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Title: Same-named counties in different states containing cities with the same names
Post by: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 12:19:40 AM
There's a Champaign County in Illinois and Ohio. Both have cities named Urbana.

Alabama and Mississippi both have a Madison County, and both have cities named Madison. There's also a Madison County, TN, where Jackson is located. A very small portion of Jackson, MS, extends into Madison County.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Alps on October 31, 2014, 12:52:02 AM
Essex County, NY and MA both have a Town of Essex.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: vtk on October 31, 2014, 01:21:27 AM
Quote from: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 12:19:40 AM
There's a Champaign County in Illinois and Ohio. Both have cities named Urbana.

Not only that, but each Urbana is the seat of its respective Champaign County.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Brandon on October 31, 2014, 12:21:25 PM
Clinton County: Both Iowa and Michigan have a DeWitt in it.
(Then Illinois flips it with Clinton in DeWitt County.)
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on October 31, 2014, 03:21:50 PM
Both Henry County, IN and Henry County, KY have a county seat of New Castle.
Shelby County, IN and Shelby County, KY and Shelby County, IL all have a county seat of Shelbyville.
Both Fulton County, IN and Fulton County, KY have small communities named Fulton.

Both Clark County, IN and Clark County, IL have a Clarksville, though Illionois' is unincorporated.
Both Clay County, IN and Clay County, IL have a Clay City.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: yanksfan6129 on October 31, 2014, 06:24:51 PM
Quote from: Alps on October 31, 2014, 12:52:02 AM
Essex County, NY and MA both have a Town of Essex.

There's a town of Essex in NJ?
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 06:42:55 PM
Quote from: yanksfan6129 on October 31, 2014, 06:24:51 PM
Quote from: Alps on October 31, 2014, 12:52:02 AM
Essex County, NY and MA both have a Town of Essex.

There's a town of Essex in NJ?

There's an Essex Falls in Essex County, NJ. I couldn't find an actual city named Essex.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on October 31, 2014, 07:00:12 PM

Quote from: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 06:42:55 PM
Quote from: yanksfan6129 on October 31, 2014, 06:24:51 PM
Quote from: Alps on October 31, 2014, 12:52:02 AM
Essex County, NY and MA both have a Town of Essex.

There's a town of Essex in NJ?

There's an Essex Falls in Essex County, NJ. I couldn't find an actual city named Essex.

Essex Fells.  Falls = water going down.  Fells = various kinds of high ground.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 07:02:37 PM
Ok, thanks. I must've misread the name.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on October 31, 2014, 07:34:56 PM

Quote from: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 07:02:37 PM
Ok, thanks. I must've misread the name.

Common mistake even in NJ.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 01, 2014, 12:31:31 PM
Essex County VT and NJ both contain a Bloomfield.  Does that work?
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 01, 2014, 02:24:14 PM
Getting back to the framer's intent,

Union County/Borough, NJ
Union County/Township, PA

Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 01, 2014, 07:04:34 PM
Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia

Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia

Fayetteville, Fayette County, Texas

The Marquis sure did leave a mark. 
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: golden eagle on November 02, 2014, 12:51:03 AM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 01, 2014, 12:31:31 PM
Essex County VT and NJ both contain a Bloomfield.  Does that work?

Absolutely!
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Scott5114 on November 02, 2014, 02:54:11 AM
Removed the posts that don't meet the criteria, since there was so many of them it was causing other people to plunge off the Cliff of Not Understanding the Topic like lemmings.

For clarification's sake, the thread is looking for instances where counties with the same name in different states also contain cities of the same name in different states (which may or may not be the same as the county name). Not counties which contain a city of the same name–there's hundreds of those, and is probably the most common method of naming a county.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: ET21 on November 02, 2014, 12:09:13 PM
DeKalb, IL in DeKalb County, IL
Plus a DeKalb county in GA
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 02, 2014, 01:16:33 PM
Osceola, Polk County, Wisconsin

Osceola, Polk County, Nebraska
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: golden eagle on November 02, 2014, 02:21:03 PM
Quote from: ET21 on November 02, 2014, 12:09:13 PM
DeKalb, IL in DeKalb County, IL
Plus a DeKalb county in GA

Do the Illinois and Georgia counties share a city with the same name?

There is an Orange County in California and Texas, both which contain a city named Orange.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: ET21 on November 03, 2014, 12:04:11 AM
Quote from: golden eagle on November 02, 2014, 02:21:03 PM
Quote from: ET21 on November 02, 2014, 12:09:13 PM
DeKalb, IL in DeKalb County, IL
Plus a DeKalb county in GA

Do the Illinois and Georgia counties share a city with the same name?

There is an Orange County in California and Texas, both which contain a city named Orange.

No, just found it interesting there's another DeKalb Co. in the US. DeKalb in DeKalb is the only occurrence
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Big John on November 03, 2014, 10:02:24 AM
Quote from: ET21 on November 03, 2014, 12:04:11 AM
Quote from: golden eagle on November 02, 2014, 02:21:03 PM
Quote from: ET21 on November 02, 2014, 12:09:13 PM
DeKalb, IL in DeKalb County, IL
Plus a DeKalb county in GA

Do the Illinois and Georgia counties share a city with the same name?

