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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Arthropod Species

We searched every named street in America for Arthropod Species. 47 names turned up. A rare one we found is Crustacean Road in Chambers County, TX.

12304 roads in 50 states are named after Arthropod Species

Pennsylvania is the densest

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

1 out of every 340 roads in Pennsylvania 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 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 Crustacean Road in America

Crustacean

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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 Apis Road

Honey bee

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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 Prawn Road

Shrimp

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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 Worker Bee Drive

Worker bee

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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 Wiggler

Wriggler (mosquito larva)

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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 Scampi Court in America

Norway lobster as food

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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 Shore Crab Way in America

Shore crab as food

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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 Hermit Crab Way

Coconut crab as food · possibly named for hermit crab as food

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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 King Crab Way

King crab as food

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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.

Ant Road turns up in 3 counties

Ant

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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.

Mosquito Run turns up in 35 counties

Mosquito

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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 Sacramento County, CA

Scampi Court

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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: Bug Lane

19 roads 16 counties ~3.4M views last year

Insect

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

Most popular: Ant Road

4 roads 3 counties ~3M views last year

Ant

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

Most popular: Mosquito Run

54 roads 35 counties ~2.8M views last year

Mosquito

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

Most popular: Bee

248 roads 163 counties ~2.7M views last year

Bee

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

Most popular: Butterfly

479 roads 350 counties ~2.3M views last year

Butterfly

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

Most popular: Roaches Run

7 roads 2 counties ~2M views last year

Cockroach

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

Least popular: Queen

1,363 roads 416 counties ~11k views last year

Insect queen

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

Least popular: Wiggler

3 roads 3 counties ~39.6k views last year

Wriggler (mosquito larva)

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

Least popular: Firefly

406 roads 265 counties ~114.2k views last year

Glowworm

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

Least popular: Worker Bee Drive

3 roads 2 counties ~217.5k views last year

Worker bee

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

Least popular: Nymph Road

11 roads 10 counties ~251.2k views last year

Nymph (biology)

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

Least popular: Cricket

586 roads 373 counties ~267.6k views last year

House cricket

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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.