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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

American Gangster Characters

We searched every named street in America for American Gangster Characters. 9 names turned up. A rare one we found is Russell Crowe Road in St. Tammany County, LA.

1030 roads in 46 states are named after American Gangster Characters

Massachusetts is the densest

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

1 out of every 1,440 roads in Massachusetts 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 3 streets called Richard Nixon Street

Richard Nixon · possibly named for President Richard Nixon

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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 Russell Crowe Road in America

Russell Crowe

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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 Clarence Williams Way in America

Clarence Williams III

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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 Ruby Ann Lane

Ruby Dee · possibly named for Ruby Ann Wallace

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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.

Common turns up in 96 counties

Common (rapper)

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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.

Joe Frazier Road turns up in 4 counties

Joe Frazier

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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.

Tip Cove turns up in 17 counties

T.I.

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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.

Joseph Thomas turns up in 3 counties

Joe Morton · possibly named for Joseph Thomas Morton Jr.

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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.

1 street exists only in St. Tammany County, LA

Russell Crowe Road

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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: Nixon

609 roads 287 counties ~6.1M views last year

Richard Nixon

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

Most popular: Russell Crowe Road

1 road 1 county ~5.5M views last year

Russell Crowe

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

Most popular: Common

375 roads 96 counties ~1.9M views last year

Common (rapper)

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

Most popular: Joe Frazier Road

15 roads 4 counties ~1.8M views last year

Joe Frazier

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

Least popular: Clarence Williams Way

1 road 1 county ~422.6k views last year

Clarence Williams III

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

Least popular: Tip Cove

23 roads 17 counties ~1.2M views last year

T.I.

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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.