All roads in America cross referenced with names from Odyssey on Wikipedia

Example:

  1. Odysseus Road
  2. matches the name of
  3. Odysseus,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

351 roads in 36 states are named the same as Odyssey

Alaska is the densest

States have a different total number of roads, so we compare by a percent of roads.

1 out of every 7,022 roads in Alaska resonates with this theme.

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Each dot is one county, sized by how many of its roads resonate with the theme. A small dot is a handful; a big one is hundreds.

Sizes are relative to this search: the biggest dot is this theme's busiest county, so a big dot here and a big dot in another theme are not the same number.

Most popular: Odysseus Road

  1. Odysseus Road
  2. matches the name of
  3. Odysseus,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

3 roads 2 counties ~7.4M views last year

Odysseus

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Helen of Troy Drive

  1. Helen of Troy Drive
  2. matches the title of
  3. Helen of Troy,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

6 roads 1 county ~4.5M views last year

Helen of Troy

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Zeus

  1. Zeus
  2. matches the title of
  3. Zeus,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

111 roads 76 counties ~3.6M views last year

Zeus

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Kirke Court

  1. Kirke Court
  2. matches an alias of
  3. Circe,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

14 roads 9 counties ~3.5M views last year

Circe

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Athene Court

  1. Athene Court
  2. matches an alias of
  3. Athena,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

9 roads 6 counties ~3.2M views last year

Athena

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Most popular: Hermes

  1. Hermes
  2. matches the name of
  3. Hermes,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

82 roads 39 counties ~2.3M views last year

Hermes

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Aeolia Way

  1. Aeolia Way
  2. matches the name of
  3. Aeolia,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

4 roads 3 counties ~31.9k views last year

Aeolia (mythical island)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Ino Road

  1. Ino Road
  2. matches an alias of
  3. Leucothea,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

3 roads 2 counties ~47.9k views last year

Leucothea

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Harpy Aly

  1. Harpy Aly
  2. matches the title of
  3. harpies,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

7 roads 6 counties ~504.2k views last year

Harpy

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Eos Road

  1. Eos Road
  2. matches the name of
  3. Eos,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

3 roads 3 counties ~551.8k views last year

Eos

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Argos

  1. Argos
  2. matches the name of
  3. Argos,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

25 roads 20 counties ~654k views last year

Argos (dog)

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

Least popular: Poseidon

  1. Poseidon
  2. matches the name of
  3. Poseidon,
  4. which appears in
  5. Odyssey

78 roads 48 counties ~2M views last year

Poseidon

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Fame is the entity's yearly Wikipedia readership, rolled up across every spelling the streets use.

all but the most common: all the streets, minus the most common roads in the country. This lets us see the 'long tail' of interesting roads in the country.