There is an Orange County in California and Texas, both which contain a city named Orange.

No, just found it interesting there's another DeKalb Co. in the US. DeKalb in DeKalb is the only occurrence
Though spelled the same, they are pronounced differently. The one in GA does not pronounce the "L". ("De Cab" there)
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Doctor Whom on November 03, 2014, 10:23:13 AM
Quote from: golden eagle on November 02, 2014, 02:21:03 PMThere is an Orange County in California and Texas, both which contain a city named Orange.
The county seat of Orange County, Virginia, is Orange.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: huskeroadgeek on November 03, 2014, 12:21:23 PM
Jasper County, IL and Jasper County, IA both have county seats named Newton.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Roadgeek2500 on November 03, 2014, 04:50:33 PM
Cape May in Cape May County, NJ
Atlantic City in Atlantic County, NJ
Lancaster in Lancaster County, PA
New Castle in New Castle County, PA
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Molandfreak on November 03, 2014, 04:58:34 PM
Come on, guys... Seriously.

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Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Pete from Boston on November 03, 2014, 05:27:54 PM
In fairness, the thread title could have been clearer.  Not without being really long, but "in different states" in there somewhere would have helped.

This is the price of ever more arcane and super-specific thread subjects.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Molandfreak on November 03, 2014, 07:09:06 PM
If a mod has already stepped in, people should get the picture.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on November 03, 2014, 10:34:17 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on October 31, 2014, 07:34:56 PM

Quote from: golden eagle on October 31, 2014, 07:02:37 PM
Ok, thanks. I must've misread the name.

Common mistake even in NJ.

Essex Fells is named after John Fell, a local developer, believe it or not because of that definition is where Fells came from. So technically, it's named after a person and the definition.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: SteveG1988 on November 04, 2014, 04:05:03 AM
Burlington County NJ has Burlington Township and Burlington City (named "city" to differentiate it from the township)  and Burlington Coat factory is named after the city. Was the county seat of Burlington County until 1796 when it was moved to Mount Holly (then Northampton) to give it a more central location.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: vtk on November 04, 2014, 04:17:19 AM
What we're looking for is: city X in county Y in state A; city X in county Y in state B; A ≠ B. More interesting if also X ≠ Y.

Could the OP or an admin maybe change the thread title for clarity please?
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: english si on November 04, 2014, 05:13:35 AM
PA did a great job of naming some counties after the English county their seat was in.
Reading, Berks
Carlisle, Cumberland
Buckingham, Bucks (seat has since changed, though a different Buckingham remains in the PA county)

Chalfont and Wycombe are also places in both Bucks, though in England its more several different places with that name (Chalfont St Giles, Chalfont St Peter; High Wycombe, West Wycombe, Chipping Wycombe).
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: vtk on November 04, 2014, 05:46:07 AM
In a similar vein of fitting the pattern relationally if not literally:

London ON and London GB are both on rivers called Thames.
Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: SP Cook on November 04, 2014, 06:13:56 AM
There is a Princeton in both Mercer county, WV and NJ.

There is a Wyoming in both Wyoming county, WV and NY.

Title: Re: Same county names with same city names inside them
Post by: golden eagle on November 04, 2014, 02:35:55 PM
Quote from: vtk on November 04, 2014, 04:17:19 AM
What we're looking for is: city X in county Y in state A; city X in county Y in state B; A ≠ B. More interesting if also X ≠ Y.

Could the OP or an admin maybe change the thread title for clarity please?

I've changed the name. Perhaps, it'll give some clarity. But I also gave examples of the two Champaign counties in Illinois and Ohio, both containing cities named Urbana.
Title: Re: Same-named counties in different states containing cities with the same names
Post by: Brandon on November 04, 2014, 03:20:39 PM
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on November 03, 2014, 12:21:23 PM
Jasper County, IL and Jasper County, IA both have county seats named Newton.

I've noticed that with Jasper and Newton.  Either there's both a Jasper County and a Newton County next to each other (Indiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas), or there's a Newton in Jasper County (Illinois, Iowa) or a Jasper in Newton County (Arkansas).
Title: Re: Same-named counties in different states containing cities with the same names
Post by: GaryV on November 04, 2014, 10:05:17 PM
Quote from: Brandon on November 04, 2014, 03:20:39 PM
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on November 03, 2014, 12:21:23 PM
Jasper County, IL and Jasper County, IA both have county seats named Newton.

I've noticed that with Jasper and Newton.  Either there's both a Jasper County and a Newton County next to each other (Indiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas), or there's a Newton in Jasper County (Illinois, Iowa) or a Jasper in Newton County (Arkansas).

I noticed this long ago.  Turns out they're named after the same Jasper and Newton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton_(soldier)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jasper