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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Black Shades

We searched every named street in America for Black Shades. 2 names turned up, across 455 counties.

1509 roads in 45 states are named after Black Shades

New Jersey is the densest

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

1 out of every 434 roads in New Jersey 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.

Black turns up in 404 counties

Black

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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.

Black Horse turns up in 69 counties

Black 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.

Most popular: Black

875 roads 404 counties ~3.1M views last year

Black

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

Most popular: Black Horse

634 roads 69 counties ~57.4k views last year

Black horse

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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.