It’s funny that many the older states have new
looks like falls and river and hills and lodge and east and town are the most unique in that I only see one state for each. They are likely second or third in a lot of states I wager though. I bet falls is likely the most uniqur regularly used one.
Is it just me or did they apply a gradient to Maine to indicate being split between two colors, but then didn’t do the same for South Dakota or Michigan despite also being split between two categories?
This map makes zero sense. I need to see the data to understand I think. I’m unfamiliar with the apparently majority of Hawaiian cities with the name “Hawaiian” in them? In fact, there isn’t a single one to my knowledge.
And while Kansas City and Souix City or NYC all have city in the name, I’m scrolling around Georgia for instance, and there isn’t a single “______ City” in the state that I can see.
Going down Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Georgia I see Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Ray City, Sale City, Twin City, and Union City. Despite the “city” element, a good number of them are towns of a few hundred people and wouldn’t be easy to spot on a map
Edit: same method for Hawai’i shows Hawaiian Acres, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Ocean View, and Hawaiian Beaches
I guess it doesn’t take very many to make the map if there are no/few other identifiable naming conventions. Fair strategy scrolling municipalities on Wikipedia - thanks for that.
I’m sorry but you americans are so uncreative for town names. Couldn’t you have just kept whatever the natives called that land, because the american names are so boring.
Indigenous names are heavily used. Half the states have Native American derived names, a much larger proportion than I thought. Pre-European population density was much lower, though so there were a lot fewer settlements to name.
I’m not American. But also, most place names are like this, they’ve just been through enough years of language changes and conquests for the obviousness to be obscured. Beijing and Tokyo are “northern capital” and “eastern capital” respectively, for example. Hawai’i either is named after the guy that discovered the big island or just means “homeland”. “Denali” means “tall”
Of course, but that was back in the days when travelling to the next village over had a different dialect, by the time you were three villages over, the language would start to shift, so there is a great diversity in names because of a diversity in language. The US everything is english (with a little spanish and native languages but not enough) so it kind of ruins it.
Hawaiian should be it’s own category/color, like Spanish. It makes more sense since there’s far more naive Hawaiian words than just “Hawaiian”.
I think it actually literally means the word “Hawaiian” rather than anything in the Hawaiian language. I found four examples of place names fitting that
Do people in New Mexico just not talk all year untill Christmas or do they just constantly all year talk about Santa?
No, then they double it. Santa Fe becomes Santa Santa Fe.
If you think that’s weird, I hear Santa Claus in Mexico is Santa Santa Claus.
Ahh I see that makes more sense lol, I’m Aussie so I have no clue what city names are in what state, had to google the US map just to find the state name.
I hope you don’t think I was serious.
Yeah nah, I reread your comment and felt like a dumbass lol, couldn’t be bothered fixing it tho, was hoping it would just disappear…
I didn’t choose this username because I thought it was funny.
…“Lodge”? 🤨 TIL
An indigenous thing I am guessing. Especially since Montana and its surroundings were one of the areas that was the last to resist European colonization. Although the mapmaker shouldn’t have listed it as ‘nature,’ unless they’re talking about a beaver lodge or something, but I’m doubtful.
I have a theory on this. Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Montana shows three “lodge” place names: Deer Lodge, Lodge Grass, and Red Lodge. The pages for Deer Lodge and Red Lodge don’t explain their names, but the one for Lodge Grass does. It’s a mistranslation of the Crow name for the place, but it does refer to the actual grass in the area. So now the author has two with no answer found and one with a natural explanation
