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Roads in America cross referenced with Gallus gallus domesticus on Wikipedia

The chicken is the domesticated form of the red junglefowl, originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets. Wikipedia

We take the Gallus gallus domesticus 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 1

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

NameEntryWhyRoads
MAURICEMauriceCarried by more than 100 roads nationally263

Every Wikipedia entry tried 19

Including the entries that matched no road at all.