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Roads in America cross referenced with Apollo on Wikipedia

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek religion and mythology. His numerous functions include light, healing, prophecy, music, poetry, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the kouros or ephebe, a beardless, athletic youth. Wikipedia

We take the Apollo article on Wikipedia, find the entries that belong to it, and look for roads whose name is the same as one of those entries. A match means the street name equals an entry's Wikipedia title, its Wikidata label, or one of its aliases. It says nothing about why a road has its name.

Matched street names 2

Each street name below equals the entry shown, once the road type (St, Rd, Ct) is ignored.

Left out 3

These names were found and then set aside. Nothing on the story page counts them.

NameEntryWhyRoads
APOLLOApolloCarried by more than 100 roads nationally886
(the whole entry)JNXAcronym alias, which never matches
(the whole entry)LGNXAcronym alias, which never matches

Every Wikipedia entry tried 43

Including the entries that matched no road at all.