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Farmington, with 21 occurances, should also be included.
- Speedeep ( talk) 17:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, there are quite a few more that could be added to this list...
Chester, Union, Burlington, Newport, Troy, Ashland, Arlington, Florence, Hamilton, Georgetown, Lincoln, Lexington, Dover, Jefferson, Oxford, Richmond, Warren, Clayton, Dayton, Farmington, Kingston, Aurora, Centreville...
Rarelibra 03:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Portland... -- 334 19:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
According to this site: http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/placename50.htm the top ten are as follows: Riverside-46 states Centerville-45 states Fairview-43 states Franklin-42 states Midway-40 states Fairfield-39 states Pleasant Valley-39 states Troy-39 states Liberty-38 states Union-38 states and (I think) #11 is Springfield at 35 states So I don't know who to trust because the site specifically says that Wikipedia's list is incomplete/less accurate. Perhaps we should consider if this site's claims are true. Beeswax07
Danville, with 17 occurances, should also be included.
ZirconBlue ( talk) 15:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)ZirconBlue
Riverside etc. from an About.com article citing a Word Ways magazine article (not named) by Dan Tilque from 2001.
Ironically the About.com article cites this Wikipedia article, perhaps erronously? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.43.232.248 ( talk) 13:13, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot of unincorporated areas in Wisconsin in this list. For those who may not know, towns in Wisconsin are unincorporated. It doesn't seem like they should really be in the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.76.131.49 ( talk) 02:39, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
The list in this page looks *extremely* dubious. A list of "populated places" in the US can be downloaded from the USGS. Processing this with the following Perl script (please excuse my terrible Perl; I've not written any for ages)
- #!/usr/local/bin/perl
- while (<>) {
- /\d*\|([^|]*).*/;
- $count{$1}++;
- }
- while ( my ($city, $num) = each(%count) ) {
- print "$num $city\n";
- }
and piping the result through sort -nr
gives the following
Rank | Name | Count |
---|---|---|
1 | Midway | 218 |
2 | Fairview | 213 |
3 | Oak Grove | 169 |
4 | Five Points | 150 |
5 | Riverside | 129 |
6 | Pleasant Hill | 124 |
7 | Mount Pleasant | 119 |
8 | Bethel | 111 |
9= | Centerville | 109 |
9= | New Hope | 109 |
11= | Liberty | 98 |
11= | Oakland | 98 |
13 | Union | 97 |
14 | Pleasant Valley | 96 |
15 | Shady Grove | 94 |
16= | Pine Grove | 92 |
16= | Salem | 92 |
18 | Greenwood | 91 |
19= | Forest Hills | 89 |
19= | Pleasant Grove | 89 |
Now, the list includes over 190,000 places, which seems rather a lot. Maybe it's not the right data to be using?
Dricherby ( talk) 14:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
...yet no townships at all? In Wisconsin, a town is essentially a township, it just goes by another name. So, if the towns of Wisconsin are included, why not the townships of many other states? For
Washington, if we included all townships (in addition to boroughs, cities, towns, and villages), it would bring its total to over 60.
Phizzy
01:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Aren't there loads of places called Plymouth? on the Plymouth disambig. pg there are at least 16. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.69.37 ( talk) 20:52, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
20 states have a Belleville, and if you include ghost towns and towns that used to exist, it goes to 23. The variant spelling "Bellville" adds 3 more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.60.213.26 ( talk) 01:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I found this list: Riverside in 46 states, Faiview, 43, Centreville, 45, Franklin, 42 etc. etc. Totallay different of what I see in the article. Even in that list I miss Hamilton, which is mentioned in 30 states on Wikipedia. [ [1]] Salix2 ( talk) 21:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
There are two or three ways to establish criteria for this:
I'd prefer using the Census list as a base, since a designated place has a place name.
