Author Topic: We counted literally every road in America. Here’s what we learned. (Read 1180 times)

jmyrlefuller · « **on:** March 08, 2015, 06:08:08 pm »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/06/these-are-the-most-popular-street-names-in-every-state/?tid=sm_tw

by Jeff Guo
March 6, 2015

One might argue that this is the worst kind of idle question. Are we so bored, as a nation, that we want to investigate road names? Isn’t there poverty to alleviate? Aren’t there Housewives to gawk at?

But road names are pieces of history. They encode the culture and geography of America. In Arizona, popular street names are Apache, Palo Verde, Mesquite. In New Mexico, Cedar and Pinon top the list; In Colorado, it’s Aspen and Spruce.

More on that in a bit; first, here are the 1,000 most popular road names in America as calculated from 2014 road data.

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mountaineer · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2015, 08:53:09 am »

We sure do like our trees. I live on Woodland Dr. ^-^

flowers · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2015, 10:53:15 am »

Fun post.

Lando Lincoln · « **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2015, 07:38:54 am »

Quote from: mountaineer on March 09, 2015, 08:53:09 am

We sure do like our trees. I live on Woodland Dr. ^-^

I live on Royal Oaks.

Author Topic: We counted literally every road in America. Here’s what we learned. (Read 1180 times)

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