Every road in America, searched by the theme:

African Deserts

We searched every named street in America for African Deserts. 9 names turned up. A rare one we found is Zaara Drive in Worcester County, MA.

1310 roads in 43 states are named after African Deserts

Nevada is the densest

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

1 out of every 216 roads in Nevada 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.

The only Zaara Drive in America

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Every public street name in the country was counted against the theme's subjects. A name used three or fewer times nationwide is rare; these twelve are the rarest, starting with the ones Wikipedia can introduce.

One of just 2 streets called Sarro Lane

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

Silla Road turns up in 5 counties

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Rarely used names, across the whole country: the spotlight on the map is the one you are reading.

1 street exists only in Worcester County, MA

Zaara Drive

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Every name in the theme was counted against every other named road in the country. These appear exactly once: tap a thumbnail to walk them.

The county shown here holds the most of singular roads. Somebody named these roads, and nobody anywhere copied.

Most popular: Sahara

1,302 roads 182 counties ~2.7M views last year

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

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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.