The BGN - Bureau of Geographic Names is another source that should be considered. You can download files like http://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/stategaz/NationalFile_20101001.zip
The USPS web site doesn't appear to have a downloadable list of their place names (which are tied to Zip codes). rhyre ( talk) 16:47, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Why doesn't this article have any population figures for the cities?? Georgia guy ( talk) 16:47, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
There's no established guideline/rule/anything resembling for inclusion, so I propose the following arbitrary solutions:
As of this edit, the page lists 19 names exceeding 20 locations, with 13 for 18-19, with likely many more if it were accurate and inclusive. As for criteria for consideration, I suggest using the disambiguation page & relevant section (ex. [Washington#United States]]) as a rule of thumb, unless/until a better solution is found. TehAnonymous ( talk) 06:43, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
I stumbled upon a similar result as Dricherby (see Dubious List above) when I looked at the USGS List Of Populated Places at https://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/stategaz/POP_PLACES_20170401.zip today. Today's version includes 201066 places.
I believe there's more than enough evidence to suggest that the list in this article is not only poorly constructed, it's also wildly inaccurate, and I am sure that extensive research would only confirm that. Without even considering that there must be a consensus regarding the source of the data, I'm wondering if it would be too large task to revise and easier to simply remove it from public gaze and rewrite it completely. Twistlethrop ( talk) 05:18, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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I've completely redone/renamed the former Post Offices section; it now has the official USPS list of the most common city & post office names, and is up to date for 2017. Twistlethrop ( talk) 09:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
The "Greenville" listing includes an entry for the place in Tennessee. The correct spelling of the placename is Greeneville. I believe placenames that are not spelled exactly are still acceptable for inclusion, so have left the entry with correct but different spelling in the list. It's worth noting that Greeneville is the only place in the U.S. with that spelling, although its parent county name is not unique. Twistlethrop ( talk) 16:18, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
There are at least a dozen Antiochs just in Texas ( /info/en/?search=Antioch,_Texas). Suspect there are many more in the US. 2600:6C56:4000:3062:6038:31E6:DDD8:BB91 ( talk) 14:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Don't want to step on any toes here since I'm relatively new but I thought it was kind of odd to include The Simpsons in this list of otherwise nonfictional town names, especially if there's no other cases of these?
I of course didn't want to go editing anything headfirst, but I just wanted to question it before anything. I could be wrong—apologies if I am and I just waste time, haha. SurgeFire ( talk) 19:54, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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Farmington, with 21 occurances, should also be included.
- Speedeep ( talk) 17:42, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, there are quite a few more that could be added to this list...
Chester, Union, Burlington, Newport, Troy, Ashland, Arlington, Florence, Hamilton, Georgetown, Lincoln, Lexington, Dover, Jefferson, Oxford, Richmond, Warren, Clayton, Dayton, Farmington, Kingston, Aurora, Centreville...
Rarelibra 03:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Portland... -- 334 19:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
According to this site: http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/placename50.htm the top ten are as follows: Riverside-46 states Centerville-45 states Fairview-43 states Franklin-42 states Midway-40 states Fairfield-39 states Pleasant Valley-39 states Troy-39 states Liberty-38 states Union-38 states and (I think) #11 is Springfield at 35 states So I don't know who to trust because the site specifically says that Wikipedia's list is incomplete/less accurate. Perhaps we should consider if this site's claims are true. Beeswax07
Danville, with 17 occurances, should also be included.
ZirconBlue ( talk) 15:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)ZirconBlue
Riverside etc. from an About.com article citing a Word Ways magazine article (not named) by Dan Tilque from 2001.
Ironically the About.com article cites this Wikipedia article, perhaps erronously? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.43.232.248 ( talk) 13:13, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
There are a lot of unincorporated areas in Wisconsin in this list. For those who may not know, towns in Wisconsin are unincorporated. It doesn't seem like they should really be in the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.76.131.49 ( talk) 02:39, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
The list in this page looks *extremely* dubious. A list of "populated places" in the US can be downloaded from the USGS. Processing this with the following Perl script (please excuse my terrible Perl; I've not written any for ages)
- #!/usr/local/bin/perl
- while (<>) {
- /\d*\|([^|]*).*/;
- $count{$1}++;
- }
- while ( my ($city, $num) = each(%count) ) {
- print "$num $city\n";
- }
and piping the result through sort -nr
gives the following
Rank | Name | Count |
---|---|---|
1 | Midway | 218 |
2 | Fairview | 213 |
3 | Oak Grove | 169 |
4 | Five Points | 150 |
5 | Riverside | 129 |
6 | Pleasant Hill | 124 |
7 | Mount Pleasant | 119 |
8 | Bethel | 111 |
9= | Centerville | 109 |
9= | New Hope | 109 |
11= | Liberty | 98 |
11= | Oakland | 98 |
13 | Union | 97 |
14 | Pleasant Valley | 96 |
15 | Shady Grove | 94 |
16= | Pine Grove | 92 |
16= | Salem | 92 |
18 | Greenwood | 91 |
19= | Forest Hills | 89 |
19= | Pleasant Grove | 89 |
Now, the list includes over 190,000 places, which seems rather a lot. Maybe it's not the right data to be using?
