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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Cryptids

We searched every named street in America for Cryptids. 47 names turned up. A rare one we found is King Kong in Bexar County, TX.

6052 roads in 50 states are named after Cryptids

Arizona is the densest

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

1 out of every 382 roads in Arizona 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 King of Trail in America

Godzilla · possibly named for King of the monsters

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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 Nessy Drive in America

Loch Ness Monster

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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 King Kong in America

King Kong

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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 Dullaghan Road in America

Dullahan

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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 Muto Lane

MUTO

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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 Champy Road

Champ (folklore)

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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 Minya Lane in America

Minilla

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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 New Delhi Drive

Monkey-man of Delhi · possibly named for Monkey Man of New Delhi

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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 Lizard Man Lane in America

Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp · possibly named for Lizard Man of Lee County

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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 Lake Van Road

Lake Van Monster

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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 Mussie Drive in America

Mussie

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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 Cressie Lane in America

Cressie

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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 Columbia County, NY

Dullaghan 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: Nessie Lane

56 roads 44 counties ~2.6M views last year

Loch Ness Monster

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

Most popular: Yeti Road

6 roads 5 counties ~1.4M views last year

Yeti

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

Most popular: King Kong

2 roads 2 counties ~1.1M views last year

King Kong

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

Most popular: Rodan Lane

6 roads 5 counties ~386.6k views last year

Rodan

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

Most popular: Sea Horse Way

73 roads 52 counties ~294.7k views last year

Hippocampus (mythology)

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

Least popular: Cressie Lane

1 road 1 county ~8.2k views last year

Cressie

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

Least popular: Mussie Drive

1 road 1 county ~8.3k views last year

Mussie

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

Least popular: Dewey Lake Road

16 roads 4 counties ~8.9k views last year

Dewey Lake Monster

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

Least popular: Whitey Road

161 roads 79 counties ~10k views last year

White River Monster

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

Least popular: Menk

10 roads 5 counties ~11.3k views last year

Menk

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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.