Can you name the most populous US cities with names that are unique among all US cities? by DJC83

Can you name the most populous US cities with names that are unique among all US cities?

created by DJC83

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Source: US Census Bureau
Based on 2010 US city populations. Does not take into account the names of any towns, townships, boroughs, villages, or census-designated places (CDPs). Press F11 if you can't see the whole quiz.
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Pop 2010	City	State
8,175,133		NY
3,792,621		CA
2,695,598		IL
945,942		CA
829,718		IN
805,235		CA
741,206		TX
620,961		MD
608,660		WA
594,833		WI
579,999		OK
545,852		NM
520,116		AZ
494,665		CA
437,994		VA
416,427		CO
403,892		NC
391,906		OK
382,368		KS
347,483		CA
343,829		LA
336,265		CA
324,528		CA
305,704		PA
305,215		TX
253,691		IN
247,597		NJ
244,769		FL
243,916		CA
238,300		FL
229,617		NC
229,573		TX
229,493		LA
224,669		FL

Pop 2010	City	State
222,209		VA
217,385		AZ
216,961		NV
216,290		TX
209,924		CA
208,916		WA
201,165		CA
199,311		LA
198,397		WA
197,899		CA
195,976		NY
195,111		AL
193,365		CA
190,695		TX
189,992		CA
186,440		UT
181,376		FL
181,045		MA
180,719		VA
176,320		CA
175,396		TX
173,372		KS
167,674		TN
167,086		CA
165,521		FL
165,269		CA
164,603		FL
161,791		WA
161,719		AZ
156,185		OR
154,750		FL
154,305		FL
153,888		SD
153,015		CA

Pop 2010	City	State
152,750		CA
152,374		CA
150,441		CA
147,433		IL
146,199		NJ
145,438		CA
143,986		CO
143,911		CA
141,853		IL
140,768		FL
140,081		CA
131,117		TX
129,877		TX
129,699		MI
129,480		UT
127,921		TX
127,473		KS
126,683		CA
126,326		IA
125,872		KS
124,442		CA
124,237		CA
122,041		FL
121,096		FL
117,517		AZ
116,989		TX
115,942		CA
115,903		CA
113,934		MI
113,475		CA
112,488		UT
110,925		OK

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'Unique New York': Rare US City Names Quiz

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	Dralcoffin:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 04:19 GMT		2 points
	Sacramento, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Iowa I curse you.

	worm0110:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 04:20 GMT		1 point
	Any particular reason not to include villages? If it's incorporated, I say you include it. I know right off the bat this would exclude San Jose, as there is a village called San Jose in Illinois.

	DJC83:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 05:18 GMT		1 point
	It's just easier to limit it to cities, not just when determining which places are incorporated, but also when determining which communities belong to which place. Not only do the definitions for other types of populated places vary among different states, in many many cases one type of place overlaps another, meaning I'd have to count the population in the overlapped area twice. For instance, townships in New Jersey are mutually exclusive from and treated as equal to cities, towns, boroughs, and villages, but townships in the Midwest cover multiple (and often only parts of) other types of places; towns in New York have other incorporated places within them; towns in Connecticut are often coextensive with cities -- it's very confusing. So I just limited it to cities to keep things simple and (relatively) clean.

	trivial:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 15:02 GMT		2 points
	I never would have thought there was more than one Honolulu!

	save_ferris15:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 15:24 GMT		2 points
	You know you need unique New York.

	Rooster:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 16:45 GMT		1 point
	The arsonist has oddly shaped feet

	DJC83:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 18:41 GMT		2 points
	@trivial: There's only one, but technically Honolulu is not a city. It's considered a "census-designated place" (CDP) by the US Census Bureau.

	trivial:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 18:46 GMT		2 points
	Interesting. You might consider adding it as a bonus answer.

	Onno:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 20:34 GMT		1 point
	@DJC83: Personally I think you bite yourself in the tail that way (is that an expression in English?) In North Dakota, all incorporated places are called cities, no matter how tiny. But in Massachusetts, the smallest city is 12k. And poor Maryland... the census names 518 places in the state, of which only 29 are cities. I like to use the "Places" data set by the census bureau for most of my quizzes. Although sometimes I remove CDPs and add New England towns. Either way, that would remove names like Worcester (the ones in Vermont and New York are both towns and CDPs)

	Pengwn:	Sep 1st, 2011 at 21:34 GMT		2 points
	You need Springfield as an extra answer, with a caption along the lines of "You must be as smrt as Homer Simpson"

	TheCavsfan:	Sep 6th, 2011 at 04:04 GMT		1 point
	Interesting idea for a quiz. A nice contrast to the quizzes about common city names.