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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Apostles

We searched every named street in America for Apostles. 78 names turned up. A rare one we found is Saint Eustace Drive in Shasta County, CA.

16882 roads in 50 states are named after Apostles

Rhode Island is the densest

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

1 out of every 309 roads in Rhode Island 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 Apostle Paul Loop in America

Paul the Apostle

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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 Apostle Peter Road in America

Saint Peter

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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 Saint Jacob Street

James the Great

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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 Didymus Drive

Thomas the Apostle

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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 Francis Xavier Way

Francis Xavier

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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 St. Matthias Drive in America

Matthias the Apostle · possibly named for St. Matthias the Apostle

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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 The Little Road

James the Less · possibly named for James the Little

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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 Little James Lane in America

James, son of Alphaeus

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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 Mary Salome Lane in America

Salome (disciple)

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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 Saint Eustace Drive in America

Saint Eustace

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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 Apollos Pass in America

Apollos

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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 Saint Hyacinth Street in America

Hyacinth of Poland

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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 Trigg County, KY

Apostle Paul 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: Paul

2,570 roads 807 counties ~4.8M views last year

Paul the Apostle

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

Most popular: Simon

937 roads 422 counties ~4.2M views last year

Saint Peter

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

Most popular: Judas Road

5 roads 4 counties ~3.3M views last year

Judas Iscariot

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

Most popular: John

2,606 roads 888 counties ~1.8M views last year

John the Apostle

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

Most popular: St Jude

127 roads 86 counties ~1.7M views last year

Jude the Apostle

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

Most popular: Matthew

812 roads 447 counties ~1.5M views last year

Matthew the Apostle

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

Least popular: Quartus Street

1 road 1 county ~8.3k views last year

Quartus

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

Least popular: Parmenas Lane

1 road 1 county ~8.6k views last year

Parmenas

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

Least popular: Timon Way

18 roads 15 counties ~16k views last year

Timon (deacon)

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

Least popular: Philemon Drive

11 roads 7 counties ~55.7k views last year

Philemon (biblical figure)

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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.