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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Famous Geologists

We searched every named street in America for Famous Geologists. 114 names turned up. A rare one we found is Charles Darwin Drive in Simpson County, MS.

17495 roads in 50 states are named after Famous Geologists

Delaware is the densest

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

1 out of every 342 roads in Delaware 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 Charles Darwin Drive in America

Charles Darwin

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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 President Jefferson Court in America

Thomas Jefferson

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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 Herbert Clark Road in America

Herbert Hoover · possibly named for Herbert Clark Hoover

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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 Leibniz Road in America

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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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 Raman Ln in America

C. V. Raman

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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 Jean Baptiste Drive

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck · possibly named for Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

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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 De Chardin Lane in America

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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 Doudna Road

Jennifer Doudna

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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 Harrison Schmitt Avenue in America

Harrison Schmitt

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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 Thomas Henry Way in America

Thomas Henry Huxley

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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 Jay Gould Way

Stephen Jay Gould

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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.

3 streets exist only in Clark County, NV

Aldrovandi 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: Darwin

332 roads 182 counties ~5.4M views last year

Charles Darwin

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

Most popular: Thomas Jefferson Way

131 roads 59 counties ~4.2M views last year

Thomas Jefferson

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

Most popular: Goethe Loop

74 roads 28 counties ~3.4M views last year

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Most popular: Herbert Hoover Drive

5 roads 5 counties ~2.3M views last year

Herbert Hoover

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

Most popular: Linne Road

28 roads 13 counties ~2.1M views last year

Carl Linnaeus

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

Most popular: Gauss Way

8 roads 4 counties ~1.8M views last year

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

Least popular: William Fox Lane

2 roads 2 counties ~110.5k views last year

William Fox (producer)

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

Least popular: James Hutton Road

2 roads 1 county ~117.3k views last year

James Hutton

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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: Agassiz Road

24 roads 10 counties ~121.1k views last year

Louis Agassiz

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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.