Common US City Names Quiz

#	City Name	Location of Largest
31		Tennessee
25		Iowa
25		Wisconsin
23		DC
22		Missouri
21		New Hampshire
21		Ohio
21		Connecticut
21		Louisiana
21		Ohio
21		Oregon
21		Missouri
20		North Carolina
20		Mississippi
20		Virginia
19		Ohio
19		Pennsylvania
19		Delaware
19		Texas
19		North Carolina
19		Kentucky
19		Massachusetts

#	City Name	Location of Largest
19		Rhode Island
19		Minnesota
19		Michigan
18		Texas
18		Alabama
18		Colorado
18		Ohio
18		California
18		Ohio
18		Tennessee
18		Nebraska
17		New York
17		Ohio
17		Ohio
17		Ohio
17		New Jersey
17		New Mexico
17		New Hampshire
17		Missouri
17		New Jersey
17		Connecticut
16		Massachusetts

#	City Name	Location of Largest
16		South Carolina
16		Connecticut
16		New York
16		California
16		Georgia
15		Georgia
15		Arkansas
15		Ohio
15		Indiana
15		Oregon
15		New York
15		Georgia
15		Ohio
15		Minnesota
15		New York
15		New Jersey
15		New York
15		Massachusetts
15		New York
15		Michigan
15		Florida
15		Virginia

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Common US City Names Quiz

by DaleOhio

Created Oct 10, 2009 in Geography
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	freelancehack:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 03:44 GMT	4 points
	Lexington, Mass. is not larger than Lexington, Ky. Also, you need to correct Centerville.

	DaleOhio:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 04:18 GMT	2 points
	Thanks! I made the corrections. I overlooked Lex, Ky because the census combines it with the population for Fayette County.

	pete:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	3 points
	good quiz, harder than i thought.

	cuendillar:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 09:16 GMT	2 points
	Great, now we know what to guess when we get stuck on the largest-by-state quizzes... I would have expected Lakeland, Lakewood or something like that to make the list though.

	DaleOhio:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 03:30 GMT	2 points
	There are actually only 8 Lakewoods and 6 each of Lakeside and Lakeview, so they still have a ways to go to make the list.

	abanazerb:	Jan 16th, 2010 at 10:27 GMT	7 points
	Great quiz. As I live in a country where 90% of the placenames go back over 1,000 years, I find it fascinating that so many US places are so recent as to be named after 19th Century presidents. (I assume the 25 Clintons predate Bill though?!)

	kjack66:	Jan 19th, 2010 at 17:51 GMT	4 points
	Most of the Clintons were named for DeWitt Clinton, an early governor of New York State and US Senator from the same state.

	elnok:	Jan 19th, 2010 at 20:05 GMT	2 points
	Clinton's Ditch, baby! (sorry, that's the Erie Canal) I'm surprised "Buffalo" isn't on there... I notice a lot of Buffalos and New Buffalos, although that might be just because I'm from there and I tend to notice them more than others.

	maniacalclown:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 16:18 GMT	2 points
	I was pleasantly surprised when I typed in the name of the town I grew up in (Benton). Not only was it an answer, but the largest one is the one I was from!

	VogonPoet:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 21:26 GMT	3 points
	Springfield being the second most guessed can be attributed almost entirely to The Simpsons.

	acorgiaday:	Jan 23rd, 2010 at 02:46 GMT	-3 points
	Great quiz. I was just wondering, how many cities have to have the same name to be considered "common"? If it was only two or more, you could do Portland (Oregon and Maine). From reading the comments, though, it seems like it is more than just two...

	TheBigE1980:	Jan 24th, 2010 at 03:13 GMT	2 points
	Wow. I did TERRIBLY. Very fun though.

	thefinestmuffins:	Jan 29th, 2010 at 01:27 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz! I actually think it would be better with another minute or two, though. Just me?

	dadlak:	Jan 31st, 2010 at 21:02 GMT	3 points
	Very cool quiz. More time might have helped, though I thought of several answers that were good and rejected them without trying..shame on me.

	Margaret8912:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 03:27 GMT	2 points
	I'm pretty sure (Wikipedia is the source) that there are 17 Glendales.

	Esme:	Feb 7th, 2010 at 04:01 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! I wonder how the results would change if we counted CDPs, villages, boroughs, and other place names.

	RyGuy:	Feb 23rd, 2010 at 19:42 GMT	2 points
	Maybe just make it like the top 20-25 or something

	LinuxLinus:	Feb 27th, 2010 at 03:27 GMT	3 points
	I'm surprised Portland didn't make this list.

	rca:	Mar 8th, 2010 at 22:09 GMT	2 points
	Fun quiz!

	thisisaname:	Mar 28th, 2010 at 20:06 GMT	2 points
	Interesting that only 12.4% (as of this time) got Canton despite Stephen Colbert's whole gig about it.

	FelixtheBear:	Mar 29th, 2010 at 00:17 GMT	3 points
	Overall good, but Milton and Spencer, MA aren't cities, they're towns. I think the census may be confused, though, because the requirements for a city in New England are much more stringent than most of the country.

	BoomRShine:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 15:40 GMT	2 points
	This quiz is seriously flawed. The numbers are way too high in most cases. For example, there are only 17 cities named Franklin in the United States, not 31. Source: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&_name=Franklin&_state=&_county=Franklin&_cityTown=Franklin&_zip=&_sse=on&_lang=en&pctxt=fph