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

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Heading south on I-5 in the Sacramento Valley, you head through Willows, Williams, and Woodland.  Called "the W's" if you're coming from vacation in Oregon or parts north, they are the pit stop towns that tell you that you're almost at the turn onto I-80 for the Bay Area.  Also Winters, on I-505, if you take the cut-off instead of going through Davis.




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Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but for anyone who's been to Wisconsin, you're probably very familiar with that "Wisconsin feel" of town and city names:

Milwaukee
Waukesha
Kenosha
Wausau
Manitowoc
Oshkosh
Pewaukee
Kewaunee

I can't exactly explain it, but when you hear these town names, you just immediately know it's Wisconsin.

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Quote from: JoePCool14 on March 06, 2021, 08:20:40 PM
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but for anyone who's been to Wisconsin, you're probably very familiar with that "Wisconsin feel" of town and city names:

Milwaukee
Waukesha
Kenosha
Wausau
Manitowoc
Oshkosh
Pewaukee
Kewaunee

I can't exactly explain it, but when you hear these town names, you just immediately know it's Wisconsin.

Except Waukegan, which is in Illinois.
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Lewiston, Idaho is right across the Snake River from Clarkston, Washington.

Scott5114

Quote from: JoePCool14 on March 06, 2021, 08:20:40 PM
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but for anyone who's been to Wisconsin, you're probably very familiar with that "Wisconsin feel" of town and city names[...]I can't exactly explain it, but when you hear these town names, you just immediately know it's Wisconsin.

I can–those are all Ojibwe or Menominee words, which are both part of the Algonquian language family, both tribes native to Wisconsin.

Likewise, Oklahoma town names have a distinct sound to them, since many of them are based on languages from the Muskogean family (except for the northeast part of the state, which is Cherokee territory, which is an Iroquoian language).  if you've heard enough of them, you can guess what part of the state many Oklahoma towns are in, just based on the tribal boundaries and the sorts of names that come from their languages.
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Quote from: Scott5114 on March 06, 2021, 09:12:12 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on March 06, 2021, 08:20:40 PM
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but for anyone who's been to Wisconsin, you're probably very familiar with that "Wisconsin feel" of town and city names[...]I can't exactly explain it, but when you hear these town names, you just immediately know it's Wisconsin.

I can–those are all Ojibwe or Menominee words, which are both part of the Algonquian language family, both tribes native to Wisconsin.

Likewise, Oklahoma town names have a distinct sound to them, since many of them are based on languages from the Muskogean family (except for the northeast part of the state, which is Cherokee territory, which is an Iroquoian language).  if you've heard enough of them, you can guess what part of the state many Oklahoma towns are in, just based on the tribal boundaries and the sorts of names that come from their languages.

Washington has a lot of cities like this too. I grew up in Wisconsin pronouncing the aforementioned names with ease, but for some reason it took me a while to nail down some of the ones in Washington.

Puyallup
Snohomish
Isiquah
Snoqualmie
Ilwaco
Hoquaim
Sequim
Quilcene
Mukilteo
Wenatchee
Sammamish

Scott5114

^ Those are all words from Salishan languages–yet another tribal language family!
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webny99

A lot of upstate New York names have a certain "feel" to them as well, many of which are also from native tribal languages.
Examples include Iroquois, Irondequoit, Onondaga, Oneonta, Oneida, Oswego, Chautauqua, Canandaigua ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Native_American_origin_in_the_United_States

TheHighwayMan3561

Minnesota has that a bit with Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, Minnewaska, Minnehaha Avenues in both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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Quote from: webny99 on March 07, 2021, 01:49:04 PM
A lot of upstate New York names have a certain "feel" to them as well, many of which are also from native tribal languages.
Examples include Iroquois, Irondequoit, Onondaga, Oneonta, Oneida, Oswego, Chautauqua, Canandaigua ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Native_American_origin_in_the_United_States


And then you have a completely different set of Downstate-sounding names (particularly on Long Island):
Hauppauge
Wantagh
Poughquag
Quogue
Chappaqua
Massapequa
Mahopac
Patchogue

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Quote from: kphoger on March 09, 2021, 10:51:55 AM
Quote from: MinecraftNinja on March 08, 2021, 11:35:13 PM
Western Illinois has Springfield, Quincy and Pittsfield.

How do those names appear related?

They all exist (and are on the larger side) in Massachusetts.
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One combination of cities I've always seen fitting is in Montana. Going East on I-90 there's Butte, Bozeman and Billings in this order.

