I'm not sure if there is a post already on this topic, I drove through a Forty Four, AR today and notice on the map there is a Fifty six, AR. What are some other numbers that are names of towns?
84, PA (lumber store is named for it)
Ninety Six, SC comes to mind.
Treinta y Tres, Uruguay
There's an Eighty Eight, Ky., and a Hundred, WV.
Hungary has a town called Hatvan (sixty). it's 60km to Budapest.
Dos, Spain.
Ershisan (labelled in Google Maps as '23'), Inner Mongolia near the Shanxi border, China.
This be as named for the 33 men who were instrumental in Uruguay's independence if I remember correctly. You beat me to posting this example. This is one of the few places online where people even know where Uruguay is located
Quote from: algorerhythms on October 30, 2014, 07:08:05 PM
Treinta y Tres, Uruguay
Quote from: jwolfer on October 31, 2014, 01:25:22 PM
This be as named for the 33 men who were instrumental in Uruguay's independence if I remember correctly. You beat me to posting this example. This is one of the few places online where people even know where Uruguay is located
Not a town name, but Missouri has the One Hundred and Two River.
This is not a useful contribution (if "useful" is applicable at all here), but it's a good song:
There is a Twelve Mile, IN.
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 31, 2014, 03:09:24 PM
There is a Twelve Mile, IN.
in that vein, British Columbia has communities named 100 Mile House and 150 Mile House.
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 31, 2014, 03:09:24 PM
There is a Twelve Mile, IN.
There also is an 8 Mile, Michigan. (Assuming these both count)
Quote from: Zeffy on October 31, 2014, 03:33:25 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 31, 2014, 03:09:24 PM
There is a Twelve Mile, IN.
There also is an 8 Mile, Michigan. (Assuming these both count)
An 8 Mile Road (as well as 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 ...) But a town named 8 Mile?
Urban Legend is that Novi is numerically based ( from No. VI ) as being the 6th stage coach stop or 6th toll both or 6th something else - but it's not.
My favorite name like this is Wonowon, BC. It's at Mile 101 of the Alaska Highway (of course).
Quote from: GaryV on November 01, 2014, 07:42:48 AM
Quote from: Zeffy on October 31, 2014, 03:33:25 PM
Quote from: cabiness42 on October 31, 2014, 03:09:24 PM
There is a Twelve Mile, IN.
There also is an 8 Mile, Michigan. (Assuming these both count)
An 8 Mile Road (as well as 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 ...) But a town named 8 Mile?
Urban Legend is that Novi is numerically based ( from No. VI ) as being the 6th stage coach stop or 6th toll both or 6th something else - but it's not.
Not incorporated, but there is an Eight Mile, Alabama:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Mile,_Alabama
Seven Hills, Ohio -- just south of Cleveland.
Quote from: thenetwork on November 02, 2014, 07:26:02 AM
Seven Hills, Ohio -- just south of Cleveland.
Which reminds me of the several towns named Two Rivers or Three Rivers.
I suspect there are other towns named after counting a particular feature found there. A quick search on Google Maps found
- Three Forks
- Three Hills
- Three Lakes
- Three Oaks
- Three Springs
- Three Way (TN - I wonder what caused that)
We also have Trois Rivieres in Quebec.
Three Bridges, NJ
If adding words to numbers
Two Rivers, WI
Twenty Nine Palms, CA
If allowing other languages:
Lima, OH
Quote from: kurumi on November 02, 2014, 12:04:35 PM
If allowing other languages:
Lima, OH
Can you think of any places called Lima that are in a country where it means a number (since it doesn't mean a number in the United States or Peru)?
Those are numbers that are in town names, not numbers that are town names. This is another thread that becomes basically infinite and pointless (I know, I know) when you loosen the rules.
Quote from: kurumi on November 02, 2014, 12:04:35 PM
If allowing other languages:
Lima, OH
Which number is and in which language?
Also, if adding another words to the numbers is allowed, across the provincial border from Ershisan there is Ershiwu (25) Wan. Here is a satellite pic (https://www.google.es/maps/@40.2378636,112.2959306,1215m/data=!3m1!1e3), from left to right: G59 expressway, '23' (Ershisan), some railroad, the Great Wall (At this point it forms the Inner Mongolia/Shanxi border) and '25 Wan' (Ershiwu Wan). For some reason in China Google Maps is misaligned, the sat pic is at the correct position.
There are quite a few numbers here in Arkansas. I think they just got lazy.
iPhone
If you allow letters dropped in here and there, Maine's probably got more numbered divisions than named.
Quote from: kurumi on November 02, 2014, 12:04:35 PM
If allowing other languages:
Lima, OH
Last time I looked, Lima is merely Spanish for Lime, not a number.
Now, if we were talking about towns named after fruit...
Quote from: Brandon on November 04, 2014, 03:07:55 PM
Quote from: kurumi on November 02, 2014, 12:04:35 PM
If allowing other languages:
Lima, OH
Last time I looked, Lima is merely Spanish for Lime, not a number.
Now, if we were talking about towns named after fruit...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lima
It means "five" in several obscure languages. Definitely not in Spanish, though.
Quote from: 1 on November 04, 2014, 03:09:29 PM
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lima
It means "five" in several obscure languages. Definitely not in Spanish, though.
I think we should speak to "languages commonly spoken within the jurisdiction at the time of naming".
so if in California there's a place called Treinta y Tres or whatever, then I'll take it. (there isn't, as far as I know.)
I was wanting numbers only.
So much for T2 R9, Maine.
Dropped into a vat of molten metal. What a way to go.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 04, 2014, 03:13:41 PM
I think we should speak to "languages commonly spoken within the jurisdiction at the time of naming".
so if in California there's a place called Treinta y Tres or whatever, then I'll take it. (there isn't, as far as I know.)
I'd say anything that was deliberately chosen for being a number, rather than names that are coincidentally a number in buttfuck language.
Quote from: algorerhythms on November 04, 2014, 05:13:46 PM
Dropped into a vat of molten metal. What a way to go.
Oh, there are a hundred others like him you'd never be able to distinguish. It's not like we're talking a specialty item like Andover West Surplus or Greenlaw Chopping.
If Lima is allowed, then so is Hamar, Norway (Basque for 10).
Quote from: Arkansastravelguy on November 04, 2014, 01:44:38 PM
There are quite a few numbers here in Arkansas. I think they just got lazy.
iPhone
I read on a sign about 56, AR's history and it said it was named after the school district number they were located in at the time.