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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Alaska Towns

We searched every named street in America for Alaska Towns. 236 names turned up. A rare one we found is Bering Strait Avenue in Clark County, NV.

11537 roads in 50 states are named after Alaska Towns

Alaska is the densest

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

1 out of every 18 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.

One of just 2 streets called The City Drive

Anchorage, Alaska · possibly named for The City of Lights and Flowers

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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.

The only Bering Strait Avenue in America

Bering Strait

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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 Aleutians Court

Aleutian Islands

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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.

The only New Archangel Street in America

Sitka, Alaska

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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.

The only Good Friday Road in America

1964 Alaska earthquake · possibly named for Good Friday earthquake

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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 Kodiak Island Place

Kodiak Island

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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 3 streets called Taps Way

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

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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.

The only Beaufort Sea Drive in America

Beaufort Sea

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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 3 streets called North Slope

North Slope Borough, Alaska · possibly named for North Slope Borough

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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 Alaska Range Way

Alaska Range

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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 Air Force Base Drive

Eielson Air Force Base

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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.

5 streets exist only in Anchorage County, AK

Cape Lisburne Loop

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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: Anchorage

292 roads 153 counties ~1.5M views last year

Anchorage, Alaska

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

Most popular: Bering Strait Avenue

1 road 1 county ~1.2M views last year

Bering Strait

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

Most popular: Juneau

342 roads 99 counties ~942.1k views last year

Juneau, Alaska

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

Most popular: Aleutians Court

2 roads 1 county ~802.3k views last year

Aleutian Islands

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

Most popular: Sitka

156 roads 99 counties ~520.5k views last year

Sitka, Alaska

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

Most popular: Bering Sea Drive

5 roads 3 counties ~490.1k views last year

Bering Sea

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

Least popular: A. Johnson Road

1 road 1 county ~7k views last year

Petersburg James A. Johnson Airport

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

Least popular: Glenn Highway

242 roads 3 counties ~7.4k views last year

Glenn Highway

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

Least popular: Susitna River Road

4 roads 1 county ~7.6k views last year

Susitna River

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

Least popular: English Bay Road

5 roads 5 counties ~8k views last year

Nanwalek, Alaska

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

Least popular: Chena Lake

20 roads 12 counties ~8k views last year

Chena River

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

Least popular: Saint Mary's

494 roads 189 counties ~8.1k views last year

St. Mary's, Alaska

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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.