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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Famous Astronomers

We searched every named street in America for Famous Astronomers. 111 names turned up. A rare one we found is Nostradamus Court in Oconee County, SC.

10868 roads in 50 states are named after Famous Astronomers

Ohio is the densest

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

1 out of every 441 roads in Ohio 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 3 streets called Avicenna Street

Avicenna

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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 Nostradamus Court in America

Nostradamus

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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 Carl E Drive in America

Carl Sagan · possibly named for Carl E Sagan

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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 Omar Khayyam Boulevard in America

Omar Khayyam · possibly named for Hakim Omar Khayyám

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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 Lavoisier Street

Antoine Lavoisier

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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 Biruni Street in America

Al-Biruni

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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 Farabi Lane in America

Al-Farabi

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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 South Averroes Road in America

Averroes

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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 Northeast Alhazen Street in America

Ibn al-Haytham

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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 Ben Maimon Drive in America

Maimonides · possibly named for Moshe ben Maimon

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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 Idris Lane

Idris (prophet)

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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 South Geber Road in America

Jabir ibn Hayyan

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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 Naugatuck Valley County, CT

Ben Maimon Drive

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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: Leonard

1,755 roads 662 counties ~10.7M views last year

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Most popular: Galileo

110 roads 59 counties ~6.3M views last year

Galileo Galilei

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

Most popular: Archimedes Lane

8 roads 8 counties ~4.6M views last year

Archimedes

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

Most popular: Copernicus Way

40 roads 19 counties ~3.9M views last year

Nicolaus Copernicus

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

Most popular: Descartes

18 roads 10 counties ~3.7M views last year

René Descartes

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

Most popular: Avicenna Street

3 roads 1 county ~3.6M views last year

Avicenna

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

Least popular: Mobius Road

2 roads 2 counties ~115.3k views last year

August Ferdinand Möbius

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

Least popular: Mary Fairfax Court

1 road 1 county ~119.6k views last year

Mary Somerville

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

Least popular: William Gilbert Loop

1 road 1 county ~133.8k views last year

William Gilbert (physicist)

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

Least popular: Doppler

17 roads 9 counties ~135.3k views last year

Christian Doppler

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

Least popular: Vera Rubin Place

2 roads 2 counties ~140.9k views last year

Vera Rubin

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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.