Can you name the 74 50K+ US Cities & Towns Which Are At Least 50 Miles Away from the Nearest 50K+ US City/Town? by darinh

Can you name the 74 50K+ US Cities & Towns Which Are At Least 50 Miles Away from the Nearest 50K+ US City/Town?

created by darinh

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Source: US 2010 Census + USGS Geonames Place Infomation
74 50,000+ population US cities/towns/townships are at least 50 miles from another of 50K+. Can you name them, in order of remoteness? Some bonus answers for popular close-but-not-quite cities.
NOTE - Suburbs are considered cities by the census for the most part, so this eliminates any relatively remote larger cities that have suburbs of 50K+.
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City	Nearest City - Miles
	San Francisco, CA - 2,360.47
	Bellingham, WA - 1,349.88
	Fargo, ND - 186.29
	Provo, UT - 182.14
	Casper, WY - 177.29
	Great Falls, MT - 176.07
	Cheyenne, WY - 140.84
	Baton Rouge, LA - 139.81
	Missoula, MT - 134.55
	Great Falls, MT - 134.55
	Buckeye, AZ - 125.67
	Blaine, MN - 123.05
	Springfield, OR - 118.81
	Roanoke, VA - 117.56
	Mission, TX - 117.45
	Lubbock, TX - 112.76
	Henderson, NV - 112.05
	Manhattan, KS - 110.89
	Midland, TX - 106.95
	Peoria, AZ - 104.26
	North Las Vegas, NV - 99.96
	Gilbert, AZ - 94.56
	North Charleston, SC - 89.56
	O'Fallon, MO - 87.39
	Springfield, OR - 83.08

City	Nearest City - Miles
	Asheville, NC - 82.87
	Columbia, SC - 81.75
	San Angelo, TX - 81.70
	Abilene, TX - 81.70
	Albany, GA - 76.18
	Hamburg, NY - 75.82
	Huntsville, AL - 75.74
	Victoria, TX - 74.99
	Corpus Christi, TX - 74.99
	Haverhill, MA - 74.25
	Sioux Falls, SD - 74.09
	Sioux City, IA - 74.09
	Grand Forks, ND - 73.29
	Fargo, ND - 73.29
	Valdosta, GA - 73.21
	Kennewick, WA - 70.87
	La Crosse, WI - 70.07
	Joplin, MO - 67.19
	Louisville, KY - 66.37
	Lexington, KY - 66.37
	Valdosta, GA - 64.04
	Tallahassee, FL - 64.04
	Rochester, MN - 63.72
	Rock Hill, SC - 63.52
	Bartlett, TN - 63.11

City	Nearest City - Miles
	Chico, CA - 63.10
	Bartlett, TN - 62.86
	Cedar Rapids, IA - 62.00
	Newport News, VA - 61.16
	Palm Coast, FL - 60.26
	Elkhart, IN - 59.56
	Lakeville, MN - 59.55
	Youngstown, OH - 57.46
	New Orleans, LA - 57.06
	Lafayette, LA - 56.43
	Baton Rouge, LA - 56.43
	Pensacola, FL - 56.39
	Mobile, AL - 56.39
	Rogers, AR - 56.03
	Santa Barbara, CA - 55.55
	Asheville, NC - 53.91
	Union, NY - 52.41
	Scranton, PA - 52.41
	Greenville, SC - 51.84
	Asheville, NC - 51.84
	Port Arthur, TX - 51.70
	Fayetteville, AR - 51.20
	Bloomington, IN - 50.08
	Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07
Cedar Rapids, IA - 50.07

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50K+ Cities 50+ Miles to Nearest 50K+ City Quiz

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	darinh:	May 29th, 2011 at 02:13 GMT		1 point
	check out my contributed games for other quizzes using US and World city distances. if you have any ideas for quizzes using US city latitudes/longitudes and distances between them, let me know - have all the data for all 50K+ US cities ready for quiz creation.

	darinh:	May 29th, 2011 at 04:01 GMT		2 points
	FYI - 756 cities of 50K+ population, which means over 280,000 different pairs of distances had to be calculated and parsed through in Excel. whew!

	jonnyr12:	May 29th, 2011 at 14:40 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz, but some really weird, glaring errors: I can't figure out for the life of me exactly what Union, NY, Shelby, MI, and Millcreek, PA are doing on here. Shelby and Millcreek are at least townships, with over 50,000, but are right next to larger cities. Other than that, really good stuff.

	darinh:	May 29th, 2011 at 15:26 GMT		1 point
	@jonny: fixed those - was an issue with those townships having the same name as a town or village in the same state, so was using the distance figures of that other location.

	Onno:	May 29th, 2011 at 18:18 GMT		1 point
	Nice one again. But for this quiz, I don't think New York towns are in order. The town of Union has over 50,000 people indeed, but it seems that the population is mostly spread over the village of Endicott, the CDP of Endwell and the village of Johnson City (all Binghamton suburbs) - it looks like it's not an entity.

	darinh:	May 29th, 2011 at 18:33 GMT		1 point
	@Onno - I looked at Union again, it seems the closest 50K+ city is Scranton, PA at 52.41 miles away, so it looks like it should be here, I am going to add it back. I don't see any other NY town issues? Binghamton itself has just under 50K people.

	Onno:	May 29th, 2011 at 18:50 GMT		2 points
	Well, you removed Shelby and Millcreek because they are townships. Then you should remove Union and Hamburg too, as a town in New York is essentially a township. You can't call those cities as they (as I pointed out for Union) are usually just larger areas with a number of villages in them.

	darinh:	May 29th, 2011 at 19:11 GMT		1 point
	shelby and millcreek actually are near large cities and had wrong coordinate data...i will rename quiz, meant to include towns, etc

	bensportswiz:	Jun 24th, 2012 at 21:56 GMT		1 point
	Can you please specify in the instructions that you need fort, not just ft for cities starting with fort. Otherwise, excellent quiz as usual. And Manhattan, KS, could you just move like 200 feet, please?