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.
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.
Quote from: 1 on August 09, 2020, 10:05:40 AM
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
Quote from: KCRoadFan on November 02, 2020, 08:06:05 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: 1 on November 02, 2020, 08:13:27 PM
Upstate New York has enough foreign city and country names that there are probably some near each other just by random chance.
Quote from: 1 on August 09, 2020, 10:05:40 AM
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.
Quote from: Dirt Roads on November 02, 2020, 09:13:32 PM
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.
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".
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.
County seat of Prince George's County, Maryland is in this incorporated town:
Upper Marlboro, Maryland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Marlboro,_Maryland)
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
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 :sombrero:. Too bad the only such portmanteau to survive to this day (Kanorado) is 60 miles to the North on I-70 instead...
Three of the small towns near Mason City are Rock Falls, Rockford and Rockwell.
Mifflin and Mifflintown, PA: Neighboring communities in Juniata County, PA that are separated by the Juniata River
Miami County Indiana has a Mexico and a Peru.
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.
Quote from: jmd41280 on November 04, 2020, 08:04:51 AM
Mifflin and Mifflintown, PA: Neighboring communities in Juniata County, PA that are separated by the Juniata River
There's also Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine.
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).
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on November 07, 2020, 01:27:40 AM
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 (https://goo.gl/maps/MBk6MUs3a6CHyNwP6),
Coal Creek (https://goo.gl/maps/7uZvn69WmSRbodE68),
Long Creek (https://goo.gl/maps/mwxMtFg5cssxVRnw8),
Frog Creek (https://goo.gl/maps/eTYZgUWrJ1X6acAZ9).
Neenah-Menasha WI. I hear them more together than as separate cities.
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).
Quote from: kphoger on November 09, 2020, 01:18:30 PM
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"
Yeah, local names are fun. For example:
Quote from: kphoger on September 04, 2013, 04:32:04 PM
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 (https://goo.gl/maps/RA5RcQzyjMDKaYhN9).)
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 03, 2020, 01:18:32 AM
Quote from: Dirt Roads on November 02, 2020, 09:13:32 PM
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.
Romeoville, IL with Joliet, IL.
Quote from: mrsman on November 11, 2020, 08:15:06 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 03, 2020, 01:18:32 AM
Quote from: Dirt Roads on November 02, 2020, 09:13:32 PM
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.
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
^^^
Also Litchfield, one of the CT towns my wife's ancestors were from.
Could it be because of the Western Reserve?
How about the Oranges in New Jersey? The city of Orange is surrounded by North Orange, East Orange, South Orange and West Orange. [I would say that's colorful, but since I live in Orange County NC, I'd be stabbing myself in the foot].
Quote from: GaryV on November 11, 2020, 12:14:40 PM
Could it be because of the Western Reserve?
Yes. The Firelands, originally called Sufferers Lands, was the far western section of the Connecticut Western Reserve set aside as financial restitution for several Connecticut towns that had been burned by the British during the American Revolutionary War. That land is now modern day Erie and Huron Counties, as well as Danbury Township in Ottawa County and Ruggles Township in Ashland County.
Quote from: Buck87 on November 12, 2020, 10:02:40 AM
Quote from: GaryV on November 11, 2020, 12:14:40 PM
Could it be because of the Western Reserve?
Yes. The Firelands, originally called Sufferers Lands, was the far western section of the Connecticut Western Reserve set aside as financial restitution for several Connecticut towns that had been burned by the British during the American Revolutionary War. That land is now modern day Erie and Huron Counties, as well as Danbury Township in Ottawa County and Ruggles Township in Ashland County.
From what I've heard those towns are also laid out like old New England towns. I don't know how true that is.
25 miles is all that separates Gas City and Petroleum, IN, which also happens to be 5 and a half miles form Keystone, IN.
No longer applies because she just got married, but two adjacent towns in Idaho form the maiden name of my first college crush.
Quote from: vdeane on November 02, 2020, 09:21:05 PM
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.
