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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Andersen Tale Elements

We searched every named street in America for Andersen Tale Elements. 9 names turned up. A rare one we found is Golden Treasure Trail in Taos County, NM.

78 roads in 29 states are named after Andersen Tale Elements

New Hampshire is the densest

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

1 out of every 22,173 roads in New Hampshire 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 Little Road

The Little Mermaid

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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 The Ugly Way in America

The Ugly Duckling

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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 The Red Road in America

The Red Shoes (fairy tale) · possibly named for The Red Shoes

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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 Christine's Way in America

Christine's Picture Book

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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 Golden Treasure Trail in America

Golden Treasure

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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.

Snow Queen Lane turns up in 4 counties

The Snow Queen

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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.

Thumbelina Lane turns up in 4 counties

Thumbelina

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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.

Fir Tree Way turns up in 50 counties

The Fir-Tree

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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 Williamson County, TX

The Ugly Way

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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: The Little Road

2 roads 2 counties ~2.4M views last year

The Little Mermaid

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

Most popular: Snow Queen Lane

8 roads 4 counties ~1.1M views last year

The Snow Queen

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

Most popular: The Ugly Way

2 roads 2 counties ~563.1k views last year

The Ugly Duckling

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

Least popular: Fir Tree Way

59 roads 50 counties ~32.3k views last year

The Fir-Tree

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

Least popular: Thumbelina Lane

4 roads 4 counties ~401.3k views last year

Thumbelina

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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.