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Every road in America, searched by the theme:

Famous Playwrights

We searched every named street in America for Famous Playwrights. 148 names turned up. A rare one we found is Shakespear Court in San Joaquin County, CA.

11360 roads in 50 states are named after Famous Playwrights

Colorado is the densest

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

1 out of every 341 roads in Colorado 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 Shakespear Court in America

William Shakespeare

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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 David Robert Court in America

David Bowie · possibly named for David Robert Jones

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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 Mary Teresa Street

Mother Teresa · possibly named for Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

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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 Franz Kafka Avenue in America

Franz Kafka

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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 John R. Street in America

J. R. R. Tolkien · possibly named for John R. R. Tolkien

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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 Carrie Fisher Road in America

Carrie Fisher

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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 Oscar Wilde Way

Oscar Wilde

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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 Pushkin Lane

Alexander Pushkin

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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 Tchaikovsky Street

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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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 Gabo Road

Gabriel García Márquez

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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 Sartre Court in America

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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 Chekhov Drive

Anton Chekhov

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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.

5 streets exist only in Charles County, MD

Doris Lessing Place

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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: Shakespeare Ln

290 roads 116 counties ~10.1M views last year

William Shakespeare

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

Most popular: David Jones Road

39 roads 22 counties ~8.6M views last year

David Bowie

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

Most popular: Mother Teresa Lane

22 roads 11 counties ~6.1M views last year

Mother Teresa

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

Most popular: Kafka Road

10 roads 6 counties ~5.8M views last year

Franz Kafka

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

Most popular: Hemingway

522 roads 223 counties ~5.7M views last year

Ernest Hemingway

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

Least popular: Plautus Court

1 road 1 county ~302.3k views last year

Plautus

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

Least popular: Seamus Heaney Court

1 road 1 county ~330.3k views last year

Seamus Heaney

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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.