Yeah, there's a whole slew of names from heroic antiquity all in that area: Romulus, Montezuma, Junius, Tyre, Ovid, Sempronius...and all the way over to Homer, Virgil, Pompey, Fabius, and down to Hector and Ulysses.
These are all similar by design, however, being part of the Military Tract (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_New_York_Military_Tract) when the area was first laid out into towns. (See the link for the complete list of names.) Not quite as coincidental, or partly so, as some of the other examples given.
Quote from: Dirt Roads on November 11, 2020, 06:06:22 PM
How about the Oranges in New Jersey? The city of Orange is surrounded by North Orange, East Orange, South Orange and West Orange.
Actually, North is the only cardinal direction without an Orange. The NJTP control city for their exit (15?) used to read "Kearny", and "The Oranges". Make a cool name for a rock band! Other control city signage reads or read "The Amboys" for Perth and South. I think there's at least one sign (on US 46?) reading "The Ridgefields" (R and R Park), sounding like it could be the name of a sitcom.
Also in The Garden State, you got the Brunswicks: New, North, South, and East. West is the odd-man-out in that case. There is a plain "Brunswick" in MD, across the river from Harpers Ferry, WV, but that one's kind of far.
Winston-Salem NC, you have Wilkes-Barre PA, were they two separate cities at one time?
Indio CA was once Indian Wells, the name of an another town in the Palm Springs area.
And Danbury CT not far from Waterbury CT...you have a lot of Bury towns in western CT.
South and southeast of Utica NY there is a contiguous area, extending into four counties, comprised of the towns of Brookfield, Sangerfield, Litchfield, Winfield, Plainfield, Richfield, Springfield, and Middlefield.
Not contiguous, but in the same area, are the towns of Smithfield, Deerfield, Fairfield, and Pittsfield.
In Pennsylvania, Intercourse and Paradise are located near each other.
The ham towns in MA- Needham, Dedham, Framingham.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on November 30, 2020, 08:01:24 AM
The ham towns in MA- Needham, Dedham, Framingham.
There should be a Gotham adjacent to Needham, but unfortunately, there isn't.
Pittsburg and Harrisburg in Southern IL. I'll go out on a limb and say there were some PA migrants that made it to Southern Illinois in the past
There used to be Petting, Germany and Fucking, Austria not far from each other, with Wank and Kissing further West in Bavaria. Sadly the well-known Austrian village has grown tired of all those jokes in the Internet, and thus has decided to rename itself Fugging, so in a few years time it won't be more known as any other village in its immediate vicinity.
Holton and Horton are both towns at major junctions in Kansas, and they aren't even 20 miles from each other.
Perry and Perryville, AR are in Perry County, AR, so really not much creativity in that county. Unless you also consider Toad Suck, AR is also in that county.
Quote from: KCRoadFan on November 04, 2020, 02:43:13 PM
Quote from: jmd41280 on November 04, 2020, 08:04:51 AM
Mifflin and Mifflintown, PA: Neighboring communities in Juniata County, PA that are separated by the Juniata River
There's also Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine.
Maine also has Norway, Mexico and Sweden.
Quote from: Desert Man on November 27, 2020, 11:52:42 PM
Winston-Salem NC, you have Wilkes-Barre PA, were they two separate cities at one time?
Indio CA was once Indian Wells, the name of an another town in the Palm Springs area.
And Danbury CT not far from Waterbury CT...you have a lot of Bury towns in western CT.
Danbury, Southbury, Middlebury and Waterbury...and that's just I-84! We also have the Hartfords, Windsors and the Havens...but that's different since it involves cardinal directions in their names (i.e. Windsor, East Windsor, South Windsor...and Windsor Locks as a bonus).
Quote from: KCRoadFan on November 04, 2020, 02:43:13 PM
There's also Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine.