Dricherby ( talk) 14:38, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
...yet no townships at all? In Wisconsin, a town is essentially a township, it just goes by another name. So, if the towns of Wisconsin are included, why not the townships of many other states? For
Washington, if we included all townships (in addition to boroughs, cities, towns, and villages), it would bring its total to over 60.
Phizzy
01:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Aren't there loads of places called Plymouth? on the Plymouth disambig. pg there are at least 16. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.69.37 ( talk) 20:52, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
20 states have a Belleville, and if you include ghost towns and towns that used to exist, it goes to 23. The variant spelling "Bellville" adds 3 more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.60.213.26 ( talk) 01:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
I found this list: Riverside in 46 states, Faiview, 43, Centreville, 45, Franklin, 42 etc. etc. Totallay different of what I see in the article. Even in that list I miss Hamilton, which is mentioned in 30 states on Wikipedia. [ [1]] Salix2 ( talk) 21:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
There are two or three ways to establish criteria for this:
I'd prefer using the Census list as a base, since a designated place has a place name.
The BGN - Bureau of Geographic Names is another source that should be considered. You can download files like http://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/stategaz/NationalFile_20101001.zip
The USPS web site doesn't appear to have a downloadable list of their place names (which are tied to Zip codes). rhyre ( talk) 16:47, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Why doesn't this article have any population figures for the cities?? Georgia guy ( talk) 16:47, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
There's no established guideline/rule/anything resembling for inclusion, so I propose the following arbitrary solutions:
As of this edit, the page lists 19 names exceeding 20 locations, with 13 for 18-19, with likely many more if it were accurate and inclusive. As for criteria for consideration, I suggest using the disambiguation page & relevant section (ex. [Washington#United States]]) as a rule of thumb, unless/until a better solution is found. TehAnonymous ( talk) 06:43, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
I stumbled upon a similar result as Dricherby (see Dubious List above) when I looked at the USGS List Of Populated Places at https://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/stategaz/POP_PLACES_20170401.zip today. Today's version includes 201066 places.
I believe there's more than enough evidence to suggest that the list in this article is not only poorly constructed, it's also wildly inaccurate, and I am sure that extensive research would only confirm that. Without even considering that there must be a consensus regarding the source of the data, I'm wondering if it would be too large task to revise and easier to simply remove it from public gaze and rewrite it completely. Twistlethrop ( talk) 05:18, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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I've completely redone/renamed the former Post Offices section; it now has the official USPS list of the most common city & post office names, and is up to date for 2017. Twistlethrop ( talk) 09:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
The "Greenville" listing includes an entry for the place in Tennessee. The correct spelling of the placename is Greeneville. I believe placenames that are not spelled exactly are still acceptable for inclusion, so have left the entry with correct but different spelling in the list. It's worth noting that Greeneville is the only place in the U.S. with that spelling, although its parent county name is not unique. Twistlethrop ( talk) 16:18, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
There are at least a dozen Antiochs just in Texas ( /info/en/?search=Antioch,_Texas). Suspect there are many more in the US. 2600:6C56:4000:3062:6038:31E6:DDD8:BB91 ( talk) 14:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Don't want to step on any toes here since I'm relatively new but I thought it was kind of odd to include The Simpsons in this list of otherwise nonfictional town names, especially if there's no other cases of these?
I of course didn't want to go editing anything headfirst, but I just wanted to question it before anything. I could be wrong—apologies if I am and I just waste time, haha. SurgeFire ( talk) 19:54, 27 May 2024 (UTC)