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  2. The most unique street names in the world - AOL

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    Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.

  3. Street name - Wikipedia

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    Street names are usually renamed after political revolutions and regime changes for ideological reasons. In postsocialist Romania, after 1989, the percentage of street renaming ranged from 6% in Bucharest, [16] and 8% in Sibiu, to 26% in Timișoara. [17] Street names can be changed relatively easily by municipal authorities for various reasons.

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Also a ghost town in California. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake: A reservoir in South Carolina that apparently needs an intervention. Renamed to "Village Lake" in 2022. Alemanía An almost ghost village in the province of Salta, in the northwest of Argentina. Its name is Spanish for "Germany". Alert

  5. Street suffix - Wikipedia

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    Notwithstanding this, some street names historically and linguistically do not carry a suffix, e.g. Broadway, Rampart, Embarcadero. This list below has examples of suffix forms that are primary street suffix names, common street suffixes or suffix abbreviations, recommended by the United States Postal Service. [2]

  6. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.

  7. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  8. Street name sign - Wikipedia

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    A street name sign is a type of traffic sign used to identify named roads, generally those that do not qualify as expressways or highways. Street name signs are most often found posted at intersections ; sometimes, especially in the United States, in perpendicularly oriented pairs identifying each of the crossing streets.

  9. Who signs off on changing a street name like Troost Avenue ...

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    Troost Avenue was originally named after a slave-owner and now more than 1,600 residents want to see the street name changed. Here are what steps need to take place to make that a reality.