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St. George, Utah, is in Washington County. But the city and the county were not named after the same man, since George Washington has repeatedly been denied sainthood. Instead, it was named after George A. Smith, who was still alive at the time, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, hence the beatification. Probably the only city in the United States to be named after a Saint who was still alive. It's the only place in Utah named for a Mormon saint.
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, is named for an Indian chief from Pennsylvania who died in 1701, and whose later fame rose to mythical proportions, known as King Tammany and later as Saint Tammany. Tammany Hall is named for the New York chapter of the Saint Tammany Society.
Nothing in Louisiana has yet been named after Drew Brees, a still-living Saint.
The ferry to Mackinac Island leaves from Mackinaw City, Michigan.
Alleghany County, Virginia, is in the Allegheny Mountains.
Wa****a, Arkansas, is in the Ouachita National Forest.
Does anyone know of any other places that are within sight of each other, which have names pronounced the same, but spelled different?
There is a Main Street in Freeport, Maine (and a lot of other Maine towns)
There is an Island Road, in Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Let's see who can make the longest list of city names in the USA that are not allowed in City-Data posts. But it's OK here, it even says it is OK in the parsed link name: //www.city-data.com/county/Wa****a_County-OK.html
what is edited out on the Arkansas city name?!?!!?
I can't tell you, it will come out as ****. Go to the link at the end, it will reveal the mystery name.
Edit--Ive found that it is impossible on a C-D forum to link to some of C-D's own sites because they are indecent.
Try this workaround: First, click Tools at the top of your browser, and click "Start private browsing", so nobody can look at your history page and see that you have gone to an indecent site. Then make sure the children are out of the room. Then, Go here:
Look down through the list of counties, for the one between Washinton Parish LA and Washoe County NV.
This is the most fun I've had since C-D forums blocked a link to a photo of a long-haired bovine of the Himalayas. Whose name appears in every child's animal alphabet book as the only animal that starts with Y, but it can't get by the censors here.
Does anyone know of any other places that are within sight of each other, which have names pronounced the same, but spelled different?
Bi-national, but the Washington city, county and river are spelled Okanogan, the British Columbia spelling of the river, lake and valley is Okanagan. Both pronounced the same. Obviously not the usual 'o' vs 'ou' distinction as in color vs colour.
There is a city in Canada spelled Kanata (a suburb of Ottawa). Kanata was the original spelling of what became Canada. The modern city of Kanata is pronounced slightly differently by locals: ka-NATT-a.
There is a state in the US and a state in India that are pronounced almost the same:
Connecticut and Karnataka.
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The most demographically diverse city in the USA might be Suisun City, California, whose 28,000 inhabitants are 29% white, 24% Hispanic, 20% black and 19% Asian.
I noticed that the team nickname of the Suisun City elementary school is the Goldeneyes, which is a duck. Not to be confused with the minor league baseball team the Winnipeg Goldeyes, which is a fish.
what is edited out on the Arkansas city name?!?!!?
It's Wa-shi-ta (just remove the hyphens.) It just so happens to contain a "four-letter word". But Hell, Michigan, is a four-letter word and the same thing doesn't happen.
I can't tell you, it will come out as ****. Go to the link at the end, it will reveal the mystery name.
Edit--Ive found that it is impossible on a C-D forum to link to some of C-D's own sites because they are indecent.
Try this workaround: First, click Tools at the top of your browser, and click "Start private browsing", so nobody can look at your history page and see that you have gone to an indecent site. Then make sure the children are out of the room. Then, Go here:
Look down through the list of counties, for the one between Washinton Parish LA and Washoe County NV.
This is the most fun I've had since C-D forums blocked a link to a photo of a long-haired bovine of the Himalayas. Whose name appears in every child's animal alphabet book as the only animal that starts with Y, but it can't get by the censors here.
I wasn't aware C-D was headquartered in North Korea. Good to know.
Verhoyansk, Russia has one of the biggest seasonal temperature swings on Earth. In degrees Fahrenheit, it features an average high/low of -44.9/-56.0 in January, to an average high/low of +73.6/+47.8 in July, and an all time record low of -90.0 to an all time record high of +104.0. It is also a very dry location, receiving less than 7 inches of precipitation per year on average. As of the 2010 census, Verhoyansk had over 1300 permanent residents. This location has also been known as the Northern Pole of Cold (along with Oymyakon, Russia, which experiences only slightly less seasonal extremes than this).
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