]

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.

[mrsman]

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.

[mrsman]

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. 

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.

[MNHighwayMan]

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. 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.)

[mgk920]

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

[webny99]

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.

[Mark68]

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. 

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.

[Bruce]

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.

[TheGrassGuy]

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...

[Flint1979]

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.

[dmr37]

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.

[dmr37]

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

[X99]

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.

[roadman65]

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.

[KCRoadFan]

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

[STLmapboy]

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."

[Flint1979]

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.

[mvak36]

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.

[webny99]

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, maybe? 

[formulanone]

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, maybe? 

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.

[mapman1071]

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

[SGwithADD]

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