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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Animal Gender Terms

We searched every named street in America for Animal Gender Terms. One in 211 streets in the country matched! A rare one we found is Horses Crossing in Middlesex County, MA.

59460 roads in 50 states are named after Animal Gender Terms

Alaska is the densest

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

1 out of every 89 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 Canis Lupus Lane

Dog · possibly named for Canis lupus familiaris

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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 Killer Whale Street

Orca · possibly named for dwarf killer whale

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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 Horses Crossing in America

Horse

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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 Snakes Loop in America

Snake

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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 Bos Taurus Alley in America

Cattle · possibly named for Bos taurus + indicus

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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 German Shepherd Lane

German Shepherd

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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 Sharks Lane

Shark

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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 Rottie Lane in America

Rottweiler

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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 Trash Panda Way in America

Raccoon

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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 Bun Road

Rabbit

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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 Insect Lane

Insect

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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 Ape Place in America

Monkey

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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.

2 streets exist only in Duval County, FL

Alligators 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: Cat Way

57 roads 40 counties ~16.7M views last year

Cat

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

Most popular: Dog Run

51 roads 46 counties ~8.9M views last year

Dog

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

Most popular: Animal

15 roads 14 counties ~8.1M views last year

Animal

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

Most popular: Person Loop

149 roads 52 counties ~7.7M views last year

Human

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

Most popular: Dino Way

80 roads 48 counties ~6.4M views last year

Dinosaur

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

Most popular: Wolf

1,737 roads 611 counties ~6M views last year

Wolf

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

Least popular: Manis Way

26 roads 17 counties ~142.2k views last year

Manis

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

Least popular: Passer Road

6 roads 3 counties ~207.5k views last year

Passer

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

Least popular: Grebe

109 roads 67 counties ~220.2k views last year

Grebe

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

Least popular: Bride

21 roads 12 counties ~239k views last year

Bride

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

Least popular: Husband Lane

46 roads 12 counties ~282.6k views last year

Husband

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

Least popular: First Lady Street

2 roads 2 counties ~298.8k views last year

First lady

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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.