There are plenty of examples where a primary community spawned a satellite that was named for its relationship to the original location. For instance Port Trevorton, along the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania, was the port where coal mined near Trevorton was transferred to boats for water transport. Cogan Station, which today is little more than a ZIP code encompassing exurban areas north of Williamsport, was so named because it was the location of the railroad station serving nearby Cogan House Township. And then you also have nearby places that share a common namesake. Pottstown, for instance, was named for its founder John Potts. He named his personal home Pottsgrove, a name which was later applied to a suburban CDP abutting the town.
Given the number of Christian settlers in Pennsylvania who adopted biblical place names for their communities, it's not hard to find "Holy Land" place names nearby, There's the pairing of Galilee and Damscus in Wayne County; Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Emmaus in the Lehigh Valley, Mount Nebo and Bethesda in Lancaster County; etc.
Since people of various ethnicities tended to settle in pockets, you'll find groupings of foreign place names like Berwyn, Bryn Mawr, and Bryn Athyn (Wales); Nottingham, Barnsley, and Oxford (England), Hanover and East Berlin (Germany).
More interesting, in my opinion, are the coincidental placement of bizarre names (along the lines of Moon and Mars as you previously mentioned):
- Lookout and Stalker in Wayne County
- Panic and Desire in Jefferson County
- Buck Run and Doe Run in Chester County
- Rough and Ready and Fearnot in Schuylkill County
- Mutual and Pleasant Unity in Westmoreland County
- Ono and Jonestown in Dauphin County
- Maiden Creek and Virginville in Berks County
- Beartown and Honey Brook in Lancaster and Chester Counties
Quote from: Desert Man on November 27, 2020, 11:52:42 PM
Winston-Salem NC, you have Wilkes-Barre PA, were they two separate cities at one time?
No–the community adopted the hyphenated name to honor two members of the British Parliament who supported American independence–John Wilkes and Isaac Barré.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 29, 2020, 09:04:40 AM
In Pennsylvania, Intercourse and Paradise are located near each other.
Also Bird-in-Hand and Blue Ball.
Not exactly towns but counties. Thomas County, GA and Jefferson County, Florida form our third president.
Georgia has a Crisp and a Bacon County near each other.
On US 20 to the west of Bend,OR you have the town of Sisters.
Heading east from Bend on 20, you'll come across the tiny dot on the map that is Brothers
Quote from: roadman65 on February 23, 2021, 03:50:13 PM
Georgia has a Crisp and a Bacon County near each other.
And Coffee County isn't too far from Bacon County.
Marlborough, MA has had Northborough, Southborough, and Westborough split off. They must be bad at hygiene.
Also, New Jersey has dozens of places that are variations on one name, for example, Morris County has Morristown, Port Morris, Morris Plains, and just plain old Morris (no pun intended)
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.
Grand Marais, MN and Little Marais, MN (about 45 miles apart).
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.
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.
Lewiston, Idaho is right across the Snake River from Clarkston, Washington.
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.
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
^ Those are all words from Salishan languages–yet another tribal language family!
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
Minnesota has that a bit with Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, Minnewaska, Minnehaha Avenues in both Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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
[...I've been everywhere, man, I've been everywhere...]
Western Illinois has Springfield, Quincy and Pittsfield.
Quote from: MinecraftNinja on March 08, 2021, 11:35:13 PM
Western Illinois has Springfield, Quincy and Pittsfield.
How do those names appear related?
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.
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.
Northern Italy has all three primary substractive colors: Magenta (namesake of the color), Ciano ("cyan") and Giallo ("yellow").
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?
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.
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.
In the Chicago area we have Oak Park, Oak Brook & Oak Forest, River Forest and River Grove, Park Ridge and Norridge.
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.
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
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."
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.
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.
Shot in the dark, Kimberly Hansen?
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 (https://goo.gl/maps/CenpACbqBhsWqamp8)
random spot in River Forest (https://goo.gl/maps/C9si8xFaiDs5Debb9)
the freaking WOODS in River Grove (https://goo.gl/maps/437bSii1NF3X9bJL6)
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 (https://goo.gl/maps/CicbKx44hofDfDua8)
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?