Longest Street name in Your Area

Started by SignGeek101, January 23, 2015, 10:08:29 PM

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roadman65

In Orlando its Colonial Drive going east west and Orange Blossom Trail going north south.

In Osceola County, FL its Irlo Bronson Highway that goes from the Brevard County Line in the east to its western terminus at US 27.  However, even with the break in name continuity in both Kissimmee and St. Cloud where it becomes Vine Street in the former and 13th Street in the latter, its still a damned long street name.
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Parkway in the Peach County part of Warner Robins - a two-mile long road with exactly one building located on it - is likely the longest name around here other than MLK Jr. Somewhat surprisingly, there's no street named "Augustine Warner Robins" for the city's namesake, although Robins AFB does apparently have a Robins Pkwy on-base.

Perry nearby has General Courtney Hodges Boulevard.

Macon has Little Richard Penniman Boulevard, which also gets close.

Elsewhere in my recent travels, "Old Mountain View-Alviso Road" in Santa Clara CA is worth a mention, the not-so-old variant being buried under the CA 237 freeway today.

Zeffy

Three I can think of:

Belle Mead-Blawenburg Road (CR 601)
Belle Mead-Griggstown Road (CR 630)
Georgetown-Franklin Turnpike (CR 518)
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noelbotevera

During my stay in the Richmond area, the longest was Historic Route 1 or Jefferson Davis Highway. I'm now gonna guess that the longest street name in the world is probably in the Eastern Hemisphere and has a discombobulation of letters.
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dvferyance

The longest one I can think of around me is Observatory Road.

7/8

The longest names in my city (that I can think of) are Fischer-Hallman Road, Homer Watson Boulevard, and Bingemans Centre Drive.

The last one struggles to fit on the street sign  :)
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mspanner442

In the Evansville, IN area our reigning champ is: Boonville / New Harmony Road . 

djlynch

I think the winner in Austin is Capital of Texas Highway.

Although McKinney Falls Pkwy intersects both Colton-Bluff Springs Rd and Dee Gabriel Collins Rd, and I think they're easily the top two in the region for longest combined street names at an intersection.

golden eagle

In Jackson, it may be Margaret Walker Alexander Drive. The former name of this street was Guynes Street, which is where civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers lived.

flowmotion

Quote from: TheStranger on January 27, 2015, 01:21:40 PM
Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, a one-block stretch of Polk Street in San Francisco's Civic Center area, where City Hall is located:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/1+Dr+Carlton+B+Goodlett+Pl,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102/@37.7792719,-122.4192288,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8085809977db5989:0x2911e29a58ba6ae1

If you liked the TV show, you'll really love the Streets of San Francisco data table:
https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/Street-Names/6d9h-4u5v/data

Excluding things like "HWY 1 TO HWY 101 NORTHBOUND RAMP" and "RECYCLING CENTER ACCESS RD",  Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place ties Martin Luther King Jr Drive. (Perhaps MLK's doctorate just didn't fit on the sign..)

Runner up is Christmas Tree Point Road on Twin Peaks.

paulthemapguy

Don't ask me why, but Elwood decided to change the name of the road to their intermodal freight terminal, from "Baseline Road" to "Elwood International Port Road."  Pretty sure people are still calling it Baseline Road because of the sheer lack of linguistic efficiency.
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Not that I think anyone in Miami-Dade uses anything but the street names (usually DIRECTION nnn St/Ave/Rd/Dr), but many streets are re-dedicated for people in the area...this is but one example (Bebop Curry Warning):




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Huntsville, AL recently built a road called Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard. Pretty sure that's the longest street name in this area.
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"Box Hill South Corporate Center Drive" in Abingdon, Maryland. It's near I-95 Exit 77.
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briantroutman

I don't think anyone has yet mentioned the "Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce Beltway" , an unwieldy name that spills onto three lines of a guide sign on I-81.

TravelingBethelite

Quote from: noelbotevera on June 26, 2016, 10:27:33 PM
During my stay in the Richmond area, the longest was Historic Route 1 or Jefferson Davis Highway. I'm now gonna guess that the longest street name in the world is probably in the Eastern Hemisphere and has a discombobulation of letters.

Apparently, it's in Poland. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long187.html  :-D
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Quote from: TravelingBethelite on July 30, 2016, 05:33:17 PM
Quote from: noelbotevera on June 26, 2016, 10:27:33 PM
During my stay in the Richmond area, the longest was Historic Route 1 or Jefferson Davis Highway. I'm now gonna guess that the longest street name in the world is probably in the Eastern Hemisphere and has a discombobulation of letters.

Apparently, it's in Poland. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long187.html  :-D
Nailed it. Thank god it's not in Spain as someone would tell me that Spain is in the Western Hemisphere.
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CNGL-Leudimin

That would be me, as I'm from Spain and I live in the Western Hemisphere, albeit by less than half a degree.

BTW, I think Sebastián Martín Retortillo y Baquer is the longest street name in my hometown. I'll double check if I'm mistaken.
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formulanone

Quote from: briantroutman on July 30, 2016, 02:04:23 PM
I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned the “Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce Beltway”, an unwieldy name that spills onto three lines of a guide sign on I-81.

My first thought was: Let's pick a pompous, unctuous, and cumbersome street name that's entirely forgettable!

roadman65

Although not a long name, it was signed as one, Bill McGee Highway (now part of West Colonial Drive) in Pine Hills, Ocoee, Winter Garden, and Oakland in Florida was signed as one.  They used his proper name William followed by his middle initial "B" and then nickname "Bill" and then McGee so it took up a long blade "William B. (Bill) McGee Highway.

Many thought that he had a long name, but of course we know that Bill and William are the same, however the redundancy may count for being longer than it should be.
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noelbotevera

Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 30, 2016, 05:54:19 PM
That would be me, as I'm from Spain and I live in the Western Hemisphere, albeit by less than half a degree.

BTW, I think Sebastián Martín Retortillo y Baquer is the longest street name in my hometown. I'll double check if I'm mistaken.
You would only disagree if you lived 35 miles farther east.

That's the 2nd longest street name I think in the Western Hemisphere. Unless the Baquer part is street/avenue/etc because I counted 36 characters.
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CNGL-Leudimin

I left 'Calle de' out, which goes before the name. We do prefixes instead.
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noelbotevera

Quote from: CNGL-Leudimin on July 31, 2016, 05:57:45 AM
I left 'Calle de' out, which goes before the name. We do prefixes instead.
That is the longest street name in the Western Hemisphere now. 44 characters (the website Traveling linked only has 37 characters).
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Here's a long name I took a photo of today on the 400 NB:




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