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Virginia Beach. Indianapolis (?).
"Tim923" wrote in message ... Hard matches: New York, Quebec Soft matches: Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Florida City, California City, Maryland City What else? |
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Auntie Em wrote:
I've heard that there are more Sprinfields in the US than any other single town name. Whether this is true or not, I'm not sure. You could look it up: http://www.placesnamed.com/ __________________________________________________ __________ A San Franciscan in (where else?) San Francisco http://geocities.com/dancefest/ http://geocities.com/iconoc/ ICQ: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 IClast at SFbay Net |
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Mark Brader wrote:
Oddly enough, this came up in alt.usage.english not long ago. According to the place names database at http://geonames.usgs.gov, there are only 3 examples of this kind among "populated places" in the entire US; the other two, tiny places both, are Maine and Wyoming. In the analogous database for Canada at http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca, Quebec is the only example. If you look at counties, there are 7 with the same name as the state containing them: Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, New York, Oklahoma, and Utah. I don't think there are any examples in Canada, but I can't confirm that right now because the database is down. That overlooks Oregon's Owahee(sp) County. Using data from multiple sources, Dan Tilque has constructed an even longer list which can be found on his web site http://www.nwlink.com/~dtilque. __________________________________________________ __________ Un San Francisqueño en San Francisco http://geocities.com/dancefest/ http://geocities.com/iconoc/ ICQ: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 IClast at SFbay Net |
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Er, unless I've missed something on the news what with the Olympics and
all, that's not in any state. OK, rephrase the subject for yourself to include provinces (as I intended). |
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Mark Brader ) writes: In the analogous database for Canada at http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca, Quebec is the only example. The province was named for the city. The city name has been in use since 1608, the province name 1763-1791 and 1867-present. If you look at counties, [...] I don't think there are any examples in Canada, but I can't confirm that right now because the database is down. There used to be an Ontario County in Ontario, but it was abolished in a restructuring of municipal governments in the early 1970s. I think the county name (1840s?) predates the province name (1867), but I'm not entirely sure when the county was created. I believe both were named after Lake Ontario, not one for the other. I think there used to be a Quebec County that contained the City of Quebec and was contained in the Province of Quebec, but that province completely changed its system of counties quite a while ago. The county was probably created at a time when the province was called Lower Canada, and was named for the city. Places whose names match *other* states are quite common when you look at small enough places, although in Canada there is only one place whose name is another province: Saskatchewan, Manitoba. If you accept soft matches, there's Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. It's named for the Saskatchewan River, not for the province. I'm not sure of the origin of Saskatchewan, MB. If we consider Canada-U.S. cases, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Ontario, California; and Wyoming, Ontario come to mind. There are likely other examples. Tom Box or Toronto, ON, Canada |
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Nebraska City, Nebraska
Kansas City, Kansas Iowa City, Iowa On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Tim923 wrote: Hard matches: New York, Quebec Soft matches: Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Florida City, California City, Maryland City What else? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Katherine Becker "As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly" NEVER SEND A FERRET TO DO A WEASEL's JOB --WKRP ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:04:46 GMT, Tim923
wrote: Hard matches: New York, Quebec Soft matches: Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Florida City, California City, Maryland City What else? "Oklahoma City" is not the same name as the state, which is "Oklahoma". But New York, sometimes erroneously called "New York City", does have the same name as the state. So also Quebec. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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