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Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on March 09, 2021, 03:18:46 PM
One combination of cities I've always seen fitting is in Montana. Going East on I-90 there's Butte, Bozeman and Billings in this order.

Does it work with Ohio's 3 big Cs too?
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I'm not sure if this is something you guys would be interested in, but I read in my US History textbook (am I the only one that actually reads the textbooks in HS?) that a lot of the places settlers pitched camp got names off the top of their heads. I think my favorite ones on the map they showed with all the little stops were Prosperity and Despair. They looked about 1 day's trip apart (back then, of course), so I guess something really killed the mood. Some other interesting names I can remember were, in no particular order, Failure, Hope, Summit, Rivers Crossing, and Deception Hill.
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Quote from: JoePCool14 on March 06, 2021, 08:20:40 PM
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but for anyone who's been to Wisconsin, you're probably very familiar with that "Wisconsin feel" of town and city names:

Milwaukee
Waukesha
Kenosha
Wausau
Manitowoc
Oshkosh
Pewaukee
Kewaunee

I can't exactly explain it, but when you hear these town names, you just immediately know it's Wisconsin.

Ya left off the town I grew up in.

Oconomowoc

People not from Wisco have a blast trying to pronounce that one.

hobsini2

In the Chicago area we have Oak Park, Oak Brook & Oak Forest, River Forest and River Grove, Park Ridge and Norridge.
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kernals12

Quote from: hobsini2 on March 20, 2021, 08:57:35 PM
In the Chicago area we have Oak Park, Oak Brook & Oak Forest, River Forest and River Grove, Park Ridge and Norridge.

I see Chicago likes trees.

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Quote from: kernals12 on March 20, 2021, 11:37:07 PM
Quote from: hobsini2 on March 20, 2021, 08:57:35 PM
In the Chicago area we have Oak Park, Oak Brook & Oak Forest, River Forest and River Grove, Park Ridge and Norridge.

I see Chicago likes where there used to be trees.

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Quote from: GaryV on March 21, 2021, 07:36:12 AM
Quote from: kernals12 on March 20, 2021, 11:37:07 PM
Quote from: hobsini2 on March 20, 2021, 08:57:35 PM
In the Chicago area we have Oak Park, Oak Brook & Oak Forest, River Forest and River Grove, Park Ridge and Norridge.

I see Chicago likes where there used to be trees.

FIFY

And Illinois is the Prairie State because it used to be prairie, but now 99% of it is wiped out.

Chicagoland likes to name places after trees because trees are special and hard to come by!  So if you look at it a certain way, the constant touting of trees is a testament to the general lack of them.  You name a place after what is especially attractive about that place.  "Oak Park:  There's actually an oak tree here, come check it out."
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Quote from: paulthemapguy on March 22, 2021, 11:49:04 AM
Chicagoland likes to name places after trees because trees are special and hard to come by!  So if you look at it a certain way, the constant touting of trees is a testament to the general lack of them.  You name a place after what is especially attractive about that place.  "Oak Park:  There's actually an oak tree here, come check it out."

I have noticed that Chicago has a lot of tree-themed, or at least tree-adjacent, suburb names.

There's Elmhurst, Willowbrook, Woodridge, Oak Brook, Elmwood Park, Wood Dale... and probably plenty more.

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Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on November 14, 2020, 01:03:28 AM
No longer applies because she just got married, but two adjacent towns in Idaho form the maiden name of my first college crush.

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Quote from: GaryV on March 21, 2021, 07:36:12 AM

Quote from: kernals12 on March 20, 2021, 11:37:07 PM

Quote from: hobsini2 on March 20, 2021, 08:57:35 PM
In the Chicago area we have Oak Park, Oak Brook & Oak Forest, River Forest and River Grove, Park Ridge and Norridge.

I see Chicago likes where there used to be trees.

FIFY

Not a fair assessment at all.  Chicagoland has a lot of trees.  And specifically in some of those places mentioned.  Take a drive in the residential neighborhoods of Oak Park and River Forest in October, and there's a decent change your car will be swallowed whole by a pile of leaves.

random spot in Oak Park
random spot in River Forest
the freaking WOODS in River Grove

Those towns are full of old-growth trees.  Oak Brook is different, but at least they re-planted their neighborhoods with trees:

random spot in Oak Brook

In general, the Chicago area has a LOT of park and forest land–more than many other cities.  Maybe not so much the city proper but, then, we're talking about the suburbs anyway, aren't we?
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