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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.
1 By country name. 2 See also. 3 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants. 2 languages. Lietuvių ...
A place in Angola that has the most consecutive vowels in a row of any other place name Cave: A town in Italy. Ironically this place is not known for having caves. Cave-In-Rock: Even though people find rocks in caves, this town in southern Illinois says otherwise. It's named from the state park of the same name, which features a cave.
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
Gu-Win, Alabama. Faced with annexation by the nearby town of Guin, the community of about 150 known as Ear Gap decided to incorporate in 1956. Residents adopted their new name from the Gu-Win ...
It's the name of a hill in New Zealand, and it's the longest official place name in the world. We can only hope no poor child ever has to spell these bad boys in a spelling bee. Though we're sure ...
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Estately Real Estate Search recently put together a map and created a list that they are dubbing "The Master List of the Most Obscene Town Names in America." Don